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Interesting. I've just started looking into it for the first time due to the affect it'll have on grazing. I agree with you on the monitisation. And yes, the environmental and climate change narratives do rather depend on a global government initiative - COP 2022 minus Rishi. I suppose they're seeing if the "market" can sway us mere commoners and other land users. I'll have to read up some more to get my head round it. Thanks
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You're a farmer, aren't you? What do you think about landowners being paid by Corporations to sequester carbon - apart from the obvious credit offset? Our sheep are on permanent pasture and one of our landlord's landagents updated our agreement to ensure we didn't cultivate unproductive ground as PP locks in carbon.
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It's just a question of education and experience. Why do think we have to go through automated menu options when phoning big companies? It's the same form of gatekeeping and filtering. Think of virtual secretaries as chatbots in the flesh. They'll get better in time. I'm not arguing with you. You've said many times your business model puts the emphasis on kit rather than employees so you having direct control over customer enquiries makes perfect sense. My customer base is small now and all well established repeat business so I'd never use a third party. They just know I only ever answer the phone in the evenings because I can't always answer during the day when the machines are running.
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I agree. I'm just saying in the context of belt-tightening there are options. Here's a non-arb example of a difficult secretay. I phoned up a quarry wanting to buy 10ton of limestone for tracks (not grey scalpings) and asked about an option for dust and fines mixed with small rejects rather than clean stone, The secretary wasn't too helpful. She went round in circles along the lines of "I've never been asked that before so I'm sure you can't have it and even if you could I'm too busy to find out". 🤣 She was based in an office in another city. I got another number of the quarry direct. "No problem that's £5 a ton when do you want to collect?"
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I know of two firms here who use virtual secretaries. So a potential customer phones up for a site visit etc and speaks to a lady who knows very little about the business but takes all the details. She then passes it on the owners who follow up with a return call in their own time. Virtual secretaries can have many firms on their books - some in the same business! So you have to trust it works. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to see virtual secretraries morphing into freelance agencies sooner or later. Think of the possibilities...
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No, we're OK again. We were headless there for a moment and we've got a new leader now so we can all relax!🤣 Phew!
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You're confusing identity "X is Y" with causal process "X precedes Y" Try thinking about PR in a different way Overton window - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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All deadlocks are resolved in the negiotiating process. After that, everything flows easier. How do you define political power? Is it not simply the voice that says what happens? Any fringe group would have a smaller voice and thus get less say. It's democracy writ large. Remember the cause of Brexit. UKIP and others caught the mood of the silent majority. The tories and labour had to adjust to them. That is PR in all but name. I personally think both the tories and labour are such broad churches of so many dominations that neither will be able to hold it together. Only very rare leaders can appease all factions and splinter groups to keep some coherent unity and even then nothing really gets done. PR is inevitable in the next decade or so.
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Proportional Representation just requires skilled negotiators. You must concede that FPTP is not working for the infighting tories is it? The germans take over a year to settle their rules (voting power, policy modifications, etc) after a PR election to accommodate their minority radicals (far right nationalists and far left greens). Name constituencies where we would have such extremes in this country?
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So Partygate was a fact. Everyone agrees. Except the likes of you? I see.
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You use political in Father Ted's sense of ecumenical🤣
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Covered or dismissed?
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Kev the dissident, inciter of lost causes!🤣
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Point of clarification for Boris Fans. 1. He prorogued parliament. He unlawfully kept it from convening to debate, read publicly scrutinize, his behaviour 2. What did he do? He and his cronies had a party. They snubbed a thumb to the country as if them in power were not accountable to the law that they'd set for everyone else. Why? No doubt because he believed if he and his lot can enact laws then he can change them when circumstances require it to suit himself and the old school boys for his own and their sake. A drink with your mates during lockdown isn't just a drink, is it? 3. He ignored sexual misconduct allegations against Chris Pincher The thing about being a political leader is you are not above the law you have to operate well inside it and be seen to be living it well. Boris has repeatedly failed to do that. There's no way the tories will vote him back in as PM.
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Good on ye! I've seen your pics of your 395xp on here a few times. I sold mine (xpg) on ebay a few years ago for half what I bought it for! Doh! If only I'd kept onto it...
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That's the second time I've read something from you suggesting you not being around for much longer! Are you feeling your age? Has Stubby got your contact details? Many would miss your all round tech-knowledge if you suddenly fell off the perch ... (There's no emicon suitable to show the intent behind this but it's meant sincerely)
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~Truss gone! Enjoy your winnings😂
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The comedian Omid Djalili tells how he got fed up with political commentators being mealy-mouthed and pulling their punches and so he decided he'd start telling everyone the real truth that we all secretly felt. He'd show the world what's really going on by revealing what everyone knew anyway. So, off he went. Sadly, it didn't go well! Everyone shuffled in their seats, laughed in the wrong places and generally thought he was crazy and hadn't a clue.🤣 It turns out he was all alone! Anyway, I think it's time we started an anti-news thread. 🤣 Any takers?
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I like BigJ's patter and would miss it. Having a position or taking a view gets re-inforced when contrasting degrees and opposites are put up. It's like me pointing out it's raining all the time. It doesn't mean I don't like the sun 🤣 Nothing to stop us taking turns replying to his epistles by saying such things as "It's a good job you've emigrated then!"
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It's all very well for you being holed up in Chateau Dempsey. Some of us have to live with this whinge fest whether we're political or not!
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I was raised saying "cook", "look", "took" etc to rhyme with "Luke". Here in the South West the "Coo.." of Kubota is definitely pronounced "Cab..." 🤣
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Do a search on here. It's come up many times in the past. You got to like your own company 🤣
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Search for an old user called something like Chris Shepherd on here. He used to post woodland management photos. I've never thought to. Too busy working. 🤣
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Presentation can be challenging. I've just started a new thread thinking some might like to share some thoughts.
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Post your regional variations on presentation for forwarders I'm not a qualified trainer but in the 2000s summertime when I employed people in the woodland estates we contracted in on, there were always the same old usual questions from chainsaws ops getting trained up on felling: "Why can't the machine move all the brash and collect grab fulls of cord?" "Why've I got to drag and hoick, roll and stack by hand?" And this was when red diesel was less than 30ppl After felling, I used to say, my rule is you sned, then stack cord round the main stem in grabful sizes so that the forwarding tractor/trailer can get amongst it and drive through the fell zone, in hopefully one pass so there is no shunting for re-positioning. Lots of variables can make this difficult obviously. Got any tips?
