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    8 quid IIRC
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    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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    be aware the eco 1.6 diesel model 2010 has less ground clearance than others, I have one. I also inherited a 1999 vitara which I rate but only enough room for felling gear.
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    That's right Jack, I don't like it but that's no reason to turn down well paid work and I'll include tennis courts, swimming pools and most hard landscaping in that
  5. openspaceman
    I read that tyre wear produces about a third of micro plastic in our environment.
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    Small exit holes of some beastie, big holes woodpecker looking for them, possibly sawfly/wood wasp larvae
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    What worries me about all these ideas for extracting extra heat from the flue gases is, assuming a modern stove designed properly rather than just a steel box with a door and flue outlet, that either the stove is being over driven and the flue gases should not be that hot or you will cool the flue sufficiently to cause condensation which will run back down and end up as tar deposits, plus stainless steel loses its corrosion resistance in saturated acidic conditions.
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    550XP Mk2

    openspaceman replied to Cuttup's topic in Chainsaws

    Rough was it Matty? Strangely I had you down as a bloke with that beard. Good wishes for the family
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    I have never had the problem with a saw but hedge trimmers and chiefly the Stihl BT 45 drill. I didn't put it down to Stihl oil as opposed to other makes but the chances are our chaps were using Stihl oil as that is what I bought them, red stuff in those days. I did surmise it was down to using saws with rev limiters at high idle constantly as this causes neat mixture to pass out of the engine and the oil element to deposit on the spark arrestor. A problem easily fixed with a spanner and blow torch but at first difficult to diagnose.
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    Yes salt tolerant species may survive with some salt but high concentrations will kill. We see a salt tolerant plant with a small white flower growing adjacent to roads that have been salted in the winter but as summer rains wash the salt out other plants become established
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    cheap, available and kills plants especially in spring with a water deficit
  12. openspaceman
    I never have done stretches at all but then I have never been at all athletic. I notice all three dogs do when they get up so it probably pays.
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    Yes but some of it may have started from english not being a native language of one of the protagonists, even the british standard he posted defined kernmantel as being different from most modern arb ropes. I too will leave it at that.
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    Walk of shame then. Shame you lost the job but rules is rules.
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    I don't know if or when FC respond as I have not reported anything for over 30 years. If it were a Douglas fir I would report it on the tree alert section of FC website as a suspected P.pluvialis but I think it is a spruce, possibly brewers.
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    It does look like a bleeding canker but I didn't think spruces were affected by any phytopfera if yours is a spruce?? Neither did I think maples were susceptible. Phytopfera ramorum and the more recent P. kernoviae affect a wide range of shrubs, oak and larch but not noted on spruce, it is notifiable. More recently P. pluvialis has been found on a range of conifers but again not noted on spruce, again this is notifiable so it may be worth contacting the forestry Commission if you think a phytopfera has killed the maple and infected your tree.
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    Yeah and too complicated a subject for me but it does seem to confirm that kernmantle originally meant the cover was not load bearing and the core was parallel fibres whereas the double multiplaits do depend on the cover for strength. I can remember, pre 1970, being told to feel for damage to the core which wasn't visible on the sheath when rock climbers were transitioning from 13mm cable laid nylon to twin 10mm kernmantle. I never saw kernmantle used in arb and started tree work with prussic knot and cable laid nylon before moving to military abseil line. I am totally confused by the options available now
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    I thought kernmantle ropes were a woven sheath over a parallel fibre core, arb ropes now are multiplait core and cover.
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    I wonder just how well the cameras monitor activity. We had a chap at work whose fuel consumption was noticeably worse than it should have been and his wife's car (same make and model SUV) had scratches around the fuel filler. Tyres didn't last him long either.
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    Yes looks like the cankers have exposed the wood and let Fomes fomentarius in
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    Unless the land for the road was previously owned by the manor or the highway authority have purchased it for the road then it is not unusual for the landowner on either side to own their half up to the centre of the highway (highway includes the road surface and verges).
  22. openspaceman
    It probably is his tree if he still owns the road and verge but responsibility for it almost certainly rests with the highway authority.
  23. openspaceman
    May be no need if the rotator has a relief valve built in to it. The normal way is to run the rotator off a motor spool which free wheels when in neutral. Also some spools will have port relief valves built in to dump excess pressure in any of the two outputs back to tank. Else put a dual cross line relief valve across the outputs from the spool.
  24. openspaceman
    That may mean there is no cross-line relief between the input and output of the rotator so, for instance, if you picked a long log up by one end at right angles to the machine and dragged backwards without operating the spool the rotator would try to turn but the oil would have no way out of the rotator.
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    With the spool in neutral can you manually turn the grab and rotator? My indexator G3 is on a motor spool but I think the rotator has a overrun internally. Anyway back in the day I was advised there restrictors should be one way check valves with a restriction bypass so that fluid was never restricted getting out of the rotator. I doubt it would be a problem with a small machine.

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