Steven P

Nanny states, health and safety at work, speed limits, clean air acts, and whatever else you might want to rant about, the rules are only added because enough numpties can't be trusted, have no common sense and have hurt themselves or others - often in the cause of cutting a few corners, getting there quicker or making a bit more cash from someone else. History often tells us that the rules were the right thing to do. Seat belts for example have been shown to save drivers lives... but it is true that when they were introduced more pedestrians and cyclists were killed because the drivers felt safer, drove quicker, but the drivers calmed down after a few years and end result is fewer deaths. ..and yes, it is one of the lines I remember, at the station, and they replied in English, back they went again

Ahh, should have said UK gas prices.... I read somewhere once that UK houses were traditionally built to be leaky - loads of ventilation because we heated with gas and open fires. Leaky houses are easier since the is less build up of carbon monoxide and a mild climate with cheapish fuels this was OK. Look at installing a stove, houses built before a set date (as recently as the late 2000s?) don't need to be checked for air leaks - it is assumed that they are. I bet that in Europe and Scandinavia the homes will need to be checked regardless (though I don't know, google wasn't as helpful as often is). Harsher winters makes poor insulation a bad thing.

Air source heat pump prices - you are comparing an electrically heated house with a gas heated house.... you need to compare like for like, electrically heated vs. electrically heated and there you will find air/ground source heat pumps are cheaper. Not everyone has a gas supply, but gas costs 1/3 of electricity for the same heat? Solar panels, wind mills or whatever you can do at home, lose out a lot if you export the power when you have to much and import it again when you need it (say you sell at 10p/kwh and buy at 30p/kwh), if you can use the power directly you gain more, so a battery needed or do heating with it as and when you can (even hot water)

Think restriction to the speed limit can be dangerous - we are not all brilliant drivers and some sometimes make mistakes - say overtaking a slow vehicle, car, horse where you are completely on the other side of the road, mis-judge the gap and have to accelerate to get past safer (obviously not safely because you wouldn't be in that position in the first place but...). Limit yourself to the speed limit and you don't have that option. Can't argue against speed limits, without them we'd have people doing 70 or 80 through towns, but got to apply the correct limit to the correct road. In Glasgow for example 20mph city centre applies equally to the road past a school as it does to the main road along the river (which is almost a dual carriageway, just needs a central reservation and barriers along the pavement)

Think I am the same as most here, I am in charge of the machines, when the machines are in charge then we are in -need Sarah Connor- trouble

Nessie will of course scarper and hide with all the human activity going on to find it. Come back out later after the Nessie hunt has ended

Depends on what time you have then, a simple saw horse, X supports made from pallet and the supports spaced the correct distance apart for each cut along the log. Put log on, just move along it cutting - better then a log table I think where you'll get enough over the end to cut 1 log else it tips off the edge. Supports don't have to be X shaped, half pallet stood upright with the top half of the middle stringers taken out as an H will work too

Just been looking and that was my next question!! Though for just the carb, not a lot of pressure (or suction, depends which side you are looking at), I was going to go about 0.5mm - see what the motor spares shop has tomorrow.

Thanks, just out of curiosity I might have a go then

Likewise with big steam engines and my dad (and I did a few too) - though with these the flanges were fixed, knock out one bolt hole, bolt the gasket material in place and do the rest. So for my next question, how to resurrect a flat carb....

There is another thread, in the last week about selling a sole trader business, part of the value in that is the contact and client list. Perfectly legal. Imagine the old boss retires in a company, it would be expected they give a handover and introduce the new boss to all the clients. Same thing and happens the world over all the time,. (Might be a different thing - which in this case I very much doubt - if your contact details is anything more than address, phone number, e-mail, your more recent order history, and your credit status)

Putting back together a hedge trimmer and I know I can get the carb gaskets. Just my curiosity, can you buy a sheet of gasket materials to make your own? and what would it be. Or not worth the hassle, stop being tight and just buy some? (in the next year got to service the other hedge trimmer and I know that needs at least 1 gasket, not sure about the leaf blower that is next on the list to look at, suspect it might too - could be wanting to buy a few, or make a few. No rush to get them back in service so can take the time to make something up if needed - working on the n+1 principle of how many tools I need)

Suspect though that you mostly have a fire rather than slumbering logs which is less sooty - a few good hot fires helps a lot keep the soot down I find

I think that this will be common with a lot of health and safety related things, there is no specified maximum. Hypothetically, you'd need parameters on that so you can say you conformed with what was written. Imagine it says "8m/s at 5m above ground level at the base of the tree" but what happens if the base of the tree is in a dip, 5m up you are OK, but then 10 up you are out the dip and the wind speed doubles... but you measured according to the words and are OK to go. Do you measure at the work site - the top of the tree - but then you all ready have climbed to confirm it is dangerous to climb. Second comment if it was specified and 'safe' some will go (or be 'asked' to go) but if it's tipping it down, wind says OK (at the top limit say), but with wet or icy branches? Has to come down to a 'competent person' making assessment on site I think with all the variables - which is in common with a lot of HSE things.

All he has to do is keep his head down and do nothing controversial, be less mental than Liz truss and less corrupt than Boris Johnson. Suppose we just need to wait till he goes proper fruit loop then ( I say from a position of despair, all Labour need is a leader with some charisma - any charisma).

Water companies use it every now and then so must be a thing

Not sure, I have bricks round my stove, the nearest normal plaster is just above it on the lintel and 10 year later is still gong strong. Perhaps the installer doesn't have the years of experience a plasterer would have to plaster heat resistant plaster>? Not sure, however the lady on the phone at Victas was able to answer a problem I had straight away, give them a call for advice maybe

Size... years ago there was a spate of UFO sighting, turns out to be night light hot air balloons. No terms of reference in the sky, but the wind blows the burner about making them 'dart about the sky really quickly'. Turns out Father Ted was right - those UFOs are far away, these hot air balloons are close. Nessie was famously a model but photo taken close up with no background to give scale. Same for big cats, you need a term of reference for size - so when you say things like single track road that gives more credibility. As above, there have been a few shot but that doesn't prove or disprove a breeding population - most of the sightings are adults but that makes sense too since the babies are often hidden away. Sitting on the fence with big cats Big foot however... IF you were in the US and IF you were out hunting and IF you accidentally shot one and IF you pit it into your truck you'd be set for life, the hunting types know this, and yet, none have ever had this kind of accident.... wonder why

Could also look at a heat resistant plaster rather than the stuff from the DIY superstores, give them a call and see Heat Resistant Plaster | Superior Refractory Materials | VITCAS WWW.VITCAS.COM Detailed specification of heat resistant plaster made by Vitcas ➤ Top quality and wide range of applications. Fireproof smooth finish ➤ Check our offer now!

If they are river loving trees they might want a little longer to season, however sounds like the best kind there is

Comment about big footprints, one of the comments about the Yeti foot prints is that as they thaw they get larger - the edge of the imprint works outwards, print gets bigger. However, for cats you'd loose the detail i think Plenty of footage of big cat attacks in cities - India mostly

Takes a long time to dry, can be quite smoky, and the smoke can be acrid - if there were other woods available I'd prefer them

All good and free better Scots pine for a softwood, a bit messy at times though Beech for a hardwood - though if I can get it. any thorn is good. Got an alder drying so will know this time next year if that is any good. Would give some a miss, I'd take most other things in preference to oak for exampe.

I must have missed that part on this thread....

Missed this one the other day.. - Big Cats in Britain - reckon there are a couple of pockets of them though like a lot of stuff never anywhere near anyone with a half decent camera (or a phone camera), just a 1kb 20 year old digital camera on its last legs. - UFOs (but not little green men on earth, just the people on the ground or pilots doing 900mph can't work out what a weather balloon looks like. Little green men somewhere else, yup, loads of them.) - Yeti (sort of, there is a big ape species yet to be identified by science, likewise, the 'little men' - a little ape species is out there) - Ghosts - wasn't sure whether to move this up a bit. A memory of a being exists I think however a sentient 'ghost' with a mind of it/s own like in Ghostbusters? maybe not. Getting less sceptical as I get older, perhaps a hope that I'll linger and not just stop. - A new world order... is the old world order of ££. The power behind the thrones is the cash that slips them a bung. Not a coordinated effort globally though - Facebook and Twatter arn't giving Putin wads of fivers, the Russian oil barons arn't giving Sunak or Biden the same (Trump maybe...) - Nessie - not as a big fish thing except on a Friday night.