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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.
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Of course it is difficult for most pensioners to get extra income by working. But very few pensions are fixed - they are even sometimes index linked - which means they are one of the very few groups who will get guaranteed pay rises matching inflation. Not all I know, but certainly the state pensions will match inflation, and most public sector work pensions will as well - ie NHS, local government, education, civil service, etc, etc, etc.
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I think you are so right - many people think cheap energy is a God given right!
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Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
Well as doobin said pallets with aggregate on top. Or as you said strap them and keep tightening the straps. -
Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
Well, that won’t be much weight in the top, but most of the stack will be well weighted. The other factor of course ifs log quality. A knotty or bendy log is going to produce timber that will distort more than a clean straight log. Also some species are more prone to move. Cedar of Lebanon (and other relatives) are super stable. Oak and beach will move all over the place! -
Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
I would say the best weight to go on a pack is another pack. If you can go three packs high then only the top pack is not weighted. When I say a pack I mean about a ton of freshly milled timber. -
Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
This is basically what you need - maybe not this exact strap - as I said I would strongly recommend woven strapping. Corded polyester strapping kits WWW.KITEPACKAGING.CO.UK Corded polyester strapping kits for heavy duty applications. Light, friendly alternative to steel strapping. Online ordering with FREE UK delivery available. I do suggest weights though if feasible. -
Controlling movement in Milled slabs.
Squaredy replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
Look at Cordstrap. You can keep using the strap and the buckles and can re-tighten them, but it will cost you a couple of hundred to get started. If you go with this use the woven strap not the cheaper type as this is so difficult to handle. 16mm width is fine for what you are doing. Cordstrap | Keeping the world's cargo safe WWW.CORDSTRAP.COM Cordstrap has over 50 years experience of protecting the world’s cargo. Our global network of experts ensure that cargo reaches its destination undamaged. Weights are better though as they do not need adjusting. When I get a slab badly cup I usually just slice it up the middle and sell it as two boards. Depends who your customers are I suppose! -
Just had a price for HVO diesel - £2.10 per litre plus VAT - so that is £2.52 per litre. That is probably only going to appeal to people who have a powerful reason for using HVO. I would possibly switch to it if I could be really certain of the environmental credentials - but this is going to be a minefield. The fact it is produced from plants is great - but you have to be very confident it is not at the expense of natural forests - which is of course often how palm oil is produced (and it is largely made from palm oil). In the current climate it is going to be impossible to really prove that the oil producing plants are not causing deforestation indirectly if not directly. I love the idea - but not really workable for me right now.
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We have a Morso dove with a back boiler for rads. We simply added a second system with separate radiators so they can work together, but we don’t do this. We use the gas combo boiler for an hour in the morning (we used to anyway) and then the log boiler for the evenings and any other time we want warmth. It does work well but it has to be carefully managed to get the rads hot but not boiling. It is much easier to just have a burner chucking out heat, but how well this will work depends on how open plan the house is.
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Not very hidden agenda to get more and more state bale outs...
Squaredy replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
Just by me are loads of apple trees that are laden this year, short walk from thousands of social houses. But if the occupants of said houses head in this direction it is power tools and iPhones they want, not apples! -
Not very hidden agenda to get more and more state bale outs...
Squaredy replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
This question does have a simple answer. If they set the price cap too low the companies supplying our energy would go bust (remember 30 or more have recently done so). If they set no cap at all the prices would be even higher. Also what never gets reported is that Ofgem also set a limit on the suppliers profits - currently 1.9% - so they are not profiteering from this. The companies who actually produce the elctricity are doing very well - hence the windfall tax. -
Not very hidden agenda to get more and more state bale outs...
Squaredy replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
I agree with much of what you say. But is anyone really going to die because their home is less well heated than last year? And as for food - this is a problem with people not knowing how to cook (or how to manage their budget). Simple home cooked food can be very cheap indeed. In fact look at the trend over the last hundred years or so and you will find food is a much smaller part of people's income now. Our ancestors could only dream of food being so easily and cheaply available as it is now.
