openspaceman

I have an earlier version of that that I dug up ages ago. It needs a new handle and pivot bolt as the current one is too worn for the gripper to operate, I have never used it. It strikes me it depends on stapling the wire hard onto the post and I prefer to run the wire back on itself and running through the staple.

I have never seen brown coal briquettes but brown coal is generally just one step on from peat and not a smokeless fuel. I think germany burns a lot in power stations.

My first point is although the heat in the flue gas is wasted heat in that it doesn't get into the room it is necessary waste heat because it give the flue gas buoyancy to rise on up out of the chimney and it also prevents any condensation of the vapours on the chimney walls. My take is the problem boiler stoves have in meeting pollution standards is that the water cools combustion and quenches flames before they are full burned out whereas chip stokers and advanced gasifier boilers heat the water after secondary combustion has fully completed.

Will you be able to explain how the 600 metre range can be had?

Is it a current stove that you can visit a shop to look inside? What about pricing up the spares for the multifuel version rather than asking for a conversion. Chances are that they will all fit.

They work well on line wire too. The way the cam rotates to grip the wire means it is less damaging so they can be used on spring steel wire also. I look at the set hanging on my shed wall and wonder if I will ever use them again, fencing was never a thing for me but repairing breaks was fairly common.

or the oiler

Yes but here they were mostly resellers without reserves to hedge against rapidly rising prices. He did suggest just so.

Writing as an acknowledged poor business man I might but the CEO of a public company only has a duty to maximise shareholders' profits, morality is not in his remit. Well given the signals the primary energy producers have been given that has resulted them cutting down on exploration investment they might be looking at the market and thinking the consumer has been able to pay much higher prices, even with a big chunk going in tax, and the margin is higher on the smaller volume bought by those that can afford it, our profits have gone up, so make hay...

In your dreams; no one wants to give up money least of all energy company profits it's an unexpected consequence of a sudden change where regulation is too slow to react.. In the same way covid drastically reduced or negated profits of all those businesses that lost their clientele during lockdown. We have an economy that rewards the successful such that the less successful suffer and part of that is the money is no longer available for things the welfare state was designed to provide. The welfare state came about because the catastrophic consequences of war moved the public vote towards co-operation, 75 years on the economy has reverted further to competition and devil takes the hindmost. As Marcus points out the moderately wealthy and upwards are hardly affected because the staples of homes, heating and food form a smaller part of their disposable income so they can continue to afford luxury goods like travel, holidays etc. My problem with this is that those things tend to have increased global consequences.

My thoughts too, This is old and tatty on an outing yesterday. Pulling WRC off a slope where no thought had been given to extraction and I'm too old to haul winch wire up hill 50 metres.

and another angle; how much have you spent on electricity this last week, I spent £1.40.

it would require billions of dollars investment and no one is going to loan that to a government that might renege on the deal

Belvedere, is it a point house by the sea?

and it's probably the best overall wood for firewood if it is cut split and seasoned from green so as there is no deterioration, it is dense, dries relatively slowly but has a bright lively flame.

Last birthday was your 21st then. We share the day of the month then.

A little update on the MS181C I was having trouble diagnosing a misfire on. I took @bmp01 up on his offer and finally got the saw to him on Friday. By the evening he had sussed out a number of faults, the coil gap way too large, purge bulb pipe not fitting properly and the biggy was the accelerator pump piston. By Saturday it was ready for collection with a modified carburetor and arrived back to me yesterday. Here it is cutting some wood immediately after running it 10 seconds from cold. I have now ordered some parts he suggested should be replaced before taking it back to the lady owner. @bmp01 may explain the detail better. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EHPlbeW3aI717zcwEPn0wq9Gl2T0_Heo/view?usp=sharing DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM

As @Deafhead says the chain that it "walks" on is missing. Also be aware that the way the wire gets held in the two "S" shaped clamps which interlock with the wire jammed between them means it can get squashed which is not a problem with ordinary barbed or line wire (apart from damaging the galvanising) but can cause a weak spot in higher tensile wires. PS Strange to see @Deafhead being a junior to my senior member status

Clean all the loose muck off before you take anything apart. Saw has been seized so will need at least a new piston.

They've gone up a bit, I'm sure I used to buy them from Greenhams at 50p each ten years ago

As the recent weather had dried out the track I returned today with the 2100, Steve's chain catcher and Stihl bar with adapter. It ran with no problems. Chain brake not functional but I doubt I'll find one and you can see where I smashed the top cover and fuel tank when my axe glanced off a log some 30 years ago.

The beech has suffered a fairly substantial reduction of the crown recently and mature beech don' react well to that. It looks like it is terminal decline if not dead already

I thought a mixture of chimney scrubbers on power plants from the early nineties and low sulphur fuels effectively stopped it by 2010.

Yes to some older physical/mechanical damage but the bark necrosis looks like it's recent (very little sign of wound growth). The lawn also looks very green so I'm thinking root damage exacerbates by fungicide/herbicide/fertiliser. All wild speculation without a wider view.

Timeserts have a flange that the plug can seat on but I haven't used them.