openspaceman
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If that £50 day rate was also from 1995 he would need to be asking £115 now and that is likely to rise steeply here on in. -
Yes this is my understanding also. I should push for it but wanted to install a plastic pipe in place of the iron one currently and just haven't prioritised it, which is silly as my annual water bill is higher than my gas or electricity bills singly. I have tested my well and it passed on all counts so given an electric pump and filter I could use that for bathing, flushing, DHW etc. and just keep the cold water main for cooking and drinking. There is some resistance to bathing in it from the other occupant. Anyway I was asking Dave about how the water rate was managed if it is paid within the general rate when unmetered but then how is it paid if metered? I pay Affinity for my water and they reimburse Thames Water for the sewerage charge even though I am unmetered.
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How does that work with a meter then? My water unmetered charge (includes waste as the bigger portion) is £400/annum. If I had a meter it would be about £150/annum, but priority for meter fitting is to people moving in to unmetered properties so they are not rushing to fit one.
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I never used a guide but more recently with the 5/32 files and down I do as they snap too easily unsupported. I'm not so good now, mostly lack of practice, but like @Stubby used to touch up frequently, it was amazing how sensitive you became to a slightly dull saw when production cutting. I copied the other guys back then but never see people doing it my way nowadays. I straddle the saw with the bar slightly tipped up clear of the ground for left hand cutters and then rest the saw at 40 odd degrees across my thigh to the right hand set.
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Magic stuff, far stronger than welding or brazing, dumbbell inserts on mine were nickel I think, back then I paid about £10/inch but the firms seem to have disappeared now. Yes and replace the fluorescent tube with an LED one.
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non sequitur or what's that got to do with the price of fish
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80% of the atmosphere is nitrogen, nitrogenous fertiliser is in the form of nitrates (nitrogen and oxygen compounds of ammonia being a major one), if this is applied badly the nitrates end up in the water supply instead of in the growing plant. IC engines produce oxides of nitrogen when the combustion temperature is high, diesels produce more because of the excess oxygen used and the higher pressure, the nitrogen oxide emissions become nitrates as they fall to earth as rain or in combination with other emissions and also leach through to the water courses. Adblue and the exhaust catalyst turn these nitrogen oxides back to nitrogen.
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
openspaceman replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Dyer's mazegill beneath one dead mature scots pine and an apparently healthy one. Many of the pines have historically suffered from wildfire.
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Yes but they lined dew ponds and clay by puddling it but I thought any clay subsoil did the job. I worked at a clay pit at Ewhurst and it was just ordinary clay which was pug milled smooth and formed into tiles and the gloopy stuff out of the pugmill would have made an impermeable lining.
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What's special about puddling clay? There are quite a few brickworks around Horsham that may do a deal.
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Looking back at the pictures I should have noticed that from the wear ring showing on it. I suspect there is also an element of springiness used properly, like a bellville washer.
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Low Impact Forestry Ltd, covering North Yorkshire and the North East
openspaceman replied to IronMike's topic in General chat
This is often because timing is bad. One of the things with modern kit is that it has to work every day come wind or rain. We often would park the tractor forwarder up from autumn to May. -
I think you are right and it is a tapered lock, just not the sort I am used to. @aspenarb will know I expect but it looks like the holes that were not used to bolt it together may be the ones you use to drive the parts apart.
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Also I remember a sewage utility, possibly yorkshire water, invested in the ARBRE short rotation willow crop as it was a non food crop that could lap up lots of slurry.
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Now you ask that I must say that I haven't noticed it being done locally for a while but back a while it was done on fields I walked by that were contract growing maize for a digester so not for human consumption. Those fields are the ones I got my rye from. I am also aware that over time the heavy metal build up from sewage got high enough that they had to stop on some fields. A local bloke cornered the market for spreading this by purchasing some big tankers (Agilators??) with massive flotation tyres and they pulled subsoilers down which the slurry was injected. He got too cocksure that he would get the contract for another five years so increased his tender. Next I saw was a standard large tractor pulling the subsoiler and a large bore plastic pipe down which the slurry was pumped out of a large static tank with a stationary diesel pump.
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Yes I believe so, more associated with racing pigeon sheds which aren't cleaned.
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Long time since you posted this but psittacosis is the disease pigeon people get from being exposed to their crap.
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Torx bit for an impact driver works if you get the hole the appropriate size but not if the broken bolt is held in by corrosion, like steel in aluminium, I generally have to drill those out.
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Yes the one wrongly ordered but suitable for the 550mk1 was about £100, the mk2 older part 582 77 74 01 is a quid cheaper and the current part 582 77 74 04 is listed at just over £50 with VAT so be warned there will be dealers with the more expensive part in stock.
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It was only the driver's side and the switch was in the door panel IIRC it was a while ago.
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Had this on a vauxhall car and it was the wire had broken inside the insulation near the hinge.
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Yup going OT but Aspen is only three times the price of petrol now which surprised be
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Electric vehicle solar charging - anyone doing this?
openspaceman replied to Squaredy's topic in The Lounge
Yes demand is sky high and prices are going that way too. Take a look at the camelot-forum.co.uk I am on there with the same username fumbling around trying to decide what I can do next. I am planning to add a few panels just to decrease my grid dependence a few days into what the forum refers to as the "shoulder" months of november and february when solar pv production drops off. -
That tone of language ends the discussion for me mate
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I'll PM you this evening, thanks
