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  1. openspaceman
    I'm still hoping for some input from those truly off grid and having generators to pop by with some experiences and costs on that thread, I'll be thinking of @Baldbloke's 20kW and 50 MWh annual production to compare with my £10k panels and battery when I revisit some of @agg221's points
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    "Section 34(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA 1988) provides that anyone driving a mechanically propelled vehicle, for example a motor car, on a road that is a footpath, bridleway or restricted byway is guilty of an offence unless it can be shown that there is a private right in place for people to use the accessway to gain vehicular access to their property."
  3. openspaceman
    It wouldn't be an easement but a prescriptive right. A prescriptive right cannot be gained by a criminal act, see Hanning v Topdeck, except by a limited special case. This chap has just bought the house and the previous occupant seems only to have enjoyed a pedestrian access.
  4. openspaceman
    I was just musing that the wear course could be reinforced such that the lower layers need not be disturbed and then the risk would be to the vehicle bumping up the kerb but the LA or HA would have to sanction the access, which seems unlikely. I was aware of that hence the caveat that it would have to be approved.
  5. openspaceman
    Can the council give permission to cross the footway without a dropped kerb?
  6. openspaceman
    Looks like @MDMTREE came to post query then went without seeing replies
  7. openspaceman
    This thread dates from before I joined, @bobh did an excellent photo step by step explanation of removing and refitting the IPTO clutch. Some contributions from past members at least one of whom is no longer alive.
  8. openspaceman
    Would you give a ball park figure for installed capacity and production?
  9. openspaceman
    not PUWER compliant but you would only need to fix the plates in the IPTO clutch pack together but it may be just that the clutch pack isn't being energised. The linkage pump has a small gear pump in tandem with it, this small pump activates the IPTO clutch when the PTO lever is moved, it simply blocks the dump to tank with a ball bearing, so all the flow goes to squeezing the plates together.
  10. openspaceman
    Whereas if you take the heat pump subsidy you cannot have a gas supply.
  11. openspaceman
    It doesn't surprise me as his are niche high added value projects and your 100 tonnes gets you into the realms of industrial wood.
  12. openspaceman
    Strangely he doesn't mention the Interpretation Bill "in which ministers will strike out findings from judicial reviews the government did not agree with" nor the bits of the police bill that make trespass criminal acts which will inhibit the right to divert around an obstruction on a PRoW. I think he's got it right about the PM not being a bumbling idiot but taking us for a ride, we can see that from the cronyism that has run unchecked. The ghost of Pastor Martin Niemöller should show us that it is not impossible for this to happen in our cosy little world.
  13. openspaceman
    Maybe the van delivered the chipper and then fetched the trailer to a convenient spot. It worked.
  14. openspaceman
    I understand that and bye-laws may be different elsewhere but in my street with only houses on one side many of the parking laws are ignored, such as not facing the correct way at night and parking opposite the splay of a joining road, all without penatly AFAIK, and yes visitors to my house do park at my dropped kerb if no other spaces available.
  15. openspaceman
    The highway code only specifies " where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles" And also "in front of an entrance to a property" In practice parking on your own dropped kerb is not enforced unless there are other restrictions. Parking in front of someone else's dropped kerb would soon result in them calling the police to remove the obstruction.
  16. openspaceman
    What about the college mate of PM 's that got appointed to head the charity commission and clamp down on "woke" charities without formal job vetting procedures. Mind the charity business needs a thorough looking at; most don't realise the self serving , highly paid staff who get away with excesses because there is no adequate regulation.
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    Laptop .

    openspaceman replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    Same firm I used, my wife still uses the one I bought 4 years ago and I presented my very eccentric primary school friend with a £200 one in September. He made the mistake of telling me he couldn't manage anything other than Windows but how I wish I had loaded it with Linux as he tips up here once a month near bedtime and starts downloading 2 hours of updates.
  18. openspaceman
    Yes that is a bit limiting, John McDermott (spelling?) and his son are the only ones I know still operate an 8 wheeler in that area, it puts north wales and norfolk out of reach. William Stafford is the area buyer for Euroforest. An afterthought; I think Tom Bitchener's widow may still run Commercial Woodlands Ltd at Bordon. I knew Tom from a long way back and liked him. @ESS was still in the game but not seen him post for a while
  19. openspaceman
    with a load of chip being 25 tonnes and any bars probably the same even though you could use an 18 tonne 8 wheeler for sawlogs you'll be pushed to make full loads. Maybe settle for one load of logs and the rest to kronospan.
  20. openspaceman
    One of the mahonias?
  21. openspaceman

    Laptop .

    openspaceman replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    Yes for top of the range I'm told. I have only recently bought refurbished laptops as gifts for £200 because I'm tight.
  22. openspaceman

    Laptop .

    openspaceman replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    I couldn'y agree more for my personal use and stick Linux Mint 20 on it to cut the constant updates from Microsoft but a young girl would prefer the £2500k Macbook pro.
  23. openspaceman
    We sent pine sawlogs to Giddings at Southampton, now part of BSW, and Ellis Sawmill, Helvingham Norfolk but a one off would probably best be sold through Euroforest (spit). East bros took larger sizes if they are still in business.
  24. openspaceman
    I suspect too long to consider. Chop it small and use it, as long as you can keep the firebox temperature up (around 800C) it can burn cleanly but you will need more excess air so a loss in efficiency. I have some cedar logs which had not been split from rounds and last month I split some out and measured the faces at 45% near the bark and 35% near the centre heartwood. Those surfaces are now 10% less but that says little about the insides. A month in the summer at the top of a stack would have got the whole log down to 15%.
  25. openspaceman
    This is true plus you may park across your own dropped kerb and still deny this to others

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