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  1. Puffingbilly413
    Any salary info? None shown at your link...
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    Didn't fancy a skip chain on a 36"? I've a full house on my 661 with a 36" bar and it does cut well but I sense it's on its limit when buried in hardwood. I'll put a skip chain on next I think to see the difference.
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    I guess for any kind of enforcement action then it's for a court to decide. Before it gets to that stage though it might just be two sets of solicitors (on the part of their respective clients) agreeing that the encroachment is indeed a nuisance. But once solicitors are involved then common sense and a reasonable attitude have probably left the building anyway.
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    For entry into someone else's property, the encroachment has to be deemed a nuisance in the legal sense IE it is causing significant issues in terms of enjoyment or use of property. And then you need to give notice of your intention to enter to abate the nuisance (which would give the owner an opportunity to address the problem first if they weren't already aware). That's my reading of the bits you've copied into your posts, which led me the conclusion you hadn't read it all or just chose to use the bits that supported your point of view. Regardless of all this, if a landowner says they don't want me on their property to carry out work then I won't do it. Granted, others might and they're welcome to it. I prefer an easier life.
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    You're not reading it all are you?
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    John I think you need to read the stuff you've posted more thoroughly. The circumstances where access to a neighbouring property to abate a nuisance are given quite clearly. The examples you've given don't quite support what you're saying
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    I have a few battery saws running 0.43 and a petrol top handle running 0.50. Even with the narrower gauge, the battery saws can't be forced through a cut - you absolutely have to let them cut at their own pace or they just cut out. I think upping to 0.50 would make that worse still. The petrol saws (well a T540xp anyway) have more guts and will manage a wider cut. Slightly different I know but when milling IE a rip as opposed to cross cut, a narrow kerf or low pro bar is much easier to get through the wood IME.
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    Assuming it went to court, what would be the basis of a ruling in favour of the neighbour? Could they do so for just encroachment or would it have to be for preventing reasonable use of property?
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    I don't disagree. But there is cheap energy and affordable energy. And then ridiculously priced energy which is what we have now. See Mark B's point re businesses going under because they can't afford their utility bills. These companies aren't consuming energy for the fun of it but because they need to in order to function. They can't simply pass the cost onto the customer as such a rapid price rise would just meant their services won't be bought. Pubs, cafés, restaurants are the obvious ones here.
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    It's not quite true that they match true inflation. They will go up by whatever measure the government/ scheme administrators choose to use. RPI v CPI etc. Any rise could end up being less than inflation. It's also being banded about that the triple lock might now be done away with as it's deemed unaffordable.
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    I think nationalisation in principle for a situatiuon like this is the ideal solutiuon. However, I don't think we have a system of government, civil service, public service or willing private enterprises that are willing or more importantly capable of implementing it. We don't have that and I can't see it getting there. There needs to be a balance between public service and profitability that seems to escape those doing things currently. For example, I'm all in favour of public transport being free at the point of use (or a notional flat fee / season ticket) and not to be a profit-making exercise - but it must be well managed to avoid being a money pit. And that is where most nationalised industries have failed in the past (here). Gorbachev might well be lying in his grave thinking oh shit what did I do.
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    There's loads but I won't hurt you any more... Apart from the fact that en route to burgling my washing she will leave the front door open, then the back and disappear without closing them. And we might not even be in.
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    She has a weird habit of just clicking on the kettle when she comes into the kitchen and then just does nothing with it. Mind numbingly irritating. Her mother comes into our house and takes partially dry washing off the line to take back to her house to tumble dry. I really don't have any words to describe how annoyed that makes me.
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    That is also true. We don't have a written constitution in the UK but mayble we should - or introduce one of some sorts to cater for this kind of issue. Make it a formal legal requirement to have all-party continuity through changes of government or better still, have cabinet posts for opposition party members to give balance. And mechanisms to police it. This all supposes some kind of maturity of approach on the part of MPs to work in a non-partisan fashion. Could we do that in this country? I know Churchill managed it but then was then booted out immediately post war.
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    Mark I couldn't agree more. Was just on the phone to my dad and he was telling me of a local to him small hotel that has seen it's heating bill go up over £100k and is now shutting. If you have those unavoidable fixed costs what can you do? Over time, yes maybe you can claw back through increased room rates etc but not overnight - and that's what these energy price rices represent in effect. Re government intervention - well that is part of any government's remit to intervene when there is a need. The problem is with such sticking plaster forms of intervention is that they're just trying to alleviate a problem rather than attempting to create a better system in the first place. That's the challenge for governent - make the system(s) work better in the first place rather than react to crises.
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    Aye true. Always loved Robert Carlyle as an actor too. Great cast all round.
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    Energy? Yeah I guess that's true depending on the means of production of that energy eg if it's genuinely renewable and low emissions etc. But if you're digging up your own peat bogs so you can sit in your eddie grundies and flipflops to watch the telly in January then less so.
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    Yep - loved it.
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    Noted m'lud. That could still be drug dealing though...maybe something like the 51st State?
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    In answer to the OP, we're now on £270 a month dual fuel. We have a heat pump which costs more to run per year than keeping 10 Downing Street in new kitchens, so I tend not to use it for heating and have our two stoves on all winter. I burn approx 12 cube a year of 'free' wood off our tree jobs. But of course it's not free as I need to process it, rent a yard to store it etc etc. But it feels free. We only have a gas hob, so our gas is about £150 a year. All the rest comes from heating hot water via the damn heat pump. I even have a lovely japanese cast iron tea kettle that sits on the stove but my mrs can't be arsed to wait for it so boils the electric kettle from full each time anyway and then forgets to drink her tea.
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    I must admit to being curious, but £370 for half an hour's work to me means you sell drugs or play professional football, or perhaps both. What is it you now do for a living? And how did you make such a transition from arb climber...? I also think that regardless of one's income, there is still a degree of environmental duty not to overly consume energy just because you can afford to. But that's a different topic entirely of course...
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    Also depends what the wood is. Some nice straight hardwood is going to be worth more effort perhaps than big knotty lumps of softwood. But even then like you say, if a free local drop or even leaving it on site frees you up quicker and with less fuel used etc for the next job then it makes sense to do that.
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    This is the thing with cypress hedges. If you've got the standard 6 or even 8" chipper then you spend so much time cutting the stuff up to feed it through you may as well put it on a trailer and tip it. But then the mash comes in and it never comes off the trailer. And it's usually when I've taken the battery off the trailer to charge/recondition and forgotten to put it back on. Lovely levely hedges.
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    Had one the other week... I want the whole row of 25 odd 20+m high leylandii 'hedge' out. But can you do them in half first as that will be cheaper. Er, no. That's a shit idea. Well quote it anyway. Ok here's a massive quote. I can't pay that. Well there you go then.
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    I don't think he meant you were the idiot - it's the owner of the muckle hedge that's the idiot...

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