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  1. GarethM
    Glad to see your sitting at the back.
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  3. GarethM
    Nice little bonfire sounds like a plan.
  4. GarethM
    Plus realistically, if IHT only came about 30 years ago. Then they would have bought post WW2 when most farms were effectively government controlled during dig for victory. As if you didn't produce they effectively kicked you off for the duration of the war.
  5. GarethM
    Most farmers pass on to the next generation, it's not as though they financially gain especially in today's farming market. Big numbers and very small profit, oh but you need a 600k combine. Well they do, to get it all in without it spoiling during a tiny time window. To then blame Clarkson is a bit daft, if he sold up and left agriculture that's a different matter and not the same as passing it down.
  6. GarethM
    What's the model, I'm sure someone will have a idea.
  7. GarethM
    Noooo, that's only when it's the magic smoke!. Bearings are just making it lighter
  8. GarethM
    It might be distracting BS, but that isn't going to help anyone right now is it!. A farm is a workplace, imagine going in Monday to find your boss is dead and they want a few hundred grand or home you go unemployed. Be interesting to see what thieves husband says about the matter, he works at DEFRA.
  9. GarethM
    Gearbox would be my guess. Unless it's a pole type then drive shaft would be first thing to check.
  10. GarethM
    How much do you think your average farmhouse costs and say a small 60x45 shed and that's before any livestock building ?. Debt, yes machinery is deducted but depending on if you're arable or livestock. A combine is 300k+, a decent new tractor 40-150 excluding machinery. So yes even under 50 will be in the million range, not necessarily loads but enough to make you say why should I bother.
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    The reason why farmers are understandably very narked off is the low threshold if they died with many suggesting a more pragmatic 5m or a 10 year holdover if taken out of agriculture. As it stands the total value includes land, buildings, any and all equipment including tractors and farmhouse. With you're average profitable farm being 200+ acres, it would even hit your average small scale farmer below 50 acres that also works outside of the industry to make it work. And before you suggest selling at a peanut rate, that's not possible either.
  12. GarethM
    Think that might need a little context, surely the noise would be for on the farm it's being built upon. Not several miles down the road?. As you'd be buggered in any urban place near a motorway or road.
  13. GarethM
    Just think if John Delorean hadn't moved that coke from south of the borders, we could have pick-up trucks made of stainless steel that lasted forever 🙂
  14. GarethM
    Have the Slovakians kept the same level of oil leakage on the defender ?.
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    What is it, do you mean bio charcoal?. And why doesn't it break down in your archeological finds, because it's bone dry and chemically & biologically sterile!. Go have a look at any bonfire after a good downpour, it's sterile & dead. I've got a garden with 60 years worth of aga coal ash and wood ash, its certainly not your panacea solution to improve soil even with a good rotavator. By the same logic, just fill a mineshaft with wood and cap it, leave it a few million years and tadah you've got coal, it's the same carbon sequestration without the arsing around.
  16. GarethM
    Or just grow your tree, chop it down and fill a mine shaft. Exactly same reason why garbage dumps emit methane is it's not actually rotting down and creating much Co2. Enriching the soil can only go so far, as everything rots down eventually.
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    I know you like being the hippy type, but even your most hard core ones understands. If you burn your pot, it doesn't magically turn into fertilizer, not does your dealer want it back as bio char to sell down the local garden centre.
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    I think the equal sign is only usable in an actual equation as we aren't accounting for the Co2, water vapour and other stuff. As your symbol was the reversible type "≠" The reason why your out if you've finally realised your bs, it's abit like the slavery with added steps.
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    If you want to argue dried Anaerobic Digestate, yeah that works. There's a french company trying to sell greenhouses to dry the stuff using solar, they never understood its not as sunny in the UK for drying it commercially. There is a UK smoke exempt version made by Burnwell of that burner, reviews are always a bit mixed as it's a chunky monkey at like 100k for the artic size.
  20. GarethM
    Woodchip -> Charcoal -> Ash It's not a reversible equation as it's pyrolysis. During which you're "good" gets heated off and combusted or vented out via the chimney.
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    Peds, maybe you could use that gift god gave you to explain how it's "different" without drum beating some hippy nonsense. Call it whatever you want it's still charcoal or fly ash and as such is just devoid of anything and everything combustible, that's actual science!. As charcoal is done to produce a clean burning fuel. Weird how you've not advocated using the thousands of tonnes of ash from drax for your pet project of arsing around with molasses, apple juice and probably hanging around smelling of elderflower. Those few hundred thousand tonnes of woodchip I've filled holes with are more alive with worms and bugs without any pissing around.
  22. GarethM
    It can't be charged with micronutrients, it's just carbon maybe popped like popcorn but it's devoid of much else. Nothing wrong with woodchip, works perfectly well.
  23. GarethM
    Just call it charcoal, personally it just sounds like BS. As you have to burn said wood to create it, using a lot to create a tiny amount of it excluding the processing, screening etc. Maybe all that stuff from drax is now worth a fortune?.
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    Erm, what.
  25. GarethM
    You'll need 4 if it includes devolved.

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