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That's right; when felling in production forestry there is inevitably grit blown up in the bark on sandy soils, whereas in peaty soils you can run all day without sharpening.
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Here we have a food waste bin, I only use it for bones in the summer, and the waste can be in ordinary plastic bags. It goes to an anaerobic digestion plant which, with the addition of a lot of maize silage, produces methane, burned in an engine to make electricity. I often wonder how they separate the plastic from the digestate. Maybe it just get dried with the waste heat and thence incinerated. The green waste is something different and gets composted, I would prefer to see it pyrolysed. I have no problem with dog walkers putting bagged dog faeces into my black bin, better in there than bagging it and then throwing it when out of sight.
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Back boiler on log burner
openspaceman replied to Donnie's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Not necessarily as the effect of thermal buoyancy is not great, so does not need much power to overcome, in winter when the stove is on the fan only draws about 100W. The thing I discovered is it is not worth moving warm room air, I need to move air direct from the stove and ,in my case, blow 40C air into the next room. It's not ideal because of the mild fan noise and it becomes necessary to blank off most of the stove from the room it is in to control the temperature. The single 4kW stove copes down to zero outside but burns a lot of wood up to 16 hours a day. Even on those few days which went lower we managed with no other heating. -
Back boiler on log burner
openspaceman replied to Donnie's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Many of us get our wood for the sake of a bit of labour, in my case it means my utility bills are only £600/annum plus about £200 for water because of wood burning. I have nothing against back boilers but as @difflock I found the economics of providing hot water didn't add up on a retrofit because the DHW for the winter months was so low. I did decide to distribute hot air on our ground floor by ducting it from the stove and heat rises to the upper rooms. Yours seems less conventional. -
Back boiler on log burner
openspaceman replied to Donnie's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Did you break that down into cost for DHW and cost for heating? I have never plumbed in my wood stove but it provides me with all the space heating for a small house 6 months of the year. I burn £100 a year for gas to provide DHW for the winter 6 months. What I am getting at, and someone else asked earlier in the thread, is it not cheaper to install a second woodburner without worrying about DHW heating? -
Didn't affect me internally but the dose of ringworm didn't succumb to the tar based ointment the old school doctor prescribed, luckily his understudy prescribed a systemic drug taken orally and that cured it. I only lost the hair on my arms but the boss ended up with half a brazilian.
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I should have said that I don't remember ever drinking it but the cans are by far the greatest number I collect when out litter picking so I suspect it is mostly drunk by younger teens. I probably get too much caffeine in my diet from the coffee and tea I drink.
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No that's those that buy the stuff
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The insurance is good to have for your own jobs but likely irrelevant when subbing.
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A bit late now but if you place a new ring in the bore and square it up by pushing the piston against it you can measure the ring gap in several places to check bore wear. You could probably judge how bad a gouge is by seeing how much light passes by the ring with a dental mirror.
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There are some niggles though, they have to be married or civil partnership and cohabiting the same residence is my understanding, if they own two homes it's a bit different.
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No speed adjustment on Honda HRH 536 mower?
openspaceman replied to sandspider's topic in Maintenance help
That's a better idea than buying the proper mower part too. I'll have to look some out as I am building a bittza honda engined mower, with the rusted out deck replaced by one from a mountfield battery electric with a defunct control circuit. Battery being repurposed into a Halford jump start pack, replacing the dead gel cell. -
Putting a different engine in a chipper...
openspaceman replied to swinny's topic in Large equipment
I think that is the same engine that we had in the Heizohack, never did seem to run cleanly and expensive to have Hatz UK deal with. I never did get to see it running properly before I got the push. -
I don't understand this bit
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When the log is grabbed the rod side is dumped to tank. As the rotator has cross line relief it also is dumping to tank the leak from the now open rod side hose may be just an artifact of the back pressure in the system being higher than atmospheric pressure rather than a failure in the rotator. Solve one problem at a time, oil is leaking past the grab ram piston seal.
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Just disconnect the hose from the rod side of the ram at the valve and put it back into the tank. Then run the machine and grab a log, if hydraulic oil continues to run then a seal is leaking. With a continuous rotator there can be internal leaks between services There are no seals or O rings between services in a spool, it is just a good fit and will wear prematurely if the oil gets hot or filtration fails,
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That's what I thought but I thought it was a Jonsereds design, an evolution from the 621, which Husqvarna took on board. The 162 seemed to to be exactly the same as this apart from colour (when I got tired of carrying my 280CD I had 162s from the beginning as my local dealer was Husqvarna) but the guys at work all used Jonsereds 621 as i it was held to be the better saw. As @Stubby says later Jonsereds seemed to have the guts of a husqvrna but with different body work.
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suivez Shirley
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80-90 Acres to thin South Wales.
openspaceman replied to andrewmiskin's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Coed Cymru is a good shout for advice, my mate over in Maesteg is long retired now, but his son, Mark Filer, who was a young tearaway when I last saw him, seems to run his contracting business from the old farm. -
About the same pitch for me, I cannot decide if higher or lower as I can only here the test tone alone if volume maxed out yet the whistling in my head is clear all the time. I can no longer hear skylarks which is a disappointment.
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RHS Wisley had much the same experience 30 years ago when they imported some leaf litter from the LA to add to their compost, simazine was the culprit IIRC.
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Without a picture of the inside of the barrel and the piston I cannot comment on the bore but the retaining bolt for the exhaust will still hold so a piece of aluminium can be shaped to fill the worn void flush with the exhaust flange, muffler replaced with new or repair or flange fabricated and welded on and good to go.
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Same here but we are in the south so a good deal warmer than many here. I have got 2/3 through my 3rd and last bay of firewood so not much left in reserve. First 2 bays refilled and just prevaricating about to filling up the last bay with fresh logs in case it turns cold again and I need access to the dry stuff. I'm glad I took note of whoever here suggested having dividers for bays in the log shed as it is less of a chore than logging everything between now and end of May.
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Looks like a rowan to me, not long lived and susceptible to a bacterial disease, fire blight,especially with stem damage like shown.
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AV mounts flexing and affecting the throttle linkage? Strange mechanical things can happen; I had a saw on which the choke would only engage if it was held vertical, problem was a loose choke butterfly screw letting the butterfly drop and jam against the carburetor when horizontal.
