Bolt
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I, on the other hand, love to rant
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Is this from landrover themselves? Surely they have better things to do with their time than mess about with this rubbish. how much time do you think they spent on this? They could have spent the time, for instance, working out how other manufactures manage to get the bolts on their bonnets not to rust whilst the vehicle is less than a year old. Or how to make the optional middle seat in a 110 cost less than £495 (which is more than the dog costs that gets to sit on it) Idiots.
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I hear on the radio this morning (I suppose its true, you never can tell, given the date) that the South Downs that run along the south coast of the UK have become a national park. South Downs National Park Authority - Homepage When I lived in the dartmoor national park, we had plenty of hoops to jump through when we wanted to do tree work. Looking back it may not really have been all that nessessary. Has anyone ever got themselves into national-park-hot-water? Or are they really just a pretty toothless planning authority? cheers mate :thumbup:
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what would I do? Probably not blame the Health and Safety Executive for a start.
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I guess thats kind of my point. I am not the way I am through ignorance of the alternatives, I am the way I am through my experiances.
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To clarify.. I once was a "gamekeeper" (in this concept, I worked for a leading charity involved with the conservation of otters. We did the whole eco thing, planting trees, improving habitat, a groundbreaking captive breeding programme, education - you get the picture. Militant "anti". anti foxhunting, anti bloodspoorts, anti cutting-down-trees and pro save-the-whale). Then I got a chainsaw "ticket" and it turned my head. since then I have gone the other way. I have got every qualification for chainsawing I can get. I work for the utilities doing unspeakable things to defenceless trees and I enjoy it. I have had shotguns and firearms, removed trees for money, driven vehicles with stupidly large engines, trained countless others to do the same and, as far as the list of (allegidly) unethical things goes, I am now (as far as this poll is concerned) a "poacher". What, do you think you are?
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BOC rock (but not as much as Landrovers or unimogs)
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Guinea fowl are annoying.... ....but god! they taste good :-)
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forget LOLER. has it got leg loops?
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a couple of peafowl is... one peacock AND one peahen. now, that should (with a bit of wine and some smoochy music) lead to a clutch of peachicks, but (as Mr Lovelock discovered) it tends to lead to an awful lot of noise and some of the worst (ahem) poo (ahem) you ever came across. (ARBTALK, fun AND educational). [insert random stupid smiley]
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All this talk of gaia make me think of a chap who lived just up the road from me called james lovelock. now there is a sound scientist. ...... once gave me a couple of peafowl.....
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Didn't we agree that algae was the lungs of the earth? Maybe algae was somthing to do with carbon. I love carbon, probably my favourite element.
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when you think summer will soon be over and the next wet, dark, damp, horrid, winter is just around the corner. God, I hate winter.
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I... fell trees... cut trees... climb trees... Chip trees... burn up trees on big uncontrolled bonfires... because I like felling, cutting, climbing, burning. My latest project involves blowing trees up with class 1.1 explosives... I can't wait. To all the poor souls, suffering angst for their tree pruning / planet wrecking sins, Have you considered a different career?
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Just as a matter of interest, told by whom?
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who cares everyone knows that the pen is mightier than the saw.
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What she said, kind of.... For a civil claim (ie your employee Vs your business / you), the employee has to prove beyond the balance of probabilities that.. 1) They suffered a loss. 2) you owed them a duty of care. 3) you didn't fulfill that duty. The financial payout will be affected by how much the judge feels it was your fault and how much it was "the victims" own fault. If it is felt he was 70% "to blame" this may affect the percentage that he receives. I think any increase in premium will be affected by how much cash the insurance company has to pay out. If its proved to be significantly his fault, it may not be as much as your fear (of course, the insurance company may not bother with court and just make him an offer, in which case, its never decided who was to blame). chin up...
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Good luck. I can't see how you will get the height below the BT if you want natural shape and only a 20% reduction. Maybe the tree is a lot shorter than it looks. Be sure to post a picture of the finished job PS for christ sake don't fell it, even as a joke.
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The client is smarter than we give them credit for. They have more sense than to ask in the first place. I heard of a tree cutter once that asked the question "opinions please on a large beech" to a load of Arbs on an internet forum......... it went on for days
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A lot of this implies that the client is contacting us for advice. My clients contacted me because they wanted their tree gone. It generally went. On the few occasions that advise was asked, I didnt give it, as it was not my place.
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Another free prize draw; winner gives £50 to charity.
Bolt replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
tis very funny though. Think I may stay away from Arbtalk on april 1st. -
Another free prize draw; winner gives £50 to charity.
Bolt replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Thank god this is in the members only section. The shame of our profession at least in hidden from the publics eyes. For one of the first times in my life I am ashamed of my profession -
Good find, couldn't have demonstrated better myself. Not one of them would end THE world, they would just end OUR word (well, a 'spose the metorite might mess it all up a bit though.........)
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I am not sure anything will "save the world" because the world as a planet is not endangered. our world (a silly collection of cities, infrastructure, GPS satellites etc etc) is looking a little shakey. We humans are certainly in peril, especially when you consider that what is a near eternity to us, is a mere blink of an eye to the planet. Maybe as a species we forget just how insignificant we all are. anyway, better tuck the kids in:001_smile:
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Most trees get "cut" because they are annoying, not because thay are dangerous. To think otherwise would be like kidding yourself that the sheep and cows travelling toward the slaughter house are going there because they are ill. How many people working in there think they do it for the cows good. People dont like trees, people have money. we like cutting trees, we get their money. I sleep soundly at night (my concience clear) They sleep soundly at night (they skyline clear). (oh, and I think grass pumps out O2 aswell)
