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  1. Mr. Squirrel
    There's plenty in my stores which would probably only have gone in diagonally tbh, around the 45cm mark. While I've said in another comment that I'm reluctant to have the vents installed to allow a 7kw burner, I'd rather that than having to trim down logs every time I go to the shed. I'm shortening nothing. And damn my strangely wide Jotul 😂
  2. Mr. Squirrel
    Just had a quick read, that looks like a braw wee stove! How big a log can you get in though? It's a really annoying sticking point haha
  3. Mr. Squirrel
    We're getting a new liner in so flue isn't the biggest consideration, we'd be getting a 6" in anyway for the current stove. I'd consider going to a 7kw stove, it's a ~46m2 room so I don't think it would be wildly excessive, I'm just reluctant to have the external ventilation put into an already draughty house...
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    We’re just about to have a load of work done to our chimney and liner. I was planning to keep our current Jotul stove, however just realised a part on the back has cracked and there’s a bit of distortion to it, as well as some corrosion. The stoves about 20 years old, so I’m looking at a replacement now. Trouble is all my firewood (~16m3) is cut to 35-42cm to fit my current burner. I’m struggling to find any 5kw stoves which will take logs that size, and I’m not about to cut 5cm off everything. Any suggestions for wide firebox 5kw stoves?
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    I wouldn't be happy with that tbh. There's a chance that under low cyclic loading it could just pull the splice out. Certainly wouldn't give that a loler pass. For lock stitching, Teufelberger have loads of material available online for splicing. They detail their recommended stitch pattern for TRex.
  6. Mr. Squirrel
    The dmm harness will come in three sizes, with the S being pretty small. Who knows when it’ll hit the market though with their nexus recall.
  7. Mr. Squirrel
    Personally, I think he’s just a marauding self important pillock. If we’ve any luck the Russians will get rid of him for us.
  8. Mr. Squirrel
    Garden wolf. Much cheaper and lighter than silky. You can get different pole lengths, mine is 1.6-3.5m I believe. Drill a hole through the bttom of the pole and loop some 5mm cord through for a biner. Let’s you clip it to your harness so that the saw head is below you rather than round your harness. Still shit to climb with but much better than Jameson rods. Wolf Garten Handle and Pruning Saw | World of Wolfgarten WWW.WORLDOFWOLF.CO.UK Wolf Garten Handle and Pruning Saw
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    If you need to ask these questions, you’re ill-experienced to be undertaking rigging options without anyone mentoring you. I’d suggest working with someone who can show you the ropes, as it were, before spunking your cash on rigging kit. That’s not a setup I’d buy for my first, do-it-all rigging kit anyway, hopefully you won’t be needing a 16mm lowering rope often.
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    I found limited reviews from people who aren’t selling them. What they say might be entirely true but it’s nice to have an independent review isn’t it? We live on a hill so it’s an upside down house, the living room kitchen is upstairs. As such there’s no air bricks ventilating the floor space, though it’s certainly quite ventilated between the plaster board and stone wall. Might be an option, though would have to chat to the installer some more. There was definitely a proper lintel, you can see where the person who installed it cut through a beautiful sand stone block and then removed some of the chimney breast in order to get the flue pipe up. This left the framing for the plasterboard much to close to the flue. I’m not in construction, but I can see that isn’t right…
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    Hey folks, After some advice on a new stove. We’ve got an open plan kitchen living room, ~5x10m. The stove has been out of action for some time as after moving in we realised the numpty who’d installed it had timber too close to the flue. Then we realised they’d also cut the lintel out… it’s a thing… it’s due to be fixed in feb. Anyway, we’ve got a Jotul f100 in at the moment. It’s a decent enough stove but it struggles with the space. I’ve been looking at the ecosy panoramic 9, which looks pretty good on paper, but for the world of stoves it’s kinda cheap. Has anyone used ecosy stoves and what are your thoughts? Also if we were to go that route, I presume we’d need to vent the room? Seems like a head ache for an old stone house? Any thoughts or recommendations appreciated.
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    It’s leylandii, i can’t believe that’s 900kg+. 280kg. Final offer. For vehicle weights, go off the plate in the truck. But I’d imagine you’dbe able to carry a tonne + tow 2. My pickup has a gvm of 3.5t and max towing 3.5t. Max train weight 7t.
  13. Mr. Squirrel
    400kg. Looks like a lot of small diameter and wiggly bits in there.
  14. Mr. Squirrel
    100%. I did a freelance day for a company a couple of years ago who proudly had their ld2 setup. As i recall I was very happy I had bought a grcs instead. If your staff can’t get their heads round a grcs then they’re not the folk I’d want lowering on a technical removal
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    Absolutely. I went a step further in one small but particularly bad garden, and shovelled it all to the bottom of the steps to his back door. It sounds like it could be a euphemism, but it was just a pile of shite.
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    A childhood pals dad used to pull out saplings from the woods on his cycle home from work and plant them up in the local park. When that got full he started planting along the road to the next village, then to another village. They're all coming along a bit now, and the council have started maintaining his plantings in the park. Off the back of that I've started popping in the odd tree in parks etc. If you talk about it to residents they only get furious at the idea of more trees, blocking views etc. If you just go ahead the nay sayers will likely be dead before the trees are significant, and they're children, grand children etc will most likely see some value in them.
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    The only difference for self employed people is that they don't have an employer who'll give them a bollocking for using non ce/loler kit. While I'd be happy to look over and inspect a non-ce RRP, you can't defensively give it a loler pass. All that being said, nobody's compliant anyway these days as nobody climbs on two ropes, so why worry?
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    I mean that’s slightly dramatic. It won’t kill your saw, it’ll just need some maintenance… I started running my all my saws on aspen about 4 years ago, had some teething issues with my 10 year old 200, but it was probably past time for a bit of maintenance anyway. Think it was less than £100 to have it running good as new again. The others, everything from 150t though to my 661, have been absolutely fine. Saws I’ve bought since and started on aspen obviously don’t have any issues. To me aspen is a no brainer, better for your saws, less harmful to your health 👌🏻
  19. Mr. Squirrel
    Looks like a good evolution of the wrench. Chicane meets wrench sort of thing, won’t be running out to buy one but like the look of it.
  20. Mr. Squirrel
    I think all of the high end trousers, arbortec, pfanner, sip etc are pretty comparable. The main difference is the fit in my experience. Get all of them and see which fits best, send the rest back.
  21. Mr. Squirrel
    Apologies, clearly having a brain fart as I didn't clock your second paragraph, even when I removed it from my quote. I'd be terrible at the BBC, don't last long there if you just call everyone bas***** 😂 Fwiw, I think the current reliance of many on welfare is more of a symptom of the merciless capitalist system you mention than just millions of people being work shy. The divide is constantly growing and the richer these people get the more disempowered the working classes become. Blaming the poor is just playing into the hands of these pri***.
  22. Mr. Squirrel
    So nothing to do with greed; wages for many having dropped over the past 30 years, while super rich people like Bezos amass inconceivable amounts of money?
  23. Mr. Squirrel
    Presumably because having better trained operators in the industry would just be awful 🤷🏻 Begs belief really.
  24. Mr. Squirrel
    The small/micro businesses you mention would only really be an issue if people were doing their tickets and immediately setting up a business. Which isn’t that common, and those who do are typically pretty dreadful. I suspect most businesses in that category are started by people with a few years experience who have grown tired of low wages and long hours working for an employer. In Germany you do an aerial rescue ticket, and then after logging 300 hours (I believe) you can do their equivalent of a chainsaw in the tree & rigging ticket combined. Personally I think it’s a far, far better system. The UK’s is frankly inadequate.
  25. Mr. Squirrel
    What’s the deal with the switches? Are they the same as the 160t, or even worse?

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