skyhuck
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My advice would be to ignore the council.
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Is this not what causes the shortages? Just like the bog roll mess last year? If people buy more, incase there is a shortage, bingo you have a shortage.
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Why not?🧐
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Monty Python, The Larch. The Larch.
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Nope, large mature Beech and Sycamore, many totally recked with bark stripped from the tops of branches, causing rot and limb/branch failure.
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You must not climb many trees.
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How would you be fixed for collecting from site? You may find local firms are much happier to give-away timber, if you come and take it from site, "Once its on the truck, its generally going home"
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I think you mean such a "little bitch"
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Presumably you think the Australian aborigines, rain forest tribes, the Native Americans, etc, etc, should shut up and stop whinging?
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We should celebrate the fact that so many of us are now wealthy enough to have a garden and enjoy gardening. The heritage of “gardening” is those in the past who were the elite, yes by our modern standards they may have became wealthy in ways we no longer approve of. But so what, it happened, bitching about it now will change nothing. All countries and cultures did bad things in the past. I fail to see why any of their modern population should be held accountable?
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You are of cause correct. I used the method you describe when I first went on my own 25years ago. I was making more than I had as a subbie climber. But I fortunately discovered I was far too cheap. I remember a Horse Chestnut I dismantled. I put £350 on it, me and a groundie completed it easily in a day. While having a coffee and chatting with the client, I asked what other quotes she had had. There was only one, it was from one of the firms I had been subbing too, it was for £1000. Had I still been subbing I would have received £60, for the exact same amount of work, other than tipping off, chipper pickup etc. Since that day I never simply ask myself what the job will cost me and add profit. I try to think what will others charge and work from there.
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Genuinely depressing. The world has gone completely mad.
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Is it light enough to be easily lifted off? Are you selling the old one? Mine has the fixed hopper, I'd like to convert it to the removable hopper type, might be easier with the job half done.
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I’m a climber, who runs a business in order to maximise my income. So business doesn’t come easy. I don’t know the figure, but I would imagine my overhead is well over 40%, probably nearer 60%
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I think the lesson from this thread is, we all cock up, we all under price from time to time, if the punter gets enough people to quote, they will get an under bid, where someone has cocked up. £1050, for a 4 man team is cheap, IMO. And I'm in the north. What surprises me is someone under biding just now, I've never been busier and am probably quoting higher, just know, than I ever have.
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I disagree? What does he have in his car? a gun? knife? Is he going to run you over? etc. Unfortunately police officers are far more likely to be shot by a black person than a white person. They are just scared and are wanting to be the one who shoots first. Although the police in America have killed a lot of black people, black people are far more likely to be killed by another black person than the police.
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I've never really used one. I did get one way back when I first started coming on here, just cause everyone seemed to go on about them. Never got on with it.
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You offer some people free food, they will take it. It's all about priority's. Its easy to decide a mobile phone, TV, car, carpets, etc, etc. Are essentials and then you can't make ends meet. In the past people payed for the real essentials first and only bought the other stuff if they had money left over. The very way poverty is measured today is different from the past. I watched a food bank in the US, they came in their cars and the bags of food were put in their boots, there were Lexus and other luxury cars, its crazy.
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Your health OK Mick? Hope you'er not making plans?
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Fairly fine horticultural mess works well. Its the stuff that's used as wind break. Its better than canvas as it doesn't collect water and allows air through, so you don't get blowback pushing chip round the boards. You will get fine dust going through it, but this is easily blown away.
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So you think the government uses the duty on road fuel to remove carbon from the air?😳 A subsidy is a reduction in the actual cost of an item, making it less expensive that it costs to produce. Red is still well above cost price, there is tax on red. As a said earlier road duty was added to the price of fuel used on the roads, to help pay for the building and up keep of roads. It has nothing to do with the climate. Should there be duty on all fossil fuels to help combat climate change? maybe. But that would be a new tax added to those fuels above cost. The idea that making life harder for our farmers and driving up the cost of food produced in this country will help reduce climate change is as deluded as the idea that grass feed beef is less green than palm oil or avocados.
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Red is not subsidised fuel. Its fuel without road duty. Road duty is or at least was a tax added to fuel in order to help fund the roads. The real question should be why is there no red petrol? If there is any industry that's being subsidised it's aviation.
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Well played Reg 👍
