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Well you can only have edge trees on the edge, so unthinned stands with, say, 30% of length in crown will take years to develop a root system that an edge tree will have grown with. Anyone who has done a line thinning will have seen adjacent suppressed trees falling over in subsequent years. I'd have thought giving the neighbour fair warning of ones intentions would be enough as I don't think the neighbour could prevent the felling. Just over 30 years ago I took the decision to store some 90 year old coppiced beech, the stools were too old to regrow and the stems at 8" QG and below weren't big enough for sawlogs. At the time there was a good market for small clean beech sawlogs so I hoped by now they would have got a good price. Two things worked against me, the collapse of the beech market and the 87 storm which took the lot down. I suspect untouched 50% of them would have survived but still have little value.
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Can anyone give an isbn reference for this book? I thought there was a precedent but cannot remember it. It would depend on whether it was reasonably foreseeable that removing trees on which trees on neighbouring land relied on for mutual support would cause trees to fail. I cannot see it happening in a gardening situation and if it were a forestry plantation nearing its top height for the winthrow hazard then a prudent neighbour would fell them anyway, thus mitigating any damaging consequences.
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I never did better than 1500 and it often dropped to 500 and I was 40 years younger then.
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Waste exemptions and burning waste licences
openspaceman replied to jjll's topic in Business Management
The company had always been registered as waste carries. Applying for the several exemptions I needed was a paper exercise and no EA personnel came to inspect the premises whereas the planners have. -
Waste exemptions and burning waste licences
openspaceman replied to jjll's topic in Business Management
Mostly experience with the yard I managed for 7 years, still some open issues so not for discussion of specifics. One thing emerged which may be of interest, major civils companies would not accept virgin timber cleared from their work sites was exempted. So they required waste transfer notes and a chain of custody which forced the need for the waste exemptions even on this virgin timber. -
Waste exemptions and burning waste licences
openspaceman replied to jjll's topic in Business Management
Yes from the EA perspective virgin timber is not a waste, hedge cuttings are, but the exemptions depend on planning permission and storing wood is not an agricultural use of a field so a change of use is involved. Which means making an application or getting a certificate of lawful use after 10 years with no enforcement. So a firewood operation may not need an exemption but will require planning permission, along with which comes a rates liability. Given that a waste is something ordinarily discards from the activity the logging operation may be producing wastes which will require exemption. Essentially there are different exemptions that cover wood, S ones for storage, T ones for treatment and U ones for the final use. D ones are for if you wish to dispose of it on the site, as mulch or burning for heat for example. Not many firms I've seen comply with the requirements and EA don't pursue unless someone has wound them up. -
I understand. Yes mostly the tyre disposal cost was part of the new tyre and fitting transaction. In my last year working for a small firm I looked after the workshops alongside my other duties. So for the last two years I have collected all the old scrap tyres which ended up on the site and delivered them down to our local tyre recycler by the transit load and I paid 75p for car tyres, £2 for transit sized tyres and £8 for lorry tyres, I did not buy any tyres from him. When I unexpectedly took retirement rather than demotion I left a legacy of 1 forwarder tyre and about 8 rubber tracks from chippers which were going to cost a lot more to dispose.
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I don't know but they will have expertise and channels to decide whether disposal to a cement factory, re treading , recycling as tyre crumb etc are the best options without necessarilly rehandling or resorting. Mind our local place seems to stack them all in one heap. As far as I know the civic amenities sites are franchised out to waste disposal firms who in turn license totters on the sites. Yes, they have had their budgets cut along with the NHS, police, schools etc. whilst their administrative load has increased with increased regulations. At the same time commerce has become more attractive as senior management wage levels have rocketed in the larger companies.
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I was interested to see our civic amenities site were going to charge £4 for car tyre disposal which the local tyre dealer does for £1. I'd dearly like to see what fractions of the recycling stream at a civic amenities site make a profit over running costs. Brick rubble never was part of the LA's remit, neither was greenwaste, they often used accepting of these wastes as a means to drag up the recycling figures.
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Some pictures of one I did last night: This is twigs freshly cut from a mulberry in the garden that's due for the chop. After about 30 minutes the flaming off of pyrolysis gases and vapours coming out of the can through the ash Cooled down by morning Finished product, you will note slight greying of some tips where some oxygen must have found its way past the loose ash into the can before it cooled as the gases in the void contracted.
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I agree and if it's got autosweep it is very important to set the recommended governed speed properly in order for it to chip smoothly as it encounters extra load.
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Must be the heizohack that had clutch like that then, memory playing up. I quite liked the flyback jockey wheel on thekwikchip, no chance of it working its way down as you drive along. Glad it has done well for you.
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Looks much the same as on the kwikchip? I have a spring sitting on my workbench somewhere for the jockey wheel. On another point, is there a way of telling what the standard of bellhousing bolt pattern is? I have a rebuilt 2.3 pug 504 engine which never got fitted because the gearbox failed, so was wondering about a stationary use for it.
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PWR Bioheat. How are these IDIOTS so cheap?
openspaceman replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
The difference from benefit fraud is one: it isn't unlawful and two: the sums gained are much larger. -
I've never bothered with this second bit as I had 4WD but: so a long wheelbase Kangoo, not being a car derived van, with rear seats and windows at side and back could well be a dual purpose vehicle as long as the seating area is more than a 33% of the total interior behind the steering wheel??
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Here are two scenarios from real life: A rep for a chipper company takes a trailer with a chipper on it to demonstrate to a customer within 100km of base, he spends 1.5 hours driving there, does 2 hour demo then returns to office for 1.5 hours. The next week the customer buys the vehicle delivered to his premises again within 100km of dealer First doesn't require a tacho second does. In practice the dealer was only prosecuted for a delivery over 100km from base. IIRC £200 fine and £1200 to fit tacho in Discovery. I never found out what brought the outfit to the attention of the authorities, it may have been another traffic offence but once stopped they start looking.
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It only applies to vehicles over 3500kg so: If carrying your own tools (plant for example) for your own use on site, and driving is not the main activity, within a radius of 100km of base and the vehicle plus any trailer exceeds 3500kg and has MAM less than 7500kg =no
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Use one of the old fashioned bean or soup tins from Aldi, Run the can opener 7/8 of way round and prise the lid open. Empty contents into food bowl for later, rinse container and stack willow twigs that are just shorter than inside, fold lid closed and bury lid end upside down in hot coals. Add logs around and wait.. You will first notice steam coming from below the ash and then a white offgas, which will ignite. Keep burn going until no further flames. Make sure lid is kept below ash as it cools.
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Yes easily done, I found the metal whisky bottle container worked well but a square biscuit tin upside down is fine. We used to make drawing charcoal from willow twigs this way using a baked bean tin upside down in the ash.
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What's not true? I'm just saying it seems to be illogical that a DPV up to 3500kg MAM should continue to only require a class 4 test when all other commercial vehicles over 3000kg require a class 7. I can see it being an issue if your local MOT station can only do class 4. I take your point about currently this would lead to a DPV having the wrong class of MOT but as the Class 7 MOT tests all the items a class 4 does and some more I cannot see an offence being committed by having a class 7 MOT. It no longer affects me but my LR110 had a class 7 test for a number of years despite being a DPV.
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I don't see it is a big problem in that we know the definition for DPV allows it to be treated as a car for speed limits. We also know a commercial vehicle with a MAM of over 3000kg requires a class 7 test. So the notice essentially says if the MAM on the VIN plate is more than 3000 then apply class7 MOT, if less then class 4. I wasn't happy to accept paying an extra £5 to test my LR 110 which was a DPV and had a MAM of 3050 but it wasn't worth arguing over. This now seems sensible to me without affecting anything else about the use of a DPV.
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Turkey
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I don't know in the OP's case but the pellet stoves had induced draught fans so choking the outlet would cause problems.
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That looks like it's a 6 or 8 inch flue? I'd say it could be fitted under the elbow and behind the stove but I would like it to be low down to reduce any chance of blowback (which seems highly unlikely as the issue appears to be too much draught). There's this picture on a US ebay site 6" Stove Pipe Draft Control Tee Damper Regulator B34TJ06 New | eBay Ours was a 4" one and TEEd into a 6" flue, I'm still in contact with my old boss but one and can get his advice about regulations if necessary. Which may give a better idea of how one might fit below your existing flue but you'd need to find a UK supplier and read the correct way to install.
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Much as I suggested in post 10, click on the link to see a generic picture, I do wish I had tagged my photos as I cannot find any of our actual installations of a draught control flap.
