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Before I start dismantling things can anyone tell me if a Stihl 084 .404 bar will adapt to a Husky 2100 and oil holes match up. I have a bit of windblow to cut and the 084 is a bit heavy to lug around.

Not read the link but chances are the water comes from a chalk aquifer and has calcium bicarbonate in it.

Pervasive this chavspeak isn't it?

Actually thanks to @Craig Johnson I checked my direct debits today; it looks like I pay £43/month for 10 months of the year. Now that means it costs me more than my electricity of gas. As I heat with wood and produce my own electricity it looks like it makes sense to use my own water. It's a small house, no water meter, discharge surface water to soakaway but on mains drainage. The interesting thing is if I have a meter fitted and use well water for toilet flushing my drainage charge will go down too. I'm not sure whether it would be worth filtering the well water and using it for domestic hot water and showers.

I would think so, what rating for the winch motor and what output from the alternator? If you know that you can have a stab at how much the winch will draw from the battery and how much the alternator can recharge.

Me too, I admire him for his achievements but couldn't watch much of the program. I was surprised he was so inept with a saw. The couple came across okay by me so good luck to them with clearing up after the storm. After all these years I cannot understand why people are still dicking about with trying to make a living with ring kilns.

WMD? Actually I have just seen a study of 20 households in Sheffield using wood burning stoves and the amount of particulates released indoors. It fits with what I have measured especially how the room was "flooded" with particulates when logs were added. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/12/1326/htm So to mitigate this the door should be opened slowly, allow the fire to burn down to coals before reloading (though this will add to smoke emitted until a flame develops), add logs infrequently. I run my stove 16 hours a day most winter so the average usage in the report is only a quarter of that.

The story is the money was used to build a new church in another part of town which at the time was the biggest greenfield housing development in europe. You can see that while most landowners will not want to devalue a piece of land by making it available for the public in perpetuity there are instances where this is the case and the protection a designation of village green offers means this is the way to do it. The corollary is that every encouragement should be given to landowners wishing to give a temporary or limited access to land over which no public rights exist and being able to lodge a document recognised as such with the HA is a protection for the landowner.

I wonder what the source and date was?

I like the blockwork and haha

Technically you should apply for a Traffic Regulation Order but that costs money so as long as the diversion is temporary and not inconvenient...

Our church field was donated to the church by a local landowner, for the benefit of the villagers, she neglected to protect it as a village green. When the chapel was demolished the church sold off the lot for development and 8 posh houses stand there now.

This saves the bother https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267383/pb14043-ca16-form-guidance.pdf

There are some changes to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and something in a new policing and sentencing act. The effect is to make protests a criminal act on private land (consider the Kinder Scout trespass that led to the public being able to access the hills would now become criminal. The thing is some of these areas which people are buying up can support public access without causing the owners who are often absent any problems. Not that I think England can support a right to roam as in Scotland and indeed I did not support the CRoW act where IMO it impinged on different rare habitats. Now ostensibly one part of the act is to criminalise setting up encampments with vehicles, the side effect will be to criminalise kipping in your car. The driver is businesses that have bought into big office developments and shopping malls with their own security, because these were often built alongside public squares and roads but the land was transferred and rights extinguished, so when you walk by them you are now walking permissively. The upshot is it will control protests and the police will not have any more resource to deal with travelers but private companies will be able to evict protesters. In other threads comments have been made on how Covid has increased the control the government has on the population and I think this is mostly to do with the demands of the kingmakers, the holders of assets, to restrict the general public and has become worse as assets have come under control of the super wealthy.

That's an entirely different matter and if you are one of those people that believe putting notices up deters thieves you are the one with the problem. I was giving you advice on managing a permissive right of way horse to water etc.

Well you miss my point in that lodging a letter with the HA that you are not dedicating a path for public use protects the land from a claim that a permissive path is a PRoW. Anyway the fact that trespass is currently a civil offence (and injunctions can be had in the civil court to abate a nuisance from individuals) means that a blocked PRoW can be circumnavigated and is a good thing IMO even though this is slated to be changed in the new police act.

You should also lodge a statement with the highway authority that you do not dedicate the path for public use and renew it every few years.

I'm not at all familiar with where you are discussing but we have plenty of residential roads where cars park on the footway either side of the road here and completely block it for pedestrians. In such circumstances where there is little pedestrian traffic it makes more sense to be to do away with sidewalks, allow parking on either side and give pedestrians priority on the road which then is often only 12ft wide.

Bob in our area OSS, Ramblers nor I object to routes that take PRoWs away from yards. In fact one such diversion has been confirmed only 400 yards from my home. The highway Authority do require costs to be borne by the person making the application and often owners are unwilling to pay this unless (as in the case above where the owner wanted to build a barn and manege) there is a development benefit. The diversion has to offer the public the same or better amenity as the existing route. In the above case the owner wanted the path enclosed by fences and agreed a 10 ft width, no barbed wire and no obstruction by gate or stile from the public road up until a track which livestock could use. Even then there are problems for walkers in that the enclosed path then becomes the responsibility for the HA to maintain, and they don't, again in the instance above the owner, a local developer, has orally agreed to mow the path, it cannot be a formal agreement as the HA taking the responsibility is part of the legislation for when paths are enclosed.

He was wrong too

I guess it does not have wifi then, just an ethernet connector but that doesn't matter as we very seldom watch it.

I still haven't figured out how to do that

Lithium phosphate, warranted for 7 years so may still be working after that. My main problem is I use too much electricity for cooking otherwise I would be self sufficient most days at this time of year. Economics don't look too good in the absence of very cheap offpeak power, at the time I ordered my battery I could have a 5p off peak tariff and a 16:00 to 20:00 high tariff of 30p but this is not offered now. At current rates my total solar PV and battery installation is available for £8k and generates 3MW/annum. IF I utilise all that at current rates of 28p/kWh that saves £840 but the investment is a wasting asset and only time will tell if it would be worthwhile doing now.

A bit like why I got my home battery except aprt from Octopus no one seems to be offering a decent offpeak rate unless you own an EV car charger at the moment otherwise I could top up ,y battery after midnght and never need to draw at the peak rate.

Both of which are extended all the time soil temperature is high. I think I am seeing this with gorse as well whereas deciduous trees can only grow when in leaf