Steven P

Yeah, with logs that size it will eat through the batteries. They're generally good for anything less than the supplied bar length, 10" or so? If you look at the thread I linked too, I think the suggestions in there might be useful for you. Something like the Stihl MS261 (with 16" chain, rather than the 18" option that is often suggested) - assuming most of the logs will be on the 2' side of things rather than 3'. But for that kind of work your budget will be similar to what was asked there,

See the thread below yours (as I am looking it is anyway), first chainsaw. Why do you want to go from battery to petrol? What is the issue with the battery saw? What size of wood are you wanting to cut? If the wood is too large, can you split it before you cut cut it? Do you have a budget? Does your existing chain saw have a sharp chain on it? You could get many answers, a few more details will help us to narrow down what saws might be suitable.

However for used, all depends on the source, ebay and similar could be fantastic bragains, could be full of hidden issues that were never mentioned - I'd be more inclined now to get one I can see and see run. A dealer should be able to start a saw for you. However if it is going to be a work saw, I would go new, you know its history then and that when you turn up for work it will run when you want it to.

I believe in the best tools for the job, so get one that is suited to your needs. but for that we need to know what your needs are. What are you wanting to use the saw for? What is your experience with them, and do you have a preference to use petrol, electric or battery (all depends what you are going to use it for and where). Does your budget also have to include the relevant PPE, things like a chain sharpening kit and fuel cans as well, or is that on top of just the saw cost.

Well, this one was hilarious, "make a wish" Trump has been awarded a FIFA peace prize. You might ask what a FIFA peace prize is... it is a special award for really really big and brave presidents for being really really special. Or... it is FIFA understanding how cheap a bung needs to be to get what they want with the world cup in the US next summer. Award was created this year, never one before and apparently not even the board of FIFA knew of its existence either. Special brave boy, for being really really brave....

If you have all the materials to hand then the dead hedge is reasonably quick to construct, there are a couple of threads on here (I think) with some others have made. Only ever done short stretches, last one was about 30' using a trampoline for supports - couple of hours to make that but most of the materials there to start with (curved shape so a little more work than a straight one). You'll also want to factor in some time over the years to top it up.

Am just waiting for this years map "Yellow Snow" warnings.

It is something that men 'don't talk about'... when in reality we should! Once you talk to others about depression you realise it is not something that you are alone in suffering from - a great first post to bite the bullet. There are many many resources out there that can help, I think AndysManClub was mentioned on here a while ago also. Somewhere there is a solution that works for everyone. Second thing I was going to mention is that there is no single cause, and it is often the little causes that no one notices - a relationship break up for example, all your friends will call to ask how you are doing. A heavy work load for a month? No one is going to phone "I heard you were too busy, how are you feeling" (as an example). Perhaps we shouldn't wait till a friend has broken before we ask how they are? Perhaps we should take away the filters in our mind when we do ask and listen better to the reply we get given? Hoping that having taken the first steps, things get better for you soon.

So what you're saying is... take a pheasant, boil the shit out of it, and in another pan make a decent curry sauce and have that instead? Add chicken if you want meat in it.

They have had their 9:30 cup of tea from the trolley, next round I do will be at 9:45, so got loads of time. However you are detracting from:

Guys, we a fcking idiots, she was on the Andrew Marr show last in 2019, how come that didn't register with our conscience in 2025? Obvious now who she is. Edit: And was a journalist with the newspapers before 2016 when she joined Sky... Google tells me so. But are you cross threading your upset at the world again JonsonD?

It is a bit scary Mark for the kids, we push them into education, train them to do stuff and computer takes on all they can do, leaving them and their degrees with the only jobs being flipping burgers and cleaning hotels.

So the obvious questions are where are you and have you put your details into the tip sites (Link above)

.. which I think is an increase of about 5 billion since he took office this time around. Not bad work if you can get it. That jet is in the library after his time, I am going to get my library card and borrow it for a month.

Perhaps that goes back to what I was saying earlier though, they have cut car emissions (and others - heavy industries in the middle of towns for example), so that while there was always that factor of wood smoke - and brake and tyre emissions they have become a more significant portion of air pollution... though yes I believe that with heavier cars there will be increasing. On the flip side of course, with electrical car regenerative braking perhaps the brake thing is something they will let slide and it will naturally decrease as we all get electric vehicles? Still got to worry about tyres though. There is no need for a SUV in a city. I forget the number but the average footprint of a car has increased by 10% (? I think) over the years - or as my nan put it "car parking spaces are getting smaller" (no nan....) Edit: Sorry - just blanked the link you posted saying the same thing I just did

Yes that has happened - a few comments on this forum to that extent also. 'Kiln dried' being the consumers expectation, many of the smaller producers and suppliers cannot do that or justify doing that. But that is the same with all adverts though, nothing to do with stoves, got to be able to substantiate your claims (in the UK terrestrial adverts at least, not sure about online) Not sure that will be a retrospective thing though, back to how they would police it... a once a year Christmas fire unless you are dragging the inspectors out on Christmas day? Though yes, if the price was acceptable I would have had one installed too. Yes, not a lot of electricity use... if that bothered me I would be training the teenagers that light switches work on AND off !

Can't ban open fires unless you are willing to spend, lets say £2k in every house that has one to remove it and the chimney (to prevent it being opened up again after), and redecorate (also to include those with wood burners fitted to prevent them being taken out and an open fire being used instead). Easier to control the sale of new burner... though they could of course encourage installing a more efficient stove instead of an open fire somehow. The logic kind of applies to cars - not banning older less efficient vehicles but any new ones have to meet mre stringent minimum standards

Yes I think if the earth can turn leaves and dead fish into oil and coal (with time, heat and pressure) then surely it can do the same with plastics that are halfway there as they are. Fungi - a thing on the TV last night, they can do something with some of them to make an equivalent to wood, takes about a month to grow the fungi, rather than 30 for trees, they are our friends, and not just for breakfast.

Sounds like more to the story. Vaguely passed it in yesterdays new I think.... suspect they went in mob handed because she has a history with kicking off at the police.

Yes he provides gun and ammo, no centralised funds to pay for them.

Apart from the football, this is going to happen more and more often, people taking social medias as the truth and bypassing any checks - there are a few good examples out there. My favourite this month was an AI thing that read over 2 columns in an article and invented a new disease and I think then went on to find a cure for the disease it had invented! No human checks.

Jumping back on topic for a moment, for which I do apologise. Back of my mind from last time around. The issue with the wood burners are the fine particulates in the soot, not carbon and so on. These are like what comes out of diesel exhaust fumes, get into the lungs and that causes the problems. Greater issues in towns of course - as mentioned above, the once a year fires on Christmas day using petrol station 'dry' logs that have sat in the rain for the last 6 months, waiting. So more efficient combustion means there are few fine particles up the chimney. If I remember right from a couple of years ago when the Tories wanted to do the same, it is more of an issue now that car exhausts are cleaner, catalytic converters, and electric cars where the combustion is a long way from towns in the power stations, that the wood smoke particles are becoming more significant in the mix. Not more than there were 10 years ago, just everything else is reducing. With micro plastics, once in the body we don't know what will happen with them but we have had centuries of experience with smoky fires. Digression to the topic, but micro plastics... every plastic thing that wears out leaves micro plastics. I wonder how long the world would clean itself though, for example this generation of fish consume great numbers, die, fall to the sea bed taking the plastics with them, gets buried with sand. Same with us, we consume them, die, get stuck in a hole somewhere and they are buried. So if we fixed the problem today even if they have a 'half life' of a thousand year a good portion might be under ground by then... though what cost to wildlife between now and then?

weird, for all the things out there slating Trump, I rarely see art - the world has changed, video clips, ticktocks and twatterings - the quick fixes, but it takes a special effort to create proper artworks.

Little difference between that and a garden bonfire, and little difference to the heating of the house too.