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That's the best thing about it, the few bits I got home with in the back of the vitara are measuring 19% mc at worst on my valiant meter. Most of the sapwood has rotted off and it is burning like coal, actually the room is far too hot 😀, Lord knows how I will get it all home before the locals pinch it.

As I said I wouldn't go that far, however it will be interesting to see how a bill with a water meter is made up of standing charge and metered water. I probably should have done it 25 years ago when the kids left home.

It may have been from the bridge over the roundabout before it went over, about a kilometre though. I have been watching it for several years now so when I noticed it down I asked the farmer and he is allowing me to have the logs. The butt will be too much work though.

Thanks that will work, Ill just have to order something else to get to the minimum charge.

Near Ripley in Surrey. If I can't find a bar for the Husky I can probably manage with the 084 but I would like to put the husky to work, it probably hasn't been used for 25 years but I did start it last year.

I've ordered a kit just to see if it has any nasties in it, I would never use it other than for flushing which probably only requires 40 or 50 litres a day but it becomes interesting if the washing machine and bathroom taps could use it.

I totally agree not only are they lighter than a tirfor and wire rope they are quicker to set up and of course more powerful. Probably cheaper new too.

They aren't 9 by 4 bricks are they?

The well has been there since 1862, I don't know why it stopped being used. The rule used to be you could draw up to 20M3 a day without an abstraction licence, I think the well would struggle to refill if I took more than 1m3 a day. I was more worried about the health aspect.

I have a rusty galvanised tank in the loft, it may pay me to put a couple of plastic ones up there instead and pump from the well via a filter but only worth it if we go on a meter. Then I will have to run a mains plastic pipe in as the current iron pipe only dribbles at the kitchen tap in summer. Our 1959 extension is built over the iron pipe. What rules govern well water?

Now you;re putting me off, I don't think sitting in a bath of warm green slime would leave me feeling relaxed of an evening.

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.