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I wouldn't burn it along with wood, burn one or the other. Wood burns to give steam, smokeless has some sulphur in it and burns to sulphur dioxide. Steam and sulphur dioxide make a strong acid and it attacks your flue liner.

There are different types made for different things so tell the merchant what is for. For example I got given a couple of sacks marked as'for open fires' and I used it up in the stove. I had to have vents wide open, got not a lot of heat and lots of ash. It's obviously made to ash up and burn slow in an open fire.

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I sold my ms180 last August for £121 iirc, on eBay. With a spare chain. Good clean saw and lots of pictures and a good description. Booom!

He's back! Unless it's another male just as big. Back on the chair in the same place, in the shade under the gazebo. Do they tend to stick around in a small area? I imagined he would fly off in search of the girls or something so didn't expect to see him again after he disappeared in Saturday. Maybe it is another.... If it is he's a whopper again.

I grew up in North East London, Woodford (edge of Epping forest) and saw one or two as a kid. Then non for almost 40 years until last year when I saw 2-3 in they garden and then that mighty specimen Saturday.

I have s few large and very rotten bits of sycamore I pushed under a bush.... Part of a tipper load to process into firewood but these bits were too far gone. Rather then lob them in the wheelie bin I just pushed them under a bush as they were riddled with stag beetle larvae galleries, and, until the ants found it, at least one larvae. I wonder if that magnificent creature emerged from one of these logs. I would feel very satisfied if I knew my choice for 'habitat ' over ,'tidied garden' had worked.

Large native insects your say? In my garden this weekend.... And £2 coin for reference I understand Croydon to be the last strong hold for these magnificent creatures!

What evidence you ask? Bore holes and soil samples, root samples from them and Arborist reports over a period of a decade. ... In short ... More then plenty. As I said, even the insurance company's solicitor considered the case to be very strong and most likely to be won, and was perplexed why they weren't proceeding to court. As soon as I initiated court action myself, my neighbour removed the tree.

Finally I got the tree removed. My insurers were not pursuing my neighbour, despite their own lawyers assessment that we had a strong case. I took matters into my own hands and wrote a notice of intention to act. My neighbour finally acted and the tree was removed. If you are suffering subsidence as a result of a neighbour's tree, I feel for you.

If you want it down take it down. Huge already.... It won't get smaller.

I absolutely get the, ' won't get involved' view. I do get puzzled by the'it'll look shit' view. Firstly Leyland cypress of and size in a residential garden already look shit and secondly I'm relatively confident the homeowner knows that, they just want their neighbours trespassing tree to stop trespassing. Ladder comments seem scary to me but a scaffold tower isn't much and is a lot safer.

I just had a thought, plank of wood or better yet, a piece of old laminate faced worktop. Tracksaw/circular saw a kerf in it, or even several and cut the end angled so you've kerfs to suit several chain lengths. Drive a nail/pin in to one end of each kerf to hook your chain on to, et voilà! Could even scribe or Sharpie some guide lines across at 30⁰ and screw a baton to the underside so you can clamp up in a workmate

I tend to do it on the saw these days, with the scrench shoved in between bar and chain on the underside and pushed forward until it binds, thus the chain is nice and tight. If I had an old bar I'd probably use that, along with a spring or bungee of some sort to keep the chain tight

Twice the price then. 5L X £1.84/L for super is £9.20 but it's normally more like £7.50. plus a pound for your 100ml of oil, so a tenner for 5L of mix.

Buy them a ghillie kettle

I doubt there is going to be any problem from mixing a semi synthetic oil suitable for the tool with a synthetic oil suitable for the tool. I'm not mixing to different specs to try and achieve another spec.

I get it, to I do, £15 extra a year is not a great deal. But when you've already got the oil and stabiliser, enough for over a decade, and pump fuel is now convenient, why make life hard and spend more doing it? Besides, I'd probably end up adding oil to the Aspen as I'm cautious too 😂

I could but a. I'm a tight bugger and Aspen is what, 3 times the price? b. I can be an inquisitive nerd and enjoy looking up the best oils, stabiliser and pump fuel, c. Now it's bought I want to use it up, d. It's very easy to p mix my own... Small measuring cup and 63ml of oil for each 2.5 litre can. e. Although it's not far for me to go to Fr jonsey's and buy Aspen, my nearest esso is quite a bit nearer.... Has a decent Tesco express combined so I can buy milk, bread or other essentials (soy sauce was what I was told not to come back without on Thursday when I went 🤣, jonsey doesn't stock that) and it's open until 11 or 12 which is handy.

I looked into the jaso ratings a few years back when I got my 365. At the time I had a stihl ms180 and noting that ultra wasn't advised if bought the next best and got the green super. Now husky see arrived and the manual says use husqvarna xp oil at 50:1 or other oils at 30:1. I didn't want to kinds of mix around and as the ms180 has no high speed mix screw on the carb I didn't want to run it on 30:1. So I set about the specs to see if husq were just pushing their oil without evidence. I didn't really answer that question and in the end bought XP and mix to 40:1 half half with my super 🤣. XP is low smoke and fully synthetic. I think basically it equates to ultra. I also suspect the fully synthetic oils are far better than the semi ...in hard environs like extended use. As a homeowner doing 15 cube of firewood a year semi would be fine but the free extra pence for XP is irrelevant. I suspect the jaso spec does not draw out how the fully synthetic oils are 'better' as it's not designed to test that.... Which leaves us inquisitive users feeling uneasy. Anyway....I use about a gallon of mix a year so it's going to be another 10-12 years before I need more oil. When I do I'll likely buy XP again. Oh and I use star-tron stabiliser and Esso synergy supreme 99+ as it's guaranteed e free. It's marked e5 at the pump as that's the law, but Esso guarantee it e free except for certain locations. Shell stopped guaranteeing vpower e free several years ago.

Now I'm not a dog guy, but those two do have a look about them!

Looking at the forecast it will be touch and go tonight, although the house feels comfortable currently. Looks like it then warms up so I can clean the stove out and thoroughly sweep the hearth etc at the weekend I reckon.... Fingers crossed. Let's hope for a warm summer and mild autumn so it doesn't need lighting again for a while.

Stove chugging away since mid afternoon. Not cold but not warm, it was 17ish on the house and unlikely to get any warmer so fired up to warm the place before the kids bath, it is pushing 23C in the lounge now. After putting a match to the stove I went outside and split logs, stacking oak into the 23/24 pile. Working in just a t shirt it get warm and humid and I was soon dripping sweat. Weird isn't it.

No fire today in the end. It's been a very VERY mild winter in London, 8-8.5 m³ to heat the house this winter. 12-12.5 last winter plus a week or so where I got fed up and put the central heating on.