Rich Rule

Thing is Steve, you get paid to fix them, users get paid to use them. The more the user wrecks the saw the more work you have... I am certainly not a Saint for keeping maintenance up to date. I think I have cleaned the air filter in my 441 now about 5 or 6 times. I got it at one of the Apf’s years ago... probably 8 or 10 years ago. It still works and screams when it is cutting. Surely, it is a simple relationship which works well?

Mick, I thought you would have had Celtic blood being as you are from an Irish family...?

I remember having to buy a special Birol pen with an Italic nib. We has to learn to write italics correctly and were marked down if a tick was in the wrong place or a fat bit was done on the wrong angle and looked thin. This was’t just a specialist class, they introduced it to us and after a week or so every piece of written work had to be in Italics. This was 1st and 2nd year juniors. I was 7/8 years old and it was the early 80’s. Both my kids have found the home schooling pretty boring. We moved from a really good OFFSTED school in south London to Norway in 2017. If you think the level of schooling is bad in the UK. Norwegian Kids don’t start school til they are 7 or 8. Then they learn the letters, numbers and to put a small dot at the end of a sentence, just like this . My youngest was already doing multiplication, division, additions and subtraction and writing a paragraph how he had worked it out. My oldest boy, last year, entered a maths competition for the year group higher than him. He got the highest marks available. His problem is he finds it so easy and rushes through stuff so he can go out skating or Thai Boxing, he is starting to make silly errors. That is our focus at the moment.

It certainly helps. Fortunately I got spiked to fuck yesterday by loads of wild rose on an embankment. Plenty to choose from. In the interest of science I used a calpol syringe. Worked pretty well. Didn’t suck it right out but brought it to the surface and was easy to get with tweezer.

As Matty said or a running bowline.

Norway is pretty good. I would say that though as I live here. If you’re good you can get excellent hourly/day rates. But you pay a lot of tax and cost of living is pretty high. depends on the lifestyle you are after. Don’t be put off with Scandiwegian weather. I live and work in the Oslo area. We had a bad winter for snow. It rained for the first time in about a month, Monday and Tuesday this week. Other than that it has been sunny, crystal clear blue skies and last week was 21C. Proper arb work as well. A lot of climbing good sized trees but not a lot of cutting. In all the years working here I don’t think I have had to do a large mature crown reduction. Yes, reduced specific limbs etc and weight reductions but not whole trees.

When I was at Uni there were a number of scams like this. Emergency services calendar etc, schools calendar etc. I know because quite a few of my friends did it for a while. Basically advertising space is sold on a promise. Then if they get 100 people buying the adverts they print a hundred copies and send to the people who bought. No expensive printing costs it’s a win, win for them. Unfortunately not for the people who were scammed. Strangely enough it was always a scouser who owned the company.

That is because there isn’t one yet.

That’s the spirit soldier. I expect a full report on my desk by 21 hundred hours tomorrow.

Heinz has been living on that 57 varieties fairy tale for too long! Standards are slipping. Imagine the amount of lost fart ratio when eating a tin of Heinz compared to Branstons?

You will be a old, experienced climber by the time the kit arrives from Northern Arb Supplies. I would, as others have suggested, try a harness before you buy.

Ty, what was wrong with your GM? I have used plenty of Scheislings, never owned one but used a fair few in their range. Solid, Robust, Heavy but they tend to chip well and are really, really expensive.

On both side my Grandparents were farming stock so no direct war stories apart from my Great Aunt was knocked up by an American GI who was stationed in their farm and subsequently I had an Aunt who was actually my mothers cousin... child out of wedlock and all that malarkey. I did however have to do a project for GCSE English when I was at school. We had been covering the War Poets and we had to interview someone who had served and then write an essay on the discussions. As a baby the old couple over the road had acted as baby sitters and were almost like Grandparents. Old Joe had served during the war so my mother suggested I interview him. I sat down with him, and asked the first question. This old man who I had loved and looked up to as a child just sat down and put his head in his hands and started sobbing uncontrollably. His wife later said that he had been captured by the Japanese whilst in Burma IIRC and served 3 or 4 years as a Japanese POW. I never did get the interview. That is why we should never forget!

Why not have a go freehand and perfect that method? There will be a time and a place in the future, not unlike now, where you will need to sharpen said chains and don’t have the file guide. My first boss drilled that into me. File guides should be for workshops and not sharpening in the field. My first day, he kept me there for half a day sharpening an 026 until he was happy with how it cut. He was pretty old school. It has been my chosen method though for the last 18 years. Sometimes if the chain is proper gashed then I might use a guide, on occasion I use the depth gauge guide, but had the same one for 15 years now... that’s shows how often I use it.

Hit the nail on the head there. Rings are cool and work well to add a bit of friction. That bit of friction can help so much or hinder a lot more. Depends on the task. To say that blocks are obsolete is a pretty narrow minded statement IMO. Both have their place in my kit bag. The blocks tend to be used 95% of the time though.

Bump. Good times.

My oldest boy is 12 years old and currently homeschooled. He grew up in south London and we moved to Norway 3 years ago. He has home economics homework and has been doing different dishes. Last week it was Jamaican Patties, Rice and Peas and Jerk chicken. Bloody tasty it was. Ital is Vital, Jah Rastafari. I guess you can take the boy out of South London but can’t get South London out of the boy.

It doesn’t bother me. I have most apps disabled access to microphone. I don’t get that many coincidences of discussing stuff with the wife and then it appearing in google... Thats ‘cos I don’t talk to the wife.

What do you suggest then? Any ideas?

You need to restrict access to the microphone in settings.

The Chinese Party in power have a habit of extraditing people from Hong Kong to the mainland, never to be seen or heard of again. There is a level of mistrust between the Cantonese and Mandarin people. I agree about the US though. Half of them think that the tin foil hat will protect them.

It wouldn’t surprise me. One of my old friends and housemates is from Hong Kong and moved back there a few years ago. I contacted him when the news from China first broke. iIRC they had claimed 20000 infections. His comment was if they have got to the stage that they feel they need to tell the world the figure will be 10* that. Could explain why Hong Kong has such low cases... they shut the border and implemented lockdown straight away. They have a history of lack of trust.

In what way? People in large gatherings getting lashed? People walking in groups of 2 and 3 for exercise with 2 metres between them? It is very civilised in the Oslo area. Roads are quiet, only people who need to be out seem to be out. Supermarkets are pretty well stocked and only once have I had to go to another store to get something.

FFS, Can’t you leave politics out of it? There are people seriously ill. I hope for your own sakes and your loved ones that the people who think this is a joke, get a grip and grow up! Sorry to hear about your wife David. The laddish culture in the UK could literally be the death of them! Sad but true. And before the snowflake comments start floating in my GD... I am far from a snowflake!

Yes mate. In the Oslo area it is a dry cold for the most part. The west coast is a different story. We have had a very mild winter for Norway. Not much snow, in fact it was the first year since records began where there was no snow in Oslo for the entire month of January. I much prefer the climate here. Much more stable than the UK. Layer up as you know it will be cold. -6 or colder. It is much more comfortable working than +6, rain and wind like in the UK.