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  1. GarethM
    Whilst not scientific, I aim for a bit of variety in sizes but everything gets rung to less than the length of my size 11, about the width of the MS261. Plus if it's a large trunk anything larger is too heavy for lifting without halving. I'm not in the firewood game to create living room features in designer homes.
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    Obviously I was trying to generalise, that you can't just kill everything unless you know it's legally permissible. You can even be prosecuted for not controlling rabbits on your land. Also why I highlighted that traps have the be certified, there was a big thing ten years or so ago about knockoffs being sold. As the penalty for even accidentally using them is quite substantial.
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    Wouldn't that also apply to the mink ?.
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    The way I've always understood it, with the notable exception of livestock obviously. Is that killing a wild animal would be illegal without the general game license, which isn't an actual license but a government approved list of species that can be killed humanly should you meet the criteria. For decades you couldn't shoot ringneck parakeet, invasive but illegal to shoot until about 5 years ago. Without going to in-depth you actually have to use approved crayfish traps, even a mouse trap has to meet approval to minimise suffering, spring strength etc. Crayfish traps also need your license number on a ID tag.
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    Signal crayfish fall under a standard free to apply for permission to trap crayfish licence, free to apply for providing you have landowners permission. Rabbits fall under the general game license, if it's not on the list you can't legally hunt them.
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    Isn't it just the tail the Americans tend to eat, saw a documentary the other day and everything else except the tail was chucked away. Free tho.
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    That's probably more to do with fitment, best to be clean shaven too. But bear in mind it's going to get blocked very very quickly unless you're also using dust extraction in a matter of minutes.
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    Unless someone here knows the exact length of the belt, measure it with a piece of string and buy a new fan belt for around £10. A better picture side on of the pulleys would be good plus any data plate. As it looks like either one really long belt or two smaller ones as that top pulley looks like it's got two grooves. Webb 14” Cylinder Mower | The Old Lawnmower Club OLDLAWNMOWERCLUB.CO.UK
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    Its completely scandalous behaviour, I hope the school atleast threw a few of the less educationally able kids in as brash draggers ?.
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    Saturn Knives
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    Urgh, if I want to eat the chicken of the woodlands I'll eat chicken. What's the Ron Swanson quote,
  12. GarethM
    Did you check the person on that companies house listing ?. 3677 company appointments and 80 currently active as a director!.
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    It's been discussed a few times, buy if you're going to use it yourself regularly but I don't think you'll get much business renting. There are a few doing rental on eBay, but when you can buy a cheaper venom for £1375. It's an investment fraught with risk with minimal rewards.
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    Don't think any of those options are particularly good without an absolute scaffold pole arrangement to stop it moving in the wind. Get a stove fitter in to make sure it's fitted and legal for your home insurance. Right side end wall would be best option where your arm chair is, then through and up the outside wall above the ridge height & well away from openable windows.
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    Why can't the eco loon types be happy with some form of balance for a country that produces less than 1.3% of global emissions. There will never be a panacea solution other than a mass deletion that meets your zero damage to the world. I just get to a point where I have to ask, when will eco types be happy and say job done?
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    Why not just fill a mined out coal seam ?. Surely that achieves the exact same effect, especially once you turn off the pumps.
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    It's the lesser of evils argument, regardless of efficiency or particulates. If I'm cold I'll light a fire or burn natural gas or put on the electric fire. Wood is effectively on my doorstep, gas imported from Qatar or the USA at cryogenic temperatures, shipped to Wales and kept so cold it's a liquid and then heated using seawater before supplying to the gas grid. As has been said, even if it's an open fire with the windows open it's probably better for the environment than Qatar or USA imported gas.
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    Will sinking tonnes of wood into the ocean help tackle climate change? WWW.NEWSCIENTIST.COM Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the...
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    The 1st stage of burning hawthorn is the swearing and sharpening your saw after finding the wire and staples. Invariably swear at yourself because you vaguely remember fixing that stock fencing as a child!.
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    So you're not into grinder, but prefer prefer poo on chest and hand it around publications. That's some high brow kink there!.
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    Plus isn't it effectively sequestered co2, burning it effectively releases the same as if composted, minus any actual benefit of gaining useful heating for us ?.
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    Of course it's entirely sustainable. The arb industry chops down trees and they expect it not to be burnt ?. So what do you propose to do with the timber, woodchip and green waste then ?.
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    The real question is what alternative do they suggest ?. Everything has an impact both good and bad, if the human race died out tomorrow nature would take over and starve itself to death from lack of co2.
  24. GarethM
    Thanks for shouting, erm it's an EU directive. They are all able to be bypassed, but you obviously leave yourself open to problems if someone else uses it and has an accident.
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    Daft question, If it's for the railway or electric pylon types wouldn't they want a frame that's GRP instead of aluminium?.

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