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I see I spelt retired wrongly 😂

Terrain and tracks should determine your machinery selection. You're wanting light and frequent extractions?

Of whom doth thou speaketh of? Could it be he who claims to earn nearly £1000 per hour? He might only work one hour a week, being retarded? 😂

Indeed! 😂 So, 300w/240v =1.25amp required for the husky charger. So, as you've kindly thrown your hat in, what do reckon? Is there any merit in charging chainsaw batteries from a stationary vehicle on site?

You're braver than I if you weld a running vehicle. I was taught to disconnect battery before welding - unless of course you have a mate following when offroading - then you could use his to fix yours? 2.5mm rods need 100amps. The husqvarna battery chargers need 300-500amps. So help us out on the OPs question. What inverter do you use? You don't use it straight off the cigarette lighter socket do you?

The one passingby probably thought "That's one for traffic" Remember when coppers were feared? "Walk on your tip toes, don’t tie no bows Better stay away from those that carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose, watch the plainclothes You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows" Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan

I've been wondering about deregistering. Say my AIA pool is £50k at the end of tax year. Then if I deregister then I'll owe HMCE 20% of that. But if I bought in cordwood over 10+ years @ 20% and sold it processed with 5% on top then that 15% difference (+other expenses) won't add to the AIA pool vat owed after deregistering will it?

Welcome to the forum. Where are you? You need to find the biomass and milling quality timber market before you do anything. That means speaking to your local forestry/tree outfits. Don't get your permission to fell your trees and then fell them without having first got somewhere for their wood to go

IIRC in the other thread, a leisure battery was optioned when charging on site but the OP "reverted" to buying more batteries and getting them charged overnight prior. Batteries for the 540i are £230+. I'm assuming @Acer Forestry is felling not just delimbing or blip-snedding - so before looking at watt requirement, battery AH, (stop-start batteries are not as robust as full on crankers in my experience), Vehicle Engine Mgnt etc, I believe an upgraded alternator is necessary but we need more imputs. And I'm assuming manufacturer's lecky spec are optomistic so 300w inverter maybe too ambitious given the DC->AC->DC inefficencies (i.e. lost wattage)

We can calculate how long it'll take you to get your money back for you - just give us some imput first: What amp is your alternator? What inverter price range are you looking at? What is idle rpm of you diesel and what size? What batteries are wanting to charge?

Why were Liverpool playing? 🤣

The vegetation appears to be lot closer than some previous pics. Is that Ash dieback on the right?

Yes, competition requires innovation etc which is a good thing. One hope is in community and localised projects, from individual/street heat and power units to urban vertical horticulture. What my rant above was about was pointing out that "The State" is backing off from big monocultures

Just to take things even further off-topic after the multi-de-rail, 😅 how's the rebuild coming along?

"They" don't set the prices 🤣

You're right. The subsidy focus has changed from food production to some kind of demented Countryfile version of a pastoral idyll crossed with X factor. It wont end well. England and some of Wales had a drought this summer thats badly effected yields, both crops and livestock growth. Like many other industries over this winter, farmers have got hard times ahead. Higher costs (fuel fertiliser, animal feed, commercial electric rates etc) with dwindling traditional subsidies, means, if market prices remain comparatively low, that farmers will simply stop growing food. Landowners may well simply become custodians for a fantasy, a picturesque view of the countryside for ramblers and nimby second home owners. No one will work it but it will be serviced by tree surgeons and forestors. 😃 So what's the political plan for our nation's food security? Russian and the Ukraine will supply us with grain (if the sanctions are lifted and the war ends), the US their beef and chlorinated chicken, and New Zealand (who got rid of subsidies years ago) will supply us their lamb. That leaves Spain and North Africa supplying us with vegetables. Given transport and storage costs, many believe this wont be sustainable for long.

Consider a two stage hydraulic pump too. Google pressure and flow and then calculate the force of your rod/ram. You want max (e.g.2000+PSI) when working the splitter hard when it first hits the wood and then the LPM speed when not - like a swift return cycle.

Off the top of my head, I could think of North Sea Oil & Gas, aviation fuel for tourism and farming as getting subsidies. Famously the steel industry didn't get anything for the electric costs when it mattered a few years ago. It turns out every sector gets them: /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png View subsidies awarded by UK government - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Search for UK subsidies awarded since 1 January 2021.

An old boss of mine back in the 80s was called Mr Egland. Whenever anyone answered the phone and the caller wanted "Mr E", we'd have to say "It's for Mr E, It's for Mr E!" to Toyah's tune...🤣

I agree. I can only see tiny quibbles not design flaws. The workmanship is top notch and to add any safety details would distract from the timber quality - so I hesitate even mentioning these: 1. strap to prevent the ladder splaying under load 2. non-slip feet (rubber) 3. non-slip top shelf 4. it might be that the back of the ladder stands a bit vertical, may I respectfully suggest that the user adopt a lower centre of gravity when using it 😅

Ah, those were the days! Out of Hobbitton, out into The Shire, where only the entitled and well-deserving can find something for nothing and can tell the locals they should be grateful for your visit 🤣

"This Land is Your Land"

+1 for BP

... which takes us back to the point made by @eggsarascal about employers shirking their obligations to their employees NI, pension enrollment, holiday/sick pay etc

We've build shelter's on exposed sites on the limestone hills east of Bath. Treated timber rots within 5 years round here no matter which sort you go with, so this summer, we've experimented with postcreting in concrete posts and then bolting 4x4 posts to them. We lost a shelter to the winds in 2012/13 not from the prevailing wind but roter turbulence! We clad down to the ground (sometimes continuing with the roof pitch like the extended sides of a barn (but obviously much smaller) So they don't look ugly from the outside. Good luck with your choice.