openspaceman
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From the colour of wood I'd guess one of the legumes, crown looks a bit like cercis but not so much the bark, any leaves nearby?
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It's immaterial to me as I get it free and dry it for myself but commercially if you are buying it green the softwood has more water content, so beech and pine both weigh around 1tonne/m3. So if you buy by the tonne green and sell by the bulked m3 at 20% mc there's a fair difference in value as I am sure you know, the softwood is only worth around 2/3 that of the hardwood to the customer whereas if you sell by the tonne they are about the same.
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Yes , he has committed now so get on with it and make a good job of it, I hope it split easily with nothing damaged. On the few occasions I have split a saw I have always decided not to carry on but that one can hardly have any bottom end wear so a clean up, new seals and gasket and it should be good to go.
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All electric or with a low pressure pilot circuit? I looked into changing the controls on the Valmet 828 or 840 as the cards for the computer were getting scarce and it seemed swapping the valve block and joysticks for a complete electric set seemed to be the way to go, a good few thousand even then 10 years back. We never did it and as far as I know all three forwarders are sitting idle in the yard still.
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Mine too but it is the higher lignin content as well as resin
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Per m3 or per tonne?
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I think it's a file for art students who use apple products so not viewable by oily rags like me
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If it really needs all those things doing I would probably give up. What made you decide the crankshaft bearings and seals needed doing and have you a splitter to separate the two halves? A picture of the bore and piston would be good to see, even if just taken through the exhaust port.
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But for the OP's sake can they be changed with the engine in situ? Over high oil level does point to unburned diesel running down the cylinder walls to the sump and if the alternator belt being tight affects the seal it will be because the bearing is worn too I suspect. In days of yore when crankshaft oil seals were not so good the crank had a spiral thread that acted as an Archimedes screw to push out back into the bearing.
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With all those knots from branches and old pruning wounds that is more suited to making some beams, sole plates and tie beams
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That's a McConnel bench isn't it? The FC had some for crosscutting pit props from long pine poles. Michael Richmond had one for cutting logs at home.
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The main thing is that in direct sunlight no matter what the orientation they will produce much more than on a cloudy bright day. As panels are relatively cheap I intend to put a few more up in non ideal positions but am waiting to see if I can have them grid tied with permission from the DNO (as there will be a large excess in summer) or just battery charging and curtail production in summer.
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That will be interesting with photos. I have an old tractor with a pump on the nose but a 1000rpm PTO and it would be handy to run a 540 winch, the thing is far too fast at 1000 and stalls the tractor at low revs.
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I think both @Gray git and @LGP Eddie have driven remote mounted 3PL winches this way
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Yes but for two days running the solar has produced over 5kWh which is exceptional for this time of year, generally output in December and January is dismal. If I didn't burn logs I would be burning gas and the cost would be a few quid a day. I just hope I can keep chopping it.
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All the local LPG pumps have been pulled out near me. I sometimes wish I still had my LR110 LPG but wouldn't know where to fill it now.
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My mistake apparently it was only shell that closed theirs https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/exclusive-shell-has-quietly-closed-down-all-its-hydrogen-filling-stations-in-the-uk/2-1-1335049 Still 11 isn't many compared with 57k public EV points and most EV owners charge from home.
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Last three pictures meripilus
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No you are not wrong and most hydrogen buses and cars are fuel cells but there is some hype about hydrogen engine machines, JCB and BMW. The last hydrogen fuel stations for fuel celled cars (I think James May had one??) were shut down this year.
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As a lay person, not familiar with the probable drawbacks, this appeals to me. 1)We have the infrastructure in place to move liquid fuels long distances overseas efficiently 2) There are areas on earth that are both well endowed with insolation and wind and are politically stable 3) Di-methyl ether can and is made at scale, currently using fossil energy but can be made from energy and plant carbon 4) Diesel engines running on di-methyl ether only require minor modification and do not produce particulates, they do produce NOx but in theory as a soft hybrid they can be kept out of the power range where NOx is produced, even now adblue in a simpler exhaust catalyst will turn most back to nitrogen and water. Compared with a high voltage undersea DC link from Morocco with transmission losses of 15% and worries about security...
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You would need someone to produce it before you could deliver it, most hydrogen is still made from natural gas and renewables won't be in excess to make it from for a while. First excess electricity would go into storage before they electrolyse water to get hydrogen and that is relatively inefficient. Also some pollution worries about IC engines running on hyrogen
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Yes and I like it, it is 2 speed but still slower than a tractor winch and a big point I like is that it only revs up and engages drive when you pull the tail end of the rope. It also holds the tension if required. Capstan need a different approach to rope management as the pull puts a twist in the rope which moves down the rope with the pull so is best sorted after each pull. @lux also has one.
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If you are referring to my post that was for the Husky item from L&S, the hyway piston was £28 from Greece with shipping but it may attract tax now. Of course this is all assuming the original cylinder cleans up and is not scored
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Piston Kit for HUSQVARNA 3120K, 3120XP, 3120 EPA, 3122 K, K1250,... WWW.DLASTORE.COM Piston Kit for HUSQVARNA 3120K, 3120XP, 3120 EPA, 3122 K, K1250, K1260 (60mm) Not as well regarded as meteor but cheap enough to try, OEM from L&S about £115 if they can get them
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This is normally because the blade needs retensioning, typically the blade will lose tension if it gets hot from bluntness or jamming because the set has gone, The tensioning is by stretching the metal inside the diameter of the teeth. I see someone mentioned the "ringing" of a circular saw, it carries far further than the noise of a chainsaw engine. Also, unlike a chainsaw, the circular saw is constantly driven so that energy can build up between cuts, as inertia in the blade, hence a smaller engine can cut faster.
