Tom D

Go to the start menu and look at "all programs" then open the microsoft office file and outlook 200? should come up. Mines 2007 and the instructions i gave earlier would work for that. On your tools menu are there any arrows for drop down menus?

Is it outlook 2007 or an earlier one?

What program are you using to view your mail?

Result! With the amount of people onn here these days that sort of thing will happen more often.

You need some heavier gear dude.

I'm not jealous. Maybe a little. But not much.

Thats cool, where are you based? BTW everyone, I have taken the diabolical liberty of posting invites on the North East and North West groups in case anyone just over the border fancies coming allong.

You must be on vista? Try tools, account settings, then click change, then more settings, then advanced. then uncheck leave a copy of messages on server:001_smile:

Thats a lot of dough for an 18 year old tractor.

From what I know of this, appeals are difficult, however I'd just go along with it, getting shirty with the council would be a big mistake IMO. The blanket tpo is, like you say, an emergency measure and with a litle diplomacy can easily be overcome. What to do is prepare a detailed management plan for the woodland ( charge your client for this ) and submit it to the council. If you have made a good case they have no reason to refuse any reasonable request. I have taken down several TPO'd trees over the last few years simply by making a good case for their removal. Often other tree firms have looked at the job and said "no we can't touch it" and walked away leaving me to clean up. There is a lot of anti tree officer stuff on here, and TBH all the ones I deal with are fine. Maybe its different down south but I doubt it. Work with them and you'll be surprised how far you get.

Very interesting, I seem to be selling at 5.1p/Kw which is ok I suppose. Thanks for posting.

Que Monkey D asking where the coronet cuts are:001_tongue:

The day we stary taking trees down just for the wood is the day I pack it in.

Like I said its not definate, if we can come up with a good central location I'm up for it. No one has suggested anything else yet though. Because we could stay overnight I thought it was better than trying to get there and back in a day, If we end up needing b=b's and pub crawls etc the expense might put off some of the younger student members. At the end of the day I'm open to all sugestions but whatever we do it'll be hard to please everyone. BTW my wife was involved in the new Culloden visitor centre, its a 4 hour drive from here if that helps. We may be a long way south but we're not in England:001_tongue:

Sequoia sempervirens ?

Just google "mp4 to wmv" there's probably some freeware out there.

No money required for camping, might be a beer kitty though. Berwichshire is the South Easternmost county of Scotland, even though Berwick is in England.http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/counties/countymaps5.html

According to my instructor on the PTI its quite rare up here, I've never seen it, he also said If you find one he'd like one for the class. Perhaps you could make money selling them to scottish colledges.

Where did you hear that SWB? Not heard it before. TBH the trees are all untouched anyway there's bound to be deadwood in them, and we'd need something for the campfire anyway.

When the weather warms up a bit, maybe May. On the weather front it might be an idea for those attending to book 2 consecutive weekends off that way if the first looks like being wet we can postpone to the folowing one without messing anyones plans up.

I have arranged a venue which we can use, this does not have to be the definitive arrangement and if any one else has a suitable place please let us know. The venus is Abbey St Bathans estate in Berwickshire, this place is fairly heavily wooded and should provide ample opportunity for some good climbing. There is a lot of ancient oak woodland on the estate much of it growing on very poor soil so the trees are small and stunted. In the valley bottoms there are some larger trees with some broadleaves in the 70 - 90 foot range though nothing massive. Should there be enough 4x4's available on the day there are a couple of pretty ancient 100 foot+ silver firs which can be accesed by driving through the river and allong a track. The downside of this venue is its non central location, on the plus side we would be allowed to camp on site and have Bar b q etc. there is also a sweedish woodfired hot tub in the camping field ( trunks only, no mankinis allowed lol). Willie Dobie the owner of the estate has agreed to allow this on the basis that we have a play with some of his Logosol chainsaw mills ( he is the importer) which I think is fair enough, especially if we are there for a day and a half. Any way, your feedback on this is welcome.

One thing I'm a little unclear on is, is it actually illegal to operate without the appropriate NPTC cert? I know that in the event of an accident the hse will tend to prosecute if there was an inadequate level of training, but just suppose that an employer had his own in house scheme and could prove that it was just as thorough and rigorous as the NPTC, has he fulfilled his obligations? Whenever I put this question to those in the know I get a woolly answer, we know it is definately Illegal do drive without a valid liscence and there will be a written statute somwhere that confirms this: "subsection something or other of the road traffic act". What I want to know is what is the relevant section of the Health and Safety at Work act and can some one please post that relevant part. That said I am not against NPTC training per se and I do not beleive that the original training could or should be bypassed, however refresher training IMO could and shoud be an in house matter. What would be wrong with a company taking a day out in the year for staff to familliarise themselves with the latest developments, and to take a short written test to show the records that the training has taken place. Employees could sign a statement to confirm that they were happy that they were adequately trained for the job in hand. The problem with all this is that companies like mine, and I am sure many others on here, are being asked to commit money and time that they can ill afford in order to comply? with the law. If every last tree surgeon in the country attended training courses every other day then I'd be happy to do the same, but when those with a conscience are loosing jobs to those who are prepared to flout the law? purely because of the additional cost of training ( remember the downtime costs more than the training itself ) I think its totally unfair. Further more this will eventually drive standards down as more and more of the better firms go under, loosing work to those who are prepared to cut corners. A little time spent by the SSC working out how to properly implement the current regime and make it more open and inclusive to all those in the industry would be time well spent. Once 95% of all the proffesional chainsaw operators in the country are under the NPTC umbrella then it will be time to tweak the system. Any further tweaking at the moment just raises the bar even higher for those on the edge of the system and makes them less likely to want to be part of it.

Most 5kw stoves seem quite narrow and are only able to take small logs. I recently fitted an Esse 100 for my Gran, its wide and shallow instead of being narrow and will take a bigger log which is handy as some have really annoyingly small fireboxes. We went for the esse mainly because it fitted the fireplace better then other models but it has proved to be very good and the large door with a big window means you see more of the fire. http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/wood_burning_stoves/Esse-100-stoves.html PS. prices seem to have gone up a lot in since August, I'm sure we paid around £450 so shop around.

Its funny, in "real life " I find that technique works quite well ( I tend to visualise 10' sections) but in a photo its quite deceptive.

Stick it on. I'd like a go myself.