Dean Lofthouse

The N95 is 5MP which takes stunning photos but inputting letters for emailing is mind numbingly rubbish, could do with a keyboard. 2mp is good for email and for posting pics on the net, but the pixels show if you put them full screen on the comp

Could do with a mewp to clear the ivy though

How many pixels is it Steve

I had raspberries, loads of em, got a bit wet getting em though. Only thing I find with the blackberries etc, apart from the seeds, is they always have crap cameras, or good cameras and crap everything else

I knew you'd see my side of the tale,, Best Mate!

I used to have a sign the same Bob, "do not climb on the timber stacks" but it got nicked. It isn't at your yard now is it.

I think it was Ed because it was on Calender local news.

As a business owner, I bet thats all I'm on after taking off all the over heads, £100 a day that is. I don't think a groundy should be on the same wage as me.

Try blaming the parents or the children themselves. If I knew my kids were playing in such an area, I'd hit the roof, plus the kids would have known they weren't supposed to be there. How would anyone on here feel if they came into work to find their yard cordoned off with police and Socco, to be told some kids had got into your yard and were crushed under a collapsed log pile. Then your carted off for questioning, hauled through a tribunal and threaten by the HSE and the childs parents threaten to sue you. Many weaker souls would crack and top themselves

I'll be your mate Dave

Just been watching the news describing where a young girl got through a fence and was playing in a quarry with her mates, a boulder they were scrambling over moved and crushed the girl. Obviously my condolences go out to the family, but the firm is being hauled through the coals and being blamed for the incident because they should have ahd a more secure fence. The face prosecution from the hse and a claim from the family of the young girl. Surely the girls, of an age where they should know they shouldn't of been there should be to blame not the company. Surely one would know you were not supposed to be playing in a quarry. When is all this blame thing going to stop, I really do feel like packing up and flipping off from this country, it's getting silly.

Normally when someone doesn't ring the same person who has done the job before and rings round other, it's because they are not happy with the standard of work.

All I can say is you mustn't be selling yourself well enough. No insult intended. You can tell within a matter of minutes whether the customer is price orientated. Sometimes you can tell from the first sentence on the phone, which is normally, "Can I have a free estimate"

Not looking too good weather wise guys I take it the pub is the only place you have to get under cover

Pete, or anyone else. Would it not be possible just to have cut the trees at the bottom and lay them over with the crane?? Why dismantle them, there looks to be enough room. The butt could have been left resting on the stem taking some of the weight off and just use the crane to lower slowly to the ground. Or am I just being silly

I have had a University Professor bring me a drill in for repair. Told me it had just stopped working all of a sudden. First thing I checked was the fuse, hey presto! You just can't get a qualification for common sense, if they did do one, there wouldn't be many holding degrees in it

Not reallly a hard and fast rule. The majority of my customers appreciate the standard of workmanship done and as a result, a lot of my work comes from repaet business or recommendations, where the customer is not interested in other quotes. They are not stupid either, they appreciate good workmanship costs and now when they are being charged too much. I believe you can only trade for so long and will only get just enough work to keep you going if you do crap workmanship or leave a mess and broken, crushed flowers ect. I have actually just put up my prices and I know for a fact I am more expensive than others. Yet I'm no where near short of work. I've priced and won three jobs today, all for whom I have done work for previously. It's not all about how much your day rate is.

Doesn,t matter Andy. I am a firm believer that qualifications do not make you good at whatever those qualifications are. If I were an employer, I would go on what I hear at the job interveiw and then trial the applicant. Many a good worker is lost to not having the correct (PC) quals. I have not got any qualifications for welding, but one day when working at a fabrications company, a representative came in from British Nuclear Fuels to oversee the testing five welders for stick welding plate stainless. They had to do three test pieces which would be Xrayed, cut down the middle and checked. These welders were very experienced on Mig and Tig, but not on stick. BNFL stipulated that you had to stop the weld halfway through then restart without leaving air pockets etc. For fun I asked if I could have a go because I had done lots of stick welding. Lucky I did, because I was the only one that passed the tests and ended up welding stainless steel extractor fans for BNFL and so the company I worked for won a lucrative contract. I was, at the time a spraypainter, painting huge mild steel (mig welded) extractor fans for another BNFL contract, spraying fans to exact and strict standards, using specail paints that had to be applied at an exact thickness in microns to end up drying at a certain min thickness when all the solvents had evaporated, all to be worked out with solid and solvent percentage contents. You can't get much fussier than BNFL ... and again, no other qualification for spray painting other than experience and a desire to do a good job and do it properly.

I think if I were to buy any it would have to be mesh sided not vented

..and also remember to never rev your saw from stone cold, always allow a minutes ticking over BEFORE revving it. What is probably happening is as I have described before, cold seize. Pistons warm quicker than the cylinder, simply because there are cooling fins on the cylinder with air being blown over them. If you rev the balls off your saw from cold, the piston warms and expands very quickly where your cylinder is staying cold with all that air being blown round it and the piston tightens up in the cylinder causing scoring and eventually over time, seizure From stone cold, simply start the saw as normal and leave it sat on the floor for a minute ticking over.

Looks like a Kubota stop solonoid

I've got orange flashing lights, I'm allowed to park anywhere.

I thought it might be something to do with claiming, funny how they see the trees but trip over the base. It was Foster Avenue Bob. You can see the gravel underneath the tarmac which is very thin. I think people who trip over their shadow need a slap round the back of the head not compensation Won't the trees struggle for nutrients now. Being in the middle of a large tarmac area??

David. I have just stuck a new one in mine and it wouldn't pull out of the drive up the hill and I had just stuck a new injector pump in which I had just got back from having the settings put to factory set. It turned out to be the power screw on the injector pump needed screwing in 1/4 turn from factory set. It goes like split doggy do now. The power screw is the one at the back of the pump just above the injector pipes. Make a note of where the original position is and screw in no more than 1/4 otherwise you'll end up with smoke, if this doesn't cure it it needs further investigation

I'd have been more distracted with the set of "Little Giant ladders" for lionstailing street trees. Just waiting for the price of Ali to come down, to build a proper chip box.