openspaceman

I understand a bit about electricity and electronics but couldn't actually design a system, hence I went for an off the peg solution but see below You are so right, the system I have is not well integrated because the grid is needed to energise the system and itself can vary in Hz and voltage, the PV panels depend on the sunlight and the inverter-battery system cannot communicate with the grid or directly with the panels, so it senses current on the various inputs and there is a delay which on poor days results in anomalies where the grid charges the battery or the PV exports to grid. Overall it should deliver 80% of my electricity needs and I suspect if you could still get the installation below £10k it would give a return without any feed in tariff, especially if electricity reaches 30p/kWh. I have a gripe with Growatt in that it is web based and apparently hosted in China plus the App is highly intrusive and I will not have it on my phone. Also there is some oriental fuzzy logic going on and I, for now, cannot prevent it charging the battery from the grid, this would be a good thing if I had an off peak electricity tariff but I don't. I guess the 300Wh it charges itself will reduces to 2400Wh when I get it back. I think one could save £2k by building the battery and management system with LiPo cells and only have to integrate PV and battery.

I think it's the Highway Authority and that is often delegated to the Local Authority This depends on what you mean by "tolerated", the thing is if the entity who was in a position to give permission, or their successors in title, since 1905 has acquiesced in allowing the practise then a prescriptive right may be gained in time "by fiction of lost grant"IIRC. In this case no such chance exists.

and why not?

I'm still hoping for some input from those truly off grid and having generators to pop by with some experiences and costs on that thread, I'll be thinking of @Baldbloke's 20kW and 50 MWh annual production to compare with my £10k panels and battery when I revisit some of @agg221's points

"Section 34(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA 1988) provides that anyone driving a mechanically propelled vehicle, for example a motor car, on a road that is a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway is guilty of an offence unless it can be shown that there is a private right in place for people to use the accessway to gain vehicular access to their property."

It wouldn't be an easement but a prescriptive right. A prescriptive right cannot be gained by a criminal act, see Hanning v Topdeck, except by a limited special case. This chap has just bought the house and the previous occupant seems only to have enjoyed a pedestrian access.

I was just musing that the wear course could be reinforced such that the lower layers need not be disturbed and then the risk would be to the vehicle bumping up the kerb but the LA or HA would have to sanction the access, which seems unlikely. I was aware of that hence the caveat that it would have to be approved.

Can the council give permission to cross the footway without a dropped kerb?

Looks like @MDMTREE came to post query then went without seeing replies

This thread dates from before I joined, @bobh did an excellent photo step by step explanation of removing and refitting the IPTO clutch. Some contributions from past members at least one of whom is no longer alive.

Would you give a ball park figure for installed capacity and production?

not PUWER compliant but you would only need to fix the plates in the IPTO clutch pack together but it may be just that the clutch pack isn't being energised. The linkage pump has a small gear pump in tandem with it, this small pump activates the IPTO clutch when the PTO lever is moved, it simply blocks the dump to tank with a ball bearing, so all the flow goes to squeezing the plates together.

Whereas if you take the heat pump subsidy you cannot have a gas supply.

It doesn't surprise me as his are niche high added value projects and your 100 tonnes gets you into the realms of industrial wood.

Strangely he doesn't mention the Interpretation Bill "in which ministers will strike out findings from judicial reviews the government did not agree with" nor the bits of the police bill that make trespass criminal acts which will inhibit the right to divert around an obstruction on a PRoW. I think he's got it right about the PM not being a bumbling idiot but taking us for a ride, we can see that from the cronyism that has run unchecked. The ghost of Pastor Martin Niemöller should show us that it is not impossible for this to happen in our cosy little world.

Maybe the van delivered the chipper and then fetched the trailer to a convenient spot. It worked.

I understand that and bye-laws may be different elsewhere but in my street with only houses on one side many of the parking laws are ignored, such as not facing the correct way at night and parking opposite the splay of a joining road, all without penatly AFAIK, and yes visitors to my house do park at my dropped kerb if no other spaces available.

The highway code only specifies " where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles" And also "in front of an entrance to a property" In practice parking on your own dropped kerb is not enforced unless there are other restrictions. Parking in front of someone else's dropped kerb would soon result in them calling the police to remove the obstruction.

What about the college mate of PM 's that got appointed to head the charity commission and clamp down on "woke" charities without formal job vetting procedures. Mind the charity business needs a thorough looking at; most don't realise the self serving , highly paid staff who get away with excesses because there is no adequate regulation.

Same firm I used, my wife still uses the one I bought 4 years ago and I presented my very eccentric primary school friend with a £200 one in September. He made the mistake of telling me he couldn't manage anything other than Windows but how I wish I had loaded it with Linux as he tips up here once a month near bedtime and starts downloading 2 hours of updates.

Yes that is a bit limiting, John McDermott (spelling?) and his son are the only ones I know still operate an 8 wheeler in that area, it puts north wales and norfolk out of reach. William Stafford is the area buyer for Euroforest. An afterthought; I think Tom Bitchener's widow may still run Commercial Woodlands Ltd at Bordon. I knew Tom from a long way back and liked him. @ESS was still in the game but not seen him post for a while

with a load of chip being 25 tonnes and any bars probably the same even though you could use an 18 tonne 8 wheeler for sawlogs you'll be pushed to make full loads. Maybe settle for one load of logs and the rest to kronospan.

One of the mahonias?

Yes for top of the range I'm told. I have only recently bought refurbished laptops as gifts for £200 because I'm tight.

I couldn'y agree more for my personal use and stick Linux Mint 20 on it to cut the constant updates from Microsoft but a young girl would prefer the £2500k Macbook pro.