openspaceman
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Inflation erodes the buying power of a wage packet and not necessarily fixed assets, they remain priced by supply and demand.
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Yup, just the thought of it brings it to the fore
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I picked a couple and they are not as funky as the OP's but it may still be a variant of scots pine unless there are better suggestions
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I shall have tot ake a walk and look at some green scots pine cones because everything else suggests scots pine.
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It looks like a mixture of frass from a boring insect plus the resin exuded by the tree trying to drown them. If it really is spruce bark beetle ( a little thing with orange hairs which I haven't yet seen) then the tree will not be healthy for long. In fact boring insects generally are better at spotting a vulnerable tree than we are and normally start with that, once the population explodes then all the trees in the monoculture are at risk.
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Yes and that trait is what meant our ancestors survived but we have never got beyond that economic competitiveness to progress any further than a cell of yeast pickling in its own excrement. In fact it only needs us 2 billion wealthiest to perish as we are behind 90% of the pollution. Even so there would still need to be some intervention to help nature out and rapidly reduce CO2 because all that coal we burned was produced at a time many organisms that decayed vegetation had not evolved.
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£70 million in fines for pharma firms that overcharged NHS - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK After reassessing part of the case, the CMA has found that Pfizer and Flynn abused their dominant positions to... a bit earlier than today but this is the firm that provided much of the covid vaccines and all?? the boosters so those figures are yet to come That's a big export of dosh no wonder the pound is reaching parity with the dollar
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Yes I forgot about that telltale. I also once made the mistake of sending a machine off a remote job to a non GM machinery dealer who did have the correct grinder. They swapped out the blunt but never been sharpened discs and replaced with some that had been sharpened undersized and poorly balanced. The lads complained bitterly that the machine was throwing out slivers.The reason for having to use a dealer to change the blades was that none of our lads on the job had been shown how and I had witnessed the results of someone changing blades without the competence to do so.
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Willow tree in clay near property
openspaceman replied to Swaity's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
This isn't likely to be tree related and I am no structural engineer nor expert anything but my guess is there is differential movement between the original building and the extension, as the extension has piled foundations they are probably better than a 1930s strip foundation and hence probably move less as the soil moisture changes. -
Yes but note GM specify a minimum weight and diameter they can be ground to.
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local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
openspaceman replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
That would explain it -
Round here they seem to inject human waste rather than spread, not seen any pig farms locally for a long time.
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I've just returned with a few oak logs from the one that fell into a crop of rye now the combine had been through, I don't know what the yield was but there was no grass for the cattle, the neighbouring common had dying ling and a couple of mature scots pine, though these were likely previously damaged by wildfires years back. I did get given 2kg of rye, now just have to figure out how to grind it good enough to make some loaves.
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local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
openspaceman replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
I don't think I've seen a meadow brown with such contrasting border -
local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
openspaceman replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
Fritillary but which? -
Tree Advice - Buying a House
openspaceman replied to potterd_'s question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Dunno but it would make your wallet lighter, most tree consultants are not also structural engineers. It's a tiny tree, give it some water, it's very unlikely it has damaged the drive and even if the soil is a highly shrinkable clay it will not have dried out the soil enough to change anything. Roots do need space to grow and can move soil but don't have enough force to do anything to a well founded drive, they typically may crack a thin application of asphalt but not often more. -
That'll be next year then if farmers decide to plant break crops of legumes because they cannot afford nitram
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That was the pub
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go on then show us the exhaust side
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Is there any reason for not sharing a vehicle VIN
openspaceman replied to difflock's topic in General chat
The cynic in me says its because his modified build has bits from a dodgy vin that cannot be used -
Gaia's high priest down I see from another forum James Lovelock died today. I can't say I agreed with some of his ideas later in life but the basic concept of interfering with a self regulating entity was spot on.
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I may have a clutch cover and chainbrake handle from a 266 that may be the same??, are you anywhere near me?
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Are the parts you want common with other saws?
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I don't know but the Elwell billhook I have holds its edge like no recent edge tools I have. I would have thought with all the knowledge of alloys gained since it was made from good old carbon steel they could have come up with something better. Could it be that steel made from all those scrapped cars is now contaminated with so many stray molecules of other metals that its difficult to control its properties?
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L&S Engineers list 191 parts for the 268 available
