Steven P

.. you might get an answer, but last visit 2014, I wouldn't hold my breath. However someone else might have something else suitable

There was a report this week over a full range of stuff and the total saving was about 2% compared to other times of the year and say the Christmas sales. Only a saving if you were going to buy the thing within the next few weeks anyway

Update to this - a crane took out a hawthorn hedge (1 bush only) so that will be for next year, but had some Alder earlier in the year - a few bits I tried before the rain started looked like they would be good to go, (Currently have a HC and Leyllandi on the drive to finish splitting, beech and alder stacked to dry and beech and some cherry to burn now, not enough, not sure which I am liking best this year yet). Oh and some more softwoods in the mix too

If I had the time I'd send a reply "I am interested, where in Penzance are you?" and see where the converastion goes. Probably seller goes on overseas trip and partner will post it,

I guess when I posted last that the discount supermarkets local to you had sold out of cheap leaf blowers? You might be in luck that the Americans Black Friday is this week, might get a cheap one then? Reckon under £50. You might comment that it is their tree and might have a point if the HA look after your garden and do the cleaning for you, but if you do the gardening and cleaning then I reckon cleaning up the leaves comes under your responsibility - same as my house, I make sure the access is maintained and kept clear for visitors safety (HA should be responsible for bricks and mortar, but the rest?)

Looking on the other side, the TV cop reality shows they often arrest suspects - usually when they are searching a car - apparently for their safety (so you don't hit them over the back of the head with a brick when they lean into your car), and so you don't leg it - though on the TV shows they always explain why and the innocent always end up sharing a joke. TV land, just like reality? This sounds over the top though

If it cuts out straight away then that suggests an earth fault - a faulty connection somewhere, a short circuit or something - which might be something to do with age. If it takes a while to trip that could be overcurrent - the motor for example taking too much current and eventually it trips. So earth fault. If you disconnect parts in sequence you should get to the part where it trips straight away. Disconnect the motor wiring, turn the power back on, if it trips then it probably isn't the motor. Go up a level, disconnect the thermostat and motor - a trip then it points towards the connector. If you disconnect the whole lot and it trips then that suggests the house wiring somewhere. A little time working out the fault will get you there and the part you might want to replace. Obviously you will both know that mains electricity can have a nasty kick to it.... turn it off, prove it is off, before you reach for a screw driver.

Hot water tank.... often seen as 'inefficient' because the heat escapes from it... but that heat escape is also heating a room in the winter, so it is like a small radiator. Only inefficient in the summer when you don't want to heat a room.... but will you use the immersion heater in the summer so no change there?

A joke not everyone would get..... but yes.

No, it's just that pesky 6% of the UK population that is going to take over Westminster. I'd be more worried about the 10% who are left handed, sneaking in their with their funny ways of writing.

I'm not an expert on this. So the sprocket is the driving force for the chain and so the part of the sprocket that you see will be compatible with the specified chain type - the list of makes above will be compatible with that bar and chain. What goes on in the hidden side of the sprocket is up to the individual manufacturer - might be different from make to make. Youtube reckons it takes 2 minutes to remove a sprocket (I suspect the videos were edited) - not a big task, so I might be tempted to remove it, and then you can measure up the sizes of the existing, give the above a call and see what they have (can't be too many combinations of diameters)

Sure which is what happens here, conversation goes on, if you think they are wrong you tell them, same as in the pub. Similar to the pub you wouldn't call the bar staff over and ask them to be thrown out just for a conversation you didn't agree with.

The Alder I had earlier this year didn't have a straight grain - split a bit and see.

I compare firewood prices to smokeless coal - if it's cheaper I'd consider it - prices went up last year but all the same, near £300 of firewood, about 10 bags of coal, or near 2 months heating - I think that crate is a bit much. However working it backwards, Garden centre takes 20%? retail to them is £230 for oak, which I guess is the same as if you went direct

That would mean we have to cooperate and talk to the French and Belgians, don't forget that we don't like them now since Brexit.

To be fair to the Mods here they let the conversation take it's course - if someone is being particularly obnoxious they'll react but different opinions are generally OK as is 'banter' or subtle name calling. Much the same if we were in the pub, the bar staff wouldn't throw you out for name calling.

Maybe we need an 'Immigration' thread for those who get overly excited by this. Going around in circles again and again. Go back a few weeks, I am sure I posted all the numbers which show what you say is a very biased -Daily Mail- view of immigration where the actual figure (if you care to look) show a different picture. Anyway, I did that to death here a short while ago - go back and read that, or maybe start a new thread and knock yourself out with the view of the world according to Nigel Farage and the Daily Mail.

I've been curious what the taste was like - got to strip the flesh off a lot of them to make anything worthwhile so I haven't got round to it yet.

Offering yourself to farmers and so on might then need insurance though. Catching up on this thread but the personal touch is always better than an e-mail. Might be that the owners read the e-mail in their lunch break, thinking "I'll reply to that later" and of course get home, home stuff happens, e-mail gets forgotten, the phone call, could get your name written on a handy scrap of paper in the van depends what they are doing at the time, the face to face is almost a part on an interview and harder to ignore - the type of thing that gets commented on at home "Had a girl come to ask if she could work today", where as unlikely conversation starter "Had a girl e-mail today". Luckily for now chainsaws are quite noisy - said before in the firewood forums that I can take a lunchtime walk round here and usually can hear work going on - which is ideal for the "Hi, I was passing and heard your saws..." approach. Similarly petrol hedge trimmers. Might be on a big job you could offer "I can come back tomorrow, do a shift and you can see my work ethics if you want"

To note for a garden though, Yew trees - the seeds and needles are poisonous so you might need to be aware of that if children visit.

Bark maybe? The thinner stuff has more in proportion to the overall wood

Not sure he will have the time left to do so - I know they can push things through quickly but to do the checks they need to stop them being taken to court -again- is going to take some time. With a General Election coming soon, and this idea is going to be unpopular with many, it needs to be done by maybe January so that the voters forget about it a bit, otherwise it will harm their election results.

Though all they might have needed was the invitation to go to London for a fight with the police regardless.

Called for the Demi-god Johnson to resign, Home secretary for Liz Truss, broke the ministerial code, resigned before being sacked, home secretary for Sunak, sacked for undermining him. A blemish free CV then? I was going to leave politics alone for a while and then look what happened, they reverted to form and their preferred competency levels.

Probably but given the whole country are aware of her views, and Sunak was no stranger to her or her opinions before he appointed her then the only change is the last week.... expressing her well known views isn't a sackable offence but undermining the boss is.