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openspaceman

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  1. Never tried that so it's a new one for me. The extra bend length for that part of the hinge means a high stump is inevitable but as you put the diagonal down cut in first why not keep the saw level when doing the vertical down cut and feel for the meeting with the diagonal cut? A small over cut into the middle of the hinge isn't going to matter any worse than a letterbox.
  2. Yes it wouldn't have in my favourites at the time but very fond of it now as a reminder of the times and loves lost.
  3. Good cover, close to Maggie. Another Aussie for whom the carnival is over
  4. Inflation erodes the buying power of a wage packet and not necessarily fixed assets, they remain priced by supply and demand.
  5. Yup, just the thought of it brings it to the fore
  6. 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
  7. I shall have tot ake a walk and look at some green scots pine cones because everything else suggests scots pine.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. £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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Yes but note GM specify a minimum weight and diameter they can be ground to.
  14. Round here they seem to inject human waste rather than spread, not seen any pig farms locally for a long time.
  15. 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.
  16. I don't think I've seen a meadow brown with such contrasting border
  17. 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.
  18. That'll be next year then if farmers decide to plant break crops of legumes because they cannot afford nitram
  19. That was the pub
  20. go on then show us the exhaust side
  21. The cynic in me says its because his modified build has bits from a dodgy vin that cannot be used
  22. 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.
  23. 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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