Vedhoggar
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I’ve had a few multi fuel stoves in the past but those designed specifically for burning wood are more efficient (for burning wood) and I would never even consider a multi stove now. The stove you mention seems a very good stove, a customer has just had the next size up to the one your refer to but I think the next size up was only another £50. They look simple to use and very efficient.
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Esso Synergy Supreme +99 is ethanol free only in some areas of the country and not in all they say due to technical reasons (ref statement currently on their website), the areas they mention where this fuel is not ethanol free are: Devon, Cornwall, North Wales, North England and Scotland. I’m currently using Esso Synergy Supreme with an ethanol inhibitor in machines used frequently and Aspen in machines used infrequently without problem. Some contractors in the area have been using high grade petrol in machines for years now without problem.
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Expect the plan now is also to phase out the WRC if SSSI?
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Difficult to see from photo age of pine but it has got to be at least 40 years old I would have thought. It probably did what it was intended to do i.e. act as nurse for the beech but should have been removed maybe about 15-20 years ago, squirrels need to be controlled as well of course with BE. If CP it will put up with an alkaline soil but less so poor soil conditions. It looks like the whole stand now might be better felled if all like that.
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Callus growth formed following wounding in the past it looks like.
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You'll need permission to fell the tree if it's in a Conservation Area or is subject to a Tree Preservation Order also check that a bat is not using that crack before felling/cutting up.
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My advice would be to remove the tree and recover what you can for firewood if you if you burn wood.
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I worked in areas of Wiltshire in the past where Scots Pine was planted as nurse for beech as Openspaceman described and the pine had not been removed, once the roots hit the chalk the pine basically stopped growing and looked unhealthy whereas the beech kept on growing well … chalk and limestone should be avoided unless Scots pine is to be used as a nurse. Australian Pine and Corsican Pine will tolerate chalk and limestone as will Western Red Cedar.
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Much the same for us. Worked also for a Norwegian company a couple of times and they started at 7am worked through until 11am had 30min break finished at 3pm plus a few 5 minute breaks which I quite liked as it free up the rest of the day for recreation and they never worked at weekends.
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I’ve old sycamore in various parts of the county with those plates, so probably age. The fiddle back pattern you see in some sycamore could be generic or site related I suspect.
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It depends on what you are doing, if just tapping in a plastic wedge to prevent saw getting jammed then axe okay but if you need to give a wedge a good ponding, in particularly a mental wedge but not just metal wedges, you can damage an axe head for including deform the eye, best to use splitting maul or sledge hammer for that.
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As the stem increases in size you get plates of bark develop which fall off as new bark underneath grows, it’s common in older sycamore trees.
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Sycamore, it looks like the plates have peeled off or have been remove for some reason. It also looks like the timber has that fiddle back pattern.
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You have expressed your opinion/dissatisfaction with your neighbour’s action, best to leave it that I would have thought on this occasion.
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I’m not familiar with tree species in New Zealand how is new shoots produced have died off and you are coming into spring you might wait and see what happens as it might not be dead (you could scrap the bark slightly to see if still green below the surface), do you get frost in the area you live? Unreasonable and anti-social behaviour on the part of your neighbour, in England a neighbour can cut back only to the boundary.
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How old is it? Not knowing if photos are recently or taken some years back what is the condition like now i.e. good, average or poor?
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Is anyone insured with or has been insured with Forestrycontractorsinsurance.co.uk and if so what has been your experience?
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Finnish is a beautiful but very difficult language, it is not in the same language group as Norwegian and Swedish although you have a minority of Finns that speak Swedish mainly in coastal areas but especially in Åland. Norwegian and Swedish in comparison are much easier but there are a lot of dialects and two official written languages in Norway plus the language of the Sami people across northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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The cost of a 5 day training course in UK for trees up to 38cm is likely to be >£900 with assessment plus PPE another £400 if not provided and then 5 days lost work time while training say >£450, compare that with jobs paying £10/hr that don't involve expenditure of about £2000.
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Wood dust and fungal spores can both be harmful with some types of wood worse than others also the amount of fungal spores will vary depending on various factors, it would be wise to wear a P2 or P3 mask when shovelling wood chip as a precaution.
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Would have thought >£12/hr more like a fair rate for that sort of work especially in Kent, plenty of work for unskilled workers at >£10/hr these days.
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I put that to a Stihl dealer a couple of years ago and the dealer told me Stihl would not say but he thought it might be up to a year. I've been using Stihl HP in machines on a regularly basis i.e. weekly/monthly and haven't experienced any problem mixing it with standard E5 petrol but with machines I do not use regularly its Ethanol free petrol. I have also been mixing for years the Ethanol Shield with standard E5 petrol for some 4-stroke engines without problem.
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The super grade is E5 (5% Ethenol) and octane >90 (97?) and I think it’s recommended that chainsaws should run on >90 octane but not aware of a specified upper limit, would have thought it would just run cleaner. In the past I’ve used Ethanol free fuel or E5 standard fuel with stabiliser and used the E5 within a month as one time I had E5 in a generator without stabiliser for months and when we came to use the machine it would not start and cost £50 to sort out the carb. Another guy had standard E5 in a saw without stabiliser which he hadn’t used for about 6 months which was stop/starting/cutting out and he just couldn’t get it to work, that cost him about £50 to sort out the carb too. A local lawnmower/chainsaw mechanic advised me on Monday not to use E10 in small machines so it’s going to be a case of ‘suck and see’ I suppose.
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Rock tool vaults are good value and well made (rock machinery.co.uk) also as mentioned by someone else Cleveland Sitesafe which do a wide range of well made products of all shapes and sizes.
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Ethanol attracts moisture and E10 will presumably do this more that E5, so if fuel left in a machine which is not used for a while it may be difficult to start or even may not start at all.
