GarethM
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I'd love a poll. 1. Better 2. Same 3. Worse 4. Gone to the dogs
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I don't think I've ever read a report that wasn't slightly biased or just openly lying, cherry picking data from all over the world. Whilst at the same time they have zero alternative solutions other than saying heat pumps or electric. It's the typical because the pollution isn't happening here but over there that makes it fine.
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Quick Google A Defra report completed by Kantar shows on average stove users light their appliance for 29hr a week, so around 3.7hr and 4.5hr a day in the winter. In reflection, an HGV can be driven by the same driver for 9hr a day, all year round. Stoves mainly are only ever used in autumn and winter. Over the course of a week, a typical stove will emit 20.16g of PM2.5. A Euro 6 HGV will emit 271g of PM2.5 – so around 13 times the amount of a stove.
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As with all regulations you can't regulate something that's been fitted within the rules. Providing you fit a DEFRA exempt fire you should be fine. I see the only realistic thing they could do is expand the smoke control areas, other than that there's zero chance of banning wood burning.
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There's a thread somewhere on here about making single handle, one guy used a piece of plastic water pipe which seemed to work. Another made a slip in adaptor like a tuning fork, so it could be pulled out if someone else was using it. I removed all the nonsense, saved it for if I sell it. And bought a new hydraulic level for about a £10 on eBay and ground the level to fit the valve.
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Had to Google that, yes. You've still got to stand, crouch over etc and then operate the controls. I've don't 1000s of m3 with one of those and I might have done 3 hours vertical when the rings were too large to lift.
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You're supposed to, but to be honest horizontal is the best way to use it. Up and down is not fun for any length of time as it's very low to the ground
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What are you afraid of, a tar feather on your door ?. Next you'll be telling people you're a gardener because you don't want to be publicly shunned like a leper.
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Sash single glazing as well ?, can't have the greenhouse effect.
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They wouldn't be seen dead in a range rover, unless it's an Evoque.
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Do you mean between the blade and the inlet anvil's?. If they're anything like the smaller models as close as possible to not touch & enough to allow a little bit of flex when working on something tough. At a guess 1mm, on my 150 it's fag paper close and done more on feel and sound, as it's that spacing that gives you the cut without bypassing the knife.
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Jase is saying feed pipe from the pump on the engine to the valve block, so you'll know if the pump on the engine is knackered, have two people tho. One to turn it on/off and one to make sure it doesn't whip out the bucket.
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Brake cleaner isn't too bad as it atleast evaporates without leaving a residue. Most other oil based solvents tend to leave a smell, paraffin, diesel, petrol and even that label remover stuff. Cheap furniture polish is surprisingly good at general removal of things including glue.
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Sounds like probably oil level or pump flow. Guessing they're belt driven, that would be my first thing is to check belt tension after oil level.
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You work your way onto anthracite, there's a reason old fashioned fires running on coal were never put out, just riddled and stoked!. Unless you're burning 24/7, add a bit is the best you can realistically achieve to eak out a few extra hours. Some add coal before they go to bed as it's easier to restart from slumber in the morning.
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It's a bit like listening to virgin, I'm sure they're sponsored by that clinic in Switzerland.
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Electricity Northwest are usually pretty on the ball, same day inspection
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Think they always said under a certain speed or just moveable. That might have improved since I got mine 10 years ago, it's cheap and cheerful 😀 Probably also why it's not supplied with lights etc
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Unless they've completely changed the design, it had 4 rubber tubes jammed around a axle shaft in a square housing. There maybe a technical name for Heath Robinson.
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Verge trimming is more a necessity, especially for visibility. The real problem is poor design that forces the usage of strimmers. Take most roundabouts, junctions etc. Posts and barriers and level changes everywhere without enough space, in the old days the council could mow them in minutes, now it's hours and half a van of staffm
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Beep/bop/boop, but don't want to get cancelled by Disney!.
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IT crowds version was much more moving!
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Training isn't necessarily competence. I was more highlighting it's a deep hole to be looked into, as they may have a forklift to that needs a certificate otherwise it's uninsured.
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Question is at what point would they need to stop qualification and training. Most call in a tree firm when the job needs doing quickly and cleared. It does open up a can of training worms, as they'll have Greens equipment, spraying, wood chipper, ladders, tractors, loaders, quad/mule etc which all will need training. Then you've got annual checks of equipment and even lifting straps, forklifts etc etc.
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I'm surprised Stihl haven't gone electric on the home gamer saws. Not for any eco reason but a cheap way into the brand before actually buying the correct safety gear etc.
