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No wonder there's a labour shortage, they're all driving driverless busses! (2 staff on each one!)
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I think for general heating, like air or water, yes it does need a lot of power. But heated handles are just a little wire running through, I don't know how many watts that would be? Googling motorbike heated grips suggests 10w-30w or whatever? Which is a drop in the ocean compared to the 1.5kw motor. I think the drawback for me would be I tend to leave battery saws "on tickover" for a long time, ready to go just by releasing the chainbrake. So if you left the grips on and the saw on the ground idiling for long periods you'd just be wasting power
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I've sorta looked at them briefly, but for the cost you're halfway to buying timber and wriggly tin to build something that will last decades, and you could put a lock on the door! You sometimes see people selling 2nd hand big gazebo/marquee things that have been bought and used once for a wedding, the white ones aren't very easy on the eye though!
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Maybe I'm late to the party, but just seen Husqvarna are now doing a "G" version of the 540ixp, with heated handles, and oil sensor Husqvarna 540i XP® G Chainsaw | Husqvarna UK WWW.HUSQVARNA.COM Husqvarna 540i XP® G is a powerful and efficient battery-powered chainsaw for professional use. Equipped with heated handles to keep your hands warm and dry Husqvarna T540i XP G Chainsaw | Husqvarna UK WWW.HUSQVARNA.COM Husqvarna T540i XP G is a powerful, battery-powered top-handle chainsaw for professional tree care. Equipped with heated handle to keep you warm and dry in
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If he's got the space, did he not make a clanger by not putting in a ground source heat pump, thought they were always cheaper to run? And also solar and cables whilst the place was getting built?
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It's about 8mx9m, play area in a garden for some folks I know
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Just wondering what's the opinions on the best way to fix down machined round 100mm when used as edging? As in 3.6m lengths, laid horizontal, round a barked area, 100mm high. I don't think vertical wooden pegs up against it would look good as it's round, there would be a gap. Thoughts would be cut notches in the round edging for the posts to recess in to and screw? Or cut steel pegs from 15-20mm bar, bore a hole through the middle of the machined round, and hammer the pegs through?
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Best hit he's ever had! (stolen from youtube comments)
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I've got some, when can you collect?
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Should the hospitals hand out clothes? I feel sorry for this guy, but would just be glad to have made it out the crash alive Raigmore Hospital in Inverness discharged patient in boxer shorts WWW.PRESSANDJOURNAL.CO.UK Anthony Burns was given a towel and a hospital gown and told to leave Raigmore. I like the picture and caption, yes I think it will be written off
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Some people will do anything to get a book deal
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This feels like the sort of question you'd get on the old Blind Date! I would be Sitka Spruce. Not very popular, but quietly practical.
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Interesting chart, but 4 months to season cherry, 12-24 months to season sycamore, seems like 2 extremes
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Sorry, is this any better? Excluding the railway and the loch, surrounded on all sides by thousands of acres of forest and woodland. Big for a silver birch, and stuck in a really awkward spot at the bottom of a slope
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It's levelled out a bit now, new quotes aren't as cheap, renewals aren't as pricey. The rules changed last year. Important rule changes to the pricing of home and motor insurance – what it could mean for you | ABI WWW.ABI.ORG.UK From 1 January 2022, new pricing rules introduced by the industry’s regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will come into force. The changes will mean that when existing...
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There's a guy on youtube who makes "horticultural charcoal" out of branch loggings
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Have you been? You wouldn't want to, unless you have an interest in kings and queens. The place is beautiful, but heaving. It's like disneyland at times. Mind you, the same could be said for Aviemore, and it's not got the royals! I'm off back to my cave.
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I don't know if they still hand them out, but it's a bit like when you see one of these stickers on the door It's their way of saying next door is a c*nt
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Someone lives in there, he's fed up of being burgled
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Electrical Industrilisation of the North and East of Scotland
scbk replied to htb's topic in General chat
I was working for a couple recently, they live in a lovely wee crofters cottage, surrounded by fields and beautiful countryside. The proposal is to build a 50 (!!) acre sub station next door -
Electrical Industrilisation of the North and East of Scotland
scbk replied to htb's topic in General chat
To me it would make more sense to try and use more of the electricity up here than spends £millions/billions to send it down south, and keep burning fossil fuels here. Turn it in to hydrogen, electrify the railways, install vehicle chargers, rip out oil boilers in favour of heat pumps, etc etc The English v Scottish ; Highlands v Lowlands ; North v South thing, the comparison might be if you lived in the Cotswolds and they were proposing destroying your local beauty to build a powerline to export electricity to France. -
Looks like this but ideally with all the logs still on the back
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I think it was 4 years from bare ground to in the log shed for this hybrid willow Chickens for scale!! Yes I've put better stuff through a chipper but hey.....
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Defiantly plant trees, but 2 acres isn't a huge amount of ground to supply a log boiler. Might be better using some of the space to make access and stacking space for artic timber wagons (if you don't have already), buy in a load, then hire a processor for a couple of days. And build a big log shed!
