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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support your original contention that charity workers should be unpaid volunteers and while that site is several years out of date some of those institutions with top pay don't look like they deserve charity status to me.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?

I haven't got back to that because access got too wet but did get to deal with a hung up leylandii windblow, 30" through at base but the Jonsered 920 ripped through it, which is interesting as it wouldn't sell at £100. Homeowner had gone and bought a Titan (einhell) and just about wrecked it before he gave up. My 30 year old 262 and 38 yo 920 did the job fine. I even got some climbing in to the birch it was all hung up in but no LOLER inspectors present let alone two ropes😀

That's firewood price isn't it. When we cut chestnut coppice the art was in selecting out the right pieces from the tree to maximise production of rails, if a 10 ft length for cleaving at least 4 rails couldn't be had it was 6ft or 5ft 6" for stakes, smaller diameter stiff was for assortments of tree stakes. Specialist stuff like hop poles was dead in my area and the walking stick trade was sown up by the best coppice within a couple of miles of the factory (the shoot had to reach over 4 ft in its first season). So my thought is already randomly cut to length chestnut coppice is not the way to optimise value. Actually fairly small diameter chestnut coppice after you have lost the butt sweep mills well with little chance of shake.

Yeah. I'm very dependent on wood fuel I have self sourced so my domestic heating bill for gas has only been £13 so far this year (and I need to find a way of decreasing its use for DHW by using excess PV) so stopping wood burning would be a significant cost to me.

I'm dreading this problem, a lady three doors down has said to me she thinks woodburning stoves are bad so I'm careful not to emit smoke but the smell is a bit inevitable.

I'm sure it can be made to fit and in any case I need to modify some dogs for the Jonsered 920 (which was used on some leylandii windblow today, 25 years old and 30 inch through near the base) and it can be used on that if not the 2100.

That's a kind offer I'll PM you and send some money to a charity you designate or cancer research.

yes there's no question that a diesel engined tower light is better but if you only have a trolley and are tabbing in half a mile...

It must be six or seven years since I went on a night possession but by then we had progressed from a pair of 2kVA chinese gensets each with two cheap halogen stands from screwfix to battery flood lights like these

Oi!

I know nothing about this saw or its carb but it occurs to be that if the metering arm is low then the needle valve will not let fuel past, on older saws it was possible to depress the centre of the diaphragm through the hole to atmosphere. with this depressed and a clean gauze filter there is no obstruction between tank and purge bulb. Mind adw still doesn't think it is a carb problem.

Firstly that air is getting in somwhere around the purge bulb because there is no air in the line from the carb. Secondly if it is not sucking fuel into the carb are you sure you have not blocked the small hole between the metering diaphragm and the return nipple/pipe on the carb? The gasket may be upside down and 180 degrees out. Have you checked Spud's suggestion of the gauze filter between the pump and the inlet needle valve?

The hole is through the middle of the rubber AV, the bolt is there so I cannot understand how the catcher was missing but then it is 30+ years since I last used it and memory gets blurred. If you're thinking of dropping by then yes please else I'll just order one. PM sent earlier

Best shift this off Sean's question and on to its own topic