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  1. openspaceman
    Yes he was there in my childhood through the sweeney ,minder etc. Sorry he has gone and only a few years older than I.
  2. openspaceman
    Good question, are there? I guess the times the dust gets out are when you reload, if you disturb the fire when you reload and mostly when you ash out in the morning. I wonder if there is a stove sold in UK that can empty the ash from outside.
  3. openspaceman
    It's such a long time ago that I used saws daily and was able to notice subtle differences but back then I thought Stihl chains a bit harder and kept their edge slightly better, Oregon and Husqvarna easier to file but bought reels of Oregon for convenience and lower cost. I still have about 50ft of .325 .058 Oregon chisel of some sort bought in the early 90s.
  4. openspaceman
    Well you can still be wealthy enough to afford one and stupid enough not to realise how parking sensors work and depend on them in all circumstances. I love gadgets but all my vehicles are too old and too basic so I only sample things like parking sensors, cameras, lane indicators, speed limit sensors occasionally. What gets me is the expense of all these additions and their liability as the vehicle gets older. The basic Landrover 109 safari we bought new in 1972 was about £1500 which in real terms is just under £20,000 now so vehicles have evolved with much better build, trim, economy and gadgets but at doubling the cost.
  5. openspaceman
    I would love that sweep for bracken bashing if not for the fact I have become averse to distributing bits of plastic into the countryside
  6. openspaceman
    Hell it's just not you year for injuries is it, take it easy.
  7. openspaceman
    In the case I cited fallen trees do not require felling licences, in the past neither did public open spaces made at the time of the 1899 act and I am not sure if that changed. Interesting one about nesting birds, even on conservation sites we see a rush to get trees on the ground by March for later extraction but very few birds nest in trees yet many do nest in heaps of brash, robins and troglodytes spring to mind.
  8. openspaceman
    Too true, the woodland by my house is littered with fallen trees and has never been managed, the owners, a charity, won't allow anyone other than their contractors to collect any timber over 4" diameter and their contractors leave it on site in inconvenient sizes. Health and safety is reason given, it wouldn't pay me to get public liability insurance even though I could just use a wheelbarrow for my needs.
  9. openspaceman
    my interpretation is loose
  10. openspaceman
    In that case you could prune out the dead and hope.
  11. openspaceman
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  12. openspaceman
    The main stem has died as a result of stress and a bacterial or viral infection, may well be fire blight but leaves in the background suggest some recovery from basal shoots, I think I would cut back the stem and look to these shoots to grow on. They could be stored back to one stem if they survive or left multi stemmed.
  13. openspaceman
    I would wait a year or two before replanting.
  14. openspaceman
    I lit it for the last two evenings, house at around 18C now but my feet are cold Yes but watch out as the slightest scratch has the red stuff gushing out
  15. openspaceman
    I've very little experience of it (only one poplar IIRC); it's a brown rot, so it has rotted out the cellulose and left the brown lignin and would normally cause structural failure before killing the tree, I wonder if another pathogen, like honey fungus is also involved. Neither of the species you mention have been recorded as common hosts for R ulmarius, how close to the stump would the replacement be planted?
  16. openspaceman
    I haven't used mine for 5 years but found it just chewed a conical hole in knotty holly, most other species it ground its way into and either split the log or stopped the tractor. It also kept trying to rip my arm off.
  17. openspaceman
    Yes, OP will need to factor in both of them running once the air pressure drops.
  18. openspaceman
    I don't remember those but I still have the petrol ration coupons for the MGB issued in anticipation around 1975.
  19. openspaceman
    Yes a vastly superior saw, the MS181c is a good,cheap homeowner's saw whereas the 550 is a full professional tool.
  20. openspaceman
    Similar happening here where there is a large population of first and second generation immigrants and is why we were in the early trials of having to show evidence at the poll station.
  21. openspaceman
    I'd love to see what they finally decide to do, and the result if they go for a repair.
  22. openspaceman
    I remember folding wedges being advocated to temporarily fix green floorboards while they dried , then sanding and nailing.
  23. openspaceman
    If I can get within about 50metres with a vehicle I can drag them out and the cost in labour doesn't mean too much when you're retired. It's strange that what you did as a youngster for pay can be an enjoyable job when retired.
  24. openspaceman
    Me too but I only need a dozen boot loads and the OP hasn't said which area.
  25. openspaceman
    I agree but it's a way of selling softwood logs to the punters I suppose. Of course I was only meaning to demonstrate that the lignin got hot by the wasted energy pushing the wood through the die. Wear on the die and auger is high too and in Asia where the press originated they have to be resurface with stellite type material regularly.

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