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    not enough information to vote really... Has it happened before? Are you near a train station? Nature of emergency? Is the person generally a good worker?
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    I worked in the Sultanate of Oman and it used to get so hot that when you got in your car you couldn't touch the steering wheel. I prefer the rain to that.... Having said that this winter has been the wettest I can remember Lol, the building site I work on had some portacabins at the side of a river and the river went to the ceiling of the portacabins
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    we had two of them. in each case the steel chassis rusted
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    I built a log store from some "gabion baskets". These are basically wire mesh cages that are typically filled with stone. The best part about them is that you can move it when empty.
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    Tbh, I don't think it would cost that much to fix that dam? If you got a decent size excavator (say about 13 tonne) in for a couple of days he could use material from site to fix the dam wall and clean out all the reeds etc (to make more space for water). An excavator plus driver should be circa £500 a day. What machinery would they need to get there? I'd imagine most of the stuff could be carried by a tractor or JCB? I don't think you would need tracks? As a matter of interest, what flow rate and head have you assumed?
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    I think the risk would be that when the Feed in Tariff finishes that the National Grid would not be bothered dealing with small electricity producers.... As it is presently the government forces electricity companies to buy electricity from people with solar panels on their roof etc. Having said that, if you had your own hydro scheme you could always use the electricity yourself.
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    I think the main question is how long the Feed in Tariff lasts... My understanding is that it lasts 20 years. I'd imagine a small hydro scheme would last "forever". The concrete/ pipes and cables should last 100 years easy. The gearbox/ dynamo and turbine should last 100 years if maintained.
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    I'm not trying to be funny, but investing £35k to save £7,500 a year seems a no brainer...
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    If I could make an investment that would pay for itself in 6 years I would jump at it. As a matter of interest how much would your scheme cost? PS I'm absolutely green with envy - I'd love my own hydro scheme.
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    Perhaps when the lightening hits it heats the tree to such an extent it vaporises some of the products in the wood that burn?
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    Tbh, I don't get this at all. I don't think it's any secret where the trees are. Anyone going to the forest will find the trees... They are massive...
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    I've been in the same boat. If you can hammer the deer for a few years the trees might grow big enough so they aren't susceptible to deer. However for a guaranteed result shelters are the way to go. I know they are expensive but you can reuse them...
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    One of the tourist attraction in California is a redwood with a road through it. You can actually drive your car through... The tree looks alive to me. Chandelier Drive-Through Tree (Leggett, CA): Address, Phone Number, Top-Rated Point of Interest & Landmark Reviews - TripAdvisor
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    Thoughts???

    matelot replied to hamdogg's topic in General chat

    I can't wait until the new Land Rover Defender comes out. I used to have one, it was a bit of a beast and the fuel consumption was awful. But I did love it... If the new one had ok fuel consumption I would consider one.
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    Are national parks in the USA not huge? I can't see human impact on them being massive...
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    How many trees are you talking about? Is there any gorse etc nearby? You could cut the gorse and put it against your trees to keep the deer away.
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    Perhaps people visiting the trees is a good thing as it means they will lobby politicians to look after them more? I've been to some amazing world wonders. Should I have been prevented going because my presence would have damaged them slightly?
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    How about working out a price for the work and then adding on 10%? If you get the work give the 10% to a tree charity.
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    I love burning "small stuff" in my parents open fire. It just seems a cheerier fire. It might be my imagination, but the smaller stuff seems to spark less. Would it not be cheaper to use a branch logger compared to a chipper? I can't help thinking the logger would use less energy and the logger would be easier to maintain compared to a chipper.
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    I'm a buyer of firewood. I'm not trying to pick an argument, but when you professional firewood sellers give your relative prices for softwood/ hardwood the hardwood always looks better value.... The calorific value of wood is fairly constant at circa 5300 kWh per dry ton. However the density of beech is about 50% to 100% more than spruce... A builders bag of spruce would really have to be half the price of a builders bag of beech before it became better value... Like others here I would love if we burnt more spruce. Wood Densities http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FC-BEC-InfoSheet-Wood-as-Fuel-TechSupp.pdf/$FILE/FC-BEC-InfoSheet-Wood-as-Fuel-TechSupp.pdf
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    We'll never know when the amazingly hot HR girl offered treatment for his condition he resigned. eggs, I laughed at your ex colleague
  22. matelot
    It is an OCD compunction for some people... My employer offered him treatment for it, but he resigned instead.
  23. matelot
    The weirdest workmate I ever had had an OCD compulsion to "pleasure" himself when he was sat at his desk in an open plan office of about 50 people. When I first met him I shook his hand... it still makes my flesh crawl.... Has anyone ever had a weirder workmate?
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    Does anyone else remember getting ready to go to the newsagent to buy a porno mag? For me i would have to go to a newsagent a bit far away (so I wouldn't face him the next time I bought a newspaper). I would also have to get my money ready so I wasn't messing about with my wallet with a copy of Fiesta on the counter. Before I went into the shop I also had to check behind me to make sure no one else would enter the shop. The amount of pints of milk I bought was unreal
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    My dad had some spruce cut last year. About 30 tonnes of oversize is just sitting there tbh, it wouldn't surprise me if it was there in 10 years time... The relative strength of sterling has a lot to answer for.

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