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Hi, just once to prevent mould / blue stain, I also recon it's important to brush off any dust first as that goes black quickly. As far as the wasps are concerned there attracted by the resin, mostly to spruce / larch and douglas up here. Although they're to be seen around stacked timber I think they're probably laying in the logs before they get milled if they lie about too long. It was info from other folk on here that put me onto this stuff in the first place..... and although It pays to be cautious when using any substance.... eye protection / gloves... I'm not qualified to dish out safety advice but there's loads of stuff to read online about it...I prefer to brush it on or dip if practical rather than spraying......Lovely maple boards by the way. Cheers https://www.borax.com/markets/wood-protection-biocides/

Nature will do this for you In the natural life cycle of any woodland, why would you want to try suddenly invent ancientness or speed up the evolution of a wood by taking down healthy trees...... apart from anything else standing dead or dying beech are a danger... And from a SSSI point of view .... I take it that Monsanto has guaranteed that the glyphosate won't transfer to the fungi, lichens and other inhabitants.... flora or fauna of the SSSI ?

Still curious....to what purpose ? are the beech already suffering from something ?

Hi, just curious ..what is it your want rid of ? ......

A loss for sure, but the hairs went up on the back of my neck when I heard that the 14th march was Einstein's birthday

If you want to create a standing deadwood hazard...... just add grey squirrels and you'll not have to poison anything..... you'll just have to add time,... which apparently nobody's got these days.

Hi, I had a similar problem with larch and woodwasp larvae, 1 kg of this mixes into 5 gallons of water, I now brush it on any timber that I mill and let it dry before I stack it, mainly to protect against blue stain which works great but it's also got insect repelling properties, I don't know about longhorn but once the timber is stacked It would be real easy to retreat the bark as much as you want and it costs next to nothing..... cheers. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Borax-Sodium-Tetraborate-Decahydrate-99-9-Lab-Grade-500g-1KG-2KG-5KG-10KG-25KG/321094621563?hash=item4ac2bb197b:m:mpNzfokOBvQTL1AwYsJjjnQ

In a nutshell.... but probably worth a carb clean, best of luck.

Hi, I use a 012 of about the same age as my firewood saw, it's very similar, I bought it second hand about 25 years ago, and apart from a go at the fuel system and repair of wear and tear items it been reliable....and it's been thoroughly tested ! These wee saws 45 and 36 cc have an intake reed valve which helps them punch above their weight and although old fashioned they're fairly solid . Stihl can still supply most of the parts, and a dealer can get the saw upon the screen, the service parts aren't too expensive ....I don't know the condition of your saw or whether you're handy with stuff... but I've found that over the years these wee saws quickly passed into history and have often few hours on them and can be an easy fix...of course the opposite could be true, but a carb kit and new pipes may work wonders. Don't know if you've already got this info, the spec, all the part numbers and the workshop manual which seems to cover the lot....which isn't always the case. cheers. http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.nsf/ed1d619968136da688256af40002b8f7/729d1985b8c9fa8f88256ba20049cef7 http://thebakeliteradio.com/sawspares.com/009010011WorkshopManual.pdf https://www.diyspareparts.com/parts/stihl/diagrams/009/

Hi, are you thinking of something like a motorcycle chain guard... if that's what your after it would be real simple to make out of a bit of flat bar and just drill a couple of holes in the bar to mount it, cheers.

Hedge are hogs getting disappeared by slug pellets. Is the wee woman along the road who puts the pellets down to stop the slugs getting her flowers any less culpable than the bastard who puts out poisoned bait for the buzzards, or marine harvest's sea lice factories, farmers chemicals or the endless FC deserts, or....or...or. Imo it only takes 1 poisoner in any area, whether, unwittingly, deliberate, or corporate to tip the scales of any delicate balance and reek havoc on any of the species [ Flora or fauna ] that are managing to adapt and survive.. or even thrive along side the desperate destruction pollution and and waste of human activity. As far as I can see stupidity is rife these days........................................rant deleted..could end up a drink related derail ...cheers,,.....hic anyway up here they've been spruce martens for about 80 years !

Bloody tasty....Scottish lamb! And I for one don't want my part of the country ruined further by any more forestry unless it's more diverse, they've just been harvesting about here....well glad to see the back of it... but what an effing mess.

Not really plenty of variety of birds but I'm no expert so I can't comment on which ground nesting species are missing , but on the whole I agree with your post. As I see it man has for a long time been the main player in upsetting the balance, as I see it for decades now over much of the country diversity of habitat has been massively lost to one alien monoculture under who's canopy there's an oppressive sterile environment where sfa but the midge can live. I realise that many of you make your living from Sitka spruce and I'm not wanting to have a go about that....but I don't like anything about the soggy weeds and wish the planted trees were more diverse....pine would be great, and it's a great pity what's happening to the larch. Interestingly when I'm in Glasgow there are very few small garden birds compared to when I was young....they don't stand chance..... uncontrolled numbers of magpies, crows etc and again I'd put much of the blame for that with man and his filthy rubbish habits which has allowed there populations to grow out of all proportion. I guess it's a complicated picture which will vary greatly from area to area and I can see that introducing martens anywhere could well spell disaster for whatever's already there... but for the sake of the trees in mature woodlands countrywide the greys need to be controlled for sure. Squirrel pie anyone, Cheers.

Yep, heard about this a while ago... up where I am I recon there's a general decline in the amount of people who see every living thing as vermin.. ie shoot or trap every thing that moves... so we're noticing an increase in a diversity of species in the locality...... it's real interesting that this has happened over about 10 years since some particular folk have moved on!! I recon very few determined people can do a vast amount of damage to the natural environment Loads of pine martens alive now, as opposed dead hanging on a fence, as habits change, folk die or just get passed it ....I'm seeing more balance in the country side around me in most species......except the salmon .....unfortunately. There's no doubt that in many parts of the country the greys are causing severe damage to mature deciduous trees by their territorial marking causing many to rot from the top down. It was suggested at the time that it might be an idea to introduce martens to woodlands down south in an attempt to control the squirrels, I did think that it was a plan.... but never heard any more about it. Cheers

For sure test them like that ,, but don't do it every time, treat your equipment with care and it'll last you well. only imo

How things change so quickly.... I got edited by some moderator only a couple of years ago for describing young folk that throw on the chainbrake at 13000 rpm as tvvats... but I am old........and I do agree with you ......re cowell,

As it happens I've got him on the cd in the car... five leaves left.. cheers.

I've found that the best way to set a flue on fire is to burn chipboard, the glue raises the temp enough to set it up anytime you like ! Pretty good as a tool.. but not good as an accident.... just my experience...

And the rest....not that you'd need it https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WET-AND-DRY-SANDPAPER-MIXED-Assorted-GRIT-2000-2500-3000-5000-7000-PACK-OF-5/263050894805?epid=8003922941&hash=item3d3f0e1dd5:g:qsEAAOSw1BlZS6xT

Hi, the one mentioned is made of chrome iron and should be better than the cast iron original, well worth a punt at 30 quid. But if you want to make one.. any small engineering fabricator would be able to bend a steel plate for you and then you'd only need to tack a couple of lugs onto it at the back... but I doubt you'd do that for £30, not to mention your time. cheers

Hi, I've had the 1410 for about 10 years with and had no trouble with the plate, burning mostly birch, ash and alder. Changed the glass once and I find that the rope on the door needs done about once a year. It's likely your problem may be overheating as a friend of mine with the same squirrel has a wife that augments logs with coke when he's working away and he's gone through a load of plates and melted a few grates. I seem to remember a warning on my original instructions not to burn superdry wood, broken up furniture and the like, ......I'd imagine a bit of 1/4" steel plate with a bend in it would do the job fine... from memory it just lies on top of the bricks ? Cheers

Yeah, had about 10 years of these bastards back in the Thatcher era when my start up borrowings suddenly started costing me 18.5% interest, ....a near impossible situation to extract yourself from as a sole trader as everything you earn vanishes,....at the time the guy with the clipboard was polite but he was always accompanied by a cant.... never borrowed a penny since so perhaps it was a hard lesson well learnt. Interestingly enough most of the tv programme was featuring folk who'd not paid a supplier or ripped someone off, that makes them fair game imo, .....it's not something I'd ever do, if you pay up front ..your never behind !!

Yeah, the wooded park local to me is littered with them, six or seven years ago in response to the clearing of many mature squirrel damaged trees, a group of people who call themselves 'friends of D------m park' planted a few thousand saplings just before a severe frost...... a complete waste of time and money as more than 90% died and all the tubes and stakes remain littering the place..... of course the wood's regenerating on it's own as you would expect... it's a pity they hadn't put their efforts into dealing with the knotweed / H balsam invasion.

Here's some more info, if it's got a serial number you can probably trace the year. https://history.stihl.com/1970-1979.aspx

Hi, here's a link to the original spec for the German one, yours is likely newer, I don't know when they started making them in Brazil, there's a few on ebay at the mo....cheers http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.nsf/ed1d619968136da688256af40002b8f7/1b34cb7aefe58c2f88256ba200160833