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  1. openspaceman
    I've just returned with a few oak logs from the one that fell into a crop of rye now the combine had been through, I don't know what the yield was but there was no grass for the cattle, the neighbouring common had dying ling and a couple of mature scots pine, though these were likely previously damaged by wildfires years back. I did get given 2kg of rye, now just have to figure out how to grind it good enough to make some loaves.
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    I don't think I've seen a meadow brown with such contrasting border
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    Fritillary but which?
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    Dunno but it would make your wallet lighter, most tree consultants are not also structural engineers. It's a tiny tree, give it some water, it's very unlikely it has damaged the drive and even if the soil is a highly shrinkable clay it will not have dried out the soil enough to change anything. Roots do need space to grow and can move soil but don't have enough force to do anything to a well founded drive, they typically may crack a thin application of asphalt but not often more.
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    That'll be next year then if farmers decide to plant break crops of legumes because they cannot afford nitram
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    That was the pub
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    go on then show us the exhaust side
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    The cynic in me says its because his modified build has bits from a dodgy vin that cannot be used
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    Gaia's high priest down I see from another forum James Lovelock died today. I can't say I agreed with some of his ideas later in life but the basic concept of interfering with a self regulating entity was spot on.
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    I may have a clutch cover and chainbrake handle from a 266 that may be the same??, are you anywhere near me?
  11. openspaceman
    Are the parts you want common with other saws?
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    I don't know but the Elwell billhook I have holds its edge like no recent edge tools I have. I would have thought with all the knowledge of alloys gained since it was made from good old carbon steel they could have come up with something better. Could it be that steel made from all those scrapped cars is now contaminated with so many stray molecules of other metals that its difficult to control its properties?
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    L&S Engineers list 191 parts for the 268 available
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    I thought the problem with botulism was that it could grow in meat and produce toxins, cooking the meat killed the organism but the toxins were still present, Hence why not to reheat meat often. Back to thread I made some baby marrow ( we have a glut but only the other veg that have survived the dogs are spud and some feeble tomato plants) and cabbage sauerkraut. Never having eaten sauerkraut before I don't know what it should taste like but it is edible a spoonful at a time. I wish I had added some garlic.
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    Just goes to show enough money is never enough for most people
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    When the new queens leave the nest so do the drones and they compete for the queen by flying the highest with her, the queen then consummates the affair by ripping the gonads off the winning male and thereafter using that to fertilise her eggs for the rest of her life. All the remaining drones die along with the workers.
  17. openspaceman
    If it is the same sort of design as the old ones the outer bit of the handle acts like a slide hammer, you put the jaw adjacent to the nail or staple and bang it in then lever over to close the jaws and pull the nail out.
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    The one in the video does have a dead man's handle, you will just need to rig the string round the handle then round the safety handle so when you let go the motor will stop.
  19. openspaceman
    Hurry up with a recipe before I get overrun
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    Yes nice ripple and probably syscamore. Hickory can ripple too, I had a lovely muller maul with a hickory handle which had just the same satin sheen from the ripples, I was so proud of its looks but it soon snapped as the ripple severely reduced the strength, second handle still in the head. I carved some treen from the broken handle but cannot find any examples now.
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    Actually the flymo is much easier to pull than this if the ground is reasonably flat on account of the air cushion. You may see that the frenchie easily pulls it sideways. I really do see no reason to use a strimmer string on this sort of job but it does cover a wider swath.
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    Has she tries sauerkraut? I'm told as long as there is some cabbage other vegetable can be added. You and @gary112 put me to shame.
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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LJyVl-7hpNawCuRHVu5myWVn1ZnqF0lj/view?usp=sharing DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM I'll leave this up for a little while @drinksloe
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    I never got beyond a short bit of string but my banks were very short. In principle you could use two ropes, one round a fixed peg , as a pivot, and then the mower. The other one side on to pull it in an arc.Gradually increasing the length of the first rope to eventually cover a quadrant, then move on.
  25. openspaceman
    I wonder if the reason many of these grassland fires have taken off down here is that the savings on mowing have dictated not cutting and as the grass goes over the top and the leaves and stems are left dead standing. Anyway I have pulled the one I have here out of the shed, put fuel in and it fired after 3 pulls but then took a while to settle down without any choke, I'll upload a video. This is the younger but more used one and last used about 5 years ago just to try it. It will soon need a new blade. Transport may be an issue for a while as it's not worth the cost of any of the pallet couriers but in the absence of any other suggestions I may have a plan...

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