openspaceman

Yes the party wall act would need to be considered.

I would say those six little patches of grey could well still be aluminium pick up. Can you smear some oven cleaning gel over them with a cotton bud and see if it turns white? I use Oven Mate | Oven Cleaners & Cleaning Equipment WWW.LAKELAND.CO.UK Shop our range of Oven Mate cleaners & cleaning equipment. Powerful formulas leave ovens, microwaves & hobs looking... and just do it repeatedly until it stays clear.

While @spuddog0507looks you may like to peruse https://cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/1975/03/fcbk039.pdf I think table 66 will give you much of what you are looking for

In the days before tachos and licences were good for 7.5 tonnes the limit was 35cwt unladen weight for car mot test and light goods tax, you could just about get under this with a dropside and single wheels as long as it had a petrol engine. I suspect the next size up was 3 tonnes unladen but I never had one. So until diesels became ubiquitous you could just about carry 2 tonne legally before needing an O licence.

I think you have it, a single skin would normally rise up to 400mm vertically then the adapter to the twin wall. It looks like the bespoke wall/register plate dictates the angle and possibly they have moved the stove a bit further away from the wall as a result.

As well as my own I did list two items stolen from the firm I was working for at the time but the owner did not give me permission t list all the assets, there were hundreds and it would have taken a lot of time.

Yes but I think it is the act of crushing the leaves which produces it, which is why I wouldn't shovel chipped laurel in an enclosed space. Cyanide is highly reactive so I doubt it would survive a fire. Yew contains an alkaloid poison, smoke from putting fresh foliage on a fire and inhaling is supposed to contain the poison. I doubt it but avoiding dense smoke is sensible anyway. Forty years ago an NT forest worker was tasked with burning yew clippings and took ill, he never worked again and was subsequently evicted from his tied cottage, I never got to know the reasons for this.

All of us that benefited from the science and technology that has developed in the last 100 years That is the function of business in a capitalist society, not that I agree with it it is just the way it is Happy new year you true blue but pinko socialist 🙂

I think you are right about the 545 it is a nice saw, the 550 is more revvy and powerful and probably won't last as long but would pay for itself in extra production in old school forestry

I have several items on the database, including two that were stolen from the old firm in 2017. I also have a couple of pieces of Stihl equipment that were marked and micro dotted as part of a Stihl trial with the cesar plant database. I see now you can buy a bulk registration, get q code transfers, microdot paint and rfid tags for small equipment for about 15 quid a saw. According to cesar the biggest deterrent is painting the kit non standard and the problem police have is identifying stolen equipment and returning it to the owner if the serial number has been removed. In which case they have to return it to known thieves. No matter how convincing the reason given for a serial number to be missing 90% of the time the machine will have been stolen.

Not much point heating it and having nowhere to let the moist air out and those bricks don't look like they will pass much air. Say you have a stack of about 1.5m3 of small split sitka, that will need to lose 500kg of water. In summer at about 20C and RH of 50% each m3 of air will pick up around 10 grams of water until saturated at RH 100%, so 50,000 m3 of air would need to pass through the stack and leave it saturated and I cannot see that happening.

Well ambient summer air has easily enough moisture capacity to do it so getting it past the logs is the only problem. Black chimney attached to the 6 X 2 openings??

You need to read the DTC codes. I know nothing about ivecos but I did block a 2003 ford focus egr with a £1 coin successfully and that had no pressure sensors. I thought only later engines with DPFs needed to emulate the pressure signal and would suspect there is a fault with another sensor.

Yes and yes If we are still talking fresh felled sitka then it will half its weight as it loses moisture from 60% to 20% best for burning. All that water has to be carried away by airflow so as Dan says the garage will need openings at both ends all summer at the least.

Yes and we agree about that, this russian atrocity has just proven that we can never be one big happy family and should have certain strategic industries that remain free of foreign control. Bearing in mind the french government totally own the company in charge of building new nuclear power stations here and their pettiness over brexit and launching rubber boats here.

non sequitur but at least you didn't bring the curse into it, apart from that we of course differ. My gripe with all this RE is that we let the bankers decide, albeit indirectly, that we didn't do it ourselves.

I have no idea who decides, it will probably be an AI algoritm, not so much to switch it off but more to delay which households, on which phase, from the substation can start charging or heating. The aim is to spread the instantaneous load such that everyone gets the same time to charge or heat in the off peak period. With wind, as at 19:45 26/12/22, providing half of UK electricity, 16GW worth, followed by nuclear from here and France doing 25% and gas gently providing 2.3GW it may well be that the wind generators will need to be curtailed tonight when the demand drops and this unpredictability is the reason for wanting to shift loads to off peak periods. Plus of course the grid and distribution network has to cope too.

It can definitely be turned off remotely but I have not hear anyone it has happened to yet.

I wonder if that is just a remote reader, like we have on water meters and unlike the cellphone sim based transmitters smart electricity meters use here. I believe from what has been said on another forum that the French have less tolerance of homes drawing more than the amount of electricity the system allots for them and cuts off if it is exceeded at the consumer unit, requiring a visit to reset it. Our system allow for diversity and should allow any house to draw 15kW but not if everyone does so at the same time. With electricity demand for car charging, heat pumps and electric cooking set to increase this is why having smart meters that can stagger these overnight loads will be necessary.

There is no difference unless one chooses to go on one of the tariffs which charge different rates depending on time of use except they could disconnect you in theory. I expect they hold a bit of your money as credit then?

Similarly @Macpherson I avoid a lot of the new tech because it is controlling and invasive. I do have an exception in that my battery is managed from china but that was a mistake on my part not researching things well. I think the techies that develop the smart grid are probably in there for the right reasons (getting the most out of a renewables dominated power supply) but it becomes a bonanza for the politicians if they get to control it.

Glad to hear he is still at it, I missed hearing from him.

The Highways ones were but none available in Surrey or Sussex now. Similarly the local authority ones were available for a small fee to weigh loads and would often be free for a check weigh but all closed near me now. I tended to check weigh at a local metal dealer or tip as a free favour.

Beautiful. I've not seen or hear one since a holiday in N Wales 5 years back

I simply don't know, we got hooked on capitalism as it is the economic system that depends on expanding markets and exploiting all the available economic resources. It out competed all previous economic systems and has concentrated far more wealth on a small number of people that even the most despotic medieval despot couldn't even dream of. The principal of the polluter should pay would work except most of the super rich have such a different philosophy of life and have big dreams that cannot be contained on one planet. It didn't matter a hundred years ago that an open system was unsustainable as the world was big and the population 2 billion, now we have immensely more ability to exploit and pollute and there is no total consensus that we should abate the problem. Even if there were then there would be plenty enough people to conspire against a solution in just the same way there are always fraudsters, litter louts, thieves, war mongers and rabid right wingers to disrupt society now. on that note merry Xmas to you all