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  1. openspaceman
    Roads shut as huge tree falls on building in Soho Square WWW.BBC.CO.UK Firefighters searched the building it fell on and found no-one had been injured. It looks like a large London plane just flushing has fallen. Looking at the root plate are those white patches mycelium?
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    My thoughts too
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    Double funny but I had to look it up
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    Swallowing what ?😀
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    Crane fly?
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    I have bought through Aliexpress a couple of times with no problems. I'm wary of over dependence on China now and anyway lots of stuff seems out of stock now. However I also had problems with a MS181C which we discussed here for a while on the what's on my bench thread. Eventually I gave up and took an offer from @bmp01 to look at it. He found a number of faults but the principal one was a worn accelerator pump piston letting air past and weakening the mixture. Rather than replace the carb, as it was an old saw and uneconomic to replace, he somehow deleted the accelerator pump. It works fine now but less zippy to rev up.
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    Heard my first yesterday, I think they like the warbler nests on Chobham NNR
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    One of my points of contention with the two "mechanics" at my last job was that oil jugs were left open and caps left off cans, all within range of the dust from frequently used angle grinders.
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    Whale of a time
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    We had a Hikvision sytem in the yard and my main criticism of it was the time it took to review the footage. When something went missing I would have to take screenshots and flip between them so the missing item appeared at the frames were swapped and narrow the search down by finding the moment the item was last in view and then reviewing from that moment.
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    I just tell my mate he's still spritely just to annoy him, it's become a euphemism for someone old and nearly decrepit trying to soldier on. I take it spritely and sprightly have the same root? As of a sprite. I wish until I look into the mirror. I never did climb daily after about 1980 but did the occasional bit when no one else was available on the firm up till 60. By then I only did take down and never progressed beyond double rope and shunt, now a rare outing.
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    The best bet is to ask the client for a copy of their farm grant schemes maps, when I dealt with them they were on a CD. Currently it looks like the FC felling licence consultation mapping is straightforward. The maps in the base layer are as MAGIC but without watermark and in colour. Experience EXPERIENCE.ARCGIS.COM You can register for one of the OS agents like Emapsite and buy .pdf as planning extracts. In the past you could register with them and get a preview prior to purchasing a licence which you could save using printscrn and print.
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    One from my youth, different war then
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    I think you missed an "m". Do any of the battery ones cut that thick easily?
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    Does that get you better than 1:25k? I have the leisure map subscription but don't have access to any larger scale mapping.
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    Yes softwoods may start with a higher moisture content but then dry much faster, given given good airflow in the store. You will need about 1.5 times the volume stacked of softwood compared with a dense hardwood like beech, oak or ash so you will be feeding the stove more frequently and remember to split the wood as rounds with bark on hold onto the moisture.
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    This is the crux of it for me
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    I find it will come off most parts with a soak in diesel and scraping but the mixture of sawdust and OSR on the fins that has baked on is a recipe for a seizure, I have resorted to a dremel with carbide burr to clean the fins but wish for a sand blaster. It wouldn't stop me using OSR if I were using saws everyday but they do need regular cleaning and now I rarely used more than a tank a week and some saws sometimes weeks between use I have reverted to mineral oil.
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    Ring shake in old chestnut not at all unusual, often associated with spiral grain to make the boards somewhat suspect. Sometimes the ring shake is conical and will sound out in a metre or so, we would try and sound it out and cut a disc out of the sounded end then break it and look for greying in the split grain which indicated the shake was still present.
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    So if you remove the bark and slabwood and burn them you can keep the cant for milling off site?
  21. openspaceman
    The orange looks like it may be a lichen, if so it is harmless. More significant is the basal damage which looks like a strimmer has frapped it.
  22. openspaceman
    Marcus, Marcus quite contrary how does your garden grow?
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    904
  24. openspaceman
    Definitely, when I only had one saw I would take a sharp axe too in case I got stuck but later I would always take two just in case something went wrong.
  25. openspaceman
    Not for me but then I went off Fleetwood Mac after Peter left too.

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