Dan Maynard
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What you are seeing is fruiting bodies of the fungus, most of the organism is inside the wood and has been digesting away for a while. Yes it is the season for fruiting, not too dry or too cold.
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There seem to be various suppliers of non branded parts, are you saying you've emailed them and no joy? I wonder if you could buy something that's for a bigger stove and cut down, if you have a grinder. Otherwise it's make a pattern using corrugated cardboard and take that to a fabricator. Not too critical but smaller gap at the front, hang on the pegs at the sides, and reach down to the top of the firebrick at the back. My stove just has a rectangular piece of 3mm steel with single fold line.
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How did the saw get broken? Er, don't know, boss.
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I don't want this to be the start of everyone thinking I'm obsessed with soap, but I think the most choice was probably the 90s. I reckon this is likely to be because of all the coloured bath suites, so you could get soap in white, pink, blue, green, yellow to match the sink. You'd also get small round handbasin soap, small bar hand soap, and bath soap which were bigger. Multiply up all the combinations and there were shelves of it. Another example, Imperial Leather in your link only available one size in white, packs of four. You'd get hand and bath sizes, white and yellow, singles and four packs. Ah those were the days.
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No, its a battery not a capacitor. Seems there's plenty of the lignin just being burnt already so seems like a really good idea to me. Recycling afterwards should also be easier, is another of the problems with Li batteries.
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They finished a massive A14 road building project a couple of years ago and planted thousands and thousands of trees, almost all dead now. I can imagine them saying in Yes, Minister "Well we promised to plant a million trees, we didn't promise they would grow."
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All right, not totally gone - but look how much space is taken up by shower gel and pump soap. Rows and rows of it.
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Soap is one of the things in the modern world that confuses me. When I was young we bought bars of unbranded green or white soap, they were really cheap. Now it has to be shower gel or pump soap in plastic bottles, whilst we need to cut single use plastic going to landfill. The soap has gone off the supermarket shelves though, so clearly not enough people were buying it any more.
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Lot of mess there, also a lot of weight and potential for injury. Once you've had it cut up you can probably sell the wood on FB marketplace but don't expect it to cover cost of cutting and clearing.
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Yeah maybe so - I don't honestly do enough to get good. Normal tree reductions my thinking time has come down over years.
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I do apples with a silky too though, there's more thinking than cutting time for me and the precision of a silky is important.
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I'd have done it with a 261 but they'd all be cut a bit lower to the ground. I have to agree the 1/4" chain is where it's at for small pruning and that looks cheap as chips, but I have a Makita battery saw which does this job as is a professional tool. Only thing I don't like is looks like a small saw designed for homeowners to use one handed? Or do you have to keep hold of the back to make it work? Otherwise it's a recipe for left hand cuts.
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We need the area of the end of the bucket, if that can be made of a rectangle and a triangle (close enough) then well and good. You shouldn't need the angle finder, the area of a triangle is half of base x height - so pick which edge is base and put tape measure straight up to the top corner. If you can take a photo straight on the end, and measure one of the dimensions to get a scale, I can get you a pretty good answer from that.
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Tried www.sawmillers.co.uk ?
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Might be because it's forged rather than machined which would make it pretty perfectly symmetrical. I'd send the picture to DMM though, they are friendly people and you want it to be right before you hang on it.
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Given the amount of decay in the middle and significant growth of the columns at the side it's been like that for a while. I'd go for second opinion from someone else, ideally get a recommendation from someone you know rather than Checkatrade. Alternatively there might be someone on here close if you're prepared to give a rough location?
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Somebody posted a ramp supplier in the thread about going from trailer to back of truck recently.
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Chimney soot in roof drinking water?
Dan Maynard replied to Haironyourchest's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I guess the soot probably isn't marvellous but the dose is low, especially compared to a chimney sweep. Soot on toast is carcinogenic on some scale, isn't it? -
Possibly damage from planting, the tree has a column of dead tissue up that side. It's young and if everything else is fine then I would let it make its own arrangements, living wood will swell on each side of the stripe and close it over.
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I don't get this, you want to keep the dead tree? Until when? Until the roots decay and it falls over? Until it's a pain in the backside removing a dead tree? Why not remove the tree now, killing it only ends one way?
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Seems to me the axiom is useful on the macro scale, say if you stand back from a tall spruce and look at the stem tapering thinner as it goes up. Doesn't work for detailed analysis of complex shapes. There are parallels in science, thinking of Hooke's law and springs, or Ohms law and electrical resistance. Useful "laws" for understanding how things work but plenty of things they don't apply to. I think it's the job of scientists to keep arguing and trying to increase the detail of theories to cover everything. They end up with stuff like quantum mechanics, later on engineers pick out what's useful to get things done in the real world. So I'm waiting for stuff coming from Duncan Slater et al to be filtered by time, until we can see what is useful.
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Over wintering cattle in a forest.
Dan Maynard replied to Mrblue5000's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I felled some fairly young ash and lime which had been ring barked by cattle on a farm, so they can cause damage. However the cows in this case were really hungry as they weren't being fed enough in summer while grass not growing - the guy renting the land was kicked off due to the general mismanagement so in more normal circumstances I'm sure not a problem. -
We're going in circles aren't we, need George Osborne and his austerity program to balance the books. Also, the last three PMs have failed to actually sort out Northern Ireland position in Brexit so the phrase "get Brexit done" still haunts the next one. The Boris effect is absolutely shocking, he did so much in power that other PM's would have resigned for that he created a whole new lower standard. The fact that he's managed to shrug all that off and even remotely be in the frame is just astounding. But I wouldn't bet against anything right now.
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Fair enough, there is. Seems to me unlikely the TO could prove it was over 75mm and hence that S211 actually applied, I'm intrigued by this because I've definitely cut down trees that are close to the margin and wondered how it would be enforced. This probably not a legal argument you want to get into, but all the cases I find online relating to CA prosecutions are much bigger trees where there is no doubt. If the TO has already been told it was over 75mm then I guess there is an admission, so it becomes a discussion about what 'appropriate size and species at the same place' means in a legal sense. Same place = same address?
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Emperor's New clothes I guess, it is a stupid idea but nobody dares tell the prince. Distance between places is worst possible case, whole thing would just be one big queue. They'll be finding out about logistics when they start building.
