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  1. openspaceman
    Yes and this is the sort of disagreement that can escalate into a neighbour feud so just accept that your branches have trespassed onto their property, try and negotiate a reasonable prune but if the shape of the tree is ruined then remove it. Has anyone got that picture of a front garden in suburbia where just this happened? Found it
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    Good to see the stickers flush with the ends of the boards too.
  3. openspaceman
    Generally elastic is deprecated for winching as it stores energy in the stretch, then if something it is attached to gives way it gets propelled by turning all that stored energy into kinetic energy.
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    That was my first thought too, not sure as it looks a bit big.
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    If he's keeping the oil boiler then a buffer tank isn't that necessary especially if he opts for under floor heating as the time constant on that will soak up fluctuations. Also have a look at the irish heat hero system which seems to offer a lot more functionality than shared headers (like the dunsley neutraliser) and enables a larger pump to get the heat out of a wood boiler/stove, it sounds good but I have no experience of it.
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    Me as long as it is cheap
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    I cannot help with ID but you could buy a piece of vermiculite sheet and using the old baffle somewhat as a template cut a bit to size. You will need to be more careful loading logs as it is more fragile but will not burn like your baffle has.
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    I have a couple but for keeping an edge not much betters the old Brades or Elwell hooks. My guess would be a TCT circular saw blade has the best output for least power and longevity between sharpens.
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    Cost compared with windrowing? 15 years ago I was regularly burning 300 litres of gasoil a day in either the Ahwi or Plaisance. On development sites we used a 360 to dig and clean stumps into a windrow, mulched that and it was stored on site and eventually then mixed with topsoil from the site and used in landscaping, I doubt a woodland replant could afford the luxury.
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    As @neiln says there is not much soot layer there to sustain a fire but it looks like a wide chimney so the flue gases will slow down a lot and cool quickly. A flexible liner prevents this and when installed properly and sealed from the house with a register plate reduces the risk of gasses percolating through poor brickwork. Whatever you decide do use a CO alarm.
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    As the stumps are probably waste then yes as burying or landfill of waste has been unlawful for nigh on 20 years now. However there are certain exemptions or permits available from EA for numerous activities but I'm well out of the loop now . The forestry commission dug and windrowed corsican stumps in Thetford because of fomes risk
  12. openspaceman
    Agreed not to rotavate because of risk of smearing and further compaction. Subsoil maybe and then chemical screefing for the planting pits, done now.
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    Yes and we can't have labour and SNP anyway.
  14. openspaceman
    So does twisting the handle throw a rod up and another down?
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    they have got two years to cash in before the next election
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    You will need someone better at accountancy than I but 5% of gross sales verses 20% of inputs suggests it is better to stay registered if your inputs are more than a fifth of your sales, aside from the current value of your assets, and if you never have outputs chargeable at 20% to private clients.
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    Mind if all your outputs are 5% VAT there is less advantage
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    may be worth deregistering then as the value of kit you have left on the books will be well written down and that value is what you will have to pay 20% on.
  19. openspaceman
    That doesn't show much. From the look of the mechanism turning the handle should throw bolts top and bottom. Easy enough fix for anyone with a bent to engineering. You should say approximately where you are in case there is a competent soul nearby on the forum
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    In the absence of an in focus close up of an individual leaf and from the fruits and paler green colour I would have said norway maple
  21. openspaceman
    I never missed a show up till about 2000 but I think I only noticed one gasifier and generator, it was supposed to be running a converted 6D engine but from the tarry water running from various joints it looked like they failed to get the temperature up. For gasification it needs to sit between 100-800C and that needs very dry wood, which is one reason most of the modern ones run on pellets.
  22. openspaceman
    Yes even though as @Stubby says ash does tend to gum up the chain it looks to me basically sharp but the chain is tight from lack of lubrication, hence friction and heating up.
  23. openspaceman
    Because the power for the charging comes from your vehicle alternator and that in combination with the engine and inverter conversion efficiencies are not as efficient as the grid electricity and a charger. Also DERV or petrol is highly taxed compared with the grid. Okay it is a small amount of extra power from your engine but it is more. A test would be to listen to an idling engine as you switch the charger on.
  24. openspaceman
    Sorry to hear and also sickened by the vandalism on top of the theft. I cannot imagine the sort of person that does such things and hope you cope with replacing the equipment.
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    openspaceman replied to eggsarascal's topic in The Lounge

    My earliest memory is my mum buying a coronation pencil for my sister and I, in a pram together, from a one legged man who was leaning on the dairy wall at the end of the road, I was two. She held it all together till the end.

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