GarethM
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That's the anvil page. TP_150.pdf
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I've always loved the hypocrisy of glass bottle recycling, everything except clear gets crushed and used for stuff like road ballast as it's unusable. Think there was a thing about Holland, all beer bottles are the same or something so they get reused. Like a modern irnbru bottle, that I'd vote for.
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I have a feeling your average Chelsea tractor driver isn't swapping their posh 4x4 for a unimog just to save a few quid on road tax and red diesel
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Aren't they technically agricultural?
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I've said it multiple times across multiple discussions, find solutions that are better and made here or words to that effect. It's not a cop out when we've exported practically all our industry to china, it's slowly shifting back. Electronics is a good example as it's gone full circle as they chased the cheaper currency, but now the machinery is there not here. To just say stop buying from china is also a cop out, you're not stopping that purchase. You might get it made more environmentally friendly but it's still going to be made regardless!.
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Probably of your own vegan and vegetarian creations.
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If you read carefully I'm no dinosaur, I have always said improvements can be made but screeching about problems outside of out control is pointless. It's like protesting about a rainforest halfway around the world as we have zero impact, like chucking soup on things. If anything I'm aware of a lot more about the world, yet look at things in the round. If you want to discuss a particular item on your long Santa list, create a discussion and we can all collectively discuss each without the usual environmental switcheroos. And for reference for this thread, I'm in a smoke control zone. It's a PITA but abide by it l, unlike a lot of people payed a lot more for my boiler.
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What utter and complete bovine drivel.
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We as a country aren't the problem, yes there is room for improvement around the edges without forcing us back into the dark ages. This obsession of we need to do more needs kicking all the way to china, not here. Think there was a statistic, saying if we disappeared into the ocean it's like 1 week or less worth of China's pollution.
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People wipe their shoes getting out of my L200
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They're already classed as commercial vehicles, okay they loose out of a lower VED, but that's the same for all commercial vehicles including HGV. The general idea being, they make it up with the large amounts of fuel used. All you'll do is force companies to buy single cab versions and plonk a tool box on the back like the Australians. Are single cab versions classed as cars ?.
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Doubtful, when a particle of PM2.5 is a 2.5micron particle mostly of carbon.
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The made up word they always used in electrical was "reasonably practicable" for doing your best. Rules and legislation are designed to be somewhat ambiguous, as once written are statute. That's why they aren't able to say explicitly this company. It's the same in education, usually atleast one level above is considered okay in adult education.
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Without trying to get political, I generally assume those groups are like the chattering classes quotes wasting their evenings at dinner parties. But it's fine to improve, make better and more efficient through the natural progression of technology to use less more efficiently. I draw the line at the groups inevitable it's never good enough stance. Like Gretta, go back to school and invent something better, cheaper and preferably locally made.
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A report I saw last year even gas boilers produce PM2.5, it's the typical scaremongering that wastes air time. Even when were shivering in a cave, eating pill food. They will find something else to harp on about, micro plastic from clothes, rubber from your shoes etc etc. Usually seems to be those that have had a load of kids banging on about it.
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It's back pressure related, so when it reaches a level it does it. If you're not blasting down the motorway regularly and just sitting in traffic it will cause issues and eventually a blocked DPF, needing a expensive clean or new DPF.
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Generally speaking it dumps in straight diesel into the DPF and rockets the temperature upto something mental like 800c. Which burns of most of the soot, whilst I'm unsure how complete the combustion I presume more smaller particles are then released.
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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.
