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Well that's confusing, Manchester is not known for its Mediterranean climate and surely putting trees in planters is going to leave the root zone exposed to greater temperature swings??? Isn't that just asking for trouble? Perhaps something native and low maintenance would be a better choice?

So what if it was purchased or owned by a company as opposed to a private individual would that make a difference? Clearly it makes no difference in law but its got me wondering, if you made a fundamental mistake about that, what else did you get wrong? Any chance of a citation to back your position?

Where is the like button when you need it:laugh1:

Ok, I will bite......Why

Are you getting a work permit or winging it? Finding work straightforward, a work permit is going to need some effort

I grant you it does have a certain "bouquet" about it but its one of those aromas that instantly triggers memories. You haven lived till you have been elbows deep in some decades old series land rover drive train needing to get it fixed before Monday rolls around again

Its an industry standard rod end, how old is that machine, you don't know that and you have no clue about its no doubt long history. The fact that the end that has failed is, by design the bottom end of the ram means that when it failed the broken component stayed in place (failed safe). If it had been mounted the other way up the failure would have been very different indeed. So good design and old age

Well it was three decades ago and it was that or used engine oil, some of us were there when "tacky oil" was new and novel

Experiences??? Were you there when it happened??? The idea that a sufficient quantity of an exothermic haemostatic agent could be applied to a human torso to cook it (presumably causing death) is faintly ridiculous Are you sure they weren't using thermite by mistake?? :laugh1:

Time was we used EP 90 (gear oil) because that's pretty much what we had, that was several decades ago and, while there are now alternatives that may or may not be better, the old stuff still works. Its not so much a case of getting it wrong as much as things have moved on

So if I understand this properly, the driver delivered to a person who signed for the item and then felt the need to put a note through the door saying they had left the parcel at the property by the side door. Nothing confusing or contradictory there then, chase the carrier for clarification. I know these digital sign devices are poor at best but is the signature anything like your wifes ?

They managed a section of the Manchester metrolink build to accommodate a couple of magpies.

Urban Dictionary: Putah (Pootah)) Oh dear, I think I would use Pewter instead :laugh1:

And thus is born another internet myth :laugh1:

Its not about absorbing, once the blood has escaped it becomes irrelevant unless you want to tell someone further on the care pathway how much was lost, for the most part they will probably be busy dealing with the injury to care and can make their own symptoms based assessment. Hemostatic agents are a useful tool but there is no substitute for direct wound pressure particularly where the wound is in muscle and over a bony structure which is where most saw wounds tend to be.

So if we accept that people will overload, the "disaster" potential goes up exponentially with larger vehicles. A 3500 mam vehicle can only be so overloaded before its on the bump stops where larger vehicles don't show the overload quite as badly. Time was, a brand new driver could get into 7.5 tons the day they passed. Back in the day when crusties like you and I started there was a lot less on the roads, vehicles were generally a lot slower and things weren't so hectic. Who is the licence system a cash cow for? A licence will cost you a tax deductible £650 so it works out at just over hundred pounds a year. You can do your own inspections or contract them out but there isn't anything onerous there, lets allow a generous (deductible) hundred pounds for tacho charts, "yorkie" bars and the like. On the benefits side you will have a bigger vehicle that will spend less time off site to tip off meaning more production. If we assume a tip off run averages 45 mins for the round trip and say that's three times a week that's going to give you more than 2 hours back. Multiply that by your rate for a gang of lads

Go for the impregnated bandage. Much easier to use.

OK, you are calling it redheart, or rather the site that is there to sell you things has used that term and you have swallowed it. I think its better described as a decay pre cursor. If you read through the baffleology on that site it lists what you need to look further into. chromophoric just means it has changed colour but it sounds nice and scientific. initiated by external factors means the changed state is a reaction and its usually to damage. oxygen entering the wood fibres , well yes but that's mostly a red herring, far more significant is the action of pathogens (fungi for the most part). They make enzymes which change the state of the timber. Loosely speaking, lignin and cellulose are digested at differing rates causing the change in colour. Google brown and white rot for more on that or this book is the daddy (IMO) Fungal Strategies of Wood Decay in Trees | Francis W.M.R. Schwarze | Springer. This is a good "wiki" page on the subject it even has a decent picture of the compartmentalisation process although its on Acer rather than Fagus and I think the age thing is a mile off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_of_decay_in_trees In some timber you can get a marked colour difference lignified and non lignified cells (sapwood and heartwood) but its usually highly regular in form. Laburnum is a particularly good example and I can see how a bsologist could get to "redheart" from a place like that. Generating redheart is a natural process in living beech trees, in which, simply put, provisional substances are transformed into chromophoric ingredients. The pigmentation of the core is initiated by external factors. The most common causes are branches, that have broken off, and other injuries, which lead to oxygen entering the wood fibres (xylem).

Maybe but its a fine line between useable and gone too far. In simple terms the tree "as was" has written that timber off and compartmentalised it, abandoned it to its fate. All that nice colour, "spalting" and what not, its just decay pre cursors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Shigo Still essential reading for anyone dealing with trees and timber A New Tree Biology and Dictionary Modern Arboriculture - Touch Trees Tree Anatomy

The arb trade calls it "starting to rot", Shigo will fill you in on the details

Like the chair, got a bit of an Elvish vibe there. That shadow board speaks to a tidy mentality but put the top handle out of sight before someone thinks the worse of you:laugh1:

And rightly so, if its gone bad that's the bosses look out, job gone wrong, your problem, staff under performing, your problem. Got things on song, that's the bosses function.

Yup, I much prefer the thread that goes, "anyone want this" and people then say, if only it were round the corner but I am several hundred miles away:laugh1:

Or just old perhaps????