Mike Hill

Yes I know all of them. Your name is also on my little list. * sound of pencil breaking*

Imagine if all the Trumph haters had spent as much time investigating Tony Blair as they had slinging shite at Donald.

I try and get the tractor close to anything large or strenuous these days. I don't do many section fells anymore,if I can't crane it, I cane it with the price so someone else gets it.

Something I found very interesting is,there are more Animal rights activists in jail in the UK than XRW. Yet the media tells us the XRW is the most serious threat going?

Honestly it's both. Most companies break even-just or make a small loss. If like me ,you income is seasonal kiss goodbye to 28% of that buffer you had saved to get you through the quiet months com Jan 1st. The tax on dividents is 37.85% so there is little incentive to increase income that way. Plus you don't get NI contributions from dividends. This place is borderline communist these days.

The Norwegian wealth tax is more than just the Richest leaving the Country. It's been a systematic attack on small and middle sized business owners over the last 20 years. The tax on Profit has gone from 4 to 28% which encourages businesses to run in the pink,which is fine until the economy slows. Norway has the highest rates of bankruptcy in Europe. So it avoid a recession the government gave its employees ( 2 out of 3 workers) a pay rise. Instead of buying services like builders or landscapers they generally bought goods and mainly online. Massive own goal but what do you expect for "Blond Arabs?".

Sure. Let's investigate the only electric pickup that can tow 3.4 Tonn. The gigantic Ford F150 lightning,base price about £50K,so you would have to import it,convert it to right hand drive. Back of fag packet breakdown below. Base Vehicle £50k Domestic transport to port £3k Shipping to Scotland £2.5k Shipping inside the UK £1500 Vat,import and handling fees £11,000 Conversation to rh drive £10,000 easy £78,000 now it's on the road,so now it will have about 1/3 the range of a Diesel when towing. Sadly there is a lack of charging facilities pretty much anywhere off the main routes anywhere I know. So let's buy a nice big 10kva generator to sit on the deck. £3000 This can run all day as Dave is milling,providing of course he gets to the job on a single charge. But and it is a big but,the short charging frequency will rinse his battery. Sadly the batt packs in pretty much any electric vehicle are non replaceable ,so be prepared to scrap the truck in four years in order to buy another. His clients won't buy his services any longer,and since of course every Miller in Scotland bought and electric wagon thus charging a fortune. The timber now goes to firewood and the dimensional Oak gets imported from the Baltics where they don't give a toss about HSE or emissions. Perfect!

What else should he use to tow 3.4 Ton, carry his gear plus a helper or two that would create less emissions than a dc pickup?

Pretty close Mick. Except for the lack of cowboy hats

Here here Mick. I have had a couple of these,perfectly adequate for me to carry around a Sea Kayak and lots of guns. A double cab would have been crass.

I already have enough likes to be considered a good climber. #arbwanker

No idea. It's not crucial anyhow,since the crane will only be lifting a fraction of the total weight since the butt remains on the ground.

Put the chains close to where it was hung up. Tighten and sever at the Base. 100tonn Hiab would pizz that in 5mins after setup.

No He probably could have tripped that tree out, but didn't seem to have a grasp of advanced climbing techniques.So he made a series of bad decisions that resulted in the accident. It's been said before,there were no targets under the tree,so whether he tripped it by climbing or cut and winched made no odds. Over here I would have used a big hiab and lifted it out. Mainly because the road was already closed and the truck could remove the timber. But none of us were on that site,however by the number of eager camera men,his plan had been widely communicated.

That's the last kin thing I would want to use.