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replacement tree for windblown tpo tree?
openspaceman replied to Peachy1970's topic in Trees and the Law
Would you expand on that? My inference is that you required an owner to replant, which was done, and hence there was no need to take the matter further. -
As I said at the beginning it's a challenge which I just have a go at when I have some spare time between all the other retirement projects I have started and may not finish. When I took the saw repair on I expected it to be just a matter of adjusting the Hi and Lo screws. As to buying another saw, I have plenty which I will never wear out.
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I was wrong, main jet pushed out and it has a functioning check valve. I'll reassemble the carb and try again but this time I'll clamp the tube to the purge bulb.
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So right
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Your earning to expenses ratio is too low
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That's my thought too, IF the logs have been dried to below 20%mc wwb they won't sprout mould and inside the garage they will gradually reach an equilibrium with the Rh of the air in the garage. In most of UK this will be below 17% . In the SE logs in my open sided store go down to below this, much at 15% now (air dried over one summer) You only need airflow around the logs if they are damper than the equilibrium mc of the garage.
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My £10/month smarty sim is 60GB ( goes down to 30GB after 6 months) on the 3 network . I can use it on my PC by making my samsung tablet a hotspot in an upstairs window and with a usb wifi dongle in the pc. For some reason I cannot get it working with the purpose made router with its external antenna.
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poachers Problems with Trespassers, Fly tippers & Poachers?
openspaceman replied to Johnboysevern's topic in General chat
Rupert and the pongos fire, matelots shoot. -
Yes while I wasn't aware the BR800C was a 4mix I have used them in pole saws and they sound quite different. From what I recall they are a 4 stroke as you say but they have the advantage of using the crankcase pressure as the piston descends to act as a scavenge pump, supercharging the intake a bit.
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Any ideas on this one
openspaceman replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Sorbus alnifolia?? -
With a bit of luck the bottom end and small end bearings will be fine but I expect the piston will have transferred a bit of aluminium to the bore and the rings will be seized in their lands. Whip the exhaust off and look, maybe post a picture of the rings through the exhaust port. The bore will probably be okay as it is hard but will need the aluminium chemically cleaned off and then "honed" with some wet and dry paper. Probably worth getting an OEM piston if it is that young.
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That's best but I would call them as the message looks right apart from the time of sending but that may just be a computer thing.
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Correct method for driving through floods
openspaceman replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Very little flooding here but I turned round and went another way once the sills were in water today. It's the same with snow, once you cannot distinguish the verge you can end up in the ditch. -
The last picture looks just like frogspawn that has been frosted
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Near you? I recall there was a drainage problem at your house.
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That's right, it's over 30 years since I sold firewood but it was a luxury good here, so thin slabwood and small rounds were complained about, customers wanted uniform split sections. Very few people depend on wood for heating here or fewer still. like me. that heat only by using wood. Today is exceptional as the fire is not lit but I reckon wood saves me about 64kWh of heating most days between October and April, saving a fiver a day. @wills-mill let me have some slabwood that had been through a branch logger and I punted them around the narrow boat community, they burned well but the price was not competitive with smokeless coal mainly because of the price of nets and filling them and of course the fire could not be kept going overnight. I would love to use a branch logger for the small birch and pine we clear off heathland but there are issues of storage which would take more space than a stack of ordinary firewood, plus I have no access to a branch logger.
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I''l push it through next year but I think it will not have a check valve in it and its annular groove will just take fuel from the un serviceable check valve I ringed in blue, as does the idle circuit, we'll see. In the mean time HNY to all and especially @bmp01,, @adw and @spudulike for help on this thread.
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...and likely to become heavier as batteries move from lithium ion cobalt with flammable electrolyte through lithion ion phosphate to sodium ion.
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They are the lyrics on spotify, I had to look it up as I hadn't heard it, far too modern for me. I'm trying to remember an earlier song about a bloke the singer envied until the last verse where it seems the guy topped himself. Got it, Richard Cory-Simon&Garfunkel, maybe I'll get to sleep now This one quoted above seems to have a similar theme to "ode to billie Joe in that the mother is sad about something.
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Securing loads on HGVs and goods vehicles - 4. Ways to secure a load in an HGV or goods vehicle - Guidance - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Equipment and methods you can use to secure a load in a goods vehicle and how to use it safely. You must use sheeting and netting to stop loads bouncing upwards on open vehicles (for example sided flatbeds and bulk tippers) unless the load is secured by other means. Sheets and nets used for load securing must: be in good condition - there must be no rips or tears be suitable for the load carried cover the entire load bed so that no part of the load can escape be secured down to the vehicle or trailer
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I doubt you have had the misfortune to work on an Einhell saw either
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Plumpton College Intensive Course - good pathway in?
openspaceman replied to SussexHarry's topic in Training & education
It surprising how some people have managed with no tickets , in one case for the 35 years I have been on the tools with him. -
Very likely as we are all inveterate "fixers" at the repair cafe, and everything was very clean.
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I think the brass jet is fitted okay. This is a cheap carb and maybe they have used this check valve as the only way for fuel to exit the metering chamber to the idle and main jets as a cost cutting exercise?? Once I decide there is no way to repair the check valve and the carb is scrap I will knock it out and post a picture.
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I think you are both right in that the check valve should prevent air being sucked back from the choke tube when the purge bulb is used and as there was a very fine stream of bubbles in the purge circuit this check valve leaking would explain that. The jet protrusion looks okay. The red circled check valve looks like it is the only exit from the metering chamber and definitly connects to the main jet. There is one idle drilling forward of the butterfly and a few under it when closed. These latter must have been drilled before the large welch plug was fitted. Either way this check valve is passing fuel in both directions and if I cannot get the thing out and replace it the carb is toast.
