Steven P

Last time it was this high it took about 20 years to reduce it to a more sensible level.

Some places will, talk to the local tree surgeons near you. I have one who had a yard to tip in, let me have access as and when (I think he had problems, has since locked the gate at nights), but was a mix of softwoods, with the occasional hard wood thrown in. Another has a yard and charges something to fill up a car or will deliver for another charge - got to know who is local to you (not everyone uses this suite either)

Yup, the tip site is a good tool, as mentioned above, generally those who often work in the area have sorted out what to do with the waste. Those who only occasionally work in the area need somewhere to tip.. so what you can get depends very much on who is working locally. Chainsaws however are hard to hide once they are running, you can hear them, and a lunchtime walk around (at least here) 1 day a month I can hear one going - suppose that would be within 1 mile of the house - if you aren't disturbing the work a quiet word can get you results. The other option is to talk to the local tree surgeons directly, they might make a note of where you are and if your house is between their job and their regular tip they might detour to you - especially on a big job with more than 1 truck load of logs to take away (if you save 1/2 hour round trip it might be worth it, they can do the job and finish early for the day). It works if what you have benefits them as well and if what you have is a nice bottle of wine or 2, a few beers or a handful of fivers then so be it.

... you mentioned them first and their abilities... ( a quick English Language comprehension lession "Despite their breeding" was a comment on their parents (you) and "the kids are competent" was the comment about the children which is no way derogatory )

You need an early nght I suspect if that is tonights best example of the shining whit we come to expect from you. "Despite their breeding, my kids are surprisingly competent at presenting data in a clear and concise way"

Here is an interesting graphic. I'll apologise, I've been using excel to annotate it to make it clearer, also from the commons library. Covid hasn't happened by the end of the chart Pre-covid total government debts

If one was to only read a one sided press rather than broadly reading, they might have a skewed view of the world. Similarly if one was to only comment on crimes so long as criminal only matched a criteria then the narrative they want to create is as equally unbalanced as their reading. So in the interest of balance.... here is a White Scottish man who is also a murderer. Quite brutal too as it happens. It happens... (going for 5 and 6 tonight (see the post a week or so ago) 5. Monopolising conversations 6. Impatient, angry, unhappy, depressed or has mood swings when criticized ) Man pleads guilty to murder of woman in Aberdeen - Police Scotland WWW.SCOTLAND.POLICE.UK Police Scotland Aberdeen North East murder Christopher Cook Jacqueline Kerr

thought they were also getting a nice healthy £350 million a week extra bonus too

If you are trying to get the forum to bite then you are failing miserably I think. As I said above they are generally a good crowd here, and so far apart from being curious what you did to the saw have shown no malice... however the other way around..... Glad to see you have a resolution that sounds pretty good to me.. and now you have that, perhaps you could treat us to story time and tell us what you did in the first place (I assume from the defensive -embaressed sounding- nature it was more than just forgetting the 2 stroke oil - which to be honest most people will have done at some time)

I wonder... there is a war starting up in one of the more unstable regions of the world, where the UK just happens to import 3/4 of its oil imports from. I wonder if that is related to anything.

... not quite understanding this forum.... come back saying a lot of answers (and probably this one) arn't worth reading... and then asking another question... Assuming it was in the first place I'd be saying for repair purposes though if it looks as brand new as you said when you'd bought it that sounds very quickly damaged by a previous owner which s what you inferred earlier

almost by coincidence... (that's one for the conspiracy theorists out there)

Used fuel rods with couple of hundred years monitoring, repackaging as the steel, grout and glass ages, and decommissioning the power plant is far far cheaper than an annual inspection to a wind turbine? OK.

Just a general comment on this forum, on the whole a friendly bunch with very little malice, but very easily distracted from the original question - being defensive and argumentative with them isn't going to get your original reply, but they will dig in till you answer what they asked if you do. They arn't there wanting to judge but are curious what the situation was why you opened the saw. To me either the saw was well underpowered, perhaps compared to another brand new saw of the same model so curiously you took a look (but not after a few months), badly tuned doesn't sound right since you'd go to the carb for that and the last option is a repair - you have bought the parts you thought you need and they don't fit. Fair to say I would go with user error, damaged cylinder or piston. Most of us have damaged something or other by mistake. Curious when you said the saw was assembled for you - I haven't bought many new and assumed all you'd ever need to do is put the bar and chain on, nothing suspicious about that, my dealer sells them 'ready assembled' too - something in the back of my mind that the Stihl dealers are required to demonstrate the saw working to you? Something like that.

Thanks - I think I looked last winter when they were similar, gas prices have dropped a lot then!

Seasoned wood doesn't mean too much sorry to say unless they have specified that the wood will be at or below a set moisture content. You might also find shopping around that there is no specific quantity for a 'load', 'builders bag' 'ton bag' 'm3' either.. so if you find a supplier that you are happy with at a price you like I'd stick with them. Logs can't be sold by weight else you will always get them at the higher level of moisture when they way more. For the dehumidifier.... every kg lighter that your logs become is a litre of water evaporated. However a dehumidifier according to the internets uses between 0.5 to 1kwh to remove 1 litre of water... removing 7% moisture could be 30 litres in 1m3, plus whatever household moisture it removes... so say 50kwh per m3.. which isn't insignificant and perhaps explains the advice above to dry outside (numbers from my head, might be off a bit). If you just throw the logs in the coal store as they are then long term (more than this winter) you will be making problems. Last point here is that you will get creepy crawly things coming out to play too.... So for your problem, drying the logs, if you can stack them outside then that is good. Try to find a spot where the wind will blow along them. I tend to stack mine maybe 1 1/2m high (or more) for however long I have logs... and the key point for the winter - 2 or 3 logs deep with the inner logs against the house wall. No cover on the top. So the winter wind will blow through all the gaps between the logs taking the drier winter air with it (winter air has less humidity than summer). The outside layer will get wet, the top 2 or 3 layers will get wet but the others will shed any water that trickles in the stack and will dry more than getting damper. Half way through winter (February sort of) I restock my dry logs with the inner bottom corner of the log pile and that seams to work OK - and restack the damper ones outside, some years some of these also dry enough.... if that makes sense. 20% moisture content....in all serious 22% isn't going to do much different apart from being a bit more fuel hungry as it dries that 2% off in the fire and not the atmosphere (I am never sure about putting logs near the fire to finish drying.... the energy is still being used). If needs must then you can even burn them at 27% but.. you will use more (and it will cost more then). The manufacturers specify 20% or whatever because to sell the stoves they have to demonstrate the stove efficiency and emissions which is easier to do at a lower moisture... so that is specified to keep them right. For your seller, you could give them a call and tell them that they are not up to scratch as firewood. I suspect the answer will be similar to "we never specified them as 20%" or "we test our logs and everyone we have tested have been at 20%, though it might be the ones you got didn't dry as well as these, sorry!".. but for a refund.... good luck! All said and done, kiln dried logs are a bit cheaper than gas but that equals out with the extra hassles, split and unseasoned will be cheaper again but an added hassle and straight off the back off the back of an arb truck an extra hassle (cutting, splitting, drying) probably the cheapest but most work. Collecting logs yourself, 5 car loads to the m3? still be paying out maybe £10 in petrol to get 'free' logs depends how far you travel - have you put yourself on the tip site (link above), you might get some logs dropped that way and perhaps that £10 a m3 petrol money could find its way to whoever is dropping them off - £5 notes or a nice bottle of wine and couple of beers appear to be the going rates

I think cost will be put down as 'profitable' and 'cheaper per MWH than lifetime nuclear', which brings it to a commercial and the prices paid will be a commercial agreement, whether the various parties make a profit or loss is also a commercial decision.

Don't they just move them along only if they are asked to, with the landowners permission they can stay (so long as the landowner has the relevant permissions and facilities in place for a longer term stop - water, refuse, toilets and so on)

Doesn't appear to be stalling the investments though: (The wind turbines that the article above is talking about are only 1/3 of the cost in an offshore windfarm (see below), say a 10% increase in costs to make the manufacturers profitable would only add about 4% to the total project cost (if you account for financing and so on, it will be more than just 10% of 1/3 increase). World’s largest offshore wind farm generates power for first time off UK coast | Politics | News | Express.co.uk WWW.EXPRESS.CO.UK The new project will be able to power around six million homes when it is finally finished in 2026.

Consistency helps your arguments. Either it be beyond religion or it is all due to the "religion of peace" or whatever you call it. In this case religion is just the excuse, rather than the cause.

i was recommended boron by the pest controller - said I could do it myself with no special requirements (the manufacturer said the same though I did put on goggles and a mask when crawling upside down under the suspended floor) It is also fire retardant (I checked this - well, you would wouldn't you) the supplier looks like they are going for more lignum based treatments now. Not sure what surface treatments you could use, apparently varnish will prevent some things, not sure what other things you could use (and of course, if it gets scratched there is a weak spot)

One thing about changing prices, there is a sweet spot before renewal date for the best price, too early and it is high, too late it is high. I think it is a couple of weeks early. Might be that getting closer to the insurance start date is making the difference, change the date by a week might make a difference - do day insure to get the car home and park on the drive maybe

<insert and forum member name here> PeteB wants to call you.....

I guess my next comment might be is how big was the bag of white powder - a comment about electrolytes above (apart from that perhaps better to belong with his lunch), they are quite large bags, drugs, quite small bags and easy to tell apart? Large bags of illegal drugs brings a whole new world of pain for you of course.

This is true, but there is a lot of work in those sectors too