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I'd be considering a longer one and a shorter one these days - start a smaller hole as support for the longer bits.

I'd take some just for the challenge now! (though likewise if it doesn't split it goes in the wood for the bugs)

maybe the price increases when the taxpayer is footing the bill. like accident repair when the insurance company is paying for it.

Wages - as you put it in the first post, are only a small part, there is the work-life balance to consider too - an hour of free time to spend with the family is easily worth an hour on the pay check once all the bills are paid. We could all chase the ££, weekly commutes to job sites miles away - but that comes at a cost when you have family to consider. I've always reckoned that you can earn big ££ and have no life of your own, or earn nothing and have 24 hours a day to fill... and somewhere in the middle is where you want to be. Might be you are happy spending all day with a chainsaw and taking a wage home at the end of the day, no pressure to run a business, no pressure to earn bigger money. Might be that you are happy to earn similar sitting at a till in Tesco (other supermarkets are available) (that would drive me mad). At 33 you are not past it - working the last 10 years on a farm probably hasn't given you a beer gut and a sit on your backside attitude - plenty of life left and an attitude to graft if needed? Do you have (mentally at least) the time to work at getting tickets / other qualifications / build a second career alongside the farm work? (or do you need to get out now for your sanity?). Looking at what you say, degree, worked in farming, a love for the land? then environmental stuff might be the thing, maybe not mega ££ but if it pays enough the mental side will more than make up for the rest. Rather than asking for what tickets you need just now, maybe there are some guys down your way you could have a face to face chat with (like in real life, IRL!), maybe shout them a coffee - no strings attached - who know the local market, big firms and small outfits operating your way who might get you a start - and they can tell you what tickets they would be willing to fund and what they'd like to see (different areas, different employment pressures, firms are more or less likely to train up depends how many people are looking for work locally)

Entrance is on King George V Hill

They are paying way over the odds for a 3 star in Wilmslow...

Done a couple of smaller ones recently, split the wood up in the same afternoon while it's still soft and then seems to dry ok. Otherwise if I can't split it straight away I just dump it to biomass place, no point messing around once it's gone hard.

and another one. and right in front of her father it appears!!! A migrant from a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel has been charged with attempting to kidnap a child The Sudanese man appeared in court accused of attempting to take the girl of ten while she was with her father. Edris Abdelrazig, 30, in Stockport, Gtr Manchester, was arrested for allegedly trying to lure away the girl on July 13. He had been living in a three-star, £100-a-night hotel in Manchester suburb Wilmslow. Abdelrazig appeared before JPs on July 15 He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court on August 26. It comes after claims of a cover-up because police told councilors in Nuneaton, Warks, to avoid disclosing that two suspects in the rape of a 12-year-old girl were asylum seekers.

POssibly better in wet (live) wood. I've never done 60cm, longest is 40cm. But I have wrecked one going through 2 x 3" very hard old joists.

In my experience when they go downhill it's almost free-fall. Never known one to bounce back. It's like an almost complete shutdown of their vascular system.

And you went back for a second.

I am not a miserable old bloke,but with nearly 30 years experience under my belt. I was giving a 33 year old farmer with no experience my advice. It would be the same advice I would give anyone,at 33 working for about £10 and hour wouldn't be what I would call a clever career move.He was asking for advice,not whether he could actually do the job. The man is looking for opinions on his options,arb being one of probably many jobs he could go for. Can you remember all those ex forces new grads that Kingswood produced?

A weird comment from Trump over the weekend, word to the effect of "I didn't order Epstein to be killed". To be fair, neither did I but that isn't a thought that has ever crossed my mind to make a public denial about it. Thinking further about Trumps best pal, odd isn't it that the prison he died in only has a single CCTV camera that didn't quite point at Epsteins cell, no cameras pointing at the perimeter or gates that would show anyone coming or going, say an hour either side of his suicide - one for the MAGA conspiracy theorists there then, why arn't we being shown those video feeds as well (I'd be assuming any 'killer' wouldn't have been a prison staff member there of course). This story keeps going on and on, longer than the 24 hours press interest I thought it would do.

Not a planning expert but I suspect you're fine on the tree btw. Enjoy it. Plant it far enough inside your boundary that your roots and branches don't encroach onto your neighbours' land as it reaches full size.

As a new business owner, I discovered a VAT calculation issue on invoices. Over the past two months, I have overestimated VAT, resulting in a total excess of ₱20,000-₱30,000. My accountant, who charges a monthly retainer fee of ₱10,000 (plus VAT), did not identify the issue. I'm not sure if they should review these computations or just record them. Can I recover the excess VAT I paid?

Morning, wet through the night but blue sky for now. hatches are battened down, long distance Robo job postponed and a day of not very much. but fingers crossed for some windblown tree work as im bored and skint !

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Bit far for me but it would have gone if it was round here.

Bill, that has been my point all along, sexual offences are not excusive to a single race / religion / gender but the ones reported frequently on this thread are exclusively biased towards a single race, religion and gender.

There were rumours they had the CS100 drawings in their office. It isn't overly surprising though, it has been in production for 15 years and arguably the bench mark chipper in 4" gravity feed. We have mentioned the CS100 discharge chute to the GM factory, their swivel is a good design.

Morning all. pissing down cats and dogs here. stay safe

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Oh no , railways did attract people from all walks of life , but the money has gone from when railtrack had the contract .... its not one of the best jobs ,bit like power line clearance .. then u have this irata wnk. Always makes me smile about teachers that can't cope with being a teacher...surely teachers know what there getting into before uni 😆.the weekend marking ,6 weeks off teachers training days etc. All you have to follow is follow a syllabus and mark it ,then deal with ofstead .

Can only be npors or cpcs on telehandler ticket lantra or nptc aren't recognised on site , and even if you are on site your a labourer who can drive a forklift