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I expect you're right there but the problem then is not one a database of stolen kit can solve: it's a problem for the manufacturers to address by making the serial numbers so darned big and stamped/engraved into the machines multiple times that changing the ID becomes almost impossible. How hard can that be?! Where the databases can help is by people recording details beyond make, model, serial number; prominent scratches, dents, deformities - anything out of the ordinary really. I filled in a form re a stolen car some years ago: crikey, they wanted every scratch, dent, cigarette burns on the seats, tears in the seat material and so on; there was pages of it. But there was a database that recorded enough to point an investigator in the right direction if there arose the need to narrow down a selection of possible stolen cars to the one the Police had recovered. To have such a detailed search facility on Arbsafe is but a dream I'm sure but if someone was looking through 10 stolen TW 150s and one of them had sufficient detail to describe a recovered but anonymous machine in front of them - bingo; you have an ident.

I think the OP's referring to a the pole rescue whereby both rescuer and rescuee are lowered off a second tree (typically) by a third person using a Munter hitch through a biner: there should be a failsafe such as a prussik on the lowering line for use by the third person.

Not completely a joke actually: I did that to a small patch (well I wouldn't say 'large patch' would I) of Leyland hedging years ago and Madam did indeed spray paint it.

That'll look great after a couple of hours work with green spray paint.

A minor tweak suggestion then... Could the asset value be shown in a determined currency rather than as a bald number? Our European mainland colleagues would probably like to show Euros for example. Jon

As chip is organic it rots so perhaps re-lay the paths annually, shovelling the old stuff straight onto the beds?

Frightened you might trip over a bit of Sellotape were they? On THEIR premises... Heaven forbid.

...Forester...?

Fair points there, especially re the bike shop cardboard. Shame about Curry's though; some of their TVs will use as much as a medium-sized bike!

Have you been round the back of your local supermarket (cardboard)?

Love the shot of the guy balancing that pop on one hand!

That's baaaaad.

How kind of you! I'll say yes. If someone else is keen I'm happy to share - one apiece. Cheers Al. Jon

Planting things over corpses to feed them isn't a new concept: I've heard lore concerning planting roses over a fish and something else over a sheep! So I suppose a human corpse could provide some nutrient but what would it be by the time the roots reached it? As for burying someone in the foetal position; great. Cemeteries are overcrowded with stretched out folk so you could really cram them in!

I wonder if it was this stuff. It's been mentioned on here before. ecosheet :: Home

This is good to see; top job.

Great effort there in Wales. 11 years ago a good friend of ours, a farm manager, was killed also on his farm: he left a mum and three. The support then helped enormously and the farming community is very good at rallying round. Best of luck to the bereaved family for the future.

:congrats: Now go and sort those quotes! Jon

Steve, I'll request that the stem's saved for me if I'm not too late. Jon ...it hasn't gone: I'll collect it tomorrow.

How important is it to be seasoned Steve? I know of a small one that is about to be felled if it hasn't gone through the chipper today. Jon

Beau, that looks fantastic. I really need to keep the missus away from pics like these!

The wood dry isn't as soft as you think. It's Magnolia family btw but referred to in the States as Rainbow Poplar. Not being flash; I know a bit about it as I lost a 45' specimen - the best tree in the garden - last winter. It didn't go to waste; Steve the 7th Devil has it!

Wouldn't you take a receipt or other proof of sale? As long as you send off the seller portion of the V5 I don't see a problem.

I should have said I was referring to logs, not chip: the shovel works OK with chip on a ridged floor but it's a horror to use on logs that are on a ridged floor.

Another vote for the Loadhandler here. I don't use mine as much as I should. Sure, material catches on the wheel arches but handballing out 20% rather than 100% has to be a bonus. A possible alternative if you have a flat floor and not a ridged one is a corn shovel. The plastic ones cost £25-30 and really shift stuff.