wrsni
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Not on a plated cylinder. You can rub it with wet and dry to your fingers hurt and it won't fizz on it.
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First you need to figure out what the damage is. If it's aluminium from the piston deposited on top of the plating then you'd be better removing it with wet and dry locally where the deposits are. You can rub as hard as you want to remove the aluminium but you'll not do the plating any harm as it's so hard. If however the damage is into the surface of the barrel then unless it's very shallow the cylinder is for the bin. They can be repaired and replated but I doubt that would be cost effective with a chainsaw. If it's been a straight forward seizure it's most likely to be the first scenario though. Solid stone hones are a specialist tool, even after years of two-stroke engine building I wouldn't even consider trying to use them.
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The real problem is that there are people with degrees who aren't even capable of frying a burger!
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I've a Dolmar chainsaw which has been flawless. I've also a couple of bits of Makita equipment and they've been flawless too. To be honest I wouldn't be that hooked up on any differences between them, I doubt something marketed under the Makita name is going to be made substantially worse just for the hell of it. That having been said, any of the guys on here bringing in Dolmars and selling them on are unlikely to be making a shed load of money at it so will be more than likely doing it primarily out of enthusiasm, and there's a lot to be said for buying something off someone who has a genuine enthusiasm for what they're selling. Orange or blue, I don't think you'd go far wrong.
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No, but you're probably one of the best qualified to advise in this particular case as you're in the most comparable position and recently had to make a similar decision. Horses for courses etc, etc.
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Same as................. [ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3njBw0G6k]UHT milk![/ame]
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Still, you done well. It's a helluva lot more than most young'uns nowadays manage.
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Not sure if there's dealers over there or not but Dale Kanes trailers have pretty much taken over the market here now. He's the youngest of the Kane brothers and went in to the smaller trailer market on his own. I think there might have been a bit of a thra between them at the time but ok now. From what I've been told and seen they certainly seem worthy of the Kane name anyhow. Probably worth a look out of interest at least.
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I've had a Wessex trailer of the type you fancy for 15+ years now and it's served me well and continues to do so. Not sure if they go quite as heavy as you're looking for though. A lot of the contractors over here use the McCauley trailers, terrific piece of kit and very, very, robust! I think they've dealers all over UK now.
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Personally I think you should look on it as savings rather than an investment. Savings as in, "save it up for when you REALLY need it", rather than, "I'm going to invest this to make some money". From that viewpoint it should be firstly, as safe as possible, and secondly, as accessible as possible. Once you fulfill those criteria then seek to maximise the return. Twenty grand could do a lot for you if used in the right way at the right time, what it could make for you as an investment is unlikely to be as much use. Oh, and well done you for gathering it up in this day and age when people waste so much and then complain about having nothing!
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Only ash in it is what's been planted in this way but had over 2,000 of them ordered when the ash ban came in. I'm not actually sorry as I've ended up with a much more interesting area but I'd still like to have some ash in it and also consider it important to try and do whatever possible to support the species in my own miniscule way given what may be ahead.
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Most of them will probably have been run over by silage trailers, slurry tankers, various items of farm machinery, or even nicked off a time or two in the past with the strimmer before I decided they should have a new purpose in life from now on. Like I said, these ones will be getting special attention and therefore I'll be keeping an eye on them. If they all die I'll know to do something different next time, until then I'm prepared to spend the time.
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Sure they don't, they've self seeded in all sorts of random places. Those particular ones came from a small area between the concrete slab of the lane and a high hedge. They've seeded in a mixture of dirt and beech leaf mulch that's been swept and blown off the lane over the years which made them very easy to pull with a minimum of root damage. It's also heavily shaded over the summer which has presumably helped keep the mixture damp and helped with germination and growth. So they're not straight or pretty, but they're also as natural as a sapling could ever be. Whether it makes a difference or not, time will tell. But like I said, for now it's all I personally can do.
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Aye, and leads everyone to take them for granted because of it (including myself in the past). One side of the woodland is bounded by our north/south railway line which has a lot of ash running along it so I'm hoping there'll be a degree of stuff self-seed in the woodland itself from that. If they're infected with die-back then it'll be a major thing as there's been no cases here yet of the infection transmitting over to native plants. The only cases so far have been on imported nursery grown stock which presumably came here with it.
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If Ireland win it then it will happen entirely by accident. Schmidt has his eyes firmly on the World Cup and will be quite happy to sacrifice the 6N in order to assist preparations for it, which they will probably win!
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Gathered up these wee fellas this morning for planting in the next week or two, reckon there's maybe a couple of dozen of them. Going to make a bit of extra effort for them and glyphosphate a good circle around where they're going in to give them as good a start as possible. If I haven't enough spaces I'll plant between rows and then thin around them in future if necessary. That's all I can do for now.
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Being a big admirer of all things Kubota, I have a great desire for an RTV. However the woodland isn't big enough yet to justify one, there isn't enough work on the rest of the farm to justify one, and not enough around the track or golf course to justify one. So when I can wait no longer I'm probably just going to have to go and buy one anyway but have no doubt that when I get it I'll probably wonder why I waited so long! By contrast, I've had quads in the past, still get the odd blat on one that I'm working at, but have no desire whatsoever to own another one to use about the place. As an aside, I've properly rolled one in the past,........... and lived!!!!!!! Seems I should be dead.
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I got mine (all 6,000 of them!) on Christmas eve. They were in plastic bags so we put them indoors, made sure the tops of all the bags were closed in and then heeled them in between Christmas and the new year. Talking to the supplier at the time,he said as long as the bags were closed they could have sat happily enough for a month! I think as long as they are kept moist and no frost they're generally OK.
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Can't argue with that, pretty much fits me to a tee! Assuming early fifties is still "middle-age" that is.
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That's cheating!
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Well to be exact, you CAN plant it, but you can't transport it, so you can't go and get anything to plant! Just shutting the stable door after the horse is long gone as usual. I try to content myself with the fact that I'm doing all I can do by planting as much locally gathered self seeded stuff as possible. Also have a couple of friends who gather stuff for me as well. You don't get the logic in their decision because there isn't any!
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From what I've read that's what would be known as "copparding", a coppard is half way between a coppice and a pollard. Without being pedantic what I take from it all is that you can cut them wherever you want, or the site requires, and they'll do the same thing. I've certainly cut ashes at many different heights and they always seem to regrow just the same.
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Except that the only ash you can plant for now is whatever self-seeded stuff you can gather up around the back of hedges and such like. I've gathered up some this past two years and have some more eyed out to gather up in the next week or two but it wouldn't support planting on any significant scale.
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Wow, wasn't aware I'd actually done that. Perhaps you'd be good enough to show me where I actually did.
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Alder provides it's own nitrogen which I can only assume it's the reason why it's racing away from everything else. Some of my planting area is as dry ground as you could ever have and the alder is racing away from everything else on it as well.
