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Krpan do ones with a clutch driven winch which is far cheaper than the ones with hydraulically driven winches. Good solid fast machine with 1m capacity that you mention. We use the 17 tonne model. The hardest thing for a small tractor wont be the PTO power but the 3 point linkage lift as our splitter is 450kg and the weight is pitched out quite a way out from the linkage. Thor do some lighter pro splitters which are fast but not sure if they offer a winch option
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OK I get what you are saying. My family is guilty of this with them dotted around all over the planet. Not that I visit them but they come back here from time to time clocking up god knows how many miles. With my green hat this is an interesting period. You mention the air quality and I saw mention of 1700 less deaths due to air pollution in the UK but cant find the source but sounds more than likely. Let's face it only one species is unhappy about the current situation while millions of other species are having a field day.
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Do the tables in this thread help?
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Is migration the main reason for international travel? I would hazard a guess that it accounts for a tiny proportion of seats on a plane/bus/ferry
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Take it to the extreme and look at New Zealand who have 6 new cases and one new death. You can see they can open up and track and trace any new cases so totally containing the virus until a vaccine does become available. Most countries are tying to lower the cases to the point track and trace can keep up with a future spread. Some may even eliminate it within their boarders. Sure we are only buying time but it makes more sense than just leaving many to die IMO Say we go down the "lets all get it route" and we lose as many as the WHO said is the death rate of 3.4%. That leaves us with 2,244,000 dead and then someone comes up with a vaccine! No government can handle that much blood on it hands thankfully
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Looking at the graphs of infection rate I am not so sure. We have twice the death rate per million of population
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Spot on. We were so slow to react even though others nations got hit hard before us for us to learn from. First call is lets try herd immunity and sacrifice at least half a million of us to save the economy even though no other nation had tried this (I wont be forgetting this when we next have elections). Then massive backtrack when they realise maybe the public dont want to sacrifice our older generation and a pile of youngsters to save a few bob. Then we are playing catchup with widespread transmission amongst the population. Probably the worst handling of this from any 1st world nation. Not so unhappy with the direction now but why we ignored it for so long was bewildering.
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Not tried the Lidl one but my Makita is fine for the odd cut here and there but no way would I want to use it for the constant work of firewood cutting. You would be swopping batteries all the time and need many sets of batteries to keep yourself working. Cant imagine Lidl's version packs more punch than the Makita
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That looks like it should be on the UFO thread ?
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I have a board of ash in the shed that would probably fit the dimensions given. Flat as a pancake and .air dried for about 15 years. Not sure on transport though as I am in Devon. Can get some pics tomorrow if of interest
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A swedes and turnip are different veg. Both would make a smarter POTUS but different none the less
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I thought the press on the whole was fairly good to start with but now the gloves are clearly off. It cant be good for the mental health of many with the endless and pointless "what ifs" being thrown around. As I see it the government were pathetically slow out the blocks but have done the best they can since then.
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If you have had to buy logs at full market rates its always been cheaper to use your oil/gas heating but that hasn't deterred folk from a fire. -
It's not easy Andy. Social distancing is a two way thing. Trying to help a slightly muddled ex sub mariner who at times forgets he is supposed to be keeping 2m apart is difficult. Dad backs me into corners when I am over there sorting things out. Also there is more to stopping it spread than just social distancing. We take all his deliveries which we clean before giving them to him, all the food shopping gets cleaned, paper and mail gets set aside in a hot space before taking it over etc etc. Even harder keeping him safe when my better half is treating Covid 19 patients so a higher risk of us being carriers.
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Me my neighbour and countless others in our nation. We do our best not to be carriers but they struggle containing this virus in hospitals with all their skills and equipment so jo public will be far from 100% successful of keeping the vulnerable safe.
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Because they are cared for by the less vulnerable who will be far more likely to be infected if we go back to "business as usual" Seems there a plenty of asymptomatic carriers out there.
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You serious? That will lead to hundreds of thousand s of our most vulnerable dying prematurely plus plenty of the rest of us. I buy into this old saying "How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity." Time for us to show our humanity IMO
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I wish. My main outlets have shut. Used to sell from the farm gate from an honesty box but there is now no passing traffic and I dont want provide a vector for virus anyway. Others are doing a booming trade apparently.
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Interesting graph but not seen any others that give me much hope rather the opposite. All I see is the UK public dont understand about avoiding contacts as our case levels have barely dropped while many of our European compatriots get it and have considerably lowered their cases. If we dont come into contact with others we cant catch it. Do that for three weeks and it's gone. If we keep on being so daft we wont get infection rates down so will find it hard to lift lockdown.
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Once but that was because I opened it just a few hours after removal from the retort. It felt cool but soon started reigniting with air. Lid back on pronto. Normally leave it overnight to play safe now
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I will have a go at getting the videos up on youtube. Took me longer to upload 10 short videos yesterday than it did to make 2 barrels of charcoal ? Seems youtube is quicker to upload to than facebook so I will add them all here
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Hi all. This is a page about our little retort https://www.facebook.com/groups/412541675960816/
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Is it? Sorry for the guys losing their jobs but its great that we are finally getting less dependant on oil and moving to renewables in a big way.
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Agree with most of that other than it also makes great firewood as well. Yes there is lots of sap but this is still heavy and if not left outside to rot off its great stuff. Had a large one come down on the farm and read mixed reviews of it but one of my best customers who heats and cooks on wood asked if we had "any more of that rocket fuel"
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As said look after yourself and rest. Not resting is clearly not good for those infected if the PM is anything to go by.
