arbgarry

Evening all.

Everything is going good, going at my own pace and not been asked to do anything dodgy or out of my skill level.

Took down 6 leyandi yesterday whilst it was snowing.

Todays job was a crown reduction on 3 horse chestnut's and dissmantle of a rather large conifer ( dont know the species ), ill be back at the same job tomorrow to take of a few branches over-hanging the road, one of the trees is a huge oak, its a simple job so im gonna ask to do the climbing

Thanks to everyone, milkybars are on me

congratulations

the real learning starts on monday

It sure will, and i cant wait

Evening all,

Good news, i start on monday morning! woop woop.

Been a long time waiting but im happy i can finally go and do the job i trained for.

Thanks loads for all the support, i shall pass the address for this site onto my fellow work dudes

Thanks, hope i dont need luck, hehe

good luck. is it an interview and trial day or just interview?

Its just a semi interview, more of a chat i think.

never felt a thing up here. didnt even know about it until 9 tonight or something.

Same with me, seen it on the 9am news.

think i may have to speak to arbgarry and see if hes up for going to any of these

I sure am buddy, ill talk to you about it on msn

Just off the phone to a local tree surgery company, i have a interview tomorow for a full time job,

Wish me luck as this is the first interview ive had for the tree industry since finishing college lasy year!

evening all newbie starting thought id say hello

Welcome tups

And me please

More thin layers rather than a few bulky layers will help

Ahh, ok, deleted

as title, reads as follows.

Hi,

I'm new here, how's it going?

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

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Well Steve, im with you, i like guns, and in the next few years ill hopefully be living in the USA

congratulations bigGun

I find it a little big to, im nearly 6ft, ive got my eye on a intense 6.6 ss, its one of them newish do it all bikes, id like the specialized sx trail but its way to expensive

Ive tried jump/park bikes but prefer what i have just now, i can roll over granny's and not even notice them,

Yip, hope you all have a great one

Sweet, im in bud

You really need to see this place... i have put up a few pics (hopefully) just so you can get the idea.:biggerGrin:

bugger, theres my chance of winning gone, lol

:scared:Imagine the electric bill

Ive heard it costs him an extra £45 a week:scared:

Heres my attempt, middle of a council estate in Ayr, Scotland,

Ha, ive got the perfect one next door to my girlfriends, do i get any extra points for a crib set-up in the guys garage? lol

ill get some pics tomorrow

Santa Claus: An Engineers Perspective

I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau).

At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.

II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second --- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake.

The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accellerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.

Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

i was at kilmarnock college, was there for 10 months and got four tickets, cs30, 31, 38 and 39

i had to pay a small amount of money towards them, for 30 and 31 i paid just over £100 and 38 and 39 i paid £74