Bolt
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Sorry Wisewood. Should have been a good thread. Great bear by the way :-)
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Kinda ironic that you 'tainted' this very thread with your highly tenuous Brexit observation on just the 3rd reply. I am not really interested in Brexit either way. Luckily, I have the self-control to avoid the 'news' and 'no deal' thread, so Brexit doesn’t generally register on my visits to the forum. I'm know it’s difficult when you are totally passionate about something, and only a few others seem interested, but the majority of the population just doesn’t really care. You need to let it go and move on. There are more interesting things going on on this planet.
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I think you need to move them goalposts...... asking for trouble infront of all that glass.
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If it's a qualification, regulated by Ofqual (such as a Lantra Qualification), It is usual for you to keep it for life. Generally, they didn't expire the last time I looked. Certificates of competence can expire. Certificates of attendance can expire. Certificates of refresher training can expire. 'NPTC' assessments can also expire. Regardless of all this however, as for all aspects of work in the UK, 'sufficent' refresher training is still a legal requirement.
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How did you crack your stove glass?
Bolt replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
My glass broke when the skateboard snapped and the stove hit the doorstep too hard. -
I have always used the greasy skanky one that was attached to the old cooker. But then, i'm not a 'lectrician.
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+1 Never known one come with a cable (except possibly a 'baby belling').
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Planting trees to sequester carbon emissions
Bolt replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Most important point is: If you can separate a gullible client from their cash, and end up with a nice planting project to boot, go for it (a man needs to eat!) However, surely everyone has simply realised it's a massive con trick / head-in-the-sand-exercise. Your client should plant trees because they love trees being planted. If they feel guilty about releasing carbon, they should leave the carbon deep underground. -
Planting trees to sequester carbon emissions
Bolt replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I didn't see the bit where they calculated that after 70 to 100 years all the trees had died and the carbon was back out in the atmosphere. -
Bless you. Pass my coat.
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Safe to say, not a Shiesle...... ..a Schliesi.... ..a Shclislin.... ..a Snchliesli.... ..a, one of them there German chippers.
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Not to mention Alan, he still is.
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That's not overloaded. Still room for a palettes worth of block pavers in the back of that.
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Lovin' the shorts.
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The trick with hedges like this is to add a zero to the price and sub them out if you get them.
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...AND, I offered biochar (which, ironically is one of the few credible suggestions to the original post). Anyway, what is your great suggestion Rob? Hope it's better that a cart and a hole, though I doubt it will be as good as the rollin' coal.
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It's pretty simple. You can’t 'lock carbon up' in wood. You can just very temporarily confine it there for at best a decade or two. Carbon can be very successfully ‘locked up’ in the form of oil or coal. Successful until we all started letting it out from underground over the last couple of hundred years. Many are naive enough to think that you can plant a few hundred trees to ‘offset’ burning fossil fuels (just like many think planting a load of whippy saplings somehow mitigates felling mature trees on a development site). I ain’t one of them, sorry. The meaningful capture of carbon in wood is a delusion. If you are worried about carbon, leave it underground. PERIOD.
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Thats perfectly fine old fella.... My kids will sort out all our carbon problems on your behalf.
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yep, just relax* *but only if you intend to operate on a 320 million year timescale.
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Thats the spirit. Tie the carbon up in a bit of old wood for a bit, and lets hope our children deal with it in due course.
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You could convert arisings into biochar, for use on site as soil conditioner. Conversion may well invove fossil fuel and certainly will involve burning, so not exactly meeting your criteria!!
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What is the benefit of releasing carbon slowly?
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*...and no, it wont be nessessary for anyone to post up any stupid poems about firewood...
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Dry and seasoned for me*
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Invalid experiment. Everyone knows that rabbits aren't brilliant.
