Squaredy
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At the end of the day it is a learning curve for you and everyone who becomes freelance. Undoubtedly you will look back in a few years with a lot more confidence and knowledge about rates and see what you could have done differently, see times you could have negotiated better. But for now, like any new skill you will have to work it out, and accept that people and employers can be very cagy about rates. It is just the same in the world of PAYE - not many people are happy to discuss their pay openly.
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I may be out of date Andy, but a few years ago you could get hold of oak sleepers for about £17 (imported from France I believe). I suspect your pricing structure would result in a price nearer to £60 or £70.
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Not your fault not sure what was going on with phones. I really appreciate you getting me the ticket. Maybe too many people for a usually very quiet area that the local masts could not cope. It was a nice day though, and I also had some good chats about woody subjects. For anyone who is thinking of getting into milling it would have been great - all the main players were there (except Lucas and Peterson swing mills) and they mainly all had several mills set up to demo. I think Woodmizer for instance had at least four of their mills set up. I did wonder how much this beast from Meber cost.
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Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
No. Yes you can use a thicknesser but it would need to be a very wide one. Most are only 18 inches or two feet wide. A good wide slab will often be wider than this. -
Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
Cutting them again once dried will not be easy. When you use a sawmill to convert logs to timber you are milling usually a very wet log which makes it soft and easy. Once fully dried the timber is much much harder. It would also be very wasteful cutting to say 100mm and then cutting again to 60mm. -
This was pretty cool also.
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This was my pick of the chainsaw carving, I didn’t stay to see it finished and I didn’t get his name but wow.
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Just realised you are Matlock - not exactly local to me...
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The poplar is not as useful as the ash generally. BUT if you are in my neck of the woods and there is access for a timber lorry I would probably buy it from you for a decent price. I am South East Wales - anywhere near you?
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Average weight of a full builders bag of logs?
Squaredy replied to scarvell's topic in Firewood forum
Of course it is quite easy to find out accurately. Get a bag full of logs you wish to weigh and then decant it into rubble sacks or similar. Use bathroom scales to weigh each rubble sack (holding the sack and weighing it and yourself to make it easier to read). Add them all together and Bob’s your uncle! -
Wood burner query- chimney
Squaredy replied to logburner1's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Definitely worth getting a registered sweep to clean and check it. But use a carbon monoxide alarm in any upstairs room the chimney passes through. lining it is a good idea as has been said, but it might not be necessary. Impossible to tell from the photos - I assume the chimney is taller than the photos show? -
Ground prep advice for new amenity wood
Squaredy replied to Sam's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
If you are near to existing trees and have time you could allow it to naturally turn to woodland. My garden would be a forest of field maple, ash, poplar holly, and yew if I left it for a few years. Or did you want control over the species?! -
Or indeed to look down on…
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When I buy a microwave I try really hard to get one that simply has a ‘ping’ when it finishes not multiple beeps. I think way too many devices have annoying beeps or tunes. I do like the fact that phones now ring again, after a decade or two of ever more annoying other noises!
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Yes I have been following their development for at least ten years now; I am hoping recent fuel cost increases might lead to developments in the market. But as you say the feedstock appears really critical so people like me who have tons of sawmill offcuts sadly can’t use it.
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I’m going to ogle some of the lovely kit. Hoping there will be one or two people with wood gasifier generator equipment.
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Well to bring this thread back on track, the poll (admittedly very small numbers and certainly not a representative sample of society) seems to suggest very few people are concerned that a large proportion of their income will be spent on energy. In fact almost half of respondents say they expect their energy costs to be less than 5% of net income. Certainly a stark contrast to what the media have been saying day in and day out that "Most people will struggle with their energy bills". The BBC should speak to more tree surgeons......!
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Well generally that is pretty much the way it works. Unless you are in charge of the Duchy of Cornwall or the Duchy of Lancaster, which have special laws. These two are well known, but as I found out there are other families with royal connections who find ways to avoid inheritance tax and keep it quiet. I am sure there is a great story there if a good investigative journalist could be bothered to look into it properly. Sadly most journalists seem to be only good at jumping on the bandwagon and spouting the same half truths and hyperbole as each other.
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Very clever trusts set up by highly paid lawyers. I don't know all the details, but it is always the case that the people who can afford the very best advisers can usually take advantage of all sorts of loopholes us mortals never even hear about.
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Yes - my work landlord lets out thousands of properties worth hundreds of millions and when he inherited it from his dad a few years ago inheritance tax was ........nil.
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Yes the tenant gets free electricity when they are generating I believe. So if they are able and willing to shift a lot of their energy usage to daytime the benefit during 8 or 9 months of the year could be significant. The owner of the panels of course gets all the other benefit - i.e. feed in tariffs etc.
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My local solar panel fitting firm are booked up solid for two years with new installations, so I guess more and more people are turning to self generation. I think maybe if the government are going to pump billions into the whole energy crisis maybe some of it should be to encourage more local generation.
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Yes, but the current standing charge for domestic users is £0.72 per day and in October is going up to £0.74 per day (total for both electricity and gas). The bit that is the real biggie is the bit we do have some control over thankfully.
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I started to read the article but decided any article which says 50% of UK households will be in energy poverty by October just goes in my bin. Do they think we are all too stupid to manage our usage? I know some people are, but how about giving some people credit - many will cope fine as they have spare cash, many people will cut back as they have a brain. It is only a small minority who are already living their lives on a knife edge who really need help. Why do the press seem incapable of distinguishing between people getting annoyed by large price rises and being genuinely in trouble due to the large rises?
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Arguably this is the most unfair system - do you want to pay to subsidise the fuel bills of the super rich? I do agree it is very difficult however, as you say we certainly don't want a complicated means test for every energy user in the UK.
