openspaceman
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I guess it does not have wifi then, just an ethernet connector but that doesn't matter as we very seldom watch it.
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I still haven't figured out how to do that
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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.
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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.
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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
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Yes and the Lesser Celandine have been in flower for at least 12 days, mind it was adjacent to the M25 which is probably warmer than many places.
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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
