Peasgood
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It puzzles me that there is so much outrage over suggesting you put a jumper on if it is cold in the house. I don't actually own a jumper but that's besides the point. My house has lots of insulation, I did all the external walls with battens and slabs then plasterboarded over. Roof space has double requirement and the house is nice and warm, has been all winter with no overnight heating on. Been in for 12 months now and prior to that was 3 years in a static, plenty of winter nights with frost on the bedclothes but very rare to feel cold under the covers. A lot of people are just too soft these days.
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Lignite Briquettes - Heat Logs - Open Fires - Stoves - Coal Hut COALHUT.COM Lignite burns with a long flame and has a greater heat and burn time than traditional logs. Perfect for open fires and... From what you say, you can burn these. No idea if they are any good, I was just curious what brown coal/lignite was.
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I'm not convinced fitting a backboiler that small is a worthwhile operation. It amounts to a 500x100cm twin panel radiators worth and don't forget it reduces the heat given to the room from the stove itself. The fire isn't going to give enough heat out to do either the room or the rad imo. You would be better making a hole in the ceiling and letting the heat rise.
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Very similar on an IH574. Circlip fails and pin holding all the steering falls off. Straight across the road and through a garden hedge. Luckily that day I had chosen the scenic route as I usually went along the busy A road. It really bothered me at the time, not least because a mum pushing a pram appeared very shortly after.
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I use Silky hand saws but my pole saw is Stihl, I think it is called a Turbocut. I bought it based on using my sons and it is phenomenal in my opinion, I have cut some very big stuff with it. Biggest issue with them (any brand) is the branch can slide down the pole if you are not careful and you are at the end of it.
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Red has 5% VAT, white has 20%. Your £1.52 red is exactly the same price as white at £1.74 at the pump if you are VAT registered. If you are not VAT registered then fair enough but there are plenty of VAT registered people out there panic buying red at what is the equivalent of white prices. WTF? White around here seems to be universally £1.799, so should you be VAT registered your 50 litres of red saved you £3.00. If you are not registered you saved £14. How I wish I had bought more at the height of covid when they were almost giving it away
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There is such a thing as crack willow but it really refers to branches both big and small breaking off and rooting. My guess is willow too but it is no more than a guess and wouldn't be too surprised if told different.
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As Spuddog says further up, the reason you never get a straight answer for this kind of question is because nobody seems to know, and that includes DVLA and HMRC in most cases. Even if you asked DVLA and HMRC you would get several different and conflicting answers.
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Got to be crack willow hasn't it?
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My reaction to your previous post was that it has bugger all to do with a bowsaw, I have cut thousands of logs with a bowsaw and never seen the like. I do get what you mean by your post above though. My thought were it was related to wind rock, snapping when I first saw the op. Having now looked again it appears many of the other trees have been blown over a bit and grown up again. This reinforces my theory but it is still only a theory. As said, absolutely fascinating.
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What on earth made you think that might happen?
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It just so happens that I do, cool. My MF35 fits in if I lower the roll bar and have a set of forks for on the back, I have dried pallets of logs in there and moved them this way. I hadn't thought of that and it might well work out. As for the worms, I have a pile of manure that is absolutely riddled with worms so no bother to introduce my own. Have an old oil tank doing nothing too.... I had thought to go and buy some wood to make some pretty raised beds but the cost makes it a bit silly. £200 of timber to grow £50 worth of cabbage doesn't add up.
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@scbk what happened? A tree? What do you think of the IBC raised beds compared to the ones the other side. I am struggling to decide how to construct raised beds or do I plant in the soil along with all the weeds and rabbits.
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https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/fuel-price-tracker.190/page-253 Around about £1.10 plus 5% vat for 1000l+
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Nope, you have still had a test to make sure you are deemed competent. I am not one to be in favour of all the tests and training required to do anything in life these days but a top handle up a tree is probably one of those that are a good idea.
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A poor analogy as you will have to have had some training and a license to pull a caravan with a car.
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Ok, I gave it a go but it is too early to report first apple flower yet as they are nowhere near. I do wonder though that having specified apple why I was given a choice of A,B,C,D,E from 4 pictures, one of which I am fairly sure was pear.
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"A temporal mismatch: plants flowering too early in the year for the insects that pollinate them. That's what currently happening now, thanks to climate change." The above is a copy and paste of part of the text from the link you posted to Fruitwatch. They appear to already have decided the answer and I wrote my previous reply without knowing this was on there. They are the same kind of folk that tell you without bees there won't be any apples. I don't see bees in my orchards, the reason is that apple flowers don't produce enough nectar to make it worthwhile but the narrative will say I am killing them with pesticides. (I'm not) Pollination in apples does rely on insects and also by the wind too but hover flies aren't so emotive as bees so the story is changed.
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I grow apples for a living. Each year you have to put the first fungicide on against scab as soon as the buds burst, for the last 30 years that has been 13,14 or 15th of March. This year it was 15th March, the only exception was "Beast from the East" year when the spring was very cold and it was well into April before the buds burst. I think they are looking for something that isn't there and certainly not in my experience. But they are scientists so you can be fairly sure they will find what they want, they usually do. I am not saying the climate isn't changing because my gut feeling is that it is but the changes aren't moving the seasons they are increasing the extremes we get. Apart from ivy, that classic canary in the coal mine of the arb world.
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Davy Jones?
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Ah yes, that is much more relevant on a ten year old thread.
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I think you may be a bit late to the party because I believe the forum finally disappeared last year, not that there was anyone left to notice.
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Strong evidence to suggest it is being deposited on central reservations and embankments of the whole of the national road network. You might think I am mad but next time you slow down at a roundabout on a dual carriageway just look for yourself.
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A big part of it is that they couldn’t afford enough food to be fat.
