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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What to replace burnt and stolen chippers with...?
openspaceman replied to benedmonds's topic in Large equipment
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. -
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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This is my worry, farmers depend on confidence there will be a sale for their produce, as do we all really, that confidence is not there and hedging on futures doesn't produce the confidence farmers need to plant now. Very little of the world's grain is traded as exports so it only require the loss of a little global production to have an effect
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Ash dieback effect on firewood quality
openspaceman replied to Welsh cleaning services's topic in Firewood forum
I cannot see that as not a member but I suspect I remember the younger because the mother seemed to own the farm. -
Yes the Kinnocks certainly played that EU system well. I was trying to show it was not only offshore companies, politicians, old money and royalty that manage to avoid what the man on PAYE has to pay but also owners of fairly small businesses too.
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Problem with next doors tree, advice required, thanks
openspaceman replied to Mrdave's topic in Trees and the Law
Yeah, missed that so not tree of heaven and far less to worry about -
Ash dieback effect on firewood quality
openspaceman replied to Welsh cleaning services's topic in Firewood forum
Ah the grant getter king, whatever happened to him? -
That 1 million is only if their dwelling is being past on, If there is cash that is treated differently and tends to attract 40% IHT. Toffs get round that by handing over ownership early and hoping to live a further 7 years. This is all insignificant compared with what company owners get away with, having company fuel cards and drawing a "pool" vehicle whilst owning a classic that is never driven, company has a portfolio of rental properties, including the one the CEO lives in and property services division employs gardeners, decorators and chauffeurs etc.
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Buying an ac coupled charger- battery setup and having it fitted (DNO approval required) will benefit them greatly then as they have no costs involved with the panels.
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Problem with next doors tree, advice required, thanks
openspaceman replied to Mrdave's topic in Trees and the Law
Leaves look a bit like Ailanthus altissima , terrible tree for spreading by suckers. If it is I'd trench down and fit a root barrier AND/OR suggest the neighbour removes it. If they do decide to remove kill it with round up now 10 weeks before felling -
I think that is what David would call an anamorph (the asexual form).
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My panels were fitted by an electrician who became MCS registered for my job, as far as I am aware he never fitted any more as when the FIT changed demand fell. He is now considering getting back in to the work but hasn't found the time to visit me and start on my new string of panels :-(
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Generally yes, the grid has to be live for the inverter to run, but I have not suffered an outage of more than minutes for over 20 years, attached house did for 10 hours last week as one phase was knocked out underground somewhere so they reconnected all those affected to another substation somehow. Most batteries seem to have an emergency power supply capability but I didn't go for that as the extra cost didn't seem justified. I do have a small generator and am still waiting for the electrician to fit a changeover switch, then I'll see if the output is good enough to keep the solar PV system live.
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Yes and frankly I don't mind if that means their profits go toward providing more renewables, I'm not that sanguine about new nuclear as I think the money would be better spent on conservation and renewables infrastructure. Currently gas is providing nearly 50% of our electricity with wind and nuclear at about 15% the rest being made up of solar (not easily measured but up to 12%), hydro and coal. As I have produced 100% of my electricity since mid March and expect to continue to do so till mid October I do not understand why it does not feature in more homes.
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I was only considering the cost of electricity and I was probably using a graphic from before the recent rises but here it is
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It was to do with the algorithm that Ofgem dreampt up for deciding the cap and now there is no competition in the domestic market all the companies have gone to the maximums allowed. The worrying thing is that the wholesale price of energy is the minor part of domestic bills. Worse still much of our energy is not related to the gas price, which has spurred all the increases. Government has taken a lurch to the right in the last two days and policy is now led by someone whose faith means that increases in pollution will be annulled as we return to a garden of Eden. I do not share that faith but will apologise to him when we meet at the pearly gates, anyone for tennis?
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money saving expert is punting a plusnet deal that ends tonight, £11/month for 18 months after an amazon cashback IIRC
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Yes it very much annoys me that standing charges have gone up. As a percentage of the bill it becomes worse for those that conserve their energy use. It particularly bugs me as it represents over 50% of my gas and electric utility bills but I'm looking at ways to reduce that.
