Big J
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True! I must admit that my initial statement was a touch hyperbolic! ?
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5% penalty plus interest. They also don't take kindly to repeated 'offending'.
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That's just ridiculous. Just think how HMRC would react if you said you were delaying paying your tax bill for three months? And yet when you need their money to keep trading, well it's three months and you've got a food bank for the intervening period
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It's the inconsistent way that it affects people that's the issue. Very contagious and rather serious for anyone elderly or with comorbidities. I'm staggered that people are still acting like total arses towards NHS staff. Donuts.
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Just passed a million cases worldwide and just over 51k dead. Grim figures. I feel that the USA is going to have the hardest time in the developed world, but I don't even want to think about the consequences of widespread infection in somewhere like India.
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I bloody hate the wind!
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Moving to roadside, collecting and transporting 'Big Butts'
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
Your best production with a sawmill is with 40-80cm diameter logs. I'd steer clear of the biggest stuff and I'd just buy by the lorry load rather than single logs. It works out more economically in the end. -
My brother usually works away three nights a week, so being at home all the time, he said that he and my sister in law are working on creating one of these: I would have thought that seeing my loony daughters (2 and 5) all the time would have been enough of a contraceptive, but I was wrong!
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Diversifying into milling to utilise oversize timber.
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
Pretty good, but you need consistent power and heat to the container so can't just be when there is power generated by the panels. I could pop by tomorrow to run you through what to do if you want? I've got not much else to do at the moment! -
Diversifying into milling to utilise oversize timber.
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
I think we must have run about 20 kiln loads through it over the years, so about £120k worth of wood (at least) for a £1200 set up cost and about £10k in running costs. -
Diversifying into milling to utilise oversize timber.
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
I did a DIY kiln build thread on Arbtalk many years ago: -
Diversifying into milling to utilise oversize timber.
Big J replied to arboriculturist's topic in Milling Forum
Kiln drying hardwoods is a doddle. Can be done inexpensively and is very cheap to set up. Happy to talk you through it if you drop me a line -
For many people in forestry and agriculture, the brutally wet winter has cost them a fortune, and the first chance at getting out and trying to make amends, the country shuts down with covid 19. It's hard to pinpoint exactly, but I'm sure that the ground conditions cost us about £20k off our bottom line compared to a normal winter.
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30/03 - 180 31/03 - 381 01/04 - 563 It's climbing more quickly here than in just about any other country. May I ask, why did you have a bee in your bonnet with me and my numbers yesterday? It seemed a little odd.
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I don't think he's bragging. He's just illustrating the differences between different countries. I do agree that the situation here is terrible though. We'll keep going for as long as we can, which will likely be when we stop being able to get parts for machines when they break.
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I'm just casting the bait out there and waiting for a bite! ?
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Man I love Germany ? Those cats know how to fight a pandemic!
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No I didn't: The terms "I reckon" and "speculation" are anything but unequivocal. It's just a guess, based on the upward trajectory of the numbers.
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I don't know as regards China. Transparency isn't their strong suit, but they did implement containment on a level not really possible in western society.
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You are: A) missing the point B) not understanding how exponential growth rates work We are in the early stages of a pandemic. There isn't anywhere that has experienced those death rates yet, but it's coming. The fundamental factor is that once people are put into ventilators, their survival rate is poor. The US will experience the worst of it I feel owing to Trump's cavalier attitude, the brutally unequal healthcare system and the late stage at which any form of lockdown or social distancing was implemented.
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I don't know why you are so fixated on this? A prediction is nothing more than speculation, even in the best of circumstances. Given that we are 10-14 days behind Italy and Spain, and given that both of their death rates are close to 1000 already, I don't think that's it's much of a leap to suggest that our death rate may be higher as we have very few ICU beds, inadequate NHS funding, the most densely populated country in Europe and a population that can't help congregating at the local beauty spots when it's sunny! To counter, why do you not think it will reach that level?
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It's pure speculation, but based on the trajectory of the exponential growth rate we're already experiencing, coupled with our chronically underfunded health service. Then add densest population in Europe and a general distaste for government directives and 1500/day doesn't seem that excessive. We're already 25% the way there by today's figures.
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The majority of the early cases were in the sub-40 demographic, with the infected principally comprising of returning skiers coming back from Italy. Extensive testing and contact tracing, as well as 4.5 times as many ICU beds as the UK and a better funded health service have certainly helped. They are seeing an increasing number of cases in more vulnerable groups now though.
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Coronavirus Update (Live): 854,608 Cases and 42,043 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer WWW.WORLDOMETERS.INFO Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, and death toll by country due to the COVID 19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China... For tracking the numbers. It's morbid I know, but anyone that knows me knows I'm fascinated by numbers.
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I'm not sure I quite follow. Not in this country no. The issue is that the once a patient is put onto a ventilator in the ICU, they have a greater than 50% chance of dying, and it takes weeks. So the lag time between peak infection and peak deaths is 2-4 weeks at least. The infection rate in the UK is also artificially low due to inadequate testing and contact tracing.
