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So in order to trade you have to belong to an organisation that tests the moisture content of your logs but the organisation is not accredited to test log moisture content and the results would not stand up in court yet they can still ban you from being a member and thus prevent you selling logs? Guilds were similar and done away with because they stultified trade.

That's right and if the carb has got warm enough that a vapour bubble is causing the starting problem it pulls through fresh colder fuel. I didn't like the bulbs initially but from whenever I can remember Husqvarna saws have had problems if you sit them down in hot weather after very hard work and having this purge bulb seems to solve the hot start problem.

dilute your chain oil with it bit by bit or add it to a diesel tank bit by bit

This is a thread from over 10 years ago but I have just damaged the gearbox to my HL75. Apart from stripping the teeth off the angle drive both parts of the gear housing that allow for the 0-90 degree orientation of the blades have been damaged (chips off of the bore through which the spindle goes on both parts ). New gearbox seems to be about £300 but as I seldom need to change the angle I was just thinking of replacing the gearbox with the much cheaper https://www.lsengineers.co.uk/gearhead-0-stihl-part-no-4230-640-0100.html Does anyone know if this is a straight swap or can suggest other options?

Yes and holding it with both hands

I thought an oak because of the prominent tannin iron stain plus the star shake on the most discoloured end.

This is a bit clearer

If you zoom in the bud does look like a thumb nail.

Cold bridge Shirley

Basically this. When the diesel is producing little power there is a lot of excess oxygen in the cylinder but because little fuel is being used the temperature and pressure remains low, so little oxygen combines with the nitrogen. As you produce more power by injecting more fuel per cylinder the oxygen still remains in excess but now the temperature and pressure increase such that nitrogen and oxygen react to produce nitrogen oxides, this is the stage at which exhaust gas is reintroduced as it contains less oxygen, more carbon dioxide and the same amount of nitrogen. This lowers the temperature in the cylinder and the oxygen concentration. At full power whilst the temperature and pressure are maximised there is little oxygen left to react with nitrogen. So quite a feat to add just the right amount of EGR according to engine parameters at one moment NOx are implicated with combining with chemicals in the atmosphere (mostly sulfates I think) to produce particulates. Adblue in combination with some catalysts in the exhaust introduces urea CO(NH2)2 to combine with these NOx and convert them to plain N2 and more water and carbon dioxide. I've not experienced DPFs and regeneration as all my diesels are older than 10 years, most 40 years old plus but it strikes me EGR will increase soot production and hence DPF blocking and then the regeneration will need added fuel (in the wrong place in the case of the Dmax). If Adblue works then why does an engine need EGR? If DPFs work and reduce particulates why demonise diesels that have them?

I have the vanilla Kisa Combi from about 1985

slower too IME but mine only cut 9" diameter

It looks like an old school stellite tipped solid nose bar (I cannot see the type of nose for sure but the overheated tip suggests this) with a 1.6mm slot for the chain to run in, probably 36" so needs 108 drive link chain and the chain on it looks like a 0.404 full chisel (the 27 refers to the style of chain). From the state of the chain I'd say it has hit something hard and then continued being used There is quite a lot of life left in the chain once it has been sharpened and the depth gauges filed.

I guess you are too far from me to borrow mine?

Yes and when you get to a whorl split each side of the branch and then saw the segment in half or smaller.

Actually it will be a bit more than 40% overall as on the home auction site it says auction premium 15%, online fee 5% and VAT 20% 1.15*1.05*1.2=1.449 and this Ibidder site works out slightly differently 1.2*1.2=1.44

This was always the case

I wish I had put a vertical divider in mine like that and for exactly that reason. I'm over half way through my log store and could have been refilling one half, as it is we still have February, normally the coldest month here. Also with my fetish for checking the moisture content of my logs with a moisture meter I am finding the beech logs in the middle of the stack have up to 28% mc wwb in the middle even though around 17% on the outside so could have done with an extra month of summer seasoning even though they burn perfectly well.

Yes I forgot he is still a part of UK until the sellout is finalised

I think Marcus has lost his € key

Sort of; haulier is the buyer and hasn't picked up the second load, I just wonder if demand has dropped off as I would expect people to have got over the pre Xmas rush and now laying in stock to process before May so as to get a full summer seasoning in.

It would be interesting to see how new stove sales have been affected. In my little parish there is some reluctance to collect a lorry load of ash which was agreed in October.

I did wonder why it was relatively tall with the air inlet low down

or wrong gauge drive link chain

A bit like arbeit machst frei