Tom D

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Whats the advantage of the two piece boom?

Well done Steve, can't be many if any trees like that in the UK.

The issue with shrinkable clay is that the ground swells once the trees have gone, the rotting of the roots is not the issue. When trees grow on shrinkable clay they suck up a lot of moisture which shrinks the clay. when the trees are gone the clay re-hydrates and expands.

Looks like alder to me too..

I have a client for whom we took down a large fir, we left a 4 m monolith which she has now decided that she would like carved. Would anyone interested in this job please PM me and I will pass on the clients details. Cheers Tom

This is an interesting site, really good statistical analysis seat by seat... Electoral Calculus

You just did it again!

Check the coil, and the gap.

Loads of the 1%ers are philanthropists who spend millions on good causes. They are no different from the rest of us, some of them are nasty bastards and others are good guys.. Just like tree surgeons.

There's caring about others and then there's being over protective and allowing them to live an entire lifetime under the wing of the state. This needs to change.

New what?

Great, How do we do it?

This is the point I was making earlier Lee. Who are the rich? some will do well in the recession, but many did not. My point is we are better having them than not having them. If I made £30k a year and the guy up the road made £30million, then 2 years later I make £35k and he makes £35 million, the gap between us is now £4,995,000 higher than before, but am I poorer as a result? No! i'm £5k richer!

Nonsense, many of the guys working on piece rate picking fruit make way more than most of the groundies on here. Well over £100 a day for many if they are fast enough.. Hardly exploitative.

Read that before, thing is thats not actually looking at trickle down,its a miss use of statistics. Its simply a relative wealth comparison between the mega rich and the rest of us, and on that scale the rich are getting richer faster than we are. Its like saying that its a statistical fact they banana imports have caused more crime, since as banana imports rose in the years after the war so did the crime rate. So its a statistical fact right? The two things are obviously unrelated yet the stats can be made to show otherwise. Its the same thing here. The rich are getting richer, but not off the backs of the poor. Most of the mega rich make their money in ways that simply involve having money and making it grow in some way. Its not like the dark satanic mills anymore. Plus what that article doesn't address is the actual trickle down that definitely does occur. Like I said before, really think about the life of a mega rich man, think of how he spends his time and what he does. At every step theres someone "normal" taking a slice of his wealth.. weather its the gamekeeper at the highland estate where he shoots a stag, or the chef at the hotel who cooked it for him. Or the craftsman who made the gun. Or the guy who fixes his jacuzzi. Or the florist who supplies the fresh flowers that he changes every other day. The guy who maintains the engine on his yacht. etc etc. The more you think about it the more things you can think of. We all benefit. Lets say a guy comes over from India like Lakshimi Mittal, he is incredibly rich and pays little tax here as he is Non Dom. But even if he spends 0.1% of his wealth here we are all still better for it than if he never came at all.

Wealth does trickle down, Fact. You can't live the millionaire lifestyle without spending loads of cash. For example I have one client who has spent maybe £15k on his trees over the years. There are factories in the Hebrides making tweed, who buys that? not nurses and social workers. When you are mega rich you have everything done for you, thousands of businesses are dedicated to looking after the needs and wants of the rich, these people take the money off the rich and then they pay tax on it, we all benefit. I have had a handful of mega rich clients and I have made more from them than many many normal domestics put together. These people spend millions on property (paying huge stamp duty in the process) then they spend many more millions doing them up, and guess what, they don't DIY B&Q it!

The rich didn't get richer during the recession, they lost millions, well most of them did. We have an odd concept of "the rich" , So for example the MD of a car parts supplier to the manufacturers will have been hit hard when car sales fell, he's still rich of course compared to you and me.. Whereas a russian oligarch who made all his money elsewhere perhaps wasn't affected all that much. In your view, who are the rich? Joanna Killian, who earns £289k? What is the earning threshold above which you are one of the bad guys? All this stuff about migrants driving down wages is nonsense really, they mostly do jobs that employers struggle to fill, as well as a whole lot of other jobs that young british people don't want to do. We have a generation of kids who want a well paid, clean, non physically taxing 9-5 job, yet they have no skills or work experience. So call centres are the only thing open to them. This is why so many jobs in catering and hospitality are done by eastern europeans, our kids just don't want to get up at 5 to work in a hotel kitchen, let alone pick carrots or leeks all day.

Can you explain how that works? You've lost me???

Thats always the way, the private sector always feels the recession first, and the recovery. The public sector lags behind. Despite what the politicians say the only way public sector wages will rise in when the government can afford it, and that depends on the economy. You only have to look at this breakdown of where the government makes its money to see that almost all taxes are directly related to how well the economy is doing.... Type of tax Revenue £ million Income Tax 156,898 NICs 107,690 VAT 104,718 Corporation Tax 39,274 Fuel duties 26,881 Alcohol taxes 19,986 Stamp Duty Land 9,273 Capital Gains 3,908 Inheritance tax 3,402 Shares 3,108 Insurance premium tax 3,014 Air passenger duty 3,013 Betting + gaming 2,098 Landfill Tax 1,189 Petroleum Revenue tax 1,118 Climate Change levy 1,068 I can't remember an election where we were given so little information by the politicians about what they actually plan to do, they're all big on promises but very light on actual policy.

Was it you GN?

Its not whats in the manifesto thats the problem. Its what isn't. Where will the tories cut? and where will labour get the money? And where will the SNP get even more money LOL?

The tories will poll as well or better in scotland than they did in 2010, SNP votes are coming from Labour and lib Dems. The unionist vote will still go to the conservatives. Sturgeon is staying to appeal to the labour vote with the anti tory rhetoric, I think there is a good chance that many NO voters will vote conservative as they are the least likely to further the independence cause. Meanwhile Labour are bigging up the chances of a tory -UKIP coalition, but in reality UKIP may only win 2 or three seats, so its not really anything to worry about. If ukip were likely to win 40 odd seats like the SNP might then it would be a different matter. A labour SNP coalition is a real prospect however.

Put up a nest box close by?

All I can say is that the stock pump on my Valtra 6400 managed fine with the 560.. I have heard of people fitting auxiliary pumps but for a decent tractor it should be fine.