Nick Watkins

An obscure one I found from last weekends footage. Shadowlithing in the clouds.

we have fed Ernie our Cane Corso on beef/tripe mix from Natures Menu since he was 1 , coming up for now.

That's what I have been recommended, picking up a new pup next weekend, can't wait.

Out of interest, is anyone feeding their dog on a raw diet?

If it has to be a credit card then they can send you payment as a gift via paypal and load it onto their credit cards. By doing this though they forgo their rights of paypal protection but it means you get the payment without the fee’s (they do not pay any fee’s either apart from CC fee's)

As you are not sending them a product then they don’t need the protection paypal offers, the one thing I don’t know is if there is a limit on the amount you can send as a gift.

Planes, trains, ferries are all fine. Empty the fuel out and package up. The only thing all of the transport companies object to is Gas, as in propane etc.

I'm not following this at all.

How can a camera act like a hammer? Surely the rock is the hammer and the force is his head!

It's highly likely he had a GoPro on, I say this as he was skydiving in Spain weeks before and had a GoPro on. Assuming he did have his GoPro on, and hit his head square on a rock then the camera would either flex on its mounting, deflecting the blow by a very small percentage or compress. If it compressed then the case would shatter and the force of the rock would continue onto the helmet.

Sounds like the legal teams are sharpening their knives.

Got a picture of what you mean?

I have one for sale, your welcome to come and try it and see if it fits first, I am in Surrey and it fits my Hilux. I think my ad is still running in arbtrader.

there is one, or there used to be a type (Dixon Bates?)

That had the pin co-axial with the 50mm ball.

Very tidy arrangment.

I have just bought one so it’s still available. Rated to 5T. OK with standard towing eye, assuming a Ifor plant trailer has a standard towing eye!

Whilst on magnetic signs... any idea of how powerful the magnet is? Was looking into getting writing on the sides of my 110 hardtop but its aluminium so would need a steel plate in the inside of the truck, dont wanna pay out for them and then find they wont stick!

 

Also like the idea of being to remove the writing as i use the vehicle for thinsg other than work.

The magnets are powerful, way over the national speed limit and they don't budge. How well they will work through aluminium is another matter.

My first lunge to go on here! Taken in Russia while climbing Mt Elbrus at 4000m. Do I win the highest lunge medal?

A little harder to read the words than I'd hoped!

"Close Sam but no Cigar, my 13,500 FT lunge"

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What hp is the engine? Will it lose a bit of power not being run off the pto?

Hi Richard - How nice would that be!

I have a Wallenstein, it’s excellent in almost every way, apart from the ergonomics.

In the horizontal position you are hunched over and as there is nowhere to put the rings you are currently splitting, you end up bending over and picking up logs all day long. In the vertical position life becomes easier but to get some speed up you’re on your knees all day and reaching up for the handles.

If I bought again I would have no hesitation buying a Wallenstein for it’s components, however I’d want a waist height splitter with a big table and a log lift. This would be my ideal towable log splitter [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu3ksd3Rrx0]Homemade log splitter - YouTube[/ame]

I would have thought a BASE jump would be preferable to a lightening strike?

Unless you forgot to detach the toolkit when you jumped, ouch!

Speaking as a full time fireman,part time tree surgeon and striking union member,I am well aware of the contradictions that are apparent. Many tree surgeons complain about being undercut by cowboys who are unqualified,no ppe etc so the next logical step to avoid this would be to form a trade association or a union to regulate and control the industry to avoid unsafe practice and ensure a fair price yes?

Exactly what firemen did, yes our strike is with the government not the public that is why discussions went on for nearly two years prior to any strike action!

For me it's simple I just want the deal I was promised when I signed up,only fair really,to use the mortgage analogy trying telling your bank/ building society that after agreeing to pay for 25 yrs,you now are only paying for 20 and see what they say!

As for anyone doing second jobs,what's the problem,where do we stop telling people what they can and can't do,we never used to do jobs on a Saturday then people did to earn a bit more than the next man and so on and so on,shall we all stop our wives working therefore reducing the supply of labour and driving up wages,sure that will work . The fact is there is always someone who will do it cheaper whatever it is you do and without overburdening regulation you can't stop it and even then probably not.

Forgot what I was on about now,anyway get what you can when you can,make hay while the sun shines,don't sell umbrellas in the desert and all that

Cheers Steve free lance climbing slag

I thankyou

As a P.A.Y.E worker my final salary pension scheme has been scrapped. My pension is now worth half of what it was. I will have to work longer than I had previously planned and hoped for. The bank has changed my mortgage and the cost of living has gone up.

I am one of millions of workers that pay considerable sums of money into this country via P.A.Y.E taxes, I do not have the option of being tax efficient. I also don't have the luxury of a second job as 1. It's written into my contract and 2. I have to work long hours as there is a queue of people waiting to jump into my shoes.

Life has changed, the worlds economy went bang and everyone is paying the price. Everyone wants what they previously had but only those working for the government will stand a chance of getting it. If they do, then the millions of P.A.Y.E workers will have to pay more to fund it.

Good luck with turning back the clock.

Anyone have good knowledge of second hand mini digger prices please?

I'll stick an advert up on arbtrader but am not sure exactly where to price it at.

It's a 2008 JCB 8025 ZTS in A1 condition and with only 290 hours on the clock. Recent JCB service and four buckets (One a V Ditching Bucket). No VAT and I'm looking to sell with Ifor Plant Trailer and x2 chain straps. It also has top of the range tracker with contract for life (need to check if this is transferable)

I've seen a few for around the 12K Mark but they usually have a few K hours on them and have VAT. I'm thinking £16K, any pointers welcome.

secret is be a tree surgeon get paid £200 to cut it down and dump the waste before you start. cash in hand guys killing us yet know one ever reports them.

gets busy round our industrial estates on the weekends also as ppl nick all the pallets for their fires too. and its not unknown for people to just go into woodlands and cut trees down without permission, our accountant has small parcel of birch and caught several people cutting trees down for logs.

 

retail £94.00 .073m3 12%mc and £38 barrow bags and being told were far too expensive, the competition 2.5m3 £160 38%mc and telling us they have to use coal to make it burn.

 

Kindling buy it in £1.50 + vat a net retails £4.95 or 5 for £18.00

 

delivery vehicle avg 21 mpg breakdowns alot roughly £4.5k a year 5yr old van

Vehicle finance £1,800 a month

 

circular blades £120 sharpening a year

Red diesel 800ltr a fortnight Hydraulic hoses, hydraulic oil, filters

 

bag £5.50 each nets £0.18 each

cord £52 per ton delivered euroforests £35 never appeared

Advertising £1,500 a year

Petrol and 2 stroke £160 a month

saw servicing/repair £180 last month

saw chain imported from baileys so import duty etc approx £350 a reel

tarpaulins about £3.5k a year can't afford a shed round these parts

 

and many more costs i dont want to think off or it will just depress me more.

If you don't count the money you are getting paid to cut down the tree, based on your quoted figures that's 377 bags to break even (give or take) No wonder you don't like to think about it.

Someone needs to change the title of this thread to "Have a look at what I've got and burgle me please"

Great mod, my handle bars bent within days and the two little wings ripped off on some Beech. This is how they should come from the factory

I won a game of chicken once when I was much younger, a dart in the eye was the outcome though. I punctured my eye and came within millimetres of losing it, what a tit.

Like anything, you take your eyes for granted until you have a problem with them. I saw and heard about some horrible eye injuries whilst I was in the eye ward, mostly from sharp bits of metal. Glasses are a must.

Typo I reckon. The 4 is right next to the £ sign, I think he's hit the 4 at the same time as the £ sign.

You could've should've gained to respect of the notable forum members before you posted a link to a advert that essentialy is a slap in the face of guys out there making a living out of tree work.

Alex is in Somerset, the chap in the advert is t'up North, I suspect Alex is highlighting the advert not punting his free work!

He might wish to take you up on the offer of your wife though, very generous of you

0.22 shows the installation used on this retort, looks like he's simply cut it to shape and then held it in place with a metal sheet.

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What resolution are you running the camera at?

If you have it set to 1280 or 4K then drop it right down, record something then try and play it back. If it plays OK at lower res then your computer might not be man enough for the high res edit/playback.

In certain countries in Africa if you find a intruder its perfectly fine and lawful to shoot them and leave the their bodies and the edge of your property and the police will collect the departed in the next morning.

Said Oscar Pistorious..

ATS on the A281 at Lower Beeding. Horace Fuller also stock it at all three branches.

Thanks.