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That will still be fine in a B&S mower engine sump

I have a distant recollection that the self mixing stuff had a bit of petrol in it already so you mixed it at 16:1 instead of 25:1. I thing 2t oil has moved on and got much better with the 50:1 oils so would mix this in with chain oil. What say you @Stubby?

Yes I still use mine occasionally but have to be a bit careful with it as it has started running a bit weak and I haven't got round to seeing why. The 346 I recently rebuilt is my go to saw now and any one of 3 262s which are over 30 years old now if something needs a bit of grunt. I haven't had the bigger saws out for many years, too heavy and too difficult to pull over.

A shuttle valve will allow either the 12V or the hydraulic pack to take the strain Shuttle valve - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Peter used to leave me the keys to his wagon so I could move it back and for on the forest road to cut down the extraction distance in the days we hand balled 1 metre pulp onto 28 tonnne artics, I used to get in such a mess that it put me off lorry driving completely.

My only experience was with a system for 8 flats and that was probably deemed a commercial installation, domestic may not have the same requirement. AFAIK a gas boiler heated the lot up for an hour once a day, no sense in that particular scheme at all and the flats would have been much better off with a gas combi each, probably using less gas overall too. I don't understand why heat pumps are so expensive, they are only big fridges and fridges run for years with no problems.

Tends to be cheap where there's hydropower, renewable too.

Will this kill your training business stone dead or are you expecting firms still to send people for training?

In fact most of the Brighton street trees produce viable seed, I know as I propagated some, and english elm, previously Ulmus procera but now Ulmus minor "Atinia" is an infertile clone. So they will be Ulmus minor I think. Ulmus minor 'Atinia' - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG I did fell some wych elm there and assisted while the lads took down the last two between the station and football stadium, they were completely healthy and showed the typical black tyloses in the previous annual rings from having contained previous infections.

Because they pump heat to a lower temperature than a traditional wet system with radiators but still higher than room temperature they need much more heat exchange area, Floors can be big heat exchangers and only need to be heated slightly above room temperature, as the heat rises, The bigger problem is getting up to the 50C+ for domestic hot water and worse still heating the whole wet system up to 60c+ once a day to combat legionnaire disease bacteria.

Yes but I thought Ulmus minor had some resistance and don't quite understand why they ringbark stand alone trees, I thought it as to prevent transfer via root grafts/contact.

Yeah this going back to the guilds and restrictive practise puts me right off. I never had any training and did witness a fair few co workers cutting finger and legs (left thigh mostly before chainsaw trousers were adopted) but it was actually 30 years before I managed to cut myself, still too soon as never would have been better. All my lads took their assessments in 1991, about the first opportunity I think and I steadily took more as required. The last 6 years ago just before I retired,

Yes I wonder why it got so bad this year, I noticed two big ones in Preston park three weeks ago and a large one had been bark stripped somewhere around Dyke road on Wednesday ( I was lost trying to get into one of the one way streets near the station at the time).

I cannot think of a solution other than sheet piling between the tree and wall but my concern would be that Heras fencing won't stop anything and walls falling have killed a few people in my recent recollection of reading the news. The lime doesn't seem without issues either and no shortage of trees in the vicinity.

I suspect the reason for phasing out natural gas for home heating is to conserve it for centralised electricity production, simply because it is the lowest carbon fossil fuel with 4 hydrogen molecules to one carbon .

No I broadly like the ideas except the wealthy do tend to look after their own, albeit by putting them in a comfortable care home rather than living with the rest of the family. Neither my parents nor the in laws ended up in care (except my mother was discharged from hospital to a care home which was funded by her money but she died during the first night). I had cared for her at her home alongside my younger brother and late sister's daughter in rota prior to hospitalisation.

One little thing we can agree on then

Yes and gas will be discouraged from now. Our town centre has two internal combustion engined CHP units that deliver electricity and heat (or cooling) on a district water heating main to various buildings in the town. What I was meaning was in the smaller domestic sizes especially if it can deliver enough to charge a car battery as well as heat a house. The small Stirling engined units were being touted for this some years back. The thing is if you are already committed to using gas for heating, and even if gas gets expensive it will still be imported if UK can compete for it on a rising world market, then why not get 25% of its thermal energy out as electricity and using the rest to heat the house? Actually the Stirling ones only generated 1kW so only about 10% conversion but a lean burn high compression spark engine optimised for working at its sweet spot should easily exceed 25%. Capital cost is the issue but heat pumps are similar to Stirling engines with regard to wear and moving parts and are eye wateringly expensive compared with gas boilers. Heat pumps are grant funded but only if the natural gas supply to the house is removed. There has been talk of no new gas connections for a while now but it would seem to make sense to get a bit more utility from existing connections. Same applies to oil heating. BTW most of our electricity comes from dual cycle gas turbines, I was in the sea swimming by the Shoreham one yesterday, and these just about double the thermal conversion to electricity compared with a traditional coal plant.

I agree and on the assumption that there is enough money within the economy to fund increased care/health care costs what is your proposal? Government and big industry doesn't seem to want to flatten out the peaks of high pay, because it leads to "braindrain". Chasing efficiency in public bodies doesn't seem to work. It is human nature to want more and that leads to a widening of the gap between ris=ch and poor. Philosophically this doesn't bother me, I have generally had enough and not been overly envious of the super rich, my problem is that this is the part of the society that is disproportionately damaging our environment, It always struck me that purchase tax was more sensible than VAT as it simply applied the tax at the point of production of luxury goods. Mind deciding what is a luxury may cause some comment.

I suspect firewood will never be an economic fuel unless you DIY but yes there is a big hike in gas and electricity costs coming. For my part I shall cut my use of electricity and for my granddaughter's house I have ordered a new flue fitting and compliant register plate in case she starts using the woodburner. I have suggested my elder daughter does not have the chimney removed in planned alterations. My chief worry as I become increasingly decrepit is my ability to supply enough dry logs from odd jobs. As to the general picture there is no way homegrown wood can make much of an impression on home heating. To my mind in the winter and given the need for EV charging why are we not seeing viable home CHP? British gas trialled this but just seemed to drop it.

Not a big problem if it is enforced, drain tank, flush injectors with DERV and hire out again, selling diesel contaminated with red to someone in farming etc.

Yes briar was what pipes were made from, I assumed it was the rootball of a rose bush so the tree heather is a new one. Rosewood is a tropical hardwood, my dad used veneers in his marquetry hobby.

You need to have a smart meter to take advantage of these tariffs and the agile one penalises you heavilly for power used between 1600 and 2000

I think the 200kWh free is an EON option but there are quite a few EV tariffs around.

Very little coal used for electricity, mostly gas and that is in extremely short supply. I expect a major hike in gas prices next year. Maybe a problem charging in the day but the few fission reactors we still have providing 15% of our electricity run 99% of the time 24/7 and wind continues to gust overnight most places so charging at night at home uses some otherwise surplus, indeed on the Octopus agile tariff some punters with electric cars have been paid to take a charge in the small hours. My daughter gets 200kWh a month free electricity if taken between 1100 and 0400