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' unknown ' was written this way to denote sarcasm, 👍

Aye, you're not alone there I've spent half my life working in the wee buggers and enduring that true pestilence certainly pushed me over the edge on many occasions, and while they have been gradually on the decline over the last decades, as in for example compared to as it used to be, walking out of a door into a miserable thickness of them to go to work or do some gardening or sit round the barbie.. they are nowhere near as bad as 30 or 40 years ago.... BUT, even just a few can spoil any outdoor activity !! The thing is that in recent times I've occasionally found myself out gardening in a damp breathless summer evening wearing only shorts and a vest with no need for midgie ointment... previously unheard of, so you have to ask wtf's going on with nature. In the west highlands if the midge disappears by the billion surely that must be akin to plankton vanishing from the sea in terms of ' our fluid environments ' Certainly the midge may be the most noticeable reduction but there are very few moths and other flying bugs compared to yesteryear and of course there are the hundreds of other species that most folk don't notice at all so wouldn't notice a decline. So if the very bottom of the food chain is becoming endangered due to somethings ' unknown ' it should not be unexpected if other species populations start to crash in an exponential fashion.... will anyone notice or care ? Are other folk noticing similar in different areas ? that would be interesting to know, although you'd probably need to be of a certain age at least to be able to judge changes over the decades. Cheers.

I was going to ask the same question as @Stere I've always wondered why so many Cherry trees are grafts and what the reason is particularly as most don't seem to produce any fruit, cheers.

Yep, it's interesting that it's only as you get older and you have a longer overview of the decades gone past that it becomes easy to notice stuff that's going wrong in nature while the younger generations just take today's situation to be ' normal '... which I suppose for them it is. Although it probably varies from place to place the decline over the last 30 years or so of all forms of wildlife in the parts of Scotland that I frequent is simply massive ... whether insects, birds mammals or fish, they're all vanishing... not to mention all the different species of tree that seem to be in trouble.👎

Hi, I haven't had any issue with failing decompressors apart from cleaning them if I have an engine in bits, I have them on a few saws and stonecutters. I'd say for sure that they act as a cord saver and a wrist / finger saver particularly on big saws when a casual attitude to starting can end up with yet another unwelcome strain when the toggle gets ripped out of your hand when you least expect it.

HI, it's unlikely to be dry rot with exposed timbers like that, dry rot requires poorly ventilated highly humid conditions, that looks more like staining from a leaky roof either past or present. Stick a knife into the suspect timber to see if it's soft in any way.

I have 48" Alaskan, a 54" bar would let you use the full width of the mill losing about 6" in mounting the saw, so yes 54" would be the right bar to max out a 48" mill. In practice I've only got got an ms650 for milling atm and the biggest bar for that is 42" Oregon 3/8" which lets me get around a 36" cut or a couple of inches more with the dogs off. When I get an 881🙃 I reckon I'll go 54" / 404. cheers.

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I'm also happy to remove a garden tree here and there locally, they get daylight and I get firewood.. no cash changes hands and everyone's happy. They nearly always drag the brash off for burning and by the time I'm done I'll get a beer at the bonfire. I don't usually get much of a size worth milling but last November I took down a fairly decent Birch about about 18" dbh which produced some nicely figured boards. I think the mentality of folk that do small time opportunist milling is that when we see a tree we see products or building materials as well as firewood and are happy to do a bit of graft to get them free ... as the other thread said it's great to use your own stuff to make fings wiff 👍 Nowhere near Norfolk tho🙂

Yeah I've seen that, but hopefully it will work against them .. they seem to be in some trouble😂

I think most of them are😬

Here ye are, you were right 👍

You may have seen this already as a couple of months ago, I wonder how many of the slimy traitors from both / all parties have the same allegiance ? 👎👎

At least your not trans-sawual😁

They don't hang about, badly bashed ? Was always told that if you don't come off a dirt bike from time to time you're not trying hard enough 🙄 not that that's any consolation ..I have distant memories of a similar kneecap, hope you heal quick👍

Hi Mark, this manual does cover your machine? If so, given that you've changed the blades it could be possible that if they're not taking as big a cut as the previous ones ie not sticking out of the cutter block as far as before [ maybe a different result as the other guy did it before ] and if you're confident you've got it right with the use of the setting bar I'd be thinking that the rear pressure bar may be needing adjusted to you're new knife settings to stop the wood from getting jammed. Super jealous by the way.. I'd love a machine like that, good luck👍

I thought it might be the brake that is mentioned ..the lever's in the right place on page 8 ... the manual may not be for the op's machine. From the limited experience that I have the setting up of 4 main components is critical and covered in pages 10,11 and 16 with the brake mentioned in 17, the cutter block which seems to have a setting tool, the in and out feed rollers, the chip breaker and the rear pressure bar, cheers. Why am I studying these old drawings at 1 in the morning🤪

You must mean that the new piston's hitting off the top of the cylinder just before tdc. not much to be done about that, it must be the wrong piston, compare it to the old one.

Feed roller set up maybe, that's what it is in my very small Metabo when the wood jams. I don't know what model you have but there are some manuals available in pdf form, just google Wadkin planer manual for a choice. You may already have this.. https://www.daltonswadkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wadkin-RK-24-inch-Planer-Thicknesser-Manual.pdf

Beat me to that😁 But to @Jack0 it's hard to tell from the pics if there is a throat plate in the stove, or if not as others have said all the heat is just vanishing straight up a 3 storey the flue which will have an impressive draw?

What a good article, ' sheep creep, cripple hole, creep hole, lunky, hogg hole, smoot or smout '... I just love this stuff. As someone who has done a fair amount of stone work in this life I can totally appreciate the value and span of knowledge that goes along with the history of this ancient craft. There is, { in my opinion } a fundamental connection and understanding that can be achieved when building with stone when each one you pick up is more than a billion years old. The Highlands is littered with unkept dilapidated dry stane dykes that nobody cares for any more, I have the remnants of a beautiful wall behind me on FC ground, it was quite extensive and previously marked the edge of an old croft but unfortunately almost all of it has been destroyed by repeated vandalism by the afore mentioned cnuts. So as I have the only remaining bit of this wall, just about 30 feet, behind my garden I decided to rescue and sort all the fallen stone into various piles with a view to restore and reinstate the bit of wall behind me with it's original material that was all still lying around, albeit buried under moss and heather . In this part of the world nearly all the field stones are round glacial boulders dropped off as the ice receded and therefore difficult to build with, but as I discovered when collecting the collapsed wall's stones, nearly all of them have been heated by fire and the doused with water to crack them in order to produce a ' face ' to build with and all the jammers and infill are sharp and shards of this process completely unlike quarried stone. The immensity of this task is mind boggling and leaves me in complete awe of the abilities of these long gone crofters, and when I'm re handling their building materials I feel privileged and I'm very aware that every single stone has been previously handled many times and placed with skill generations ago. If I ever get around to rebuilding it I'll post some pics. Cheers.

Well that makes sense, I've seen a few even up here usually next to a style which is much more recent than the wall, so you go over and the dog goes through.. but it makes much more sense if it was originally for sheep to get from one pasture to another👍

Your machines will be fine in mostly any weather.. but I wait for the right day to mow or strim👍

There was a thread years ago that dealt with this exact thing, I think the conclusion was to use a wood screw to pull off the limiters 👍

Totally in agreement with that👍