openspaceman

Yes it's a public highway and the verge is part of the highway even if it isn't surfaced. You would need to look at old maps to see if is highway. It can still be a highway verge even if it remains in the ownership of the adjacent land. The only breach likely is the forestry act IMO.

Sounds far more sensible. Why can't you swap the exhaust on a a chipper and have it cleaned? After all it must be sensing a higher back pressure that indicates a regeneration is needed.

In this case the holly and hawthorn are fairly intimately mixed and there is a public footpath on one side and my garage and sheds 50cms away on the other, just enough room for me to squeeze by, so not any scope for leaving it apart from the top. Leaving the top would cut light to the bottom. Over the years the holly has become more dominant. Whether an early then a later cut would affect the vigour is why I am asking. On the one hand I wonder if it would promote more shoots from within the hedge.

Same as on heathland here until they employed a manager and he just burned and left the ash and seems to be beyond reproach. This all is similar to the recent post about woodland flowers not wanting to compete when fertility good. We had intended to try my under a cover burner on reed beds because apparently these were burned (swaled?) after the reeds were harvested to encourage fresh growth the following year but natural england go taken over and funding stopped. Yes exactly, also think of all the plastic that comes from sanding fibreglass resins, cut pvc cables in maneges etc.. Steel rusts away and aluminium corrodes to it's oxide evetunally. The thing is wood is natural and often lasts 20 years for a boardwalk and then recycles itself but they have to keep finding re uses for all those platic milk bottles. This is why I would prefer to see them incinerated for power or pyrolysed for liquid fuels.

I normally don't cut my holly and hawthorn hedge before mid July for the sake of nesting but over the last 40 years it has got a bit leggy and gappy, this latter due to getting smothered in ivy which I have removed. Any suggestions for the best cutting regime to get it dense and compact again? Also wondering if I should tackle my neighbour's gold leylandii hedge a bit early this year as it has intruded into the garden somewhat, to encourage a little growth once it's cut back as much as I dare.

I associate strimming with a flailing nylon cord so I can see no reason to use other than steel cutting blades in an open area like this, especially as the plastic debris will end up in the watercourse. Is this reed cutting to emulate previous harvesting practice where the produce would have been used for thatching? This is again one of the failings of conservation groups where the niche they wish to conserve resulted from old harvesting practices, now defunct, so they don't know what to do with the arisings. I see the same in heathland and coppice maintenance.

Me too as a first move

I thought they were supposed to do a pressure test before approving an existing liner.

Yes and 904 is mostly for solid fuel. It confused me with that grey surface. What is the diameter? I

I may be missing the reason behind the question because I have not followed the sub thread but in the case of life insurance, which is a bet by the insurer as to how long the wannabe insured might live, having medical information about a person that shows how that person differs from the norm may mean the insurer will not take the bet or change the odds, so the wannabe's estate would suffer financially or the premium more expensive. It's the opposite of what the NHS was founded for, which was to budget for the same bet and take the risk on behalf of the whole population. Public health statistics is all about economics and minimising costs, as was put to me by an economist in the health trade it's like pressure-volume theory in gases, we measure pressure which is the integration of the effects of billions of gas molecules bouncing against their containment so we can establish a trend, it says nothing about the speed or direction (velocity) of any individual molecule.

I often wonder if the first people in England to smell coconut said if smelled like gorse bloom?

So I'm a sinner and a cheapskate. Most of my working life I used a 60cc saw with an eighteen inch bar and I would choose a lightweight bar and the sprocket bar sprocket would be the first thing to fail. I still have many part worn chains kept "just in case" after I replaced a bar and put a new chain on for it.

I would just use the rim at least until the chain is finished. Rim £8 probably last for 3 chains or more 25" chain £25 25" bar £65 should last for 10 chains in forestry probably a good deal less ringing up firewood. Production tree felling gets through comparatively more chains than arb work because felling close to the ground is affected by soil contamination of the bark, worse on sand and negligibly on clay.

It was fine and reasonably priced but I haven't used it with the collector yet as I left the mower for use on glades in a community woodland.

I'll echo that comment 🙂

Yes but this never happens if you burn dry wood vigorously as the temperatures are above the dewpoint of the water vapour. As I have posted before I am not using a steel liner as I utilise the fact that the chimney breast brickwork absorbs heat whilst firing and then the thermal mass gradually gives out heat overnight when the fire is out.

B C or D I wait until the drive link reaches the bottom of the slot or the rim explodes, whichever comes first but I'm a sinner.

takes me back but to be consistent H(ypotenuse) squared = A(djacent) squared plus O(pposite) squared

It looks like a cast in situ (high alumina?) concrete liner to me. The stove installer can pressure check it to see if it is still suitable and still sign off the installation.

Thanks, I've possibly left it a bit late, will look into it a bit more but not too worried as I'll still have the trailer and bike categories which I will use.

So it's a lesser medical than some, I'll look. Do you know how soon before one reaches 70 the medical can be?

I wish Last one I had for PTS was over £100 and a 55mile drive, that was 7 years ago.

Yes I think so if we are talking about a chimney with a flue up to 9". The building regulations only specify minimum sizes and not to discharge a lager outlet into a smaller flue. There is a stipulation that it can be unsafe to discharge into an oversized flue, so don't exhaust a pipe through a register plate and then direct into a chimney of an inglenook for instance

These are also the ones I use in the winter, KF 120s if it's warm. I worry they don't protect against vibration as well as gel ones.

Yes. spend a hundred quid for something I may never use and a 70 year old ticker may not pass anyway. It was bad enough spending £75 for a doctor I have never seen to tell the police I wasn't a depressive and no obvious reason I couldn't use a 24"+ steel tube.