Billhook

I have three doctor friends who have rather worryingly taken early retirement. Pressure of general practice, long hours and form filling. If I put you in charge of the health service, what changes would you make to improve the environment for doctors and nurses?

I'll try and find some photos of my set up. But it's basically both heat sources into the Dunsley Neutralizer with a danfoss thermostatic switch clipped on to the top over flow pipe set at the desired radiator pump temperature (mine was 80*C) which then switches on the radiator pump. I was also lucky that I could just run the hot water as a gravity circuit. It was good as the central heating could be worked off timer or water temperature. I think that you would need a thermostat on the side of the gravity fed tank to cut out the heating pump when necessary to keep the gravity tank at a constant temperature

Bill Gates 5 years ago!

I know what I shall be doing in lock down, away from everyone!

Well, I feel slightly more in the mood when I play this while drinking my bottle of Batemans XXX at home in lock down!

So why was there not massive inflation, German 1920s style, after the last massive QE session in 2008? Also I would have expected a bog roll supermarket type frenzy on gold with similar mindlessness!

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Yes, I understand all of that but I would have thought that gold would be taking off and have sailed past the £2000/ounce mark especially when the Eastern countries are badly affected by all of this.

Cannot understand why gold would go down slightly when the world is facing the biggest financial meltdown in history.

I fitted a Dunsley about ten years ago as a link between the Aarow Stratford boiler stove which is about 90,000 btu and a North Sea Gas boiler about the same btu. There were complicated loops suggested in the Dunsley system with a pump to stop condensation. I put it in but have never used it as the stove runs full tilt most of the Winter You do need thermostat to start the pump if it overheats, but again it is not used in my case as I leave the pump on all the time which does fifteen radiators and two bathroom floors.So my system is very simple. I have two large cylinders, one for wood/gas heat and the other for summer and solar tubes 24 of them. This is slightly more complicated as I have a changeover/mixing electric valve that I can operate in the bathroom should I run out of solar water halfway through my bath or shower! The wood/gas cylinder is heated by convection so the pipes need to be at least an inch and have a clear straight run from the Dunsley to the cylinder above. The system is therefore very simple and the gas automatically cuts in when the fire dies down either at night or if we are away. It senses the heat in the Dunsley as it has its own pump on that circuit which is separate from the main heating pump. It works for me as I have an unlimited supply of wood and my wife is always cold! I think that I must save myself several grands worth of oil or gas with the two systems over the year.

This elm died last year. It is 30 inches in diameter. I have felled no large elms and was a bit apprehensive about tackling this one especially since I only had a 16 inch bar I cut out the gob and plunged from either side and cut back to leave a tab. Nicked the tab and ran to as safer place as I could find behind a large sycamore . the 70 foot tall tree just keeled over gently, exactly where it was supposed to Now to make some floor boards with the Lucas Mill I left the stump high partly because I have a bad back and partly to judge the plunge cuts more accurately

I think it’s more like a monetary suppository to alleviate monetary constipation causing monetary diarrhoea so we all end up in the shite

Our journey was last summer, but you are right, it felt like lock down or even "After the Apocalypse"

Sounds a bit like EU money misspent, just like many places in Europe. My wife and I drove from Lisbon to Porto and there was not a car on the motorway which looked to have been built at vast cost due to a lot of it being elevated above a low plain. Just a small sample of the waste. Subscribe to read | Financial Times WWW.FT.COM News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Cannot really understand the full implication of throwing untold billions at the economies of the world. We seem to owe trillions here alone, Italy seems to be in terrible trouble. The EU seems to have lost all control of its border policies and its fiscal policies. I think it will be the final nail in the coffin for the EU, they certainly have no monetary reserves left. Surely printing money must end up with massive inflation and the only reason we have not had inflation since the 2008 financial crisis is that governments and banks have put the lid on it. They never actually solved the basic problem, just pushed it forward. But as you all know, when you seal the lid on a boiling container, at some point it has to explode.

Winching at the bottom of this page A pity I live just too far away to try out the Hyster on the D7. 35 tons of pulling power and 100 yards of 1 1/4" cable I could have charged £950!

No photos I'm afraid but know it is a true story from a few days ago Farmer friend goes away on holiday, leaves son in charge. Game keeper goes off with Landie and becomes stuck in the woods. Farmers son goes off with Teleporter, it also becomes stuck. 150 hp 4WD tractor with chain also becomes stuck. Second Teleporter sent in, you've guessed it Right time for the big boy, big Caterpillar rubber track, yes also stuck. Another friend with a winch tries to pull from the road but no straight pull as trees are in the way........fail Professional firm came with proper equipment, Farmer friend has not confessed the bill yet!

No safety gear either, needs reporting to H & S !

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Are you sure that you have not been cleaning the glass with those poor muts. They look very blackened and tired!

I think that it is all right to reduce it as long as you ask it politely first (advice from Lincolnshire!)

Thanks for that I remember now that when the mechanic caused the first explosion in the workshop a bit of battery casing flew up and smashed the strip light, so there is a lot of force especially if it hits you on your face. When this last one went of a bit of plastic hit me on jacket sleeve, which luckily is pretty heavy material, but I still felt it perhaps with the force of someone throwing a stone at me. Again we laugh about these things but it could have been my eyes. Any more confessions out there??

Thinking more on the subject, I am now convinced that it makes little difference having a well ventilated room for the battery charging For it to explode as it did the exact explosive mixture must have been created inside the cell of the battery where there is no ventilation unless you remove the caps which does not seem possible on many modern batteries But there again maybe they are sealed for protection against explosion Anyway what ever my theory, do not create a spark near a charging or newly charged battery until it has settled down

It was actually an old pair of pliers, slightly seized so they stuck open at the right distance with insulated handles I think that the Hindenberg Airship only burned with no explosion in spite of the huge amount of hydrogen released