Steven P

oooh, they don't like solar down south, cannot fathom that you can grow sheeps and cows underneath them "they take away productive farming land".... though of course I think every office block should have then installed (large flat roofs, often a transformer in the basement to export the power to the grid, add a circuit breaker in and jobs a good one)

Just checking the title of the thread.... We need one 'Argument Clinic' maybe? "I'm sorry, is this the 5 minute argument or the full half hour" Climate change... regardless of your belief into climate change and the causes I think we all accept that it is changing... even Trump seams to accept that, accusing windmills of causing cancer rather than trying to debunk climate changes. If you are considering areas drying out, the Sahara desert has got about 10% bigger since 1920.... which also kind of coincides with the exponential increase in world CO2 levels at that time... global warming? and well before the Aral sea. No one knows quite all the causes... and I think it is one system and each change will change everything also... divert water to cotton fields, sea empties, has an effect, CO2 levels rise from human activity, has an effect, but the world wide scientific consensus is CO2 is more to blame than anything (other gasses are more potent - cow farts - but there is less of them). I am happy to throw my hat into that idea... yes sea has an effect, but CO2 more of an effect. Going back up a step though, renewable energy - adding it here since it is all tied together (Trump bashing later if I get bored). The world has enough oil for 30 to 35 years (at the current rate of use) plus some that is not economic to extract just now (Wikkipedia)... it will run out but in that time Africa will want to electrify itself, come onto the WWW, rural China will want the same, Rural India... and all increasing demand.. oil is going to run out, coal is going to run out, we can cut down the Amazon for wood chip or we can become world leaders of extracting energy from outside the plant (ie the sun).... wind and solar mainly, maybe tidal or wave plus perhaps stored hydro, small nuclear reactors but the days of oil and gas is limited... and now is the time to change before everyone is and demand exceeds supply.. and then your poor granny will be freezing! Second comment is a repeat of one I made before, the UK is at the mercy of the worlds 'stable' nations for oil supplies - Russia, North Africa / Middle East, Central Africa potentially... not sure I want to be held hostage by any of them over my electricity prices. Well known for their current mentally stable leaders. Back to Trump anyone? Yes back to the topic, I'd be more inclined to believe that Harris is more sympathetic than Trump-in-the-Texas-Oil-Barons-Pocket to renewable energy, and has a more global outlook on the world that perhaps they can also become world leaders in renewable energy rather than following the Chinese (who incidentally also installed the most renewable energy last year). Be happier buying European or US windmills than Chinese ones... but that means we need to take a lead and do it ahead of everyone else

Ahh come one.. Liz Truss?

Mind, quite a profitable business that the Torys encouraged to grow through their policies isn't it? Last labour government there were non, now look, a decent industry.

Daily Stamer.... but well publicised BEFORE the general election with the tax rises that the Torys had set in place

half the price each step up the chain, delivered at £120, wholesale at £60, unseasoned rings at £30..... (but that makes my 20t worth of ash worth £240?)

Fire bricks, glass and rope seals are all consumables and available as after market stuff. Try to work out its original diameter - there are kits out there with rope seal and glue (you might not need glue, some do)

In the small tools game though it is a fair assumption. 1V and 500A (500W) is going to explode a battery with heavy wiring, 36V and 14A is going to be a bit kinder to the battery with more realistic wiring. With a 7AH battery, 14A will last 30 minutes, 500A about 1 minute... Volts to power is a fair assumption.

I haven't read this story fully but for the bus driver I'd assume the action would be the same as if they hit any parked car - it happens - civil action through the insurers unless the driver had been driving dangerously (not sure if all bus accidents need reporting to the police). For height, all bridges have a height marker, the bus driver should know the height of the bus so hitting a bridge is dangerous? No height marker on the MEWP and it is in a massive blind spot - above head height out of sight or mirrors.... so bus driver... insurance claim level perhaps. For the MEWP operator it wold be pretty obvious even to me (never having driven one) that you'd consider passing traffic in a risk assessment and that working at height should require the use of a harness (in my line of work, generally above head height, I know climbers are different). So either the risk assessments had failed to spot 2 fairly major things, the operatives didn't get a sight of the risk assessments (RA done, saved, filed away, safe), or the site supervision was lacking to allow both things to happen and from what it sounds the worker didn't have a harness to start with. I think that is what the fine is for - the failing in the system to allow the MEWP to be in a position to be hit and no PPE with perhaps no or poor risk assessment. As for the road - it is a road skirting a housing scheme (estate), 30 limit but.... with narrowed sections and speed bumps, Glasgow council road which means pot holed to buggery as well. It can be like a giant slalom avoiding everything and perhaps the bus was nearer the kerb than usual to avoid other cars? Note also that the houses / flats side of the road had 'layby' parking that the MEWP was parked in not the main carriageway, you might not expect it to jut out into the road either. Not sure though.... but got to keep awake on that road. (As an aside, to the right is a park with the commonwealth games MTB course, a decent beech woodland (1m diameter trees generally), and loads of tracks to get away from it all, the estate used to be known as "little Beirut" a while back...) EDIT.... As a learning point we all know, if you are working on the side of the road, expect drivers to be idiots (not all) and take precautions to mitigate them. (Idiots... my road every now and then gets shut for works... and the number of drivers you see move the cones, ignore the signs and have to do a U turn is amazing for a quieter road, mitigate for these drivers)

Safer under Trump? He is the only president EVER where every foreign trip he went on was risking nuclear war.

If your knocking Trump don't forget the sexual predator and rapist bit.... which amazes me that any woman would still vote for him. Politics is one thing but when you are saying you support a rapist (and best buddy with Epstein of course, not that I am saying he did, or didn't, but he was genuinely impressed that Epstein 'liked them young'). Any other leader would not be anywhere near as divisive, would probably have survived the allocated 2 terms in office or would be a contender for an easy election win this time round... but not Trump

That's strange because the numbers from the internet are putting that number at about 1160 power plants ( Number of Coal Power Plants by Country 2024 WORLDPOPULATIONREVIEW.COM Have you been at the photoshop again because if you'd like when I get 10 minutes I can do one as well saying China has 387 copal power plants. Noting of course that against out 70 million their population is 200 times larger (which would give us an equivalent of about 6 coal power plants). But as above you are completely missing the point, again, that we shouldn't be racing to be the worst we can be and trying to compete at that level we should be striving to be the best and trying to regain our standing in the world as leaders.

Cheap cordless... what is the spec for that? My thought is if it is a 12V / 18V / 20V battery then probably underpowered from what you'd like but as you say fine if you have the time. With battery power it is all about the volts (more volts, same current gives more power). That is based on my experience of chainsaws - the good battery one is 36V and equates roughly to the Stihl MS181 petrol saw. My hedgetrimmers are about 28cc (semi-pro quality stihls), saw is 36cc... so perhaps Makita battery hedge trimmer might be OK at 20V... though go for as many volts as you can - Stihls are 36V?

China... did you miss the news that they installed the most renewable energy generation of any nation last couple of years? Pointing at another country and saying 'we arn't doing that because they arn't' could be seen as similar to driving down the motorway at 90 because someone passed at 100 - "I'm not slowing down because they are going faster" and trying to use that as a defence in court

Was going to say, HMRC rate is the expected fuel + depreciation + maintenance cost per mile - expenses - so a minimum rate. Short trips towing around an estate will be more expensive than a 200 mile motorway journey of course

... or only take the classic cars out mid summer when the lawn is hard and there is no need for a paved drive... A lot of other people would... Council have the last word so might be more inclined to use their suggestion - however you can always phone them up, talk it through with them rather than just what comes via a letter

Yes but that doesn't sit well with his attempts to politicise this thread.

Ahhh... the hard of understanding. Noting my comments do not refer to any criminals of any nationalities, or their crimes, just your preference to report ONLY those of the Muslim faith or non-white. Why do you only report those criminals on a website aimed at Arboculture?

No, you ONLY comment on coloured or Muslim criminals and never white Christians and that is the basis of your racism. All nationalities of all religions commit all crimes... but you only appear to get enraged by one portion of society committing them. Why is that?

Back to your casual racism then? It was quite pleasant on this thread without that however, free world, free speech and all that. "Facts"... lets look back at all the posts you have made highlighting criminals to see and see how many of them are about skin coloured people of the 'pale northern European variety"... fact of the matter is there are none and the fact is that you only comment on those that appear to be non-European or a non-Christian religion. Think those are the facts that YoungStu refers to, sorry if that doesn't suit but they are at the end of the day "Facts".

At the moment office stuff, but the numbers above are the sort of values they play with on their projects (I'm sure the last 'job' I mentioned was Monday nights in the club doing something odd)

I forget the numbers but my work runs on about 12% to 15% return on capital invested, I might be wrong but that gives them a payback time on capital investment of 6 to 8 years - your 3/4 years might be a bit quick?

Not sure about this one but is the back door attached to an extension? A few posts I've read about extensions having poorer foundations than the main house, and being positioned nearer existing trees than the main house... and the extension suffers (main house is OK though). Might be worth recording the condition of any brickwork you are worried about before she starts the work if it goes ahead (bearing in mind Stubbys TPO comment), plus internal décor and so on - just in case

15 year old lad just learning to climb trees and is operating a chainsaw up there... 'no photographs' is to cover his back - nothing illegal about taking photos in a public place. Your neighbour contracted (?) them so the waste is their responsibility regardless as whose tree it came from. They have to offer you the branches back but you don't have to accept of course, tell him to get Mr Tree to come back and finish the job professionally and clear up afterwards? Odd though, MR Tree from Lancashire is a "friendly and approachable company". His terms and conditions include this gem: 12. The site will be left generally ‘clean, tidy and safe’ but because of the very nature of the works including the production of wood dust from chainsaw / wood chippings / twigs / leaves and needles etc. and the traversing of site personnel, in extreme circumstances it may not be as it was prior to the commencement of works. Which sounds like your neighbour could withhold final payment till clause 12 is completed satisfactorily.

I reckon the supermarket things are a 50-50 good-bad mix (see my post about chain sharpeners). Looking at the market, £80 / £60 / 100 euro saw is for domestic one-off job I think, probably works well for that. Let us know what you think though (mind, chinesium bar and chain, plus 'made in Germany' chain oil, + delivery, £25? of consumables to stash in the shed after the year is up)