Dan Maynard

If it's not exact, maybe best to aim a bit high with the PPR so the computer thinks the engine is running slower than it really is. That way the stress control will cut in early, rather than other way round and stress control cuts in late. My dad bought a tachometer from Machine Mart a few years ago for his boat engine, don't think it was hugely expensive.

Got a Sabatier knife a few years ago, was scary sharp when it arrived and by dint of encouraging everyone to think it's my knife and not for cutting cake onto plates etc has stayed sharp. To keep it razor I give it a rub occasionally on a Fallkniven DC4 stone. To be honest it's supposed to be for field use so is a bit small but I got it for penknives ages ago and it works, every now and then I look at other wetstones and get lost in the options so go back to it.

Thanks for that. I'd have rather they showed more about the woodland and less sanding to be honest, but I guess it's entertainment show at the end of the day.

This is similar to the discussion we have doing conservation work in British woodlands, where we basically cut down loads of trees to let light in and increase biodiversity. We currently believe that's better because the wildlife has adapted to the cycle, I also remember good old Oliver Rackham saying one of the big problems with conservation work is changing ideas and fashions. The other thing I remember is that Cathedral Grove which is an old growth park where Reg Coates has been working is thought to have burned around 600 years ago because the oldest trees are around that age. So I have an idea that given a few hundred years Beranek is right, it will grow back and be pretty much as it was before. It's a common idea that cutting down all the trees destroys a forest, whereas the picture is far more complicated because you are leaving behind all the stuff under the ground where there's far more going on than we understand. The areas in the UK where most firewood was cut historically, such as Sussex Downs for the iron industry, have the best preserved woodlands. Where they cut less firewood they dug, burned and ploughed to plant wheat or potatoes, lots of ancient woodland was lost to this in the UK since the war so it's easy to point at the Americans but we are guilty here too.

Few years ago I injured my shoulder pruning a tree at home over Christmas, I think just because I climbed cold. The thing that amazed me was when the physio started poking the damaged muscle was down my back nowhere near where it originally hurt. She did sort it out though, touch wood.

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Every now and then he splits one I could fit in my burner.

South is wide, isn't it? Some good trainers Hampshire way as well, if Kent is too far.

I think@RobD posted about that somewhere else, Husqvarna tried out Sugi and Tsumura and they both appeared in press shots but they later settled on Tsumura for everything. That's rumour of course, I've no evidence and a dodgy memory at the best of times. While we're on rumours, the Husqvarna XForce are stamped MADE IN CANADA, I've two bars for my 9010 and the angled oil hole in the 28" Husky bar looks exactly like the angled hole in the 36" Oregon bar. So I reckon Husqvarna bars are made by Oregon, as were the old spec chains eg H42.

I think you should get some red trousers to enhance the effect.

You're right, it absolutely won't jump 3m. That distance is to keep you out of any danger of breaching the safety zone, which is only 1m. It won't jump 1m either, that is set as a safe distance. One of the problems is that the exact distance it can jump varies, depending on things like atmospheric moisture, shape of object, etc so the rule has been set conservatively with the aim of making it apply in every situation. Spark plugs take more voltage to make the jump due to higher pressure in the cylinder, modern cars may make 25kV but older ones with points much less - so this is difficult to compare as well. The 10m isn't a distance to keep clear, it's the minimum distance you need to be before you can completely ignore the power lines rather than including them in your risk assessment, obviously if you're felling something taller than 10m you need to consider it when further away. It comes from HSE guidance applying to tree work, so your lawn mowing is safe. "When arboricultural (aerial and ground) works are proposed within 10m (measured at ground level horizontally from below the nearest wire) of overhead power lines a risk based approach needs to be adopted. In practice this means that you should seek specialist advice and guidance from the owner of the power line (Network Operator) before undertaking any work within this distance. " Working near power lines and cables WWW.HSE.GOV.UK Contact with overhead power lines (OHPLs) causes fatal or severe electric shock and burn injuries.

All 20" 3/8 058 from FR Jones to make it comparable, Inc Vat cause it's me: XForce £38 XTough £81 Tsumura £89 Oregon Powercut £62 I'm leaning towards the Oregon, less hard and tougher than the Japanese bars.

I did UA1 basic electrical knowledge module which was enough to scare me. 3m is indeed the vicinity zone around 11kV lines, which you never breach in order to maintain the safety zone around the conductor inside. However this is only for DNO authorised people, safe systems of work, etc etc. For everyone else, contact the DNO if you are working within 10m of the line and they will discuss and advise a safe system of work.

I'm still bothered by this. If it's true that the depth gauge should be at 0.045 when the cutter is worn, then my chains which I file with a constant 0.025 should be cutting almost nothing. That is not my experience, they seem to cut just fine all the way to the end of the chain. I also don't buy the argument about the contact point tipping over the back rivet, most of the force in the chain is tension and reaction force in the opposite direction to that from the cutters. The implication here is that the tooth will be rotating so that the raker lifts up off the bar, to reduce the cutter engagement. Can't see that happening. Smells a bit of marketing and how things have always been done rather than proper explanation of forces and actions.

I've looked at 3 HC recently on public spaces which are not dead but have some of that breadcrumb type fungal mush, but no brackets. Have you found out any more since? Try to get some pictures tomorrow.

Hmm interesting - that price for 565 must make it more the 365 was but I'm looking at Radmore and Tucker, seems 565 is £747 and 572 is £811, so maybe has changed since you bought yours?

Sorry what's CST ? They are both offered for sale here, so seems like we're not sure if we use CST or not.

Common lime? Would be a more likely option, depending on where tree was?

Can only see it being a major major pain to have the loader tied up chipping, having to disconnect hydraulics to move etc. Definitely want a separate engine.

I ended up with a Searon I think off Amazon, if you coil the wire up and hold it near the plug lead it picks up ok so no need to actually get in and wrap it around.

Last time I looked though not easy to buy TinyTach in the UK, unless someone knows otherwise?

Look at the number of adverts and people saying they have no response. When I did my degree (engineering) I was sponsored by Lucas - they had excellent training from apprentice through to management and earned a reputation for it so it was a good place to get a job. This was early 90s though, cutbacks since then. I think the Glendale's of the world should be thinking long term and training people, yes some will come and learn and leave but some will stay.

Look like rungs - Stairway to heaven?

Exactly my point, I need a crane to hang the chain block off of else I'm going to be handballing them all out of the bag after that. And a little frame to keep the bag corners apart while the logs go in, etc etc Or chuck em in a trailer I measured years ago.

Simple practicality, isn't it? To sell by weight I'd need some sort of massive scales, all I need to sell by volume is a tape measure.