openspaceman

Do you remember how much the BCO charged for the visits and signing off or was it part of a bigger building project?

That's a job for a drill, a sewing needle, some carbon fibre tow and epoxy resin.

It's a short video showing a Husky 235 with the front handle snapped just by its attachment under the saw

No this was giving permission for one near me.

Not really, he probably still has dues to pay to his lords and masters, it will be interesting to see what his final fling will be. John Major hung in long enough to overrule planning considerations for a factory to be built on greenbelt land for his parting shot.

I'm a while out of date on this and the BCO should be able to sign off a flue and stove installation but I wonder how many are happy to do so, most BCO's will have no experience of wood burners and expect them to be installed by HETAS registered installers. A HETAS installer has a dispensation whereby he can self certify his work in the same way an electrician or window installer can. There would be a charge for the BCO to certify work as with any inspection he does.

As I said I am not qualified to say what a HETAS installer would do but there are parallels in the forestry work I used to do where members of a trade body for hydraulic pipe would not repair an old pipe that had burst due to chafing but one could still buy fittings to do the repair oneself for a fraction of the price of the new hose and still be lawful in use. The building regulations to do with stoves all look very sensible to me with regards to materials and distances from combustible materials, plus of course the CO monitor, that I would follow them. Other things like house owner's permission, certification and insurance need to be considered.

Firstly I am not qualified to install stoves or flues but I doubt the trade body would approve of anyone fitting a secondhand pre ecodesign stove. This does not mean I think it would be unsafe to install following the manufacturers manual nor that it couldn't be run cleanly. It must be installed within all the requirements of the current part J of the building regulations and especially with a working carbon monoxide monnitor

The user manual found online is dated 2006

I'd go on prunus but not narrow it down further .

No as I only know him from here and he's not read my last PM Yes and the angry Kevin doesn't seem to post now, mind the weather is so nice they are better things to do.

I take it that is a whitebeam? Topped some years back? I'd say those yellow leaf veins and the fact it has tried to set fruit and then wilted point to something more serious than drought.

You could buy and old tirfor for that. How far away from NW Surrey are you? If you can put in a back cut 4ft up a flip flop winch would probably do you with 30 metres of 10mm wire rope but not work for a novice.

I think he's taking another of his rests from arbtalk so someone else will have to wield the whip.

Yes this was a result of us moving towards dependence on being the banker for europe and no longer needing to produce stuff for ourselves but then europe has moved banking in house. Pre covid aviation was just over 1/6 of our petroleum products consumption for transport. Aviation kerosene is a mixture of hydrocarbons in between petrol and diesel, so it is probably just a matter of distilling out the right fraction, if demand goes down the higher carbon molecules get incorporated in to diesel and the lower ones end up in petrol.

I'll await replies with some interest, my guess it will come down to whether the nuisance is actionable but little or no liability as she has done what she can to mitigate the problem. No monetary losses been mentioned yet? If not I wouldn't involve insurers yet.

I cannot really say as one needs a wider perspective but it does look like wind has caused it to me. It's not that wind bends it over but more that buds and shoots on the upwind side get desiccated or frosted worse than the rest.

That makes things more risky as the wood is less predictable when felling let alone less safe to climb. Anyway if it's diseased then the longer it stays the more spores it spreads.

I was aware of their existence but not seen any, I was given an insect book a month back from an old chap who moved into a care home, and looked them up, very little on them other than they are wingless members of pscocoptera family troctidae but none of the images show the markings from your photo.

Book lice ??

I think he is probably right, I would have said root damage but can see no reason for it. Phytophthora fungus is a possibility as it is larch and more likely is it is Jap or hybrid larch though I haven't had experience of it here, but then most larch plantations are long gone locally.

The reason given back in 2015 was that although the disease was brought in on imported young stock overall UK ash population was largely self seeded so should have more variations in genotype, whereas forestry abroad was more managed with planting and the selection for best performance mean the genes were more restricted. In the event it seems to make little difference because the sheer numbers of spores that are released by the leaf litter overcome even trees that show some resistance. Which is why I advocated sanitation felling in the woodland I was working in but FC and EN disagreed and the disease has now affected those trees which previously showed no signs. I draw a corollary with covid initially, people who were repeatedly exposed had a high mortality before the virus lost some of its pathogenic effect but became more transmissible The "control" tree I allowed to grow on from seed is now 5 years from seed and 15' tall with no sign of disease yet 99% of the regen where the seed came from has died simply because there are few ash near my home.

Or fuel starvation except the saw up and down change in speed points to a leak. Also does the OP recognise four stroking? The saw needs sufficient turns out on the HI screw to cause four stroking to limit the revs. If the revs are set to about 12k rpm from cold you should be able to sense if the revs creep up when hot.

we could do with an "I agree" button

I really cannot see any route a clutch spring could take to stop the engine running other than jamming something in the chain case area. As with all these saws that run for a little lime then stop my first look would be through the exhaust port to look and the piston and rings, if they are good then we can start with swapping the spark plug and move on from there.