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That must have been close to the limits? When you got out to take the picture did the machine wobble?? Impressive lift, I've been toying with the idea of tree shear but held back so far for concern of over loading and toppling the machine. If Avant can do that MultiOne must be able to do bigger!!!

I thought the same.... It all looked like a good idea in the early days, some folk were keen to take arb arisings direct from site (which saved me a hassle) and I simply invoiced them a notional fee (which was an uplift on the price of the job anyway so a bonus) and they got an invoice for the audit trail if checked for their RHI audit at a later date. Plus I planned to manufacture pellets but haven't found the time to put to that yet. Pay to be on the register? I don't think so, so that'll be me for one flushing the scheme down the pan.

What did you think of it?? A bit like politics I suppose, I didn't bother with the nominations so perhaps I shouldn't grumble about the outcome... Only thing is, for those 'little fish' that are trying to work, read and contribute, there isn't the time (or perhaps the will) to put any effort into such admin tasks and so it gets left to the bigger players who are paying people to shine chairs anyway. As a consequence, they are the only folks that get a say in how things progress and invariably, the course is set so as to favour their own agendas (sounds like FISA in another realm to name but 1 example.)

Anyone else get the BSL Advisory Panel - ELECTION OPEN email this morning? If you didn't, and you want to see it, happy to forward it on. For those that have 'some reservation' about the way the system is being administered (by the big boys, for the big boys) I expect you'd feel the same feeling of impending doom that I felt when I saw the type and range of shortlisted candidates for the advisory panel. No doubt in my mind how this is all going to play out in the medium to longer term....

Expending 'energy' to create wood fuel, where it can be done without expending energy, simply sits wrong with me and I can't help but think it's shortsighted, inept and unaccountable civil servants that created the 'system' which is being exploited by those that might be putting £ before environment. Can't really 'blame' people for doing it, the system allows (encourages) it, but it don't sit right with me and if they looked into their conscience, I don't think there's a credible argument to support RHI for kiln drying firewood - other than £. Just a personal perspective.

Can I resist the temptation to offer an example....... 😬

A link to the planning page of the council might be useful (if online) It might show consultee comments and give an idea of the thinking / justification behind the proposal. The petition looks like it might be written by an excited 3rd party, perhaps with emotion rather than knowledge of the full circumstances? The wording "lift the TPO so that it can be felled" seems a bit suspect for example. Retain the TPO and condition felling approval with replanting requirement would seem more normal? Charlie Chaplin films..... Can't say I'd consider my life to be empty and meaningless without them. Empty and meaningless perhaps, but not through the absence of Charlie Chaplin!

What about if you look round and see him in a deck chair tucking into your snap box?

Perhaps in danger of confusing ignorance with common sense / discretion there.....?

It appears to have some ambiguity.... When you usually won’t need a licence: You usually won’t need a licence to do the following if it’s unlikely to disturb a badger in its sett or damage a sett: work with hand tools or machinery above or below ground close to a sett clear vegetation near setts, including felling small trees or shrubs, provided they are not uprooted and don’t block access to the sett clear ditches and watercourses using hand tools or machinery Natural England will consider the existing level of disturbance around a sett when deciding if you need a licence. Perhaps the size of the tree, the direction of fell and the potential for ground vibration on impact are due considerations - albeit a bit subjective? How much vibration would "disturb" a badger - in my experience they are pretty nails but if "disturb" means it wakes it up than could be tricky! I guess it depends if Mr Brock is able to get back to sleep....

Great thread! Missed it first time around. Notwithstanding it was some time ago, was there any discussion / evidence of chalara dieback of Ash and the effects after several decades - maybe an insight to what we might have to deal with?

Here's a link to "build yr Hilux" https://cc.toyota.co.uk/gb/en/mobile?model=hilux&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toyota.co.uk%2Fnew-cars%2Fhilux%2Findex.json

Beau, is new an option? If so, Mole Valley membership gets you 15% discount with Snows and then, if vat reg'd, another 20% back through HMRC, plus it's AIA 100% capital allowance. It starts to come in at sensible money plus warranty, and MoT free motoring (notwithstanding yr current issues!) Worth a thought??

People power! If you had 'sister' pages: "disgruntled R.... Y.... ex customers" And "disgruntled waiting for Toyota delivery customers...." I'd be in both!!

Rule Britannia!!

That all makes good sense.

👍🏻 Those that can, and want to, will! They are the "doers!"

Bloody hell..... "....past few years....." that sounds like a short turn around time from mentalist to princess! Took me best part of 15 years of 'market research' and a firm adherence to the mantle "if it flies, floats or F's, you're better off renting it!" to settle on the right one after the wrong one! Good luck to ya in your new venture, the only down side is, it ends up being so much better and if you're not careful it can remind you how wrong you got it before!! Keep looking forwards not backwards!

If you like guns, explosions and trees..... (Skip straight to minute 4 to avoid the preamble)

Been 'mulling' this over Mull! It's not entirely accurate to describe my 'beef' as farmer bashing.... Quite the opposite if you accept the following, which I may have failed to articulate properly thus giving the impression, or allowing the interpretation to conclude it might be farmer bashing.... I think it's fairly accurate to say that the vast majority of my ranting has been against the system of subsidy (and associated concessions) rather than the activity of farming. More accurately, the way in which the subsidy / concessions appear to be targeted to the advantage of the already very wealthy and perhaps those not actively engaged in working agriculture - to the distinct disadvantage of the smaller players - it certainly seems, that the bigger they are the more they benefit, the smaller they are the less they benefit where small seems to have greater direct connection to hands on work and larger has less. Who's responsible for this? My interpretation is that it is wealthy land owners, the NFU, the CLA for example... All of which have considerable lobbying influence to maintain (and increase) the beneficial interests of the bigger players whilst brushing some crumbs aside to keep the plebs suckling at the teat of subsidy dependence and avoid a peasant uprising which would upset the gravy train. I think it's beyond question that the ag sector operates in a considerably more favourable trading environment than any other UK business sector, that it is grossly inefficient and that, despite massive support, it actually contributes a piffling amount to GDP. Despite this, I still, almost daily, have to listen to whining bustards telling me how hard they have it. It's amazing how quiet they go when I reel off the benefits they have over anyone else and, as often as not, I've already looked at their subsidy payments and that's when the bubble really bursts because a lot don't seem to know that it's open source information! I don't include Richard and CS in that bracket because they both give a 'reality check' of the real life difficulty of making money in farming at the grass roots level. And that they do, is surely a reality check and example of exactly WHY the current system is inherently flawed. If only those IN the system would recognise the inequity rather than cling hopelessly to an ever decreasing share of what the big players have been living rich off for too long. Rather than it being a question for the VOA Richard, perhaps it might be better levelled at the NFU? Why is this another example of support for larger / land owning farmers rather than smaller / perhaps tenant farmers? Is the NFU a union for farm workers or is it only for wealthy land owners and big business?

Will you post some pics when unboxed??

Biggest problem with Mk8 is getting the b'stards to fulfil the delivery promise date!

Again... I might seek to disagree! It has been my experience that the "very vacant looking at" is the default facial expression in the Potteries!! I'm howling now and expecting a punch in the eye from the Mrs! She's already been asking why I'm talking about oatcakes!

Dismissed Sir! I didn't reference an oatcake "shop" but rather an oatcake retail outlet.... Which fully encompasses the window of a front room terraced house! :lol:

That's a question for VOA really Richard - I merely highlighted the potential for reduced CT (on top of many other concessions) which are available in the Ag sector. To expand what I think you're suggesting, and offer a loose comparison, what about the flat above a shop occupied by the shop owner, the landlord's accommodation within a pub, the oatcake retail outlet in a Stokie house..... None of which, so far as I'm aware, warrant specific discounts to council tax by dint of the business where the occupant is obliged to trade from their residence. Or are you talking about Ag ties as a condition of sale?