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I never got beyond a short bit of string but my banks were very short. In principle you could use two ropes, one round a fixed peg , as a pivot, and then the mower. The other one side on to pull it in an arc.Gradually increasing the length of the first rope to eventually cover a quadrant, then move on.

I wonder if the reason many of these grassland fires have taken off down here is that the savings on mowing have dictated not cutting and as the grass goes over the top and the leaves and stems are left dead standing. Anyway I have pulled the one I have here out of the shed, put fuel in and it fired after 3 pulls but then took a while to settle down without any choke, I'll upload a video. This is the younger but more used one and last used about 5 years ago just to try it. It will soon need a new blade. Transport may be an issue for a while as it's not worth the cost of any of the pallet couriers but in the absence of any other suggestions I may have a plan...

I guess I came across quite a few buyers, two that were involved in the milling died from throat cancer, my felling partner is in remission from nasal cancer which his surgeon said was likely caused by 2t emissions. Till then I thought the risk was only from sanding exotic timbers.

I'll drag one out and start it, I only had crap in the carb problems. Not really used them as after 87 I had to change from general estate work to harvesting.

You need to specify length and top diameter and quality, you may need hand cut if bark needs to be intact. Also a location may be handy. Your best bet would be a harvesting company, try to find your local Euroforest manager.

This is true but living on the state portion doesn't afford much luxury

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Yes they don't do very well on long grass if you are swinging them off a rope, they will still be quicker than an electric mower. I still have a couple of these, working and actually little used if @drinksloe would like one but I doubt spares are available.

Yeah. Many scams depend on the co-operation of one person on either side of the transaction, delivery driver and person in charge of receiving delivery, don't ask me how I know.

Same drill, some corks and amcide cheaper still and no plastic.

I wonder; I manage to heat about 50 litres and charge a the battery most days since April and if the hot water runs low I boil 2 litres for washing up in a kettle yet we are still exporting half our production on sunny days. That's a cracking price for the installation.

I have a homeowner scaffold tower which I used to wash them 3 years ago for the first time and I will do so again, the dirt was mostly bird shit and algae

I expect most of us who were self employed contractors came across this where we were not able to tender because we were not on a council list but all the contractors that were just complied with the paperwork and subbed the work out. Indeed I ended up working seven years for such a company and was flabbergasted at the pricing because of the overhead the office staff caused. Yes there was little to no pride in the job, the gangmasters we used just took the money and did the least they could get away with.

Well that's a myth and mine at 10 years are producing about the same, 3MWh per annum and that's with a WSW aspect which is far from ideal, mind I never considered them 20 years ago and sure as hell didn't have the money to invest then as I was spending it all on tractors.

Plenty but none quite as optimistic as that.

Yes I don't know what the effect on selling a house equipped with solar PV and battery will have on the price. In my case I have been here 43 years and unlikely to move except into a care home and that won't be for long. Of course the two are not mutually exclusive and I have both solar panels and I burn wood, as my house is small I only average about 6-7kWh of electricity per day and the shortfall during the winter is only 450kWh. I only wish I could store the excess that I have in summer to use in winter. In fact doubling my array and increasing battery capacity somewhat would make me self sufficient but I think I am on the right cost-performance part of the curve as it is. Although my wood is all free it does require a fair amount of labour and if I valued that at £10/hour... I don't want to appear too evangelistic about either just putting my case. @Billhook feels he disagrees about the solar PV but does burn wood, I have easily paid back my investment in solar PV in ten years (except starting now there are no subsidies so it has to stand up by itself) but didn't have roof space for solar thermal and felt the PV at around 15% conversion of incident sunlight to electricity offered far more utility as I only needed about 60 quids worth of hot water a year and the sun would only provide in the summer months.

This is the crux, it is unlikely to be worth doing on borrowed money.

Well I have to say that although we have a quote for £13500 for a 5kW array and 10kWh battery as the survey has still to take place there could still be a price hike. 2 years ago I reckoned a 4kW system and 6kWh battery could be had for £8k so yes much more than back then but with a likely 84% grid independence and an annual usage of 5000kWh there is still a saving of £1260 at 30p/kWh and that rises to £1848 at 40p/kWh. In her case it is likely even better as she has an EV to soak up excess solar power.

You are right but we're still getting reasonable quotes for a system for my daughter, for installation after October. Prices of many things are rising mainly because UK's performance has been bad in the last two years and the pound has fallen against the dollar a lot. With inflation biting it's probably better to spend the money now before inflation really bites.

No longer licensed for the purpose but ammonium sulfamate

...and again in Jan 23 it seems. 44p/kWh predicted for electricity and 14p for gas. It will have a minimal effect on me as my electricity bill will still be around £200+ standing charges and gas is only used for hot water but at these prices solar PV and a battery is a no brainer if you have an unshaded southish facing roof.

That is two or three species of lichen, it just denotes fairly clean air in your area as they don't survive pollution. Nothing to do with whatever is affecting the tree.

I lost my first reply which was long so I'll do a short one; It's strange that we first cleft planks from the round and now saw a rectangular cant and flip it in order to reproduce the cleft shape. Wouldn't it be logical to half a round log then dog one sector and index it through the saw?

Possibly but you cannot afford to mess with Lion batteries in case the BMS has been damaged, once they over heat they release their stored electrical energy as a fire which you cannot easily extinguish, all you can do is cool it down.

Yes on a big JD, badly plumbed in as the oil overheated.