Quickthorn
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Common sense would say no. In fact, 42,000 l of petrol is around 31 tonnes.
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Ref sainsburys frome out of petrol what a lol
Quickthorn replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Yes, they've played a blinder. They've set off a wave of panic buying, so I'd imagine tanker drivers will all be on overtime to keep up with demand. That overtime will be useful for them - it'll tide them over if/when they strike. -
The 19J was the engine they used before the one in the film clip - 2.5 l turbo. Not very good. The 12J was the one before that - 2.5 l, no turbo. no guts, but bullet proof.
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Some 'heavy breathers' like the older 12J and 19J are prone to it when they're worn out. In this case, I'd guess that they overfilled it with engine oil - there's a bottle of oil open on the wing.
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In some circumstances, a diesel engine can start to run on its lubricating oil. If this happens, it bypasses the fuel system and any speed governer, it can't be switched off normally, and just revs up faster and faster until it's burned all its oil - if it doesn't explode first. I've always wanted to know what it looks like when this happens... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zx3qKX_Pno&feature=player_embedded]Runaway Diesel Defender 200 TDI - YouTube[/ame]
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..and most of the ones who didn't strike lost their jobs as well.
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The way I understand it with travel is that you can choose whether to apply the mileage allowance like you've said, or whether you work out the running costs of your van and use that as your travel expenses. If you do it the first way, it is like you said - 45p per mile for the first 10,000 miles. If you're journey is 100 miles a day, you can offset £45 as travel expenses, to be taken off your income to give taxable profit. However, if your daily journey is 100 miles, you'll soon burn through the 10,000 miles at 45p, after which you drop down to 25p. Any journey after that would give you £25 per day for travel. The other way is to work out the full running costs of your van, by keeping records of all your fuel, repairs, tax, insurance etc. You then work out what proportion is business use, and you can use that figure as your expense. You need to choose carefully: once you've picked one method, you have to stick with it for as long as you run that vehicle.
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Interesting, that.. I swapped from E.On (to Ebico) because of the excessive price they were charging. They were charging the bloke over the road less per unit, and so I rang them to ask for a reduction, or I'd be off. They wouldn't budge, so I kicked them into touch. On a number of times after that, I've had calls from an e.on call centre, asking me if I want to come back, and how much am I paying now, and they could probably beat it etc. Out of politeness, I told them my new supplier and what tariff I was now on (which I knew they wouldn't beat), and the instant they heard that, they simply put the phone down..no "thank you for your time", or "sorry we can't help you" or any other courtesy of any kind. If that's an improvement on the service.. I'd never use E.on again, even if they were cheaper.
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I didn't miss it - in sleep paralysis, you are awake, but still paralysed as in sleep.
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That sounds like sleep paralysis, which is something that I get from time to time. It's not pleasant, but it helps if you can recognise it as a sleep disturbance rather than something supernatural.
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I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Company pension schemes are normally a good idea, because you're getting the employer's contribution, plus your contributions are tax free. That's in contrast to a lot of private schemes, some of which have turned out to be poor value. As far as I know, a pension's more tax efficient than just saving off your own bat, even if you've got an ISA. Best thing you can do is get some proper advice from a genuine and independent advisor. edit: re rent from a second property being tax free: it certainly is not. You can offset all the expenses against your income, but you're supposed to pay tax on any profit. The only tax free rent you can get is for renting rooms in youir own home, under rent a room scheme.
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Welcome to the forum. I'm not sure if you're missing anything. We're on opposite sides of the country, but one thing seems the same: the going rate seems to be set by people who can't do their sums.
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Abolition of the small trailer exemption Dec 4th 2011
Quickthorn replied to Niceboy's topic in General chat
I don't think VOSA are going to fight for less road traffic legislation: the more of it there is, the more there is to do, and the more important the agency becomes on the scale of things; the more important the agency becomes, the more highly paid the senior managers should be (all that responsibility, don't you know ). The only time the government will resist EU legislation is when it threatens the power of industry management (eg UK have exemption from a lot of the the social obligations like worker participation etc), or when it becomes inconvenient for land owners (eg. the agri/forestry exemptions). -
Anything over 3500 kg.
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Getting there and back's one thing, but it's the state in which the site's left that can make the difference on some jobs. Of course, if low impact's not important, you've got a wider choice of what you can use. You're right, it needs the right job.
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I'm finding that the end of the log often doesn't go under that horizontal bar on its own, so it takes a lot of adjustment to get it right, and it ends up quicker to lift the log on with log tongs. Might be lack of experience with it
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Yes, it's good on skidding big stuff like in the photos, and it's very good on hills and soft ground. With a trailer, it's good with anything you can hand load. I've got that crane thing, though, and I've never got that to work the way I thought it would. As a money making thing, the biggest problem is the financial climate, with very little money out there for the sort of stuff I do..plus Alstor owners who will work for peanuts.
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This is the biggest sawlog I've managed so far. It was about 20" mid diameter and something like 3m in length. Some of the smaller stuff on that day This was the route for a lot of it immediately after. It's steeper than it looks - I'm guessing at 1 in 5 or so - and soft clay. It was actually worse before I started, because walkers tend to follow the same path and wear a trench in places. I've managed to flatten it all out, pretty much. This is how the big one ended up. To convert the big one up on this site, the only alternative would have been to take a mobile sawmill to the log. Most tractors are supposed to be banned from anywhere other than the rides, and the Alstor they sometimes get in has struggled with the bigger pieces like that.
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More to my post, but missed my 10 minute slot, apparently.. A less accurate way is to get volumes for a sample, get the average per piece and multiply by number of pieces. Once you've got volume, weight can be found: assume 0.98 cu. metres per tonne for SP. If you want to go that far, you could then make allowances for weight loss if it's been down a while.
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Any idea how many logs are there? Is it feasible to measure the volume of each log?
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You can get Kerb flowable*, which you apply with a knapsack and works out a lot cheaper per acre. * or you could a few years ago - pesticide withdrawals are happening so fast it's hard to keep up with what's gone now.
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I'm just going through this now, replacing a rubbish multifuel stove with a woodburner in a rented place. My contract forbids any alterations without getting permission from the landlord. Understandably, he wants everything doing properly and signing off, because he's thinking about future tenants and his insurance if it all goes wrong. I thought about doing it myself and having it signed off by the council, until I found out how much they charged for this: they wanted £300. The HETAS bloke we had in quoted £75 (no liner needed, just fit the stove, CO alarm and info plate.
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Yes, this is what I think it is. If that's the case, then par-char is simply the product of their failed charcoal burns; no good putting it back for another burn, because it would disappear, so they're knocking it out as a firewood alternative. However, I don't think their reasoning stands up. First, they're comparing the energy content per kg to 30% MC firewood, whereas the standard good firewood supplier are aiming for is 20% - so that's a strawman argument for a start. Looking at that figure, I think they've assumed that their par-char would contain as much energy or more per ton as wood dried to 10% MC. I'd say it would be less, because if it has been through a charcoaling process, a lot of the more volatile hydrocarbons would have been driven off, and those hydrocarbons make up a significant part of the energy content of firewood - if not the bulk.
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I wonder how much funding they got? this much
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As it stands, it looks like UK's appeal to retain Asulam for bracken control has been refused by other EU nations. farmers-urged-to-act-over-bracken-control-agent-asulam Sale of asulam products (eg Asulox) will stop December this year, and the last spraying season will be summer 2012. As companies tend to manufacture only a certain amount, knowing that the spraying season comes to an end around August, there may be very little stock available now for anyone wanting to get some in to spray next year.
