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Does anyone else not at all love the new operating system on their iPhone? It seems to make it almost impossible to quote a section of text on ArbTalk amongst other gripes. Did Apple not test it on ArbTalk forums…?

That bottom LH corner one is most odd. Does it have a cutting edge even?

Maybe you can enlighten us. What did he say about the US? I did Google it but didn’t get much.

Absolutely pissing it down there days on the trot here, hedge laying, the sip is doing the business!👌🏻

Thought I would start a thread to share what we've bought, new or second hand, business or pleasure. Recent auction lot, I 'd be surprised if anyone can name them all but I'd love to know. Yorky after cleaning, Leicestershire with a new handle.

Wordle 1,678 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Should have been a twoer. Honest. Momentary lapse of memory on L2.

Well that is the six million dollar question, and at the end of the day you will need to work out what prices work for you. The only tip I can really give is to remember that what you mill will be very different from what builders merchants offer. Your timber will i guess be unseasoned. If it is the right species (larch, douglas fir) it will have natural durability. And you will be able to offer a bespoke service. Eg if the customer wants beams at 135mm x 60 you can help, whereas the builders merchants will not. Also I suggest always pricing up for the full length. The customer may ask for many different lengths, but you should charge for the length your logs are. And I haven’t mentioned that of course pricing should be by volume, except possibly for very thin or narrow pieces.

Ah yes I should have mentioned: no mobile phone signal at all. At least not enough to hold a conversation anyway.

He will get very bored with mine…

Its only £35 a month atm with no upfront cost. I might buy it as Musk will hang himself after listening to us for a less than a week.

You know Musk will listen to your conversations, don’t you?

Our neighbour getting starlink next wk for internet and phoneline will see how they get on.

We have star link but not as a landline … to be honest I didn’t know you could do that ! But will look in to it … Our internet and landline is shocking as being copper cable and it having maybe one or two timber wagons/ harvesters / forwarders drive through it at least once a year and BT wont replace the copper cable, star link was the only option… can’t fault it for internet though.

Just purchased a 550xp cylinder which was obviously overheating due to its orangy/brown colour. Anyone used any type of cleaner successfully so it's back to silver alloy colour? Thanks

@MattyF

I was reading awhile ago that Samsung have developed an new EV battery that uses a lot of silver. It was saying the price of silver is going to rocket. Looks like I was late to the party

I am about to have to embark on this voip thing as my copper line is removed and I get fibre to the premises. My understanding is the existing landline telephone number gets transferred to a VOIP provider, for about a fiver a month they then direct calls to you over the internet. I think you plug your existing phone into a small box called a voice gateway (I have an old linksys spa3102 but there must be more modern ones). The voip should be catholic about how your internet is provided as long as it is fast enough. Be aware no calls will work during a power cut unless the router is plugged into your inverter UPS. You could simply have the voip provider divert the calls to your cellphone .

I'm surprised n one has commented on Mark Carney's speech yesterday, it called out US for what it has been for 80 years. I'm still not sure what sort of democratic process has for appointing a prime minister though, much as I agree with him.

No experience myself, but I did happen to see this recently. There might be some useful information in that thread. https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/starlink.154939/#post-1849984

Has anyone got any experience of using Starlink to operate as a landline using VoIP? I understand it is possible but I am finding it difficult to work out how to go about this. I am sure I could ask a local firm to set it up, but I believe setting up Starlink is very easy. What I want though is to be able to transfer my existing landline business number over to the Starlink broadband. The reason I wish to do this is because the current setup is just so poor and expensive I believe Starlink would be way better. I currently have a copper landline provided by XLN whom I have been with for years and it costs around £100 per month for the line and broadband (terrible speeds making many websites unusable). XLN have even told me that as a legacy copper line the cost is going to go up by 15% per year! I have tried shopping around but as soon as they know the premises everyone declines to get involved. I guess this is because they know it is a long run of poorly maintained copper cable that is not being repaired or upgraded anyone soon. Openreach have surveyed the line with a view to installing fibre, but unless there is a lot of government funding this is not happening anytime soon as we are miles from anywhere. Anyone else tried using Starlink with landline?

Some days I would go 100% asset grabbing and the next 100% narcissism ego boost. Probably in reflection though more ego than assets - coupled with things like renaming the Kennedy Centre he wants to leave his name behind him more than enriching the US. I didn't see all his speech last night, but the highlights were amazing... in his Daily dose of Trump WTFkery. A lot made of mistaking Iceland for Greenland... though I suspect this was a slip of the tongue and he meant Greenland, his mind might also be thinking Iceland too. He sent out a map, colouring in with the US flag Greenland, Canada, the US and Venezuela, which leaves a nice chunk middle south, Mexico, Guatemala.. and of course Cuba sandwiched between the 2.. and he has recently kind of threatened Cuba too. A man of peace. But... empire building too I think. There was his billion dollar peace thing too, didn't see the Europeans fawning over him to join that, and the import taxes (tariffs) for not agreeing to the Greenland sale is quietly being dropped too after he met them... suspect they politely told him where to go with his money making schemes. Billion dollar peace thing... which as the lead he will be creaming off it big time with contracts to his companies, his name all over the world, back to his ego. Yes, ultimate reality TV. I'll see if I can get a spreadsheet or even powerpoint dollars per radian / degree or turbine blade? As for Aliens... yes, probably not invading, we are quite capable of destroying ourselves quite easily.

Hello all, I'm wondering how you price your timber? I'm milling mainly Sitka Spruce and Greenheart for a house, but I'd also like to make a bit of cash selling rough sawn timber. How do you guys price your timber? I could take a punt and just sell it cheaper than the builders yard I guess.

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Cotoneaster Cornubia , I'd say, 99% certain !

Cotoneaster.