monkeybusiness

Fergal is very good and absolutely spot on with his thoughts - hats off to him.

What a snivelling self-congratulating turd of a man!

Forget buy back - force them to fix the issues, penalise them heavily if/when they don’t, leave them to fold (no bailouts) and then take them back under government control.

I love that bike - am annoyed with myself for not bidding on this the other day (it apparently sold for less than £700…)

Why aren’t they dredging the life out of it whilst it’s empty ffs?! Increase capacity without upsetting the enviro-huggers. It would be a fast, cheap and easy way of bolstering short-term storage.

Any pics? Not much you’ve not done!

Brilliant film, definite top 5 (with Jaws, Mad Max 2, Smokey and the Bandit and Return of the Jedi)…

Just run a mulcher through it and throw a bit of grass seed down at that point, it’ll be a flat field within a fortnight.

Was that your man?

There is the ‘fence off and retain’ option too, but obviously not always possible. It’s a horribly sad event, and ultimately blame will end at someone’s door. (I doubt very much that the person the finger ends up pointing at did anything untoward).

What was his name - dj weapon? 😂

These aren’t pictures of the same fenceline. The ‘root’ picture is of ivy growing on your side that has been recently removed - the stump is still visible.

Wouldn’t a big winch rag the lot out? Or a 13 tonne plus excavator?

If the tree falls on the op’s garage the claim will be on the op’s insurance.

We were doing some work for National Grid in Anglesey a few years ago, and I was filling a tractor up at a local petrol station with white diesel. (This was a highly unusual procedure from the perspective of the garage owner - red diesel only for tractors surely!). Customs and excise were staying in the same hotel as us, and had several marked vehicles on the car park each evening. This came up in conversation with said garage owner who told me that they were checking ‘weights and measures’ on the island, and had been to spot-check the calibration of his pumps the week before. ‘Must have been a bit of a worrying event for you?’ I suggested. It turned out he was actually pretty upset as his pumps had been under-reading! In relation to this thread - measure oil into 20l Jerry can(s), fill with 20l at petrol station. Decant into combi-cans as required. Has never caused a single issue in 25 years.