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3 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

Looks like a sheep shank

Possibly, I wouldn’t know either way as I have never knowingly shanked a sheep.

Always done a truckers hitch with double loops.

using the bottom loop to provide the 2:1 advantage.

A donkey’s dick was more like this:

….and was generally used briefly by new climbers to carry a lanyard about the canopy with the dual advantages of getting caught on every fork and stub, whist being inconveniently cumbersome to uncoil when needed.

6 minutes ago, peds said:

 

I was told it's a handbag.

I was taught that to, back in the 90s.  Not very macho though.

Clearly knot Nomenclature has become more sophisticated in the intervening years.

9 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Either or to me 🤷‍♂️I get by ok in the real world 👍

I gotta Grade 2 CSE in English, I’ll have you know…. I’m not going to waste that level of knowledge if I can help it.

4 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Be like what ??

Some members are so sensitive nowadays. As long as it’s the truth I’ll take it. 

Well, as you accused me of being the ‘grammar police’ for making one single isolated comment, I thought I had offended your sensibilities.

Pretty much everything I post on this forum is flippant.

It’s got me into a fair bit of grief in the past, I can assure you!

……and anyway, it was punctuation I commented on, not grammar.

18 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

There are a few other members of the grammar police on here. 
im pleased you managed to work it out in the end 👍

Now now, don’t be like that.

You asked how it could have been confusing.  
 

I just thought you may appreciate someone actually giving an actual answer to one of your questions.  Sorry.

Telescopic with fly gib and a height / outreach of about 3m more than the one you find yourself currently using.

On 03/05/2024 at 16:40, Johnsond said:

No ifs or buts Cliff put his name and address up. 
Why anyone would be confused at that 42 is absolutely beyond me. 

I was a bit confused by the punctuation (or lack thereof).

In the end I settled on:

”No ifs or buts. Cliff, put his name and address up.”

An alternative read…

They do appear to have tidied up the site very nicely before leaving though.

The line looks like single phase ‘aerial bundled conductor’.

The vicinity zone of it is 1m, so to put it highly simply, nothing should intrude on this clearance.  To maintain that clearance most DNOs would specify cutting more to allow for the inevitable regrowth.

Exactly how much more will depend on the DNO, based on their interpretation of regulations, engineering recommendations, safety rules and contracts with tree firms.

It is difficult from a photo to gauge distances.  Even using points of reference such as the height of the 30mpg sign against the height of the uncut canopy, the overall height of the tree, the width of the verge or the position of the footpath it’s difficult to estimate that as a 3m (or pretty much 10ft) clearance.

Is the picture showing the old 1m clearance or the current 3m clearance?

2 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

Keep up....🤣

1/10 for wit and relevance.

3 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

There is a blanket TPO on the whole area which is why I got the distribution company to sign it off..😁 

 

15 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

 

The neighbour doesn't like it .

The trees cut and removed, the power lines are clear and the blanket conservation area restrictions have been bypassed.

 

Another change in your story there then.

I’m not sure you can be bothered to remember a single thing you have written.
 

3/10 for effort.

As Joe said, funny though.

7 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

 

There was quite a big alder on top of a hedge growing up through the power lines that run above so I cut the tree clear of the lines after discussing it and getting the go ahead from the distribution company on Elf and safety grounds.

I did get them to sign it off and have the paperwork.

 

Surely this as all fantasy?

The way it’s written makes it sound like the DNO produced a document stating that they ‘approved’ some random landowner having a go at removing branches that were up and through their live power line?

Don’t think so somehow.

I think we’re being drip-fed a particularly poor example of creative writing.

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

So it was your tree all along? Yet you failed to mention that in the first post.

What a spectacular waste of time.

1 hour ago, Botty Cough said:

As usual missing the point is your forte....🤣

…..but in your original post you wrote it was their tree.   Pay attention.

2 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

 

33.112.(C.02)

"Ability to carry a sawn-off shotgun for close quarters squirrel termination and Ariel pest control working from a rope and harness " ....

 

then blast the buggers...

 

Sorry, but under no circumstances does 33.112.(C.02) grant any exemption that permits the ‘blasting’ of little mermaids.

Good to see that each hornet has been individually named.

4 hours ago, peds said:

3 hours ago, GarethM said:

I'm still a little confused by the exhaust going down through the plywood.

 

I would assume that’s where the rat smoking hose attaches to that @Muddy42 mentioned earlier.

7 hours ago, difflock said:

Fixed that for you.

I think you will find that they park on either these:

or these:

On 15/02/2024 at 09:56, sime42 said:

Completely. Probably the old pickup size is inversely proportional to pecker size.

Maybe, but I always assumed the pickup size was directly proportional to the inability to park considerately during the school run.