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3 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said:
One reason for the switch to portland cements is that most of the sources of eminently hydraulic lime have become exhausted. Traditional eminently hydraulic lime is still svailable , but costs considerably more than portland.
Isn't hydraulic lime just bog standard limestone cooked in a kiln?
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16 minutes ago, Rob-M said:
I had a few stones thrown going down Ryders Green, managed to catch some of them and threw them back at the kids.
Had a mattress and a big sack of kindling between Minworth and Curdworth, I knew it was coming as I watched the kids dragging it down the lane towards the bridge so stopped the boat as they were about to push it over the parapet so it didn't land on me.
What you actually saw was the mattress controlling the kids to enable it to enter its aquatic breeding phase, I guarantee the kids will have absolutely no memory of the incident.
You sir are a very lucky man being able to observe this wonder of nature
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14 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:
Yes, as i could see Tufty and his mates in the branches above me.
Bingley squirrels are obviously not as sophisticated as the ones in Huddersfield. Our frequent visitors at home, Squizzy Rascal and Nicholas Twitchell, come and tap on the living room window when they want some food
They definitely do throw stuff, many a time I've been up a tree and had the buggers throwing acorns at me, fair enough tbh
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19 hours ago, Paul C said:
In any cutting with non-vertical trees, the ground is clearly slipping/rotating at a faster rate than the tree is able to grow, so its unstable.
Being picky, not all none vertical tree growth implies unstable conditions, trees will grow towards the light if the route to the light is not directly above the tree will grow with a natural lean.
Additionally the tree may have partially failed, reestablished with the new position/lean
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5 minutes ago, Stroudwater1 said:
Is there any difference to the life expectancy of the stove, flue or chimney with burning coal, or wet or dried wood?
Presumably the smoke from wet wood has more steam, so will that cause more rust potential? Burning wet wood is certainly noticeably more smokey often quite an amount that seems more prone to making eyes water. I believe conifers will burn with a different amount of residues to say ash? Conifers certainly seem more likely to crackling in fires, is that ever harmful to stoves?
Whenever I have burnt birch it produces a lot of think acrid black smoke which struck me as being unhelpful for the durability of the system as it coated the chimney with the stuff.
Unseasoned timber will burn poorly with a very uncomplete combustion, this produces more tar and acidic combustion residue, this is bad for the stove and will reduce the life of the stove.
Wet wood as in seasoned wood recently rained on isn't really an issue.
Birch is a good firewood, if you are experiencing lots of black acrid smoke it's either unseasoned or your doing something wrong.
Properly seasoned conifer is a perfectly good firewood
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33 minutes ago, MtB said:
Remember the earthquake in Liverpool back in 2018?
Apparently there was almost 50p-worth of damage.
And that turned out to be an insurance scam
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Unless you can source your logs for free or buy unprocessed bulk timber coal is cheaper with the advantage of a lot less bulk/volume to store.
When I say bulk I'm talking 20ton not a transit load and then you have the problem of seasoning and storage, plus of course processing.
The additional problem with wood is the quality and species as well a tonne of well seasoned Oak is a thing of beauty but get delivered a bag of soggy willow and you need extra jumpers, whilst excel is basically always excel
So in my opinion coal unless you can get free timber but even then have some coal as a back up
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On 26/03/2024 at 13:20, Boatylife said:
Hi all
I wonder if anyone has experience of this? I’m on UC and PIP presently a continuous cruiser. However a mooring has come up which I’m interested in, (health reasons etc)and have been advised to take mooring and apply for housing benefit retrospectively !
Wondered if anyone has made the enquiry to dwp prior to taking the mooring and what their response was ?Thanks in advance.
If you do Facebook can I suggest a group called benefits for boaters, it's run by a chap very active and knowledgeable in the benefit system, highly recommended
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22 minutes ago, MtB said:
But folk wot don't live on boats also do shopping, do they not?
If so, the thread content is not related specifically to "Living on Boats", which was my point really.
Don't worry I'm sure your staff are aware of the arrival of fresh lemons and have stocked up appropriately for your G&T
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33 minutes ago, umpire111 said:
When away from the boat for a while I put on covers at the stern. Recently when returning I have found fungal growth on the board edges as per photo. Often a distinct mushroom shape. I know this is due to the warm dark air beneath the cover but am loathed to leave the cover off. Any idea how I can prevent this?
I guess it's warm and damp and it's damp that's the issue, get it dry and keep it dry and it will likely go away, you could try a proper wood treatment to kill the actual mycelium present but while the site is damp the problem will come back
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59 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
An old woman who I spoke to who had her new buy boat moved from West Stockwith to Thorne, said she was charged £600 by a professional boatmover, the journey at the time of year and Trent tides could be done in a day/2 days most. Which I thought was ridiculously high.
2 days plus travel to and from the boat, including professional insurance, sounds reasonable to me
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13 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:
Thanks for the mentions @matty40s and @MtB.
I’m currently recovering from eye surgery so may not be able to help in the timescales but I have PMed @Liz E with a few pointers of what she should be looking for in terms of price and insurance.
A couple of my customers at the back end of last year told me they’d had quotes from elsewhere that were broadly double what I charged them. And my rates are comparable with a couple of other boat movers I know.
Just the thought of eye surgery makes me shudder, hope the recovery goes well
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6 minutes ago, Porcupine said:
If the reason is obvious please tell me?
Ignore that and let us know if you have worked out what the issue is
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3 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
That is a very nasty thing to assume, it was not intended to trigger any row at all. I don't enjoy killing anything but rats will take over if you do not control the population. And they are a serious health risk to boaters.
So you think inflicting injury with an air rifle is acceptable? Can you guarantee a clean kill every time? I think not.
So far every rat I have shot was a clean kill, I keep the range short and spend a week or so baiting the site so they are confident, what I don't do is trap them in a cage with no practical method of killing them apart from drowning That isn't a clean kill.
I am also aware of what a rodent infestation can do (quite personally actually) which is why I have an air rife and I practiced until I was confident, I also regularly set traps for mice and check them regularly.
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13 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
as a rule I tend not to kill anything,the spiders get a free run on the boat ‘cause they kill the flies,
thing with a trap how can you guarantee it’ll kill something out right ? and the victim ain’t gonna die an agonisingly slow death,
and then you got deal with the mess,
I used to go out shooting rabbits till I realised I was maiming more than I was killing.
used to live on a farm and farmer would put down poison,
killed the rats ok but then they rotted and the smell took a few weeks to a month to disappear,
mind with the dogs that’d rolled in badger and fox shit one got used to the awful smells
It's not something I particularly enjoy and I definitely don't like using poison and your right no method is guaranteed 100% but I do my best when I have to
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5 hours ago, BWM said:
Needless cruelty, and nothing to boast about.
Inaccessible traps can be placed with a wire to retrieve the now dead rat caught in a conventional trap.
I agree and i suspect the original post was intended to trigger a row, so ignored it.
It's perfectly possible to find a kill trap big enough to take a rat, I actually have a couple, although I tend to deal with rats with the air rifle, the mice on the other hand love peanut butter
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6 minutes ago, BCN Challenge said:
With 10 weeks to go before the event it’s looking like there will be an increased field compared to the last two events. That’s good since it was running at a level that was borderline as to warranting an annual event.
There’s also a good mix of entrants including a strong level of return of first timers from last year, regulars from the pre-Covid days returning for the first time since 2019 and of course those who are always there.
There are three entrants with butties, a couple of historic boats entering for the first time, plus three entrants on hire boats.
Different types of boats and entrants makes for a good event.
That's great news
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2 minutes ago, James Owen said:
There's very little available space along that stretch to stack anything, least of all several tonnes of felled wood.
Notwithstanding that many dossy boaters would then help themselves to a few logs, creating significant mess and further damage along the way whilst posing a risk to themselves and the surrounding area......best to take it all away.
Agreed, either remove or chip, but that wasn't really the point I was making
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7 hours ago, MtB said:
The eco worryers here object to pretty much anything being burned and have more clout than CRT.
Or as I suggested it's a complete waste of time and resources, if it was an 'eco worryers" issue it would be stacked on site
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6 hours ago, john.k said:
removing fallen vegetation.............why dont they burn it on site ?
Because throwing it through a chipper or stacking on site is a damn site faster than burning, never mind the potential for the fire to spread
5 hours ago, john.k said:There s a funny thing......burn it and there is CO2................mulch the wood and it decays slowly releasing methane ,a greenhouse gas 10 times worse than CO2
Some methane may be released depending on how it decays, normal aerobic decay doesn't produce significant methane but also a fair proportion of the carbon will be locked up in the soil and recycled into the ecosystem
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16 minutes ago, RooF said:
Oh sorry if I didn’t make this clear. This water has come straight from the shore point and is going straight into a kilner jar with a tap, which I get glasses of drinking water from. The water tank on the boat isn’t involved, at least in this case. The reason I think they’re hatching from the water is that I’ve never seen these bugs crawling around in or near the boat, so even if they could some how crawl into the jar, I don’t think they have.
If that's as you suggest straight out of the tap something is wrong and the best thing to do is contact the water supplier direct, not CRT.
I'm struggling to see how this is possible considering how many processes the water goes through tbh but if that is from an actual drinking water supply the supply company needs to know
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1 minute ago, IanD said:
Telford is a bit meh, Bridge Inn had good beer and decent (and cheap!) pub food when we were there, Aqueduct had excellent beer but didn't eat there. Great view though...
That fairly well chimes with my information, but apparently the food at the aqueduct is good, or was last time I heard any reviews
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4 minutes ago, FredDrift said:
That'll be the Bridge Inn at Chirk Bank.
Depends on the aqueduct, there's also the Telford and the aqueduct Inn by the big bridge
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20 minutes ago, Sir Percy said:
I (or more accurately, the cat does) use clumping wood pellets in the cat litter tray. It's more practical than clay, but still needs disposing of. Reusing it as the raw material for a fire log sounds like a good idea. Not sure what to do about the turds, though. I guess if they've dried out sufficiently, they might be decent fuel.
If you find it burns well there may be an argument to changing to a litter tray for your own ablutions, think of the money saved on coal
Knots for fender hooks.
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A figure of eight will be neat but it can become impossible to undo if it gets put under a lot of tension.
A bowline not so tidy but will never lock up in the same way as a figure of eight.
Leave a long enough tail and it would be easy to adjust if you find the need