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Very good.

NIce view Spruce! Love the hills.

This is St Mawes lighthouse you can see way in the distance across Falmouth Bay. Terrible quality, but i love the pic.

The first two are of an approx 145' tree- the tree, and looking down from about 138 feet, the second is Carlyon Bay in St Austell- not sure if its the top, but its a beautiful view either way, and the last is a funny shadow from up a radiata forming a BMX like picture with some crap on the ground.

I have no issue chipping everything I can and no issue towing weight, so I have a vermeer 935. However this wouldnt suit you at all by the sound of it, so i would say get a 6" such as the quadchip.

Thanks mate, Ill keep that in mind.

Well mum had it towed to her garage by the RAC......I tyried to get her to bring it home as my mate in Plymouth is the worlds most amazing mechanic and works for next to nowt, but she will have to see what they say first.

Anybody know if this is a dead engine, or minimal damage such as on the defender 300tdi? It has just happened to my Mum and she doesnt need that sort of bill at the mo....

I totally agree Matty. How they were built is totally in question, and I strongly suspect you are correct. I would imagine the enforcement was more violent than through taxation even!! My point (made late last night in a bout of insomnia and after some beer (ahem lol) was more that pre christain religions were probably more in tune with the cycles of nature and realism than christianity et al, the belief in nature as opposped to an imaginary benevolent God/ Lord of all who actually isnt that benevolent at all- there are so many examples of this in the bible. I mean that in itself seems to me o be another reflection on the harshness of reality- nature isnt a totlly benevolent 'God' either- there are times of famine and plenty in nature as much as the parallels tat are love and punishment from God if you see what I mean. At the end of the day a belief in a higher force is all part of a quest to find out WHY we are here and why existence and evolution is what it is. I think that if you are happy to believe that we just 'are' then it is possible to see why there is not the slightest shred of real Truth in the whole bible story. And for me this is fine- it is a system of belief to help allay the fears of human insecurities.

This is a much more iuinteresting thread than Butlers. (no offence Butler). In so far as it is knid of obvious to me. The pagans used the true cycles of nature, the seasons and equinoxes, which are undeniable the truth. Heck- even christians celebrate the likes of harvest festival etc. Given that christianity only ever developed as a form of power, both social and financial, in order to attract (or whatever alternative you care to use) pagans, the christians had to follow fairly closely the pagan festivals- christmas near to the shortest day/ the TRUE new year etc etc. Had they not done this then NO credibility could have been attributed to the new ideas. "Climb the mountains, and get their good things" - J. Muir. "And I looked unto the high places, from whence cometh my strength" - The Bible. Sam- your quote is evidence of this IMO- those that preached God and other such new ideas knew that they couldnt stray fromthe truth too much or their new versions of the truth would not ever have a hope of taking hold, and the social structures and oredr that they so strived for would have failed from the start. Of course the ancient monuments feel 'right'. They are homages to/ reflections of nature, the true cycle, none of this engineered social control and tax collecting rubbish that became the myriad of modern religions. At least the pagans had real dates to adhere to, as opposed to the mumbo jumbo of christianity etc which relies on engineered belief and stories to keep the masses paying their tithes and obeying whichever branch of religion was en-vogue/ enforced at that time. The easter story- new life etc etc can be said to reflect the beginnning of new life after winter as pre christians see it. The birth of Christ being in the winter (4 days after the winter equinox) can be seen as a version of the new year ( the start of lengthening days after december 21st). The answers are all there to see.

Thats as i understand it too. They used to do a similar thing to the electric companies years ago, but from what I am told the money was pretty poor, and as far as I can see if it wasnt for the utilities act then the likes of Western Power probably wouldnt bother either.

No liam - its the wool they are pulling over your eyes, not retina recognition:lol: I mean the ipad 2 only came out a year ago. Just another one of apples rip off tactics. They had all this technollogy ready for the 2, but as one of their disgruntled employees stated back then, they wont release it all at once as they can make more money out of the Fan-boys by doing it this way:thumbdown:

A VT and a prussic connected to the ends of my rope, and a chainsaw.

NIce to meet you too Combined Tree Services. Which tree are you behind in Tehidy then?

BUt summer's here now Dave- no need for a waterproof now lol!

Hahahaha very good Dave...... Okay i shall ask 'where in cornwall are yous?'

Hi cornishman and cornish chough. where are yous?

Yeah we have had some mental parties over the years....theres over 10k there too. I was up there back in the summer. Its the uber spot for parties- he has a quarry in another part of the property with a cedar hottub next to the pool.......

Dragon, but the barn was built over 10 years ago IIRC.

My mate has this barn, and his house is even more of an homage to wood, but I am sorry to say I wouldnt put pics of someone elses house on a forum without asking first, and I havent asked lol! If you look carefully you will pick out the 1/2 tonne dragon on the roof, a bit like Smaug in the Hobbit.

Hehe I was only having a laugh.

Beautiful.

Are you really short of work in oxford??????

They will drop the lines...........£80 call out plus VAT, then £50/ hr plus vat to sit there until the job is complete and another £80 plus VAT to reinstate I was informed 2 years ago. If they decide a tree cutter is at fault/ has broken or mesed with the line they want £1200. Or you find a friendly engineer who'll do it for logs:)