The avantgardener
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Maybe the UK should plant more....
The avantgardener replied to Squaredy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
There is a stand if Leylandii that I believe was planted in the forties quite close to where I live, it needed a sheltered spot as it is prone to blowing over. The lower branches have been lifted on the edge trees and is gun barrel straight and clean. I will post some photos the next time I am over there. -
I am a little confused, you are trying to close the rails but state that they aren’t splayed, what are you closing then?
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If the groove has widened the chain will rock from side to side and not cut a kerf wide enough for the bar to fit through and will cause it to jam. I am surprised this has happened so quickly on bars that aren’t used all the time, especially as they are good quality. The oil stone is a good tip, worth a try before switching to mineral oil. Maybe it is the Aspen oil not being up to the job, I’ve used aspen fuel for years but not the oil, I think I might give it a miss.
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If your rails are splayed you are running your chains too tight, your never going to compress the rails back evenly without some pinch point causing excessive heat, I have never even heard of a tool that compresses the rails back in.
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Apparently a couple of them got sin binned earlier.
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Yeah, I found it a bit sluggish/clunky on 3/8 compared to the 560 so switched it all to .325. I use Stihl RM in 058 quite a bit on my 346’s for cutting chestnut coppice, it is a very durable all purpose chain, holds its edge very well. I bet that RS Pro on 050 will perform fantastic in a stand of softwood, I’ll be giving that a go.
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I run 050 on my 550 and 562. The chain speed in the wood and smoothness in the cut, especially when bore cutting is better than 058 in my opinion. I use Sugihara light type bars from Rob D as they are stiff and durable even in the narrower kerf. I found the narrow kerf Oregon speedcut bars pretty durable for the money but don’t rate the speed cut chain that marries up with the bar, I use Husqvarna SP33 instead.
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I thought this protest was about racism and the death of a black man in custody, not Labour v Conservative?
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It’s Saturday night light hearted humour. The social distancing in England is still being applied by most out of respect fOr others, London being the exception. I was in Islington a couple of weeks back and you wouldn’t have known any of this Covid stuff was even going on, the Cummings incident ended it completely and Jimmy Kranky has no jurisdiction here.
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Of course they are left wing thugs, the right wing thugs are in uniform.
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Not any more, with the exception of Merseyside. You will have to go further North into Scotland, those clowns will.
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And Alder isn’t dense or heavy.
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Rod Hull didn’t ride his, at least not in public, and who takes a flightless bird up on the roof to fix the TV signal ?
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Bernie Winters, Clifton was the prick from my home town robbing a living riding an Emu.
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The leaf and bark would suggest some form of Pear.
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If he’s bound to it then surely he can’t shout anything?
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I previously asked if this was the same guy, by you reply I am guessing it must be? There has been more than one head of MI6. Couldn’t give a toss what he said about Corbyn, he’s nothing to do with this.
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I have absolutely nothing against this man, but if you are going to go public with such massive claims surely you must have the means to back it up, if not, why even make the statement, unless you are just shit stirring?
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So a retired MI6 guy knows more than the US Secret Services? His colleagues are breaching the Official Secret Act by discussing damning sensitivite material with him so he can go public, I doubt it.
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He could claim anything then, without backing it up with any evidence, and that would be okay by you? This guy ‘was’ head of MI6, he isn't anymore, so why would he still have access to privileged secret info? If this claim was true, and there was conclusive evidence that China had created this pandemic in a lab and caused this shitstorm, they would already be in isolation from every government in the world, they aren’t, do you really think Trump would ignore it?
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Is this former head of MI6 the same one that stuck his nose in the election calling Corbyn a “danger to the country”or is this a different shit stirrer? surely someone has asked him to back up his claim? Show us the proof or shut the f**k up I say.
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My base frame is elevated on Oak legs for durability in the ground. I have no way of accessing the rear garden with a machine so the larger dimension timber in the frame would have been pretty problematic to lift in Oak, the Larch was easy. I will clad the roof with ply and felt for now, but the plan is to finish it in cleft sweetchestnut shingles with a ridge made from one piece of sweetchestnut that I will encourage to cup by air drying uncovered ie too quickly. The only build limitation in my area was a max height of 3m, mine is 30cm short of that.
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This Larch is 50 years old, just grades the best out for the frame, it was milled by another Arbtalker, just wear gloves when you mill/handle it or it will be death by a million hair like splinters.
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This is a work in progress lockdown workshop I am building from Larch I felled last year, 5m by 3m but you could extend it the full length of your base. Will post the finished project in a couple of weeks.
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I am over in the next couple of days, I will take some pics and post them up.
