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  1. matelot
    why are you putting geotextile down? is the ground soft/ wet? I'm a civil engineer (speciality road construction), we generally only use geotextile when we are putting capping etc onto soft stuff (the stuff you can push a stick into). It might be cheaper to not use geotextile and use more stone instead? or even just top up the areas that sink with more stone. if the ground is only slightly soft I'd consider a geogrid instead.
  2. matelot
    the rental for those big wind turbines is about £40,000 a year. puts £20 a month into perspective.
  3. matelot
    I used to work for a company that were considering AD. One of the best fuels was "chicken heads", the image of loading your AD system with chicken heads has always stayed with me.
  4. matelot
    I agree with you. I also think that if we reduced the amount of golf courses/ horses etc we could produce a lot more food.
  5. matelot
    The Common Agricultural Policy only came about in 1962. I never knew that people in Britain were starving before that date? If Britain never starved in 1939-45 when the U boats were sinking shipping I honestly think we wouldn't starve if they got rid of the CAP....
  6. matelot
    it just seems wrong that a farmer with a business worth a couple of million gets subsidised by the taxpayer. we've watched other industries like mining and shipbuilding go to the wall, I don't see why farming should be different. I also think it's wrong that farmers don't have to pay business rates on their farms. How can it be right that small businesses like shops etc pay business rates and the multi million pound farm down the road pays nowt?
  7. matelot
    My mate got me a fake National Lottery scratch card, I thought I had won £100k. I phoned my mum up and everything They could be a good present for a secret santa...
  8. matelot
    My "mate" got me a fake National Lottery scratch card, I thought I had won £100k. I phoned my mum up and everything They could be a good present in a secret santa...
  9. matelot
    I had one for work. A Myvue 358 - £75 from Halfords. tbh, I don't really feel safe without having it on. It's good to know that if you do have an accident you can prove what really happened... It would also be good if you wanted it as a temporary CCTV system, my 8Gb SD card can record for 8 hours.
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    The EU just seems fundamentally against the UK's interests. We are net contributors by about £8 billion and we have EU workers coming to the UK and taking our jobs/ benefits/ health service. I'm a Civil Engineer, I've seen Greek/ Romanian/ French/ Polish civil engineers in the UK. But since few people in the UK speak a foreign language the chances of a British Civil Engineer getting a job in mainland Europe is effectively tiny.
  11. matelot
    Have a google for "yield class". It gives typical volumes of timber that is produced per hectare per year. Be aware that "yield classes" are normally calculated over a longer time frame than 20 years - obviously young trees will have a lower growth increment than older trees.
  12. matelot
    tbh, sending guys down a mine to extract coal seems Victorian to me. It's sad that centuries of tradition are dying out and communities will be devastated, but at the same time I can't help thinking closing coal mines is a "good" thing. On the bright side a lot of old coal mines are used as a power source - they extract methane from them.
  13. matelot
    perhaps starting a thread criticising an employee says something about your people skills? if I was an employee and read on a internet forum that my boss considered me useless I would be furious. It's not fair on the guy if his mates/ college mates read this forum and slag him off about it.
  14. matelot
    But with the £40k/year per wind turbine the landowner doesn't have to invest any money. The wind farm developer just rents a small square of land and gives the landowner rent. There's absolutely no investment from the landowner. Nice work if you can get it...
  15. matelot
    landowners get about £40k a year for each large windmill on their land. it wouldn't take many windmills to provide an OK return....
  16. matelot
    If the text is clear that the price is £25.50 I would be livid. How about going to the guy's boss? Just say you're uncomfortable dealing with someone that backs out on a deal.
  17. matelot
    what type of tube are you thinking of using? I'd have thought for 6,000 trees it might be cheaper using a deer fence instead?
  18. matelot
    the last ten seconds reminded me of the transformers.
  19. matelot
    I'd imagine pulling stumps off a hillside would leave the ground a mess and mean half the topsoil is washed away the next time it rains...
  20. matelot
    I understand you can shoot cats if they are over 200m from the nearest house. Something about them being classified as feral. I have to admit that I can't think of any other pet where it's "OK" for the pet to cr4p in gardens and kill wildlife because it's "natural".
  21. matelot
    nice idea about the small hole drained in the orange pipe to drain it before frosts. I've seen a good way to control the water level in a pond, you have a rigid pipe through the embankment side, then have a flexible pipe connected to the upstream side of the rigid pipe. You then move the flexible pipe up/down to control the water level. It could be an idea if you want to drain the pond for maintenance. Your wheelie bin staff holder looks more intelligent than a lot of chainboys I've come across
  22. matelot
    It looks really really good. But I can see some problems if there is standing water in the orange pipe and it freezes.. It could also be an idea to put some rock rip rap on the overflow from the duckpond - I've seen running water erode dam walls
  23. matelot
    I work in highways maintenance. As far as I know the Highways Agency farm out all their maintenance for the trunk road network. I'd try the companies below. Area 12 York-shire & North Lincolnshire A-one+, Val¬ley House, Val¬ley Street North, Dar¬ling¬ton, DL1 1TJ.Tel: 01325 389991 Fax: 01325 385777 Con¬tact: Andy Jamieson Area 13 Cum-bria, Lan-cashire, North Yorkshire Enter¬prise¬Mouchel, St John’s House, Man¬ches¬ter, M2 [email protected] 8386058 Area 14 Durham, Northum¬ber-land, North York-shire, Tyne and Wear Aone+ Inte¬grated High¬way Ser¬vices Val¬ley House Val¬ley Street North Dar¬ling¬ton Co Durham
  24. matelot
    Have a google for "yield class" it gives typical volumes that a Hectare of land will produce in timber a year (m3/Ha/year). Typically Sitka Spruce will have a yield class of 6 to 24. Oak will have a yield class of 4 to 8. The varying yield class depends on the fertility of the site/ altitude/ weather etc. I'd guess a rule of thumb would be softwoods grow twice as fast as hardwoods. There would be exceptions though, I'd imagine willow would grow faster than yew.
  25. matelot
    I grew up in the 1980's and remember Bob Geldof campaigning about the famine in Ethiopia. In 1985 Ethiopia's population was circa 44 million, in 2010 it was an estimated 92 million. I wish I had spent my pocket money on sweets rather than given it to Bob....

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