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openspaceman

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  1. I recently had this problem and still haven't entirely solved it on a Stihl ms181c. The main thing is the purge bulb was sucking air through a split fuel pipe. Thus air was sucked into the bulb and when it was pressed it was being pushed into the tank.
  2. Thanks, much the same as NHS then. I have started the process of seeing which route I can trench for a new water pipe and mapping gas and electricity supplies.
  3. He may have known my father It was 1974 my next major attempt at planting was cell grown corsican in 1995 and I didn't get above 500, not done much planting since.
  4. Did they cut the supply to the whole road to replace your stopcock?
  5. Best I ever did was 1500 larch 50cm @1p a tree lots of times below 600, mind basic wage was £19/week then. Beating up with no guards was often quicker than planting as you didn't need to set up the boning rods to keep your lines straight. Guarded trees and stakes a completely different ball game.
  6. I've a feeling he prefers timeserts which are a threaded bush rather than helicoil which are a diamond section wire coil. I think the 550 will be 14mm by 1.25 pitch but some small saws have 10mm plugs. The thing to be wary of is that even the 1 diameter length threads may be too long for the spark plug hole so count the threads and see if a bit needs cutting off with a dremel. Also I don't like carrying the 16mm tap all the way through so the helicoil cannot impinge into the cylinder but have not actually had a problem of the helicoil moving.
  7. Who inspects water company or building control?
  8. Right a follow up; as I said my combined water and sewerage rate is £430 per year. If I go for a meter that would mean I could use 400 tonnes a year before I break even, Using an online calculator with a generous weekly 10 baths, 8 flushes, 5 dishwashes and 5 washing machine plus leaving a hose running for 5 hours a year that comes to 102m3 of water My water use charge would be £107.12 Water standing charge£28.20 Sewerage variable charge£92.32 Sewerage standing charge£65.18 Surface water drainage rebate£-26.66 So £266 instead of £430 and if I use well water it could be much less but less said about that the better so the sewerage undertaking don't get wind of the plan. So worth doing but I need to see about running a plastic pipe from the stopcock 30 metres into the kitchen, 750mm deep and it must go under the two foul sewers I think. I suspect the water company will wish to inspect the installation before they connect it to the meter.
  9. You are engaging with experts in misinformation, such is social media
  10. Yes I think you are right, though I did reply to someone here in 2014 (when I was actually still using it) that it accepted .dwg I think I was mistaken and had to use a separate converter to.dxf and import them.
  11. It's a cartography program rather than CAD but I used Mapmaker for my maps to plot trees and make applications, I haven't used it for 20 years and it has moved on a few versions since then. You get one month free and then it reverts to a gratis version with less features. Eric who wrote the program was helpful and Hanno of Latitude Cartography runs a forum for users. https://mapmaker.com/v5/Map Maker 5.Pro.htm https://www.latitudecartography.co.uk
  12. Yes and @spuddog0507 knows his stuff. I always knew I shouldn't do it but it took 30 years before it caught me out.
  13. Not me, I only commented on the fact that neither of them was gripping the front handle fully.
  14. Nah, I used to look at it in the shed at work in 1974 but decided it was far too heavy to use.
  15. Yes that's all I intend to do while the access and field is a bit wet. It is very sandy soil so will dry fast but also the crop will be growing very soon.
  16. Access is poor and the butt is actually over a ditch then into the field. I may see if I can roll it out with the Eder winch until it is parallel with the public footpath and carve a seat it the farmer allows. I had not realised how popular the path was until I worked there this afternoon. The main thing is to get it off the rye for the farmer.
  17. That's the best thing about it, the few bits I got home with in the back of the vitara are measuring 19% mc at worst on my valiant meter. Most of the sapwood has rotted off and it is burning like coal, actually the room is far too hot 😀, Lord knows how I will get it all home before the locals pinch it.
  18. As I said I wouldn't go that far, however it will be interesting to see how a bill with a water meter is made up of standing charge and metered water. I probably should have done it 25 years ago when the kids left home.
  19. It may have been from the bridge over the roundabout before it went over, about a kilometre though. I have been watching it for several years now so when I noticed it down I asked the farmer and he is allowing me to have the logs. The butt will be too much work though.
  20. Thanks that will work, Ill just have to order something else to get to the minimum charge.
  21. Near Ripley in Surrey. If I can't find a bar for the Husky I can probably manage with the 084 but I would like to put the husky to work, it probably hasn't been used for 25 years but I did start it last year.
  22. I've ordered a kit just to see if it has any nasties in it, I would never use it other than for flushing which probably only requires 40 or 50 litres a day but it becomes interesting if the washing machine and bathroom taps could use it.
  23. I totally agree not only are they lighter than a tirfor and wire rope they are quicker to set up and of course more powerful. Probably cheaper new too.
  24. They aren't 9 by 4 bricks are they?
  25. The well has been there since 1862, I don't know why it stopped being used. The rule used to be you could draw up to 20M3 a day without an abstraction licence, I think the well would struggle to refill if I took more than 1m3 a day. I was more worried about the health aspect.

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