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    Measles

    skyhuck replied to Billhook's topic in General chat

    Not sure 12 years gets you anywhere near old school, Arbtalks been around for longer than that.....
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    Measles

    skyhuck replied to Billhook's topic in General chat

    When we were kids if you displayed some of the autistic, ADHD, etc, behaviours you would get the belt or the back of someones hand. Kids soon learn to adapt and fit in to avoid pain. Not saying it was in any way a good thing. We live in a much more caring tolerant world today, this allows people to live less conservative, confirmative lives. We see this everywhere in so many ways. Children with SEN is just one of them. IMO The doctor who calmed a link between the MMR jab and autism was making money from the single jabs so wanted the MMR discredited.
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    HS2 Over

    skyhuck replied to JBH's topic in General chat

    I doubt that very much. reselling the land will be one way of funding the other announced projects.
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    WOW

    skyhuck replied to Kylus Sylvestris's topic in General chat

    Given its age and the exposed location I think its chances are fairly slim. Had it been a younger tree, in a more favourable position, you would have struggled to stop it coppicing.
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    Me too, slight lift and tidy and leave em be
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    Shaded needles will brown and die off, so long as most of the outer branches are green I would not worry too much.
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    I have learned over the years that I do any tree failure removal for the owner of the tree or owner of property it has landed on. I invoice them, they pay me and are then free to redeem payment from their insurer. The only time I will work for an insurance Co is when they contact me directly and give me a purchase order for the job. Anything else just leads to headaches IME.
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    Bastards!!
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    I guess I could load all the knotty twisty lumps up first, give those away and then return to site, load all the nice straight knot free stuff and take that back to the yard 😃
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    Dreadfully sorry, I'll disappear off and mind my own business.
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    What you paying?
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    As an old farmer once said, while reading the obituaries "their picking em owt o my pen now"
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    IME council workers don't tend to be shining examples of heathy living. Obviously a sweeping generalisation, but a great many "working" blokes really let themselves go and as they work for council they can't be held accountable for their lack of productivity. I would bet a good few of the "expensive" contractors are not spring chickens.
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    I nicked my wrist with my 020 a few years ago. Cut a couple of tendons to my thumb. I had surgery, should have been off work for a minimum of 6 weeks and no gripping for 12 weeks. I was back climbing after 2 weeks. But the tendons I cut pulled my thumb away from my palm, not towards it. So I don't think my grip was ever at risk. I still have some numbness and a little stiffness. Its not affected by the cold. Most of the time I forget it ever happened.
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    Hi Kate are you doing research on behalf of the Cycle Touring Club?
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    I'm 52, been climbing for around 28 years. Still climb most days. As you get older I think fitness is the key. We kid ourselves we are still fit, when in reality we are just strong and as others have said stubborn. I got back into cycling about 5 years ago after a 30 year break. Boy did I soon realise just how unfit I had become, if I'd had the spare money I'd have bought an e-bike. I'm so glad now that I didn't!!. It took a fair while of me breathing out my backside and nearly dying on the climbs, but slowly my lungs expanded and heart appeared to become more efficient. I'm now fitter than I've been in 20 years. Work is so much easier.
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    Although the tree owner has a responsibility to get the tree check, I don't believe they have any responsibility to furnish you with a copy of any resulting report.
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    This, but from the opposite end of the telescope, not new friend, more ditching old ones.
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    I have just posted them 4 logs, I'm awaiting their "labourite test results" 🤔
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    I've been attacked by a Swan, I was kayaking on the canal.
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    I've always smelt bullshit, but happy to be told I'm wrong.
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    But why does the soil not swell up to "full field capacity" every winter when the tree is dormant and not drawing up water or sheltering the ground and we generally get higher rainfall?
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    It's a deciduous tree, so it only removes water from the ground when in leaf, so why is there not a massive issue with heave every autumn?
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    If the tree was foreseeable dangerous the owner would be liable, but a strong enough wind will fell any tree, so that's "act of god"

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