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  1. Bumper Spike for Stihl MS170, MS180, MS210 Chainsaws - 1123 664 0501 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Bumper Spike for Stihl MS170, MS180, MS210 Chainsaws Genuine Stihl Part OEM Part No. 1123 664 0501 (Use screw... Looks like metal to me
  2. We had a shredder for the returns at a well known seller of flat pack furniture and that was burned in a licensed boiler, a magnet separated ferrous metal fittings but the aluminium just burned or melted, there were some issues with the acidic nature of the flue gases, from the glues and laminates I imagine. I agree with @Squaredy the burner would need to be licensed as an incinerator. I think the ones excepted from full incineration directive must be restricted to 40kg/hour. Where does your current output get burnt? I would have thought there was scope in extruding it with a flammable binder (glycerol. molasses, starch etc) and co firing it with the current fuel. Also it could be blown in at a velocity greater than the flame speed of the dust in still air.
  3. Oh dear, my memory is a bit dim but there's a circlip retaining the shaft to that housing that is very awkward to get at.
  4. You may have a case of Phytophthora ( looked it up for the spelling this time) Ramorum disease (Phytophthora ramorum) - Forest Research WWW.FORESTRESEARCH.GOV.UK Information, management advice and guidance on ramorum disease of forest trees and plants, and its causal agent...
  5. For the 1" blackthorn it'll be a bit of a jolt with a mulching blade. A saw blade will be quicker but you don't get multiple cuts to mulch it. I have a 4mm 2 bladed mulcher on my 50cc brushcutter and wouldn't risk anything thinner, it will easily cope with any brambles. What benefit does a 3 bladed mulcher give? The guys used to wear out these stihl two bladed mulching blades but I think a lot of that was down to them not using the cup underneath to keep the vertical bits of the blade from constantly hitting the ground.
  6. Both those uses because it resists splintering amongst other things. It does "bruise" easily.
  7. so it doesn't even riddle? If so I expect it has jammed up with ash so a gentle tapping and riddling may loosen it
  8. Lovely little fishing village and a good walk along the coast path from St Austell.
  9. We made some char from seaweed for a project at East Malling. It was thoroughly washed and dried first but the analysis still gave a high sodium ion content so the experts said it should be limited to things that need the sodium, like sugar beet. I suppose over time in a free draining soil it would be washed down but...
  10. Well I will and do start <50cc saws and some bigger saws with the poofter button pressed in with the brake on and the back handle between my knees if someone is looking but no way could I start the 084 that way. Mostly I yoyo start with left hand on front handle, That's for problem saws and is not the drop start I would normally use.
  11. Yeah I remember on my last but one refresher.
  12. None of my boots fit through the back handle, hence the attempted use of heel, I still manage best drop starting the bigger saws.
  13. It's a small garden and they love playing tag. I try and take them out for decent long walks but I never know when they are going to descend on us.
  14. I doubt I ever ran more than 3 miles (school cross country), just about managed 20 press ups but was happy climbing the gym rope over hand with no foot locking and doing a few pull ups on the door architrave. I gave up rock climbing 51 years ago and had intended to visit the great prow (climbing which I had failed) on the cuillins last week but the 7 year old twins didn't want the walk in. Yes I cannot manage a fraction of the work I used to do but stamina only went down noticeably after 60. Never had any health problems apart from accident damage till last year, so Marcus I may be being kept alive by drugs but more likely they just make me feel ill. I can however still start all my saws, though the 920 remains a pig and I have had to walk away and come back after a breather. I do have to drop start them as bending over with my heel on the back handle means I cannot deliver the impetus.
  15. I hope you do better than my very reduced area, the dogs wrecked most of my veg patch and I've just picked ten snails off my five remaining courgette plants.
  16. You confuse old age and death, we can't have nippers like you getting despondent and giving up.
  17. We're certainly losing species to new diseases, a mixture of climate change and global trade but other species seem to be doing well, I hesitate to mention ivy but how about bracken, it seems to be spreading quite well into our heathlands.
  18. I hadn't expected scots pine to be susceptible but saw lots of it on corsican ten years ago north of Penrith. Also lots of long dead lodgepole on Skye last week. We have extensive scots pine natural regeneration here in SE and no signs I have noticed yet, which area are you?
  19. Ours doesn't warm up but red worms work their way through it and the vegetable waste from this two person household has not filled it up in 4 years yet, I just shovel out a small amount from the side door each year. I only occasionally put garden waste in it.
  20. My granddaughters' school had a project to hatch eggs and seemed to give the day old chicks to reptile owners when they hatched
  21. Well I was wrong for this bike. By 1975 I had reverted to a bike for commuting to work and that was a bantam D14-4 with 175cc so would have been the same tax. My earlier bikes between 1967 and 1971 were bigger so may have had higher tax.
  22. Same with my vitara. no room for more than me and my kit, still have back seats, down for the dogs. Zero security as it is a convertible. Yes 200 mile range and only 30mpg
  23. 8 quid IIRC
  24. I would expect moisture deficit to have a more overall effect, tip damage is often a mineral deficiency but overall the rest of the leaves look a healthy green so I would go on insect damage. Squeeze the dead areas to see if you can squash any leaf miners else look for sawfly larvae.

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