nepia
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A: If I was to fashion a shelf immediately behind the burner to give that extra 1/2" clearance would the fan work at all? I'm aware that hot air convection from the top of the burner is what makes it all happen but was wondering if the loss of convection via such a device would make the exercise pointless. Jon
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Alycidon; the gap between the top of my burner and the hearth is 8.75". Does this completely preclude an Ecofan, the height of the smallest one being 9.25" I believe? Jon
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In late October I'll be needing a chip site for a day Wokingham area please - specifically Sindlesham. Suggestions? Thanks, Jon
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In 2003 the H&S take on them was that they did away with the need to have a second man footing the ladder!
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You could be right but the holes haven't torn or otherwise distorted in seven years' use. They're 7-8mm.
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Steve will have his own opinions of course but I can't say they're 'better' than tripod ladders as I've never tried those but the Ankalad costs ~£115 inc VAT and fits to conventional ladders that can still be used as such with the Ankalad legs closed. Also a tripod ladder needs to be the length of the hedge's height that you want to cut; conventional ladders, being two or three gang, are shorter for transport purposes. A small advantage of a tripod ladder I can see is when on a side slope but I just chock one foot of my ladder there. It's why I'd like to fit an adjustable foot to the bottom of my ladders.
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I love laurel as firewood and recommend it to customers as it's dense. I've never noticed any smell from seasoned stuff. I doubt the cyanide persists once the wood dries.
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The first time you start to overbalance is a touch unnerving but you soon learn to put the ladder against the hedge and use the hedge as a cushion. I've hung weights off the bottom rung before now for a particularly high one but Ankalad wouldn't approve. Great device.
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You won't regret it I've just replaced mine as it was several years old and a couple of the spring loaded snibs had dropped out. Invaluable for hedge work. I'm going to see if I can mount mine far enough from the bottom of the ladder to fit one of these too http://www.northerntools.co.uk/pages/access/t_basemate.html If you go all the way up that ladder you'll be kissing the deck pdq!
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Does anyone else use a service for which you pay at the time and then reclaim the cost from the company? You pay an annual membership (~£40) and they make their money from those who forget to claim. So if you need recovery you call them, they nominate a towaway, you pay the towaway and reclaim the full cost. We've used Autoaid (part of Boncaster Insurance Services) several times now and can't fault them or the agents they use.
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Can't say I thought much of her music but no-one deserves that: just over half my age. How sad.
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My senile mate keeps knocking on his own front door and running round the back to answer it. I don't think he realises what he's letting himself in for.
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You could but ask CVD - Commercial Vehicles Direct. They beat Adrian Flux for my Navara recently.
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I'm sure that's the case but could you survive if wood prices were the same now as in 1979?! I don't know - maybe they are. When I look at other sectors of the economy putting their prices up 10% and more because of 'rising costs' I marvel at how farmers manage to get by at all.
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Yup, what we had to do but I'd been following instructions from someone who wasn't the driver!
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Sadly that is he: hey ho. It wasn't big enough for the couple of lumps of WRC I had for him last year either until the 064 got warmed up! Sorry about that but good luck. Jon
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Have texted a guy I know a few miles from Caterham who has a Mog with crane trailer. Will let you know the result. Jon
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A simple solution to Planning and Trees?
nepia replied to Andy Collins's topic in Business Management
Surely an easy way round that would be for there to be a condition of the licence stipulating that the contractor informs the LA of intended work (in very simplified form of course) at least ?2 weeks in advance. Any less notice would require 'urgency' justification. Revocation of the licence would be a powerful deterrent to abusing it but then you start to think of who has the power to revoke, appeal procedures, who runs the appeal system... = bureaucracy. But let's not let the negative get in the way. The idea is a sound one in principle. -
Thanks Rich. Slightly sadly I'll put my hands up to being a member there too. Had to laugh in a cruel way at the last post on that thread! Will print off the instructions and give it a go: if I mess it up I'll scream 'warranty' and get it sorted!
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Rich - manual. I wonder how much difference BFG ATs make though. Jonathan - likewise; always try to keep moving and minimise the stop/start stuff. But my driving is little motorway and mostly just outside London and around Surrey so I may have misled you when I mentioned motorway driving. But at least the numbers are moving in the right direction. Cheers, Jon
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You really are the planet's friend! My Navara has 1800 miles on it now and has just achieved the dizzy mpg heights of 28.8 according to the pooter and that's with Granny Jon driving (2000rpm exactly on motorway). How do you do it?! Do you think my mpg will climb much as the engine continues to ease?
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I've got a King Cab too: you'd have to mount some mighty greedy boards to get a ton of dry wood in the back! You won't even get half a ton in without boards. Customers see the load, I give them the price, they pay. BTW I've got a used overrail liner with very slight damage you can have for nowt if you want it. I take it you're in the Swallowfield that's Reading way...? I'm in Caterham, E/Surrey. Jon
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...which is just what the inscription in the photo means.
