Woodworks

Thanks again. There may be an old oil sump pump from a boat in one of the sheds so will have a look see before taking it all apart. It's a fair old machine to tilt on its side!

Thanks, Barry. Hmm, not what I wanted to here. Can't even see in that side let alone see a drain plug. Would need to remove the petrol tank support and the electrics to get any access. Is there any harm in trying to siphon out the old oil?

Thought I would change the oil on dads ride on but can't find a drain plug. Any ideas?

That looks like a lot of audio books worth of logs without a processor

Which model is it Matt? I thought the Makita was slow but saw a video the other day at it looked more than quick enough just not a very long run time. At less than half the price of the big two, it looks good value

Plenty of woodworm killers on the market but most are pretty unpleasant to use. Read on hear of using borax but not tried it myself. The woodworm holes in the pic look old as they are dark. Fresh holes are normally as pale as the wood.

Oh, that's a bugger Mark. Good luck with getting it back. A mates bike shop got done over and they used social media and made it that the bikes too hot to handle and got the lot back.

How many HP do you need for the pto generator and why are you parting with it? Thanks

I like the idea of all the thermal mass but not the look

Maybe they were having a joke. A machine that slices up wood in Por-tree As for Ebay I work on Pay Pal and or see the item otherwise leave well alone.

Steve, do you have one of those Japanese style push/pull fine saws. I'm contemplating getting one, but not got a clue about them. Just from what I have read they are supposed to be great for fine cuts. I have a few and they are fab once you adapt to cutting on the pull. Hay most on here use pull saws day to day in the form of a Silky. For carpentry type work I like the Irvin pull saw with the western style handle and the blade holds it's an edge for an age. Also picked up one of a similar style from a show but can't remember the brand. It's better made but cut is much the same. Don't go for the Axminster version of the Irwin as it is pish. Also, love my basic mini Dozuki for delicate work. This the Irwin and I can find links for the others if of interest but need to get out to the workshop to find the brand. jobs.https://www.screwfix.com/p/irwin-pullsaw-12-300mm-/1099X?tc=OB8&ds_kid=92700022861141456&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1244066&ds_rl=1249796&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1249481&gclid=Cj0KCQjwg73kBRDVARIsAF-kEH8cOv5JFWe_fX1fBr8d-_kBzeg4nLAPO3iHoOH1GqThuJi-23vXNVcaAhdEEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds And back on track 181 346 560 460 395

Did you get hold of Nick Champion about the tracked chipper? He might also be able to help with this. The other guy up that way who may be able to help is Craig Banbury

A large-ish Woodwarm (12kw) multifuel. Easy and fast to lite, great heat, controllable and well made. Also kept the glass perfectly clean. Used various other stoves over the years Jotul , Morso Squirrel, Burley, Saey Scope and none are as good to use.

It is but not sure of its relevance to climate change. In warmer times you get more snow so water is locked up partly outweighing melting in the Arctic but this not happening in Arctic regions and surprisingly much of sea level rise is nothing to do with melting ice but simply the seawater expanding as it warms. According to Wiki "Between 1993 and 2018, thermal expansion of the oceans contributed 42% to sea level rise"

The problem with flight over cars is not so much the CO2 per mile but the miles that it enables you to do that you wouldn't or couldn't in a car. Had a friend fly to Australia for a party! That's a 19000 mile round trip over a long weekend. That's around 2 years of car use for many.

Yes some of them break it down far better. There is nothing about our work in that one so you are probably doing better than it makes out. You don't sit in a large concrete office with heating, computers etc whurring away all day plus you are doing sustainable work.

And broad-sweeping ideas don't always make sense. We live on a small Dartmoor farm and all we can grow is grass so it's sheep or beef around here. Clearly, cows that never see grass and live on soya based feeds are far worse for CO2 than some hill sheep living on grass. Edit. Came across this recently https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714

Having a go but still loads to improve No Kids Built a well-insulated house with super low energy appliances Don't fly, well hardly ever (twice in my life) Wear stuff until it falls apart. Work from home selling local-ish sourced logs The truck is a bit of a bugger but no electric pickups are available yet but did see pictures of the Bollinger B2 earlier. One day maybe. Did the WWF carbon footprint calculator (https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/#/~)and came out at 7.6 tonnes per year when the 2020 target is 10.5 but it's still way too high to be sustainable if everyone wants to live as we do. It's not been cheap getting a lower footprint but it's cheap in the long run with low running costs for the home.

Yep and it's already happening but nothing like enough to compensate for the CO2 we spew out. https://interestingengineering.com/the-earth-is-greener-than-two-decades-ago-says-nasa?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Feb27&fbclid=IwAR3wGJiJXWUICINB_7LYMBQrPzJG4pE-4VmZmn9-Zw0LYeK-h3HnbYLvWw4

That's it there for me. Until we show we are onboard no government is going to do what's needed so I would suggest we need to act on our own not wait for leadership. I know it would/will be tough as Jonny RFT so succinctly described but it's going to be tough anyway so better to lead the way instead of being forced to catch up. TVI maybe you could devise a poll that might shed a better light on the subject and where people are?

One look at this thread and it's easy to see why we are not making progress at an individual level if many still don't think climate change is even a thing. The climate has changed over time for sure but never the rate of change we are seeing now. The best evidence I see is the simple facts that things which were just hypothesized just 10s of years ago are happening now not in some distant future but right now. As was mentioned earlier the temps we had in February were staggering really. New record highs for England, Scotland and Wales and the old records broken by large amounts, not the usuall 0.1C sort of thing I would be interested to hear what it would take to convince the naysayers of man-made climate change.

It looks grand at first glance but how are the logs at the bottom going to dry? Never tried large stacks undercover but I can't see much air however warm is going to get the bottom of such large stacks. Hard to work out scale but suspect those are fairly chunky logs of 12" - 14" (guess its in the states). The market for such large logs gets smaller and smaller for us with 9" well split down logs being the most popular size. And look at the perfect poles they have. Pretty much any processor will look fab with roundwood like that. Can you imagine being the poor guy running the processor in a cab in a greenhouse full of diesel fumes. As I say nice at first glance.

And when you look at it per capita India and China are not bad

Leave it to the kids to explain our position perfectly