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An old thread but just saw a wannabe youtube millionaire set forth on this subject from 1minute 17 seconds in

This one?

Good lord what a scam

The way the bark is trying to flake off a plane, possibly oriental

Huh I didn't realise it wasn't and Irish company, still better than chinese

My take is that is an actionable nuisance so crack on, best of luck getting the costs off of the owner but you might just make a case for defraying some cost by selling the wood. I don't think so, felling licences were originally to stop trees which were a strategic reserve being prematurely felled, I'm not at all sure of the reasoning behind requiring a permission for dealing with windblow. Dunno but nothing to do with the gardener just between the forest authority and landowner. See above I guess the landowner could reasonably foresee they will fall on the neighbouring garden and thus he would become liable for damage and abating the nuisance.

What happened to Tillotson, I'd have been far happier buying the bits from Ireland. The thing is it works and I'll hardly ever use it so simply not worth fettling it.

Snot mine. This one was brought in for repair and only needed a ring but once running the young lady didn't want it back. It is by no means immaculate and the carb could do with overhaul as it is a problem to start from cold which I put down to poor pump diaphragm. Once running it's fine.

I know what you mean, when I first saw his little pelton I thought that's strange I thought impulse turbines were efficient at very high heads and below that you were better off with reaction devices, like francis turbines or even archimedes screws. What sort of flow and head do you have available, if any fish on the scene then archimedes screw seem to do least damage. The thing is at the single dwelling level apart from solar panels there's not much done. Now we're into spring my PV is producing quite nicely but I'd still like a small thermal electric device to make up for shortfalls . Micro hydro or wind are not possible here

It arrived safely this morning thanks Steven

I missed mine so much when he died I swore I would not have another dog, now thanks to my granddaughter I have two frenchies and the dalmation cross to look after depending on her shift pattern

Kris Harbour gets a lot o mentions and he is going into business making micro turbines Micro Hydro Shop | Kris Harbour WWW.KRISHARBOUR.CO.UK

Yes the world has changed, I picked up a new £1400 series 3 station wagon in 73 for the farm, I was given it in 80 and ran it till about 90 when it was given to an my employee at the time for offroading. It was slow, uncomfortable and thirsty and I wouldn't want it again, the 110 was a massive leap forward and I'd happily have that now over a Hilux or ranger but it was still uncomfortable.

Exactly but there must remain an opening for a basic utility vehicle without all the frills but with ABS, airbags,collision avoidance and other safety items.

That's as I see it but more eloquently laid out as becomes a professional report writer.

I just thought I'd revisit this; I have nothing against the idea of public schools anymore than going to a private dentist ( I went to state schools and only started with a private dentist in my forties, because NHS ones were not available), as has been said the parents of children at public schools also contribute to the state system. Cronyism being a by product of a public school system just shows we don't live in a meritocracy. What interests me is what rates do public schools pay and being a charitable trust does this reduce the rates?

That's what I thought as long as the tree owner has not been negligent e.g. the tree was sound before a strong wind blew it down. I have always considered the removal of bits of your tree trespassing onto a neighbour's land as a result being the tree owner's responsibility but not the damage, of course I am not a lawyer. This one I am dealing with roots lifted the fence panels belonging to next door, the top lodged in a birch in the garden meant the other fence was undamaged (thanks to a bit of lowering and the Eder winch) and I thought the repair to the fence after the root was ground out Would be down to the fence's owner but he is claiming £600 from my customer (3 bays of panels).

Maybe but: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193658120017 It's what I've been using since screwfix increased the price of oregon stuff by 50%

That certainly wouldn't meet building regulations for a solid fuel fire or stove, Basically the flue has to exit over the eaves of the top storey.

Which silver port? The oil looks like it's coming out of the correct hole and into the channel that matches up with the hole in the bar to me

I support your original contention that charity workers should be unpaid volunteers and while that site is several years out of date some of those institutions with top pay don't look like they deserve charity status to me. Does anyone have figures for staff salaries at: RSPCA, British Legion, Red Cross, DEC, etc. I might just not donate to charities with chief execs earning more than £100k/annum

So did I and had been considering adding evacuated tubes to a lean to roof that was too low for extra PV. Now I have decided to switch excess PV to an immersion during sunny days ( full sun even in February, only 2 days last month) means I have 4kWh to spare.

That's an interesting one, I know someone who has done just that for over thirty years now but it didn't meet building regulations then. In the old days a solid fuel back boiler could only be sited near enough directly below the feed and expansion tank and had to have a 1" pipe going directly up to it. The reason being if a pump failed and the stove was fully stoked up and blazing there needed to be a means of boiling water getting out . The trouble with piping in a boiler in place of a radiator (which is what I would have to do too) is if the pump failed would there be enough thermal convection to dissipate the heat? In my case no as we do not use any radiators upstairs, indeed we have not even has the lounge radiator on this year and that is the only one we use (I could run a pipe up in a high loop in the loft to over the F&E tank but the loop would have to be high enough to prevent pump over when the CH is running normally). Also radiators are balanced by variably restricting their outlets so that all achieve the same temperature when they are on, the backboiler would effectively look like a short circuit to the gas boiler. The regulations changed to allow pellet and chip stoked system on a pressurised system, this was allowed because there is only a small amount of woodchip or pellets in the combustion chamber at a time, so less chance of boiling but there also has to be a pressure relief venting in such a way no one can be scalded by it. Someone more up to date may be able to come up with a lawful work around, if so let me know and I might do the same.

Apart from the solar thermal panel in summer suggested can you fit a backboiler?

@Billhook what happened to Navitron and all those forums?