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If I do you can open a sweepstake on how many pages it manages before descending to chaos. I'll go in at only 3.

Start a new thread with a poll, could be interesting until it descends into chaos! I dunno who I would vote for tbh.

so that's why their called the "green party". never going to be taken seriously,,, except maybe by a bunch of hippy stoners. "Up in Smoke"

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to town and country planning (excluding... Section 197 of the Act is the guiding legislation as to why Arb Impact Assessments are sought for in connection to planning applications regardless of conservation area status. The council's website should have a validation checklist, which should specify what type of report is needed for different planning applications.

Voting intention YOUGOV.CO.UK If there were a general election held tomorrow, which party would you vote for?

It's an interesting question, I no longer have dealings with the landowner but was told they would be bonfired off site. I was flabbergasted. I suggested there were green composting alternatives locally but thought I knew a tip site (from here)that might take them if they would like me to enquire. I have been told by a local that they felt I was criticising.Anyway after a few exchanges with @Woodwanter on here he was willing to take a punt but was worried about the moisture content. By the time I had got back and asked whether they could load them they said they had instructed their contractor to dispose the bales to a green waste site. I have asked for the contractor to contact me but they are no longer answering my email. Heavy rain today won't have helped.

I wouldnt like to see weed legalised in the UK. Ok maybe legalise it but make it illegal to smoke it in public. I have no problem with people smoking it, I did but not for a long long time but these days it fookin stinks to say the least! I can do without going around my day to day business without gagging on the smell of skunk.

Greens won't win next election, Reform will get it, most likely. I reckon Greens will do better than expected, though.

now that is quite well articulated 'problematic if someone is trying to weaponise the Manchester attack to silence protest against the genocide' Well done Zack - only problem is they are only projected to win 5 seats last time I looked. Maybe you can boost them up to 7. That support of Palestine when everyone is railing against antisemitism is commendable in my view. The IDF killed hundreds of Palestinians this week, not just two

How did you try to lift it? With a/the rope and pulley up the tree (can't see from video if you crotched it or used a pulley/ring/biner)? Or just by hand on the ground?

What happens to the gorse bales?

Progress happens in steps. Otherwise we'd still be using flint axes. Must be a wider business decision. Moving people towards battery maybe.

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If I remember right, Stihl never had any intention of running the 500i for more than a short run in production terms. Maybe it cost more to produce than the standard set up, making the margins too narrow to spread the technology over that many models, it is very thirsty, maybe it doesn’t work well on smaller units? The 400.1 is a great saw without the fuel injection, do they need it?

It seems like Bracken is a villain of the piece here. Is there any effective control for it, other than herbicides presumably? Does anything eat it in sufficient quantities?

Milling finished so a quick update. The 18mm ply board with 45 degree blocks worked a treat. Fixed it to each quarter with a screw at each end and milled down to one board past the ‘centre’. Then removed the board, flipped the log over and finished milling the second half. In each quarter, the ray fleck figure is visible in the four centre boards as I’d hoped, so I’ve the option of jointing each set of four planks to make four 0.9m to 1.0m book matched ‘slabs’. Maybe table tops? Planks are generally very good, with a few small / pinhead knots. A few splits around the heart in some boards, but I’ll cut that off in due course. Overall, looks like grades 1A and 1B based on the pictures in the publication ‘Making the Grade’. Not bad for a 160 / 170 year old garden tree and thankfully no nails. Re the volume of useable timber, the log started as about 40 hft (hoppus measure). After milling there is an average 10 planks per quarter and a total from the four quarters of about 30 cu ft of planks including sap. Having measured the planks excluding bark, sap, heart and splits, the quartersawn heartwood volume is 20 cu ft with planks generally 200mm+ width with a max of 270mm width and up to 350mm at the flare at the bottom of the log. Interesting to see that the heartwood measure is half the hoppus measure, which I guess gives a better idea of the ‘value’ in a log? The upper log was milled slightly differently to the earlier sketch. I was looking for roughly 10 x 2 planks which will be trimmed to different widths after drying to exclude sap, etc. Just aiming to have some stock of oak, not for anything specific at the moment. There was a shake I’d forgotten about, we found a patch of rot from a broken branch and other issues, so we adjusted the cut pattern as we progressed to keep faults on the sides of planks rather than in their centre. Got 18 square edged planks with six quarter sawn / ray flecked planks, three either side of the heart, plus flat and rift sawn planks. All the planks from both logs now moved from the sawmill and about half stacked and sticked with 20 x 12mm sticks at 400mm centres. Waiting for storm Amy to pass in the meantime and after finishing the stacking, will cut and split all the offcuts for our stove. Nothing wasted! Overall, milling these two logs has yielded some good timber for my ‘a hobby woodworkers’ future use. And lots of fun! Andrew

Yep. Had mine since June 2020. Still in great nick. I'm a pretty light user though.

My point is more that Stihl has had the computer and injector working for six years. Why haven't they put it on other saws? They must have tried!

The people who couldn't book online died?

Zack Polanski condemns weaponisation of Manchester terror attack WWW.THECANARY.CO Zack Polanski said it's "problematic if someone is trying to weaponise" the Manchester attack to "silence protest against the genocide"

Unfortunately not. I will be with my 11 year old daughter and her friend. A bottle of Shiraz and a few tins of Belgium’s finest will see me through.

Ask the Indians forced onto reservations - immigrants always cause trouble. There is no future without war and suffering - it's already baked in. We just have to learn to take the rough with the rougher