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I see so it has happened again more recently. I would have liked some nice beech logs for next year, I have a m3 from the canal centre at the back of my logshed behind all the cedar which burns a bit fast. There was a fallen beech at the same spot earlier in the year. The canal always runs out of water in the deepcut section by June so you can only move around between there and greywall in the summer.

Deepcut by the broken sewer? I wondered who did it but didn't walk that way much in the last year and now the boat is sold.

you spoiled it by not using a seasoned cast iron skillet

I believe they should be segregated from pedestrians and still carry the forfeit-ability of a car or motor bike licence for dangerous use or without care or attention and mandatory road traffic insurance, especially if they exceed 15mph as most seem to.

Fine by me as long as they keep them off the footways.

Yet there have been a couple of posts here where people have admitted running the battery saws out of lubricant because they forgot to top it up. I only used one of the earlier top handled battery saws I bought very briefly, just to see if they worked, we bought them for night work.

good maths and it's also better than that because you will be reclaiming 20% on inputs, like petrol and diesel.

Yes some interesting kit about, I wonder if that would stand up to forestry work. In my browsing I came across this: Which is ingenious in that the carriage is geared to drive the fan much faster than the pulley that is running on the cableway. As the power absorbed by the fan is proportional to the cube of its rpm (IIRC) it hits a terminal velocity. This is similar to the air governor in those swiss musical boxes. Anyone who has tried winching stuff downhill off steep slopes can understand how an uncontrolled log slide can be dangerous but this would limit that. In principle the cableway could be slackened to attach the load and then tightened to lift the log and away it would go, with perhaps a control line on the back end .

I've made a pdf but it's 5.5MB so a bit large to post here, PM me and I can send it.

I wonder how much of that is from people running the oil tank dry.

There are 3 more pages I can image but they are mostly accessories and how a dual capstan winch works. I was very keen on these dual capstan winches but only ever came across them for cable pulling underground and tensioning power lines by Plummet when they were in this country by Knepp Castle, frightening cost. The only ones I physically touched but never got to use were the Nokkens on LR101s (mine was not so equipped)and a complex Plummet made under licence by Warburtons and fitted to the military engineering Samson CVRT. The reason for my interest was for a bit lighter footprint than the logbullet type device by using their unique constant force in a novel, simple to erect high lead and locking carriage.

I'm glad you posted that so I could be on an earner. I rushed home and searched my bookshelf with old advertising bumph I had picked up at shows but became rather dejected when I couldn't find it. I may still have it somewhere but it may have gone in a fit of tidying up. @AHPP Whilst searching for something entirely different I came across this filed away somewhere safe

About 15 years ago I saw a blackbird sitting eggs in a hedge abutting a university building in February. I assumed the warmth from the building made them start early.

Yes but there is a history of human deeds to solve one problem but leading to another. I don't necessarily disagree and we should be reducing our need for power from burning either fossil or biomass fuels, they both emit carbon dioxide. The thing with trees is that they maximise their photosynthetic out take of CO2 from the atmosphere in their early life then at a point they change from youths to adults and this growth tails off even though they can live for hundreds more years and store the carbon. So, as with sylviculture, it will pay to harvest trees regularly and maximise the conversion of sunlight to wood and then store the carbon in a recalcitrant form. Without spending time googling to confirm this but I think the major carbon stores are in the sea as clathrates, in the earth as carbonates (like chalk laid down as skeletal remains of small marine creatures) and in the soil as humus and peat like substances as well as vast remaining stores of fossil fuels. Peat and clathrates evolve methane and CO2 as the earth warms. The interesting thing is we cannot just bury biomass and hope it turns into coal because coal was formed at a time before a microbes to decay lignin had evolved but now ultimately buried biomass will get recycled to CO2 and water whereas carbonised wood will not.

I worry about the unintended consequences of geo engineering which is why I'm keen on biochar as a means of encouraging photosynthetic activity to gradually solve the excess CO2, of course it won't work until net carbon zero is reached and the places where it is used are rewarded.

That's interesting so the earlier drill is not compatible with the current activ energy batteries? I expect it could be re celled. I have just replaced my ryobi drill and impact driver after having re celled the nimh batteries once and because I have been so impressed with my ferrex (Aldi) angle grinder at 70 quid bought the aldi drill and impact driver, so I now have 3 20/40V batteries and the lot cost me less than one Makita brushless grinder. Of course I no longer do a lot of work so it is just convenience to me. The drill is substantially better and the chuck is good. I also have a clarke 1/2 drive rattle gun and although the batteries are not interchangeable it's close, only being stopped by a plastic bit, so my guess is they are built by the same chinese factory.

Clamp feed from a saline drip??

Cheaper still to say you have put a fertility vaccine in it and do nothing.

I agree but I would hope you see the parallel of the confidence trick of depending on a future slice of a forever growing cake in a finite world.

I saw this many years ago when a friend tried to introduce me to "factoring", the scheme was to ease cash flow when mills were taking several weeks to pay. What happened was you supplied the timber to a mill, raised an invoice for it and sent the invoice to the bank, they immediately paid you a high percentage of the invoice and sent an identical invoice to the sawmill. Then paid you the balance when the the sawmill finally coughed up less a small percentage of the total for their fees. Trouble was as far as I could see this small percentage was about the same as my profit margin. Trade was good and my mate's business grew like topsy, he paid himself all the net profit and lived the life of Riley. Essentially he was living off the difference in turnover between the current month's turnover and next month's larger turnover, all the profit was consumed by the bank. All went well until there was a downturn and a sawmill defaulted. Bankruptcy became inevitable.

Love it

Each layer of tech depends on the previous one and it's economic surplus that funds the advancement. So hi tech goes with economic growth We have economic growth because the most successful economic model mimics life yet does not have the limit of a lifespan. Why this system has got so far is that it has out competed other systems at being able to maximise the potential to exploit global resources of raw materials, capital and labour. Prior to 1860 the scale was too small to affect the global sustainability after that the "no limits to growth" philosophy led inexorably to the situation we are in now because it worked on the survival of the most successful "devil take the hindmost" philosophy. We in Britain benefited from that by being early colonisers and importing wealth as a result, at the cost to less developed society. As there is no over bearing god like authority to prevent the tragedy of the commons of air water, raw material waste etc. there is no means for it to be sustainable. So yes in a way I don't think hi tech is compatible with sustainability. With US inability to accept a loss of luxuries provided by advanced economic development and China and India trying to catch up while we swirl round in an eddy of the post brexit-covid plug hole I don't hold much hope even though I have tried to be cautious with resources. Mind that was driven by fears of sustainability and toxic pollution dating from 1970 thoughts rather than CO2 driven chaotic weather events. One small hope lies in that the low hanging fruits of fossil fuels have been taken, so development of the remainder is centrally controlled by global corporations which governments could control if they wished.

I've said it before but heated handles are a great boon for when the gloves get wet. Yes the handles do get too hot, I doubt you'll wear out the on off switch. I think it's important to be in the habit of using gloves with chainsaws, and in general work, to protect the hands and against HAVS unfortunately I learned a bit late so have to conscientiously remember to put them on especially as my skin has got weaker with age.

She was lucky then as named drivers should be on the paper certificate which is issued.

An old baking tray cut to fit or cut metal from a tin can, once it has a layer of ash on it it will last.