openspaceman
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That will be to give a her a good golden handshake so she was willing to go.
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It may be tiny now but...
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Sunday Noise Abatement Laws England
openspaceman replied to hesslemount's topic in Trees and the Law
Yes it's best to have a bit of quiet and Sunday is my day, I won't start any machine except for transport at home, so I agree with @Mick Dempsey and @lux though we do working parties at a remote wood on Sundays but are generally drowned out by traffic noise. Railway work there was no choice. -
That was my excuse too, when I did get guilty about it and tried to donate I was rejected because of my age.
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That's extremely cautious, I agree it's best not to stray into the carnage @spuddog0507 portrays but cannot see a reason not to tackle some windblown and learn, I don't think the qualifications existed when I tackled the bulk of my windblown experience in 1987 or 1991.
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The point being that the new cost has nothing to do with it, it's the return to the thief that's the only consideration. The tinwork, running gear etc. can all be weighted in hidden in the boot of a scrap car and starters, engines, batteries and alternators either sold or weighed in separately. The flywheel and chassis are then unidentifiable heavy iron, if the thief gets 400quid it's enough for them. The two thefts from my old firm that I dealt with were both found whole, one in an estate car park waiting to see if the tracker was working and the other after it had been sold on a couple of times to a firm of arborists.
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It was a heads up so I will be wary in future cooking as a search shows a few studies.
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are you referring to turmeric, if so why not if you are on blood thinners? I am in the habit of using it generously in curries.
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Interesting read but I doubt the losses are quite as bad as they suggest, anyway I still liked the device to convert a bike and though I doubt I'll ever do it (little space for an indoor bike) it's a bit of fun and puts into perspective our dependence on energy sources.
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Also less stressful to the clothes
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I've picked up several of those green plastic 5ltr containers and while they look the same the threads feel slightly different. Adblue spouts are too small
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Right I'll clean out the feeders but I haven't seen anything other than tits robins, doves and goldfinches this year, I knew loss of house sparrows was due to disease but put loss of finches down to more secure grain stores and loss of over wintered stubble as farmers went straight into winter wheat after harvest. Not to mention rooks, magpies and starlings
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When I helped out at the energy cafe a bloke brought two ordinary bikes there and sat the back wheels on rollers each attached to the motors from 24V electric scooters. A relay of pairs of legs kept the sound system going (which I didn't see as I went home to bed). I wish I had one at home now as the free electricity may incentivise me to take the exercise.
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Yes I think one of the abies but which one I cannot tell without smelling crushed foliage, the spray doesn't seem flat enough for grandis.
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In the 70s we were felling loads of post pole stage elms that had been standing dead and covered in ivy on the dairy farm where I helped out. We'd drop them into the field and the cattle would eat off the ivy. The Iain the old farmer said when a cow was ill and off her food ivy was the "last food she would eat" Which I misunderstood as it would kill her when he meant it was the food she would eat when she would eat nothing else.
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Dead trees and 5m3 allowance
openspaceman replied to stewmo's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Dead trees and 5m3 allowance
openspaceman replied to stewmo's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Felling licence always use to allow thinning trees below 4" dbh, so whip all those out first then start counting 5m3 -
Dead trees and 5m3 allowance
openspaceman replied to stewmo's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I've never known deer to damage anything that big. -
Not yet, I usually do a swap early on because plugs fail in strange ways but a it is smaller than other plugs I have and I neglected to order it with other parts it didn't get done.
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I'll check it but in my experience it only comes into use once the saw has been drinking a bit of fuel and this saw plays up within seconds of starting.
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A Rh.Positive Cells positive with anti-Rh D,C and e Negative with anti Rh sera c an E Probably genotype R1R1 The card given me in 1976 and carried in my wallet ever since is just legible
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I have replaced the fuel tank weighted filter but kept the hose to outside the tank, replaced the moulded fuel pipe that attaches to it and the carb. Plus replaced the fuel lines to and from the purge bulb, I checked the in carb gauze filter and it was clean, I back washed it with carb cleaner just in case.
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Worrying about global companies profits was not a consideration in my decision. That's not to say I don;t think it important to worry about how it leads to the pollution aspects of welath disparity. It was more a wish to be able to say I was largely self suffient in energy for the home, of course I still depend on fossil fuel for my various modes of personal transport and the capital cost of an EV means I always will. Anyway I had the money sitting in a bank not earning anything so went for it. Of course had I invested the money instead at a few percent compound interest I would still have my capital sum and all the interst built up over 12 years ( at a modest 3% that £13k would build up to about £17.5k) whereas I now own a PV roof of dubious sales value and have had 60% of my electricity for free and payments of over £13k.
