5thelement
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The Arbortec Pro do seem a whole lot better than the originals. I’ve seen the originals disintegrate at the crotch on a 5 day training course.
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Maybe the vaccines are largely ineffectual on the current Covid strains?
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How Much Wood do you Burn in a Week of cold Weather?
5thelement replied to Billhook's topic in Firewood forum
If I was going through that much wood and the Wife was still cold, I would be checking for a pulse. -
That doesn’t sound right at all. If the fire is roaring the heat should be moving fast up the flue, if it is stopping the exit isn’t clear. Is the flue complete from woodburner to exit or have you just got a short flue pipe into the existing chimney?
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The Covid debt is never going away in our lifetime. It’s a perfect cover for all future successive governments, whatever the party, to point the blame at when they screw up the economy, cut domestic spending and any defence cuts. It will be used as the reason we can’t fund our own Nuclear Power Stations and beg money from the Chinese, we can’t afford it because of Covid, it will run and run. The UK is never going back in the EU, the best way to silence any remoners is surely to show the positive outcome of the vote.
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This wasn’t caused simply by free movement though. The shipyards of Britain had been long dead well before this. Globalisation and cheap manufacturing abroad was a bigger issue. Its great that you have seen an upturn in local labour, do you ever envisage a time when the shipyards reopen and we build our all our own Naval Vessels again? And I have no problem with the vote, just that it’s being wasted.
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We did have apprenticeships before Brexit, my nephew became a sparky on one. Andy says there are more apprenticeships now though, so it must be true.
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My main issue with any Brexit discussion is you can’t even ask the question “What benefits have you seen so far?” without people spitting their dummies out and calling you a remoner or that somehow you are being unpatriotic. Its like showing even a tad of empathy for the Palestinians automatically labels you an antisemite, very strange.
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I read it years ago, absolutely loved it until the last two pages. I cut them out when I gave my little girl my copy, she still thinks he is real. 😉
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I’ve altered the landscape with tree planting or drystone walling in just about every place that I have lived, at least in the short term. Years of whip planting over the Winters through the 90’s, 30-50,000 a time creating wildlife corridors linking already established Ancient Woodlands together. Planted 20,000 Oaks and mixed natives for the FC a couple of years back on an harvested conifer site. And there’s a huge Eucalyptus on the council estate where I used to live, I planted it in 93’ in the back garden of my now demolished flat. When I go back home I occasionally drive by and take a look how things have grown and how the walls are holding up.
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I am not sure Husqvarna still produce it, certainly not for the EU market. The emissions where set by the EU, seems that only the UK adheres to it. I got a new Stihl 361 a couple of years back from Poland.
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France. Saws are more expensive here, a 346 is around €700.
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That’s a sound bite from The Daily mail right there. Brexit has stumbled because the membership of the EU is a very complex arrangement to untangle. The British have been poor/slow in negotiations and there was never a plan in place in case the vote went Leave, Cameron simply didn’t believe it would go that way. The British demanded a Hard border, still haven’t sorted the problem with Northern Ireland and that’s nothing to do with EU demands. So as an ‘English man living in England’ what benefits have you seen for the UK economy from Brexit? I don’t want Google’s links to Tory rags thanks, or blaming Covid, Ukraine or the EU like a 10 year old. Have you got any tangible benefits that you can think of, I haven’t? And as an English man currently living in France, but an home owner with regular work in England, I have an interest in the Old Country, whatever that means?
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You can still get brand new 346xp’s here too.
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Not all parties/Mp’s supported all measures at all times, they where simply ignored. It wasn’t just politicians to blame, the general public played a role too, having their vaccines and towing the line like good little boys, being complicit in the whole charade.
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All the ones I’ve felled in the UK have been shot, not sure wether it was because they are ornamental hybrids or due to wet/heavy soil up North. They coppice it here like Sweetchestnut, grows gun barrel straight, the deer won’t browse the regen because of the thorns but the boar love it, and the hunters love the boar.
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But there has only been one party in charge of Covid and Brexit, what other parties have suggested/would have done us irrelevant, they where not in charge of the decision making then or now.
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Yeah, hard a hell and burns great, got 10 tonnes @ 50/50 Oak/Robinia firewood in the barn.
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The same incompetent government that led us through Covid are the same government overseeing and implementing Brexit, some folk are quickly becoming the Skyhucks of the Brexit world.
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Yeah, I was shot Stubby, I edged my bets that I should make a change whilst not carrying any serious injuries, no regrets.
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Not heard of any shortages here. I wasn’t in the market for one to tell you the truth, I only popped into the dealer to buy some premix fuel and they where there, all shiney and pretty, had to wait a week for the xpg version though.
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I was doing 6 days commercial Forestry and Sunday sharpening up and planning for Monday, for the last 15 years in the UK. Paid the mortgages off but did sod all else except work. Moved to France before the Brexit cut off, I’ve done two 5 day weeks in the last 2 years, usually aim for 3 days and no more, I need a day a week to maintain the garden and plot. Spent most of the Summer spending time with the kids on the River, my body is thanking me now.
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I’ve got one to drop tomorrow. Out of interest, for a timber that is very resistant to rot when put in the ground, have you ever felled one that wasn’t shot/rotten at the base?
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No one’s saying Covid hasn’t been an economic disaster, but Brexit has influenced it as well. The same Government who led us into Brexit is the same lying scum that led us into Covid, or have you forgotten that?
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There are lots of them too J, but what’s the point in posting them here?
