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  1. coppice cutter
    That's a darned good haul. As said above, Leylandii well dried burns grand. The only thing I don't like about it is the smell, it's a very sort of stale unwoody kind of smell, and not at all piney. Although everybody else in the house said it was just me!
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    Would that be the same polls who consistently told us beforehand that we would comfortably vote to remain?
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    I think that's bollocks frankly. You will also be aware that it's a statement that you can't realistically support in any way, so I'll be kind and not capitalise on the situation by asking you to do so. For my part, yes it's anecdotal, but my work brings me in contact with members of the public right across the spectrum, and while I've yet to meet one single person who regrets voting leave, I've met a significant number who've said the behaviour of the EU since the vote has demonstrated that we'd be better away, and if they had to do again they'd vote leave rather than remain. Therefore, in my considered opinion, the leave vote in another referendum would be considerably stronger.
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    Worth pointing out that you can go corded electric for a fraction of the price of cordless electric. Indeed you can go corded electric for a fraction of the price of just about anything else. So if you're always working within a practical distance of a socket it's a bit of a no-brainer.
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    Precisely what the EU wants it's citizens to do!
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    Are you sure you're not like Bruce Willis in that film where he was actually dead but hadn't realised it. Have you checked yourself for a pulse recently?
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    No I don't believe we have. Still a lot of outstanding issues and progress dealing with them is worryingly slow. Not surprising though.
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    We'd need to actually leave to find out!
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    Firstly the UK voted as a whole to leave the EU, which it is fully entitled to do, sometimes people act as if staying in the EU was some sort of obligation. It wasn't! Secondly, if you must take the northern Irish vote in isolation, apparently it was about 55/45 so not a landslide as some would have you believe. Furthermore, nationalists largely voted to stay in the EU and made up the vast portion of that 55%, yet they also mainly vote Sinn Fein who have been traditionally anti-EU and only changed their stance when they seen a chance to capitalise on the referendum mayhem. So there were other agendas going on even before the referendum, and that's all been ramped up since. I don't understand the most of what happens over there, sometimes it seems a different world, but I know it's nowhere near the picture painted by the EU friendly media.
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    Yes, it's an issue for both sides to sort out. But the EU have been exploiting it, and the RoI have been exploiting it, there is no doubt about that. The Irish have been using it to stir the unification pot, and the EU are just using it to stir shit of any kind. I've farming connections in the North and been following it a bit more closely than most because of that. It's actually pretty shameful how the north is being abused by non-UK interests and how the UK itself is letting it happen. Biased media coverage not helpful either as usual.
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    You are completely ass about face on that one. The UK government has always said there'd be no hard border going back up in Ireland, yet the EU are the ones insisting that there needs to be stringent arrangements in place regarding trade over there. The only ones who ever threatened to put checks in place between north and south were the EU!
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    Looked at one or two youtube videos just to try and get a practical idea of the size difference between them and had to turn away. "Cack handed" wouldn't even come close!
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    They'll be handy enough with it that way. More concerned about the blade on the longer one as it's a fair bit thinner than the ones I use, but nobody seems to have had an issue.
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    Another vote for the Home Bargains ones, they changed the packet recently but they're the same lighters. The packet is supposed to break down in to 24 individual lighters but in reality you can go smaller again with them if you've good dry kindling as well. They're so teeny I really can't imagine them doing any harm no matter what the composition. The cooker with multi-fuel grate lights with a few bits of cardboard, one advantage of having a grate I suppose.
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    Getting a family member a Pocketboy for Christmas but don't know whether to get the 130 or 170 as I've no experience of them. Next to nothing between them price wise so that's not in the equation. I guess handiness will be the main thing, which would suggest the 130, but the 170 shouldn't be that bulky either and bigger is generally just better! I know quite a few on here carry one so are there any pros and cons between the two to help me decide or is there any one which y'all are using? Thanks.
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    JASO FD says it should be fine. However, I wouldn't be one for chopping and changing oils without good reason. And I wouldn't see saving somewhere in the low teens of pence per litre as good enough reason. But no doubt there'll be somebody who buys the cheapest two stroke available when they need it and will never have had a problem! You pays your money...............etc.
  17. coppice cutter
    I guess you need to define "rich".
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    The bunnyvac!
  19. coppice cutter
    But ironically not the nurses. The curse of actually doing an important job.
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    Well actually, a private pension is supposed to be better than that, it's supposed to be an investment fund, your investment fund. What you are thinking of is either state or public sector pension, somebody working now pays for those receiving it now. Similarly those working will pay for yours when you retire. It is not linked to a "pot", it is not market dependant, it is predetermined and will be paid at that level,they are very different beasts. I have one of each but my time in the public sector was a long time ago and for a limited period of time, yet still, it and the state pension are the only two I count on with any degree of certainty.
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    They will once the pay goes up to the level it should be at. Yes, there'll always be the pampered little snowflakes who would think it beneath them (excuse the pun) to do such menial work, but there's still those out there prepared to roll their sleeves up and get on with it to better themselves. Thus you already see more young 'uns learning trades, and realising what a load of nonsense the "university for all" agenda always was. What will change, and indeed is changing already, is that manual workers will no longer be amongst the lowest paid in society. Nor should they be.
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    Just turned 62 and will get state pension when I'm 66 and 8mths! I'm looking forward to getting it (if I live that long obviously!) as I'll feel then that I have the right to step back from what I have to do and be able to do what I want to do. But until then I'll keep my shoulder to the wheel.
  23. coppice cutter
    Thanks for all the replies. Sort of confirms the idea that the solution possibly lies more with the grate than the wood being burned. Fortunately it'll be easy enough to experiment as the grate slides straight out the ashpan door at the bottom, once I get a bit of vermiculite it'll just be a matter of setting it in instead of the ashpan and we'll take it from there.
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    Yes, our wood only stove the same. But this is a multi-fuel cooker which used to do domestic hot water and central heating. But since the stove was fitted it usually just does the hot water as the stove pretty much made the radiators superfluous.
  25. coppice cutter
    Oak definitely sprung to mind as you can hardly get the bugger to get a gee on when you do want a bit of heat in a hurry. Also toying with pulling out the grate and ashpan and putting a bit of vermiculite board in the bottom instead to see how that works. In my mind it should stay in better with whatever remaining wood sitting on a good bed of embers rather than having them falling through the grate. Should add, it won't be staying in 24/7 and will still be re-lit every morning

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