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  1. Vedhoggar
    If any chance of investment coming to a region is probably a good reason to voted for those that will decide where money will be spent I would have thought, Labour also seems to be more of a party of the WOKE and student community these days and at odds with many working class voters who have been drifting away from the party for years.
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    I suspect it is actually measuring on dry basis but colour coding adjusted for measuring firewood whatever it is sold on shophetas.co.uk as equipment to measure moisture content of firewood so use Amber is good to go for seasoned firewood.
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    7.30am - 4.30pm isn't a 9hr working day unless you never get a break which would be against employment law, it's 9 hrs less break times is what will be your working hours. UK min wage over 23 £8.91 (no London weighting). For someone doing the sort of work you do with little experience we would pay £9.50/hr (£10.85/hr London) which is the UK Real Living Wage (Living Wage Foundation), if self-employed labour only £12/hr, we work a 7.5hr day before paying overtime. For an experienced ground worker we would expect to have to pay out £12-£15/hr. My best advise would be if you like the work and are comfortable working for the company then when the probation period ends discuss what training might be on offer if you were to continuing on working for the company. You will need a more than just CS30/31 if you want to get on but its a start.
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    Got 4 supplies under 20 miles one of which is new, one is a joke as they were selling kiln dried wood which wasn’t season never mind kiln dried, the logs were over 30% MC ... might have driven past a kiln but the wood had never been in one that’s for sure.
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    Liriodendendon is a species that will respond to pollarding but not sure about coppicing but I suspect it will. A tulip tree at Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire planted in 1791 was cut back by about 1/3 from memory in the late 1980s or early 1990's because of a large cavity in the stem, it was at the time the largest tulip tree in the country and it responded well (the tree measured 32m x 5.5m at 1m in 1974 and 28m x 6.65m at 1m in 2011).
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    I’ve sent you a message. Thanks
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    I have a couple of conifers to take down for a client who wants to hire in a chipper and chip the branches himself afterwards along with other stuff which has built up, everything over 3” would be used as firewood but last time he hired in a chipper he had to un-jam it a few times and sites offering Timberwolf chippers for hire he says state that you must not use them for chipping conifer and he wants to chip Leylandii. The trees are at the rear of house with limited access but could get something like a 3” Timberwolf gravity chipper right to job or smaller road tow chipper near to it, burning is not a good option as urban setting surrounded by other houses ... any thoughts on hiring in chippers more prone to jamming and to be avoided when chipping conifer and those that are less likely to be a problem?
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    Well organised, tidy and low impact. On rate it really depends on your operating costs/what you are prepared to work for plus a profit of not less that 15% but ideally 20%.
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    A local farm machinery and groundcare equipment company replaced the belt on our 2014 model SC 700 last year however Andy at DLB Machinery, who I have found to be very helpful and reliable, would be able to supply part/advise on fitting (mobile 07704 032033), Balfor part required no 005.01.013
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    Possibly battery needs charged, if some way you can turn off the hydraulic pressure it should come down.
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    Tarpaulinsdirect.co.uk a Yorkshire based company. Decent products at a fair price and good service ... product ordered came within days.
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    That would be my advice too cut them all down if you feel something needs to be done now however I think it actually looks alright as a multi-stemmed tree and so going forward an option might be to just cut it back periodically as and when it is felt it has outgrown its position and let it regrow. I’m not that familiar with this species but if you want to single it or have less stems probably try doing it when about head height.
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    David Douglas’s three expeditions to America were funded by the Horticultural Society of London (now the Royal Horticultural Society), so a bit of a British connection you might say as a botanist although of course Scottish.
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    I see you are using only about 4 wraps on the capstan instead of 8 for a 10mm rope, I find 8 wraps is too many a lot of the time, it looks like you've also add a piece of wire to the rope guide, the Red Iron now comes with a rope guide spring now which can be added to the earlier model if required. Why did Husquarna stop making those combi cans ...
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    Depends what you're doing, sometimes tractor and winch will be best option/more efficient and sometime a portable winch will be the best option/more efficient, its about choosing the most suitable machine for a particular job.
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    Read quickly through posts so might have missed something but as I understand it the Forestry Authority in England will notify LPA about the application and get opinion but once felling licence has been issued you need to give the LPA a min of 6 weeks notice before undertaking the work within 2 years of work starting in order to give LPA time to protect trees with a TPO before commencement of work. This is how it used to be unless things have changed.
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    In general a felling licence is not required if felling not more than 5m3/quarter or selling more than 2m3/quarter, if more than this is to be felled or sold then a felling licence will be required first, then 6 weeks notice given to planning authority otherwise just need to given planning authority 6 weeks notice.
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    Poplar, willow and alder
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    As many householders probably struggle with basic maths why not spell it out as: weight of wet log minus weight of dry log divided by weight of dry log x 100 = dry weight expressed as a percentage; for wet weight expressed as a percentage just divide by wet weight instead of dry weight. Probably a good idea to also include a simple, but realistic, example of what is likely to be measured.
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    A branch that I was anchored to which snapped at around 20ft up was way more than 2 wrists thick - (alder).
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    They’ll be fine, got a pair Stihl chainsaw rubber boots years ago which were manufactured in Malaysia in 2008 and look like they’ve got a few years left in them yet! Just used occasionally if working in very wet areas or deepish snow, when not in use they are stored in a dry dark place. Prefer to wear chainsaw leather boots but they have their uses, bit on the heavy side at >3kg a pair!
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    Metres have an operational temperature and RH range, one meter we are currently using for example has an operation temperature of 0C to 40C and operation RH is 0 to 70%. It is worth noting also that precision is affected by moisture level, example one meter we have between 5 - 20% precision is +/- 2% and between 21-40% it’s +/- 1%, it’s doesn’t seem so much about whether logs should be measured indoors or outdoors but rather that the technical data for a particular device is given consideration.
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    No 6 Japanese Cedar
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    At the end of June 2020 we split 3.5 solid m3 of old spalted beech at rideside which was in 1m lengths x 55cm dia and raised off the ground for 2 yrs. The wood was converted into 25cm long logs <15cm dia then stored in well a ventilated shed and 7 months later average moisture content is now 23% but had it had a full drying season it would probably have been down to <20%. Spalted beech is burning at <23% but not brilliantly would be better best at <20% also beech which isn't spalted in my experienced seems to burn better but spalted beech burns okay when dry. In reply to second part of question it can be difficult to maintain MC at <20% outside, it needs to be ideally to be moved inside at the end of summer/autumn in this country although some wood in covered crates drys well outside can be <20%, billets stacked and covered outside that were <20% at the end of summer is now >20% on average.
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    Two table spoons of salt to 1/4 water same reading 40%. Will try drying a sample in oven sometime.

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