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  1. openspaceman
    I never have done stretches at all but then I have never been at all athletic. I notice all three dogs do when they get up so it probably pays.
  2. openspaceman
    Yes but some of it may have started from english not being a native language of one of the protagonists, even the british standard he posted defined kernmantel as being different from most modern arb ropes. I too will leave it at that.
  3. openspaceman
    Walk of shame then. Shame you lost the job but rules is rules.
  4. openspaceman
    I don't know if or when FC respond as I have not reported anything for over 30 years. If it were a Douglas fir I would report it on the tree alert section of FC website as a suspected P.pluvialis but I think it is a spruce, possibly brewers.
  5. openspaceman
    It does look like a bleeding canker but I didn't think spruces were affected by any phytopfera if yours is a spruce?? Neither did I think maples were susceptible. Phytopfera ramorum and the more recent P. kernoviae affect a wide range of shrubs, oak and larch but not noted on spruce, it is notifiable. More recently P. pluvialis has been found on a range of conifers but again not noted on spruce, again this is notifiable so it may be worth contacting the forestry Commission if you think a phytopfera has killed the maple and infected your tree.
  6. openspaceman
    Yeah and too complicated a subject for me but it does seem to confirm that kernmantle originally meant the cover was not load bearing and the core was parallel fibres whereas the double multiplaits do depend on the cover for strength. I can remember, pre 1970, being told to feel for damage to the core which wasn't visible on the sheath when rock climbers were transitioning from 13mm cable laid nylon to twin 10mm kernmantle. I never saw kernmantle used in arb and started tree work with prussic knot and cable laid nylon before moving to military abseil line. I am totally confused by the options available now
  7. openspaceman
    I thought kernmantle ropes were a woven sheath over a parallel fibre core, arb ropes now are multiplait core and cover.
  8. openspaceman
    I wonder just how well the cameras monitor activity. We had a chap at work whose fuel consumption was noticeably worse than it should have been and his wife's car (same make and model SUV) had scratches around the fuel filler. Tyres didn't last him long either.
  9. openspaceman
    Yes looks like the cankers have exposed the wood and let Fomes fomentarius in
  10. openspaceman
    Unless the land for the road was previously owned by the manor or the highway authority have purchased it for the road then it is not unusual for the landowner on either side to own their half up to the centre of the highway (highway includes the road surface and verges).
  11. openspaceman
    It probably is his tree if he still owns the road and verge but responsibility for it almost certainly rests with the highway authority.
  12. openspaceman
    May be no need if the rotator has a relief valve built in to it. The normal way is to run the rotator off a motor spool which free wheels when in neutral. Also some spools will have port relief valves built in to dump excess pressure in any of the two outputs back to tank. Else put a dual cross line relief valve across the outputs from the spool.
  13. openspaceman
    That may mean there is no cross-line relief between the input and output of the rotator so, for instance, if you picked a long log up by one end at right angles to the machine and dragged backwards without operating the spool the rotator would try to turn but the oil would have no way out of the rotator.
  14. openspaceman
    With the spool in neutral can you manually turn the grab and rotator? My indexator G3 is on a motor spool but I think the rotator has a overrun internally. Anyway back in the day I was advised there restrictors should be one way check valves with a restriction bypass so that fluid was never restricted getting out of the rotator. I doubt it would be a problem with a small machine.
  15. openspaceman
    Been there,done that... I put it down to the two pints of directors we both consumed at lunch time. I was 22 , on the rope, and never drank alcohol at work again.
  16. openspaceman
    Yes I would frill girdle or drill the stem of the standing tree and hope the translocated herbicide would kill most adventitious suckers then mow AND/OR weedwipe any regrowth.
  17. openspaceman
    Regular mowing will kill them off in a couple of years, it's the ones that sprout in borders andr shrubbery that need dealing with as these will sustain the suckering. I'd go with a rubber glove holding a pad with 50% glyphosate on those.
  18. openspaceman
    Curried patra leaves lovely not sure about laurel. I could do with some of that bug to put on next door's laurels that would save me lots of pruning.
  19. openspaceman
    Perceived wisdom is that you poison the tree some weeks before felling it but that's something I was never allowed to do.
  20. openspaceman
    That's why I use the bench grinder, with green wheel, inside this desktop shelf with a vacuum sucking out the back. I put a fresh piece of pallet wrap after putting the grinder inside and tear a small hole to grind through. Teeth on the chinese machine are £11 each so worth touching up frequently.
  21. openspaceman
    When I had access to the discarded discs from a tiling contractor I found they were okay to cut on the narrow side band even after the diamonds had worn off the cutting edge, now I use a TCT saw sharpening wheel which costs about £10 even though it is rated at only 5500rpm. Yes it is slow but faster than taking the 9 teeth out and using the bench grinder, of course my time is less valuable than that of someone in full time work.
  22. openspaceman
    With limited experience, spread over 45 years with stump grinders and mulchers IMO it depends on weight and horsepower, if you have both of those you just carry on until all the TCT is worn off the tooth and then change it quickly, else the steel wears down fast and damage to the wheel or carrier occurs. Small petrol pedestrian machines cut faster with sharp teeth and once blunt cannot be forced into the cut. Very blunt teeth take far too long to sharpen and are not worth the effort, so I have sharpened teeth from a Dosko off the machine when they are just dull, with a bench grinder outside and enclosed in a container with a vaccuum cleaner running with a HEPA filter and just a small part of the wheel exposed to the tooth. The cheap chinese grinder still has its original teeth and I dress them with a diamond disc in a cordless angle grinder on the wheel after each stump, only run about 10 hours so far. The diamond wheel I use is not rated for the grinder speed.
  23. openspaceman
    I was thinking one of the alders, possibly incana?
  24. openspaceman
    I would guess Picea omorika because of its slender form. If so it will top out at about 25metres. Cutting the leader will result in multiple leaders forming from lower branches.
  25. openspaceman
    Actually in 1998 I bought a cheap genset with one for the lads that lived in a caravan and they ran it night for a couple of years till it got stolen. This is the video, though I could never justify the expense of one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIzBZQr6RVc

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