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Saw this on the internet (comments on a news site), not sure if all true: 1 - the block of flats was run not by any council but by KCTMO. This body is made up of 8 TENANTS, 4 councilors and 3 independent members. 2 - Labour hold the seat that the block is situated in. 3 - Labour run the London Council who manage the under funded London Fire Service 4 - incidentally Emma Coad the sitting Labour MP for that ward also sat on the KCTMO. 5 - the advise to stay put which Sadiq Khan has been so vocal about was given by the London Fire Service. 6 - the decision to change contractors during the refurb was made by KCTMO. 7 - the decision not to spend a paltry £138k on fitting sprinklers again KCTMO. 8 - the decision to create ALMO organisation such as the KCTMO was made under the Right To Manage legislation passed in 2002 as part of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act. 9 - this was put in place to give leasehold tenants a greater say and the ability to self manage, which has clearly proven to be a disaster. 10 - and which Govt was in a charge when this law was passed? Yup you guessed it Labour. 11 - Sadiq Khan as mayor of London Produced a report to say that the fire service did not need further funding. 12 -Emma Coad elected Labour MP was on the board of the Tenant Management group who are being accused of not listening to tenants. Further, a friend who inspects properties in the area for gas safety compliance, confirms that so-called 'government cuts' had nothing to do with the decision of the KCTMO to choose sub-standard cladding. I quote her now: ''cladding wasn't the only work done on the block ...New kitchens new heating systems ..New flats created in the void space at the bottom of the block plus complete refurbishment of the amazing boxing gym / club within the block .....hardly slum housing eh ?''

Nice to see over time, and appreciate how slowly trees do grow. Thanks.

I quite like the looks of that! And for only £2.90 postage too... Then I read the description and changed my mind!

Thanks. I assume that's normally everything right up to the house...? (Asking as a customer, not as a tree surgeon!)

Does this apply to small power lines feeding individual houses, or just the big high voltage pylon type power lines? Thanks.

I'd leave them personally, nice to see.

No, just dismantled it and lots of carb cleaner. However, it did run for a bit after cleaning, to the extent I could do a bit of strimming with it.

Sorry guys, I still can't get the bugger working! Any.more suggestions please? I reset the carb to default settings (that may have been a mistake!), but after some tweaking I can only get it to run very briefly (a second or two) on WOT. Same whether choke is on or off. Spark plug is new, air filter is clean, fuel lines are solid, carb is rebuilt and cleaned. Fuel appears in the primer bulb, and stays there. A little.bubble.of air at the top of the bulb. If I push the bulb again it may run for another stroke.or two.but not much difference. Fuel is fresh. Any more thoughts before I chuck it and buy a florabest?! I can't remember exactly where the carb screws are in the end, but it doesn't seem to make much difference anyway. I tried a couple of local service places, and the only.one to get back to.me.is a six week wait and 35 quid.minimum.just to look at it!

Hi all As above. I'm looking for a good local place to do the bits to chainsaws, strimmers, mowers etc. that I can't or won't do! Google isn't very helpful, and I'd rather have recommendations. Cheers.

Black / false locust is Robinia pseudoacacia. I've got a load in pots at the moment, which will be going out in to my paddock soon for eventual firewood coppice. Certainly seems to be fast growing, and is an attractive tree. Should also be reasonably OK if temperatures increase in future. But it is non native and spikey, and apparently suckers quite vigorously.

Makes sense, thanks OSM. Will try a few different approaches...

Might give it a try and see how it goes.

Hmm. Good point. Maybe not worth the extra trimming of side shoots.

Morning all. Had a thought this morning - if I trim off the growing tips from coppice / Pollard poles, will the poles grow thicker rather than longer? I'm aiming to coppice / pollard mixed species (sweet chestnut, willow, ash, robinia, eucalyptus etc.) for firewood, fence posts etc, so aiming to get poles of 10cm diameter or so. If I let the poles grow to say 2m long (with the stools reasonably well spaced) then trim off the growing tips, will the poles thicken without getting too much longer? (Ive got some electricity lines on my land so can't let things grow too high in some areas...) Cheers.

Many thanks for typing all that out Gk, it does make sense and it certainly does help! Cheers.

Ahh, thanks BBB. That looks a good place to start.

Right, eventually got the correct carb kit (walbro wt-160B carb, not Zama) and replaced the various diaphragms. Metering diaphragm was shot, dissolving and floppy. Strimmer now runs! However, it's not set up quite right. It would cough but not start on choke, but I managed to start it without choke by opening the throttle a bit. Once it warmed up it would idle fairly well without throttle, but kept stalling. It also wouldn't rev fully, maybe 75% (a guess by sound, I don't have a tach) Once stalled it would restart with a bit of throttle. So I'm guessing the high and low screws needs adjusting. Tried to find default settings on the internet (2 turns out each?) buy found conflicting info. Does anyone know the correct default settings and a reliable tuning procedure? I assuming running it a bit rich isn't the end of the world, but running it too.lean could be... Many thanks.

Right, eventually got the correct carb kit (walbro wt-160B carb, not Zama) and replaced the various diaphragms. Metering diaphragm was shot, dissolving and floppy. Strimmer now runs! However, it's not set up quite right. It would cough but not start on choke, but I managed to start it without choke by opening the throttle a bit. Once it warmed up it would idle fairly well without throttle, but kept stalling. It also wouldn't rev fully, maybe 75% (a guess by sound, I don't have a tach) Once stalled it would restart with a bit of throttle. So I'm guessing the high and low screws needs adjusting. Tried to find default settings on the internet (2 turns out each?) buy found conflicting info. Does anyone know the correct default settings and a reliable tuning procedure? I assuming running it a bit rich isn't the end of the world, but running it too.lean could be... Many thanks.

You can get the ebook for free on project gutenberg...

If someone posts a wide image, the whole screen width increases to fit it in, meaning that all the buttons etc. (and half the text of replies) vanish off the side of my (big, high res) monitor. Not the end of the world, but a bit of a pain?

I use an X27, and it's a nice axe. However, it was £50 odd when I bought it, and I'm not convinced it's 5x better than my old £10 toolstation maul which used weight rather than my force behind the axe to do the splitting. Having said that, I don't tend to split huge amounts of wood in a single session - the X27 is lighter so maybe better for larger volumes.

Looks good. Love to see follow up pics in a year or two.

Oh, and the cheap carb linked about won't fit my strimmer, and they don't do one for an fs36 - so.I can't get one whether they're any good or not!