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That sounds horrible for everyone involved 😳

I assume he found a fix as the question was originally asked in 2009 and resurrected today!😂 He said he didn't want to have all of his staff to do chainsaw licences. I wonder if you got a chain made up with no cutting teeth if you would need a licence as it becomes a petrol powered planer 😂

You're probably better off without a decomp valve. My 261 decomp started leaking and realistically, if you cant fire over a 50cc saw without a decomp valve you probably shouldn't be using it 😂

Having had a kiss from an angle grinder before, that thing looks terrifying. Good for parmesan though!

Propagation: Root an Elm Tree Cutting | DoItYourself.com WWW.DOITYOURSELF.COM Rooting a cutting from an elm tree is a delicate process which has about a 50% success rate, because of the sensitive... That guide sums it up pretty well. Like I said, it's very easy! You will just have to spend a good amount of time potting it all up and putting them somewhere that's not bitterly cold. When I've done smaller cuttings before I've used a heated propagator but I'm not sure about height when using larger cuttings so a warm room would be best! IIRC the best time to cut them is around now anyway!

When you cut a board on your mill how much do you give extra for the final product? Say you want a 40mm finished board, do you cut say 55mm?

Never really knew that! Just accepted that I had constant new elm growth up to about 10 foot from the hedge, digging in that area I knew they were suckers that popped up but I didn't realise the seeds were sterile! Every day is a school day... 👍

If you have elm in the hedge it will fill the gaps naturally. One of my hedges is elm and it seeds everywhere, it grows out the grass and all sorts! Otherwise you can take elm cuttings and grow them. Take some cuttings, and put the cuttings straight in water so they don't dry out. Dip them in a bit of root powder and treat them like any other cutting, stick them in some potting soil and let them grow. You will probably only get around half of them propagate though as they're a little sensitive so cut double the amount you want. Don't over water them either as by adding a little less water the roots will grow harder to search for water

I can't imagine them saying "No you can't remove it" but I suppose it's a way of them monitoring it being done and insuring that damage isn't done to the tree in the process. There's nothing stopping them prosecuting you if you did damage to the tree in the process though I wouldn't have thought but it would have to be on them to prove that it was done without due care as in, they would have to prove that you caused unnecessary damage to the tree in the process? If someone goes at it with a chainsaw cutting rings around the tree and peeling it off in sections you're pretty guaranteed to weaken/kill a tree.

It all makes sense to me. The LA, I suppose, has ability to set their own rules for TPO trees as to additional local requirements on top of the basic laws the government set. I'm sure loads of trees have been butchered, cambium cut etc. I imagine people have run a chainsaw around to cut stuff off and effectively girdled a tree. The LA probably wants to ensure it's done properly and not by someone who's going to mess it up! Good for them...

If you're providing your own kit you will need two ropes and both will have to be lolered or under 6 months with receipts. Nowt wrong with XTC though.

I also find it fascinating how someone's life is worth a different financial value than a theoretical value. Take a 3 person household. Parents and child, Mum doesn't work and looks after the kid, dad provides for the family and the kid is, well, a kid. The highest monetary value life is the father as he's paying all the bills and providing for the family. If a life insurance assessor valued him it would be quite high. On the other hand, if we had the 3 people on a train track scenario and you could only save one, you would most likely choose the child.

If all life was worth the same then life insurance evaluators wouldn't exist where their sole job is to give someone's life a financial value!

Price wise I would say more than it would cost you to buy a pressure tester and some really basic tooling. Basic chainsaw repairs are very easy. Give it a good clean off and spend a day sat at the dining room table learning! Youtube has tonnes of videos about fixing saws. 2 stroke chainsaw engines are about as basic as it gets for repairs and learning to fix things like that helps with working out issues in the future, you could save £££ just by knowing basic stuff!

It depends on your additional training, time, position etc. My mum was a nurse then a midwife, my dad was a paramedic, combined they did over 75 years in the NHS. I have a lot of friends who are nurses and I know what they're on. I'm talking about basic nurses here with a few years experience doing normal hours etc. I.e the ones they usually drag onto the covid ICU wards due to the staffing issues. I don't doubt that a lot of nurses are on more, I just mean that most nurses they have at the moment are still new to the job and not long graduated. Not experienced nurses that have specialised as they are rarely seconded to the covid wards as they are usually playing a more vital role elsewhere.

Good luck finding nurses paid 35k... Most will be band 4/5 iirc which is more like 21-30k (minimum 4 to maximum 5). We could have paid the workers more, maybe even incentivised corona wards. Paid for more beds and basic kit and actually made it worthwhile for nurses to do it. Lets be honest, if you're a nurse working on a normal ward dealing with meds and patient care why the hell would you want to go and work on a covid ICU dealing with resus and dying elderly people all day. I don't want to turn this into an argument about covid but take a look at covid deaths by age on ONS.gov: Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics WWW.ONS.GOV.UK Provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, by age, sex and region, in the latest... Most of the people filling up NHS ICU wards with covid are extremely elderly, with lots of underlying conditions that all need extended care/therapy. The NHS running out of space is extremely worrying. I don't want to be "that guy" but we really need to lock up the elderly (75+) and not allow people to bubble up with them and visit them. My worry is the NHS is going to be overwhelmed with elderly bed blockers that mean someone who's say 35 can't get the help they need. Most people in the UK are already on a tight budget, take a family who has two kids, both parents work to pay for the mortgage and the unbelievable amount of bills. Suddenly the 35 year old husband gets covid as he has to be out working and takes badly to it but is unable to get the care he needs because the ICU wards are underfunded, they don't have enough beds, they don't have enough staff and they don't have enough equipment and he dies. That's 2 kids growing up without their dad and a wife who's left alone looking after the family and trying to pay all the bills by herself. All that because someone thought they need to regularly see their parents/grandparents. Don't try and tell me it's not the elderly that are the issue, if it effected everyone the same we wouldn't be just vaccinating the over 70's.

I fit outside the original furlough scheme, not because of "dodgy dividend schemes" (which aren't dodgy) but because I did my PAYE on an annual basis as my work was on/off depending on seasons, aircraft schedules etc so I didn't have a true monthly income. Annual PAYE made more sense because of variable income but it also eased accountancy costs due to less paperwork. My mum on the other hand is retired but is also an acupuncturist as her retirement pay is quite low. Because of her pension etc she wasn't able to claim anything from the SEISS scheme and she was forced not to work by the government which I find completely out of order. I also have a friend who is a carpenter, work carried on "almost" as normal for him but he was also able to claim a silly amount of cash from the SEISS scheme as the only requirement is that "Your business has been negatively impacted by coronavirus" which every business in the UK has been in some way. I just get annoyed with the completely unfair requirements of the schemes. I paid my taxes, I filed everything on time through a qualified chartered accountant etc so there's no "dodgy dealings" but because I do annual PAYE I don't get support although I can prove I am a late 5 figure sum out of pocket?

I think everyone is in the same boat, trapped indoors with no real outlet. You can only walk around your "local area" so many times... I've never done a desk job, I couldn't hack it. I have been effectively without work for about 2 weeks now and it's driving me insane. I started working stacking bricks for a local builder when I was 12 and then worked whenever I could whilst I was at college/university. I don't think I could have lived a life of 9-5 sat behind a desk firing out e-mails and only living for the annual foreign holiday 😂

I never really enjoyed the job that I studied for, that's why I'm trying to move into chopping trees down! You chose to skip the rubbish bit of finding out you don't enjoy the work 😂

I'll be more careful with my shift button use 😉 Assuming we used a single phase only at 230V then 15kW is 76.72A as induction motors have a power factor of usually ~.85 so that's pretty darn close to the limit here. Not sure what 15kW would be split across 2 phases when those phases are also making a third phase though. That calculation is beyond me.... Sorry, I meant one transformer not two! I can't remember what the transformer is called now but it was invented a long time ago for creating 2 phase power for some strange motor. It took normal 3ph and turned it into 2ph but at 90 degrees, it could also take the 2ph and turn it back to three phase. Like you say though, it was a long time ago I did electrics for my degree 😂 Just spent 10 minutes googling transformers and found what I was on about here: Scott-T Transformer Connection Overview | EEP ELECTRICAL-ENGINEERING-PORTAL.COM Main application of Scott-T Transformer is for for Industrial Furnace and for for traction purpose. It is is type of circuit...

If you run a 3 phase motor on two phases I'm pretty sure you will end up toasting coils with that kw draw. Also have the issue of an imbalanced load? 3ph motors won't start on two phases either and just hum then set on fire so you would need a single phase starter motor? I think you can use transformers to create 3 phase from two phase but you need 90 degree phase rotation on the first two to get 120 degree on the outward 3?

You're not asking a tonne but that's 13kw@415v? If so that's about 21A 3ph. 13kw@230v is 38A 3ph which means it would be about 66A@240v single phase? You could get away with it on a rotary single phase converter but the 80A rotary converters can only handle single motors up to 11kw. You would need a 100A supply to give you a 15kw single motor rating. Maybe that's something that your power company can do a bit easier? I don't think you're going to have much luck with changing two phase to 3 phase. You would have to use both the phases coming in to create your third phase and then you will have issues with phase correction and making sure you have clean power or it's going to start messing up your load factors. If you unevenly load one phase you can also have the current lost down the neutral line which is another headache. Converting the 230v to 415 is easy enough with transformers but it's then taking those and creating a 3rd balanced phase with them that you will struggle with

Out of interest what wattage is the three phase kit you want to set up?

Going single phase to 3 phase is easy enough. Not sure about 2 phase to 3 phase though (tbh I didn't know a 2 phase site existed as I don't know why they would terminate the other phase at the consumer point). You can take single phase and use a phase converter to change it to 3 phase. It takes the single phase 100A supply and converts it to 3 phase although a 100A single phase would only give you ~56A (assuming a .8 power factor) of three phase plus conversion loss so you wont gain any wattage, just the ability to run 3 phase tooling. Not sure about adding a 3rd phase to the existing two. You would struggle having all three phases matched as the third one that you are effectively making will have a tendency to drift and then that screws with your power factors/heat etc etc

Nice one! I was just curious as I'm only just getting into milling and trying to learn how to make things work!