openspaceman

Now that's a good idea

Our local FC officer used the term "within the curtilage of a dwelling" and would say that was that land maintained for the enjoyment of the said dwelling, so would include managed bits like lawns, flower beds, vegetable plots but not necessarily tree s not formally managed. The act only says gardens and is open to a bit of interpretation, local landscape gardens have used this exception as have places like RHS where no domestic dwelling is involved. The public open space bit is restricted to those that fall under the 1899 open spaces act so not necessarily commons that became open spaces in the later 1925 law of property act. Yes but only if he is allowed the expense of a legal battle.

Yes some good points

Most conversations use verbs as do written notices.?

I suppose I'm an oddball but draw the line at darning holes in socks, I will sew ripped work clothes to make them usable. Most of my clothes are hand me downs from dead relatives so I have seldom bought new but get gifts of new clothes. However the issue is with what happens to clothes in and after use; after use they can be disposed of into landfill or incinerated for power, and never enter the wider environment, but in use they get washed, fibrils get beaten off in the wash and the water containing these microscopic bits of plastic and natural fibre mixes passes through the sewage system and into the sea. The natural fibres rot but the plastic bits get into the marine food chain very quickly. So the public outcry against plastics in the marine environment is about large visible waste, which will degrade over time to bits small enough to be ingested but the insidious stuff is these small fibrils from washing that are already small enough to enter the food chain immediately. Quite so and aside from the wastefulness aspect discarding clothes is not an issue as long as the disposal method is sound.

Gary it was worth the wait and just the sort of reply I was hoping for. Sad you weren't enjoying a holiday somewhere more exotic than bed-rest but good to see you on form.

A swallowtail butterfly, I don't think I have seen one in the wild.

Nice looking sticks but they'll be a pig to split by hand How come one ended up through the fence?

As far as I can remember all one.

I'm following this as I stripped one down as the shaft was bent, tried to straighten it and never did get it back together again.

The mind boggles Great work though

No need I'm not applying to do work on a preserved tree, just musing. I hope Gary is on holiday enjoying himself as he normally makes good replies.

Either my writing is poor or your comprehension is. The first point I was querying is that the applicant (not me the chap I work for occasionally) says the same form is used for notifying work in a conservation area or applying for permission to work on a tree with a preservation order. If so he says you cannot get past the bit which requests an expert report. Which is why he posted a notification rather than do it online. I haven't tried. The other thing was pertaining to what qualification is a requirement for a tree report when applying to work on a tree with a preservation order. On the surface it looks like a restrictive practice dreamt up by planners to give jobs for the boys. A tree report by our local TO with his consultancy hat on starts at £500.

Just revisiting this @Gary Prentice: does the time of 8 weeks for non determination only start after the application is validated? I'm a bit interested as my boss has just tried to make a 211 notification via the planning portal, in fact he gave up and handed it in by letter. He says what it showed was that an application via the portal cannot proceed without a tree report and that has to be by someone with a "qualification". So no point trying to make a notification as it seems to use the same criteria as needed for a TPO application. In a past job I seldom worried about TPOs as we were working on behalf of a statutory undertaking, I'd liaise with the TO and then getb on with the work. My friend says he writes a report and signs it off and it's never queried, he has a BSc in geology. So if the application gets made, is validated and then the report is queried does everything have to go back to day one? Or will the PINS judgement take no note of a poor reason for the work.

I can't see hauling that onto the roof of the County being possible but do like the grease chuck and pressure release. Also no way to foot operate when lying under to do prop shafts

Apart from directing weight equally onto each plank to restrain it the stickers control water loss and I imagine without them water is lost quicker from the ends which means the ends become more liable to split in the early stages. The miller on the estate where I started work would always use softwood sticks on hardwoods (and maybe vice versa) . Also I would expect to use thicker stickkers in Scotland than in Surrey as it is drier and warmer here so moisture can move out too fast.

I wouldn't expect so but joinery is not my thing. I think the stack should always have a sticker flush with both ends.

That's good make the new poster feel at home. What's wrong with driving MGs? I do. Anyway to the OP, It seems the council own the trees, the roots have become a nuisance and the council are aware of this and will mitigate the problem by felling, presumably once you made them aware of the problem. If they were previously unaware of the roots lifting the patio they could do no more and their liability is limited.

If it's a multifuel stove then it can burn coal or wood and that coal can be anywhere between bitumous to nearly pure carbon in anthracite. Even peat will burn if dry. The difference is that when burning wood you drive off volatiles that have to burn in a flame above the firebed, with anthracite you have to gasify the carbon to carbon monoxide and then burn that above the firebed, so wood tends to need 5 times more air for burning the volatiles whereas the coal needs similar amounts below the firebed for gasification as it needs above to burn the gases. Your stove is putting a lot of heat into the water compared with the heat into the room, what makes you think it is inefficient? If you have dry fuel the only losses in efficiency are in the heat that exits the flue. These will be sensible heat (e.g. what is the temperature of the exhaust gases up the chimney) and the massflow up the chimney (e.g. is too much excess air or unburnt gases going up the chimney). If you see a lot of whitish yellow smoke then the wood is either smouldering or too wet. Blue smoke and your flame is being quenched somehow, black smoke not enough secondary (over the firebed) air.

what type of pump is it?

Yes the brickworks was probably similar to Swallow tiles but for a student on piecework you could just about make the same in a day as an agricultural labourer in a week. One of the higglers doing hazel coppice alongside us used to do it for years.

Yes this is what I thought but have never tested it. The thing is whatever the overall moisture content the sap solution within the cell membrane is much more concentrated. There will be little sugar in the vessels until spring. I really ought to read up on this.

Some of the reason for this was the availability of labour, most rural workers were needed for other farm work in the summer. Another was to do with the durability of the produce, winter felled wood is less likely to be eaten by microbes for a couple of reasons. Try bending a bit of birch or willow whippy material that has been cut mid summer and left for three weeks.

My posts, I won't call them advice, will have the professionals grimacing, I am only saying what I have done to keep my old equipment running when the alternative was scrapping or when spares were too expensive or unavailable. A dealer could not risk returning a customer's machine without using parts he could offer warranty of some sort.

Yes just put them somewhere dry and airy and they will get below the moisture content that fungi like. This is much the same as I have seen from batches that were warmed up in the kiln and then removed before the moisture content had been reduced enough, the warm humid conditions allowed the fungal spores to germinate and the fuzz is hyphae spreading.