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skyhuck

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  1. I think the police are investigating the legality of the cladding used.
  2. Everyone who's council house burns down due to shoddy work, carried out by the council or their contractors certainly should and plent more besides I would hope!!!!
  3. One of the main things to keep in mind is strop/chain positioning. You need to be starting your cut under the "lift point" i.e. where the strop/chain goes up from the log to the crane, so as you make your cut its opening and freeing the saw. If you get this wrong its very easy to get your saw trapped. You should watch your cut as your making it, if it starts closing you need a little more tension, if its opening any more than the width of the saw chain, there is probably too much. 9 times out of 10 I simply cut straight through.
  4. Sorry for your loss Eggs.
  5. Bang on!!!:thumbup1:
  6. Do you have WiFi in the cell
  7. Exactly, hardly the actions of of the leader of a religion of hate, with no respect for authority.
  8. I'm just shocked that these bloodthirsty members of this violent, religion of hate, that some of you keep telling me about, did not beat the driver to death?
  9. I never have issues with my chest, but my sinuses do give me a bit of jip. I find sniffing water up my nose in the shower and the blowing it out really helps. Sorry I know its a bit gross, but I do find its very helpful.
  10. Stunning, simply stunning, long may it continue!!!:thumbup:
  11. It produces a stock-proof barrier, almost like a growing fence. A hedge thats just flailed back, generally ends up with gaps low down, where lambs or even sheep may get out.
  12. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/173-how-why-did-you-get-into-treework.html:001_smile:
  13. I got married at aged 20, we rented a house that had an open fire, and estate I rent from had a lot of dead elms, as a boy I had always gone with my dad to cut down dead or unwanted trees for the fire wood, so I bought a secondhand husky 266 with 20 inch bar and started felling at the weekend and cutting up for fire wood. Then got £500 gas bill so fitted wood burner with back boiler and upped production. At the time i was working in a foundry, but slipped a disc in my neck while grinding the snots of castings, while of ill I must of been walking bad with my head up and slipped a disc in my back. After 2 months on the sick I got sacked, I'd not worked there long enough to take them to tribunal. So started working as a window cleaner, I like being outside, but found it boring and repetitive. I saw job advert for grounds man, but it said you needed your NPTC, I rang and said I had no ticket, but I had my own saw and was very keen. I started on £30 a day with my own saw self-employed. I worked with a very good climber and thought i'd love to do that. I sold my push bike for £200 and bought some second hand climbing gear. I climbed at work whenever I could and went out at the weekend and dismantled dead elms. After getting a bit more experience I went and got assessed for tickets 20,21 and 22. The two climbers where I was working left to setup on their own, so I left with them, didn't work out. Started subbing to a couple of firms,one was a long established firm that felled for timber,the boss was a great guy who taught me more than any one before or since. Needed more climbing as both firms would keep me going full time, but not always climbing, so did a days trial for fountain forestry ,as it was called then, they said they'd give me as many days as i wanted. All went well for a while working for the 3 firms,then the taxman changed the rules on labour only rubies and fountain decided they were not having any subies at all. I went to the taxman and got a letter to say I was OK, but they said there were no exceptions and they wanted me to go employed, so I borrowed some money, bought a chipper and subbed to them as a small two man crew and advertised for domestic work. I've never looked back, when the rain is running down the back of my neck I just think back to my days in the foundry and remember how lucky I am.
  14. Excellent firewood IME. I would have no issue selling a load of just sycamore, so long as it was nice and dry.
  15. Nice one Angus!!!:congrats::congrats:
  16. Thats interesting David, we had some Black Pops, they were on a road called "Cotton Tree Lane", presumably because of of the cotton like seed. But I can only recall a few years in my 47 years of living in this area where they set seed.
  17. I've just got in from a youth orchestra comity meeting that started a 7.30, there is one each month and it don't pay. I was a parent governor at my local primary for 12year, including being chair for a period. I have taken off many days from work to deal with important matters, that didn't pay either. Will that do?
  18. Really What happened to society? I have friends and family with very different circumstances to myself and I love my country, I want whats good for us all. I know that 5 years of Corbyn would lead to 15 years of misery for us all. The previous cuts would feel like a spending spree. There is no magic money tree.
  19. Who Corbyn would cuddle up with in a heartbeat to take power They have 10 elected MP's, I guess you despise all those who voted for them, but you have no issue with those who support a religion that feels exactly the same and worse
  20. Originally Posted by skyhuck View Post Which part of the infowars video do you feel is inaccurate? Its very easy to just label any thing that does not fit your personal narrative as "rubbish" why not engage with the argument being made and point out the false hood and inaccuracies as you see them? Do the DUP not pretty much hold similar views to muslims? Yet Muslims good/DUP bad, is it a race thing? DUP are a political organisation. Islam is a religion, not a race remember?You miss my point (as usual) If the DUP is "bad" so must be islam, do you think they don't vote? I only mention race as what other reason can there be and as you have shown earlier, many don't seem to know the difference Do you think communism is a good thing? and is not responsible for 100M deaths? Is this really A road we want to head down? Socialism and Communism aren't the same thing Thin edge of the same wedge If people were waving swastika people would be up in arms, but the hammer and sickle is fine Stalin killed far more than Hitler. I don't know anyone in the Labour Party who is flying the hammer and sickle Its called the "loony left" with good reason, they appear totally devoid of even the simplest reasoning ability. You call them 'Loony' Left. In fact Labour has it's roots in Left wing politics. As for reasoning, at least Labour had a manifesto that contained something to apply reason to. It only makes sense to those who know nothing of economic, once we have a £10 minimum wage, with all the pay increases above base that would follow, how much corporation tax do you think there would be? The very corporation tax that is going to pay all the bills They lost the election, but claim they won, criticise the Torys for accepting DUP support, but their own sister party in Ireland believe the exact same thing and in any case would need DUP support themselves in order to take power. Accepting DUP support has the potential to cause more harm to the peace process in NI than anything else politicians have done. So why has your leader offered to take power, when he would need them? They are utterly bonkers. If you say so Yes, yes I do The youth are be haled as heroes for voting, would that still be the case if they have voted Tory, I think not The youth wouldn't vote for the Tories as they have no appeal at the moment. I think you're doing the youth a great disservice by assuming they can't make up their own minds about things that directly affect their lives and futures So I'm doing them a disservice, but you point out they will only vote in their own self interest? We live in the time of the individual, where people live in bubbles and feel no need to educate themselves beyond their own self-centred , self interest. They have no interest in the facts, unless they fit their own personal interests. You've just summed up my position on your statement
  21. Which part of the infowars video do you feel is inaccurate? Its very easy to just label any thing that does not fit your personal narrative as "rubbish" why not engage with the argument being made and point out the false hood and inaccuracies as you see them? Do the DUP not pretty much hold similar views to muslims? Yet Muslims good/DUP bad, is it a race thing? Do you think communism is a good thing? and is not responsible for 100M deaths? Is this really A road we want to head down? If people were waving swastika people would be up in arms, but the hammer and sickle is fine:confused1: Stalin killed far more than Hitler. Its called the "loony left" with good reason, they appear totally devoid of even the simplest reasoning ability. They lost the election, but claim they won, criticise the Torys for accepting DUP support, but their own sister party in Ireland believe the exact same thing and in any case would need DUP support themselves in order to take power. They are utterly bonkers. The youth are be haled as heroes for voting, would that still be the case if they have voted Tory, I think not:sneaky2: We live in the time of the individual, where people live in bubbles and feel no need to educate themselves beyond their own self-centred , self interest. They have no interest in the facts, unless they fit their own personal interests.
  22. Wow!!! Powerful video!! So much information and argument, thats my whole ideology changed. Damn it!!! Why can't I go back in time and vote Labour!! .
  23. How can that possibly be considered "successfull"? I guess the fact that many feel it is tells the OP a lot about his potential earnings:001_huh:
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