SteveA
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I bought one of these a while ago and it's brilliant. Comfortable, seals well (the seal can be checked with the clickable filters), easy to breathe. You'd need to select the right filter for your application (for diesel fumes & stump grinding dust). JSP Force 8 Half Mask Without Filters | Reusable Half Masks | Screwfix.com Hope this helps. cheers, Steve
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Not sure how they arrived at the figure but if all those wood burners had rocket mass heaters installed instead that 10% pollution contribution would probably be far less than 1%. cheers, steve
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Brilliant and such a simple idea. cheers, steve
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Haha! I guess it's better than joining the Credited Union Network for Trees. cheers, steve
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I have an Aldi Workzone phone. It's tough, waterproof, has days upon days of battery life and is ****. cheers, steve **** = s.h.i.t
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Let's just pretend it's perfectly harmless. Nothing to discuss here. cheers, steve
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I agree about the hood. I believe it's designed to be big enough to fit over the top of your helmet.... but I've found its too small for that as it restricts movement too much (when turning your head to the side). I've opted for putting the hood under my helmet and moving the sides of the hood to the back so that I can position my ear defenders straight onto my ears, rather than over the hood (if that makes sense?)... but that's not a perfect solution. Overall, I think it would be a better jacket of it didn't have a hood and had a better fitting collar instead. Waterproofing on the SIP Keiu seems good, so far, but I've not washed it yet. I like the large pit zips.... which certainly helps on breathability and it has plenty of pockets. cheers, steve
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Been using a 550xpg (heated handle) for a couple years now. It's been very good. I think it's best suited to a 15" bar.... but my 15" Husky guide bar wore out recently and it's now got an 18" Sugihara light pro bar fitted & even at that size it's still impressive. cheers, steve
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You can mix whatever colours you like and get yellow. I tell thee!.... cheers, Steve
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(yellow)
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It's blue and red.... and blue and red makes...... superior chainsaw lubrication cheers, Steve
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"Curve ball" haven't heard anyone mention/ say that since the 80's! cheers, steve
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For superior lubrication in my chainsaw I use HP Yellow ....by mixing both of those together. cheers, steve
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If anybody is interested in building a warre hive (a nice winter project) here's plenty of info to do that: Beekeeping with the Warr hive -- Plans for constructing a Warr hive cheers, steve
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No. We don't inspect for anything unless it's during a box removal. It's highly likely that all of our hives have a certain amount of varroa.... but we always let them swarm (as in nature) so that's a good way of breaking the varroa breeding cycle. I know of other beekeepers that use varroa control and have lost plenty of hives..... so we're more interested in keeping strong strains of bees that can keep themselves healthy via their own gatherings. Maybe a big part of the problem is that we humans gather too much of their tasty honey and think we can simply replace it with cane sugar & with no adverse affects?!.... honey isn't just a food source for bees, it's also their pharmacy. cheers, steve
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We control varroa by giving them local access to a wide range of habitat with no chemicals being applied & we don't feed them any sugar.... regardless of the weather. We've lost a few hives but that's natural (ish) selection for ya! cheers, steve
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Nowt wrong with harvesting from Warre's if they have enough stores to see them through the winter. We have 5 warre hives & harvested a couple of boxes earlier this year (cold pressed by hand). Very yummy honey. cheers, steve
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Fair enough, there's a time and a plaice for that elsewhere. Just knot here. cheers, Steve
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There's something fishy going on here. cheers, steve
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Lol! Made me larf cheers, steve
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.... that's probably what broke it. cheers, steve
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Thanks for the info chaps. I just found this image... I thought the bigger bits were the cutters (like on normal chain). cheers, Steve
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Does that include the thin bits? cheers, steve
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I'm venturing ever closer to actually doing some milling.... Was looking at the Granberg ripping chain and noticed it looks quite different to normal chain. Kinda confused as to which bits of the chain do what??.... and which bits do I sharpen? Got a Granberg precision grinder. cheers, steve
