openspaceman
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Is this just water contamination? As mentioned in your other thread
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I've never done that, I think my first move would be a water separator in the return line.
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What's the routine? How often do you have to sample and for what? The place where I worked for 20years had their spring condemned because of heavy metal contamination from a car park up the hill (which had cars burned out on it) and we had to lay a water main in.
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You have one too!
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It is better to keep light out to prevent algae
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I think you only need an abstraction licence if you exceed 20m3 a day
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If it's a quality saw the chances are the bore will be nikasil, these will often survive "nipping up" and just need the aluminium pick up, from the piston, removing (with acid or alkali). D and D in Greece can supply piston and rings for some models. https://www.dlastore.com is his main site but he is dandrikop on ebay, though ebay is more expensive
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Yes I used to send small sycamore to Nidd valley but the haulage meant the roadside price wasn't good, I guess mining timber was about 50p/Hft then and pulp a bit less. I supplied two turnery mills, they restricted the size range for sycamore and ash compared with birch or alder and would not accept sycamore in the summer or if extraction was delayed. Price was about 50% higher than pulp at roadside. It was almost always coppice rather than thinnings. I felled veneers for a chap who exported to Germany and for the trouble he went to I would guess he got much more than that, comparable with cherry probably at £8/Hft, this was in the early 80s when veneer yew would fetch £15/Hft.
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If you crush rock it takes up far more space than the hole it came from and I imagine the ore they wanted was only a few percent of the material dug. Also you have increased its surface area to leaching and exposed it to water where it had lain dry fro millions of years
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Sweet bay, Laurus nobilis? What do crushed leaves smell like?
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All indications are external costs were more likely to be ignored under communism but the time we were discussing was in UK during a period of rampant growth at the expense of workers and the environment and an example of why free enterprise has in fact to be regulated. I do not believe even the socialist governments after the first and second world wars approached communism, even though the US thought they did and severely restricted them.
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It's plain from the amount of reports of thefts here that it is a profitable business stealing and selling saws and the lack of uptake of arbsafe suggests that most people in the trade are not interested in addressing the problem, so yes it does fall down.
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I guess you are a bit less typical as you are willing to tinker with machines, I never took a saw back to a dealer other than one warranty claim on a tube bearing on my first brushcutter (which I still have) and I guess I bought 2 to 3 dozen over the years. But yes I think if it were common for ordinary folk, repairers , buyers, H&S auditors to check serial numbers then it would reduce the going rate for a stolen saw. I used to inspect our workers' saws while gathering them for a toolbox talk. I was prevented from doing the same for our subbies for fear of what I might find. Does anyone have a car audio pinched nowadays? Now don't ask me to understand the psychology of theft, I cannot even understand what makes a wealthy, middle class woman hang her dog's shit in a plastic bag on a tree.
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? I think before the mines an quarries act of 1954 mines just got abandoned by the owners. This is an early example of how capitalism fails to address the external costs, so entrepreneurs could exploit natural resources and labour to amass their fortunes but in doing so cause long term pollution such that once the problem is recognised legislation has to be introduced to control free enterprise. Leaving the whole community to pick up the tab for the earlier failings.
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I wasn't aware of them specifically but am well aware of the water from old mine workings poisoning the land they flow onto. Trying to re-establish trees on the ground is an area where biochar shows promise in being able to lock up the heavy metals, the FC did some work on this in Wales
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Yes I'm sure you are right, apart from cars and tractors I don't think I bought secondhand (except two Husky 262s from FC auction) gear but the principle is if you devalue the stolen gear by making it risky to have it repaired then there is less reward for the thief, so stealing it is less attractive.
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Which is exactly why a bit of self help is required. If the identity of a machine is on a public list of stolen kit then any dealer with a machine in for repair or a potential buyer can interrogate it.
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My 084 and HL75 were Datatagged at a Stihl promotion, they're not stolen yet, they only have a small decal but small microdots are painted on various bits of the machines, one would have to find them all and scrape them off. Somewhere on the internal parts there is supposed to be a chip which can be scanned by the police. To do the job properly would take some time as the dots need to be put on internal sufaces which means removing top, clutch and starter covers. From what I see all autotune saws already have a chip with the saw details which can be read by a dealer.
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If I understand you correctly you have been claiming 60% of the council tax of your home for the portion used for business, if so be very wary as when you come to sell the business portion will not be allowed against any capital gain.
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There's a justgiving page, I believe you can sign up and donate without Facebook. The link to just giving is in the first post
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Yes, are they to inhibit creepie crawlies?
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I think it's worth wearing a disposable coverall and respirator anyway. Also wrap the arisings in plastic and tape it up (including the respirator and coverall).
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Tree eating monster visited, what to do next
openspaceman replied to roys's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Shame on you Stubby inciting someone of temperance -
The who can get most outraged at bad treework thread.
openspaceman replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Picture Forum
Harrow where my old work had a contract from TFL. -
Tree eating monster visited, what to do next
openspaceman replied to roys's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Yes but that would end up as a mop headed hedge. If you cut at ground level they will coppice and you could store that to get single stems again. It looks like mostly blackthorn?? If so it could be left then laid to make a nice hedge.
