Shane
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I like that feeling as the 3120 gets into the back cut and the tree takes the weight of it instead. It's similar to the oooo you get when you take off the ski boots after a long day on the slopes. Heavy but a necessity.
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Not sure about the radius/diameter thing? People who don't know that are not necessarily thick just mathematically uneducated. A guy who works for me knows just about nothing but he's not stupid, school just wasn't for him. Anyway.... just buy the 3120 l go on.
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To maim someone with a knife (or chainsaw, as mentioned above) you need to get next to your victim or amongst a group of intended victims and have the balls and strength to do it. With a gun, any derranged 'Napoleon Dynamite' or Rambo wannabe can just walk about at a safe distance (safe for them) and treat real life like a game of GTA on the playstation. It does appear to happen a lot in the US but rarely in the UK. I would like it to stay that way in the UK.
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I took my own bags into our local supermarket and the cheeky sod tried to charge me corkage.
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I hope you pay royalties to the Disney Reich.
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Where are you parked John?
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People who actually make things in the UK. Wholesalers who are willing to look for goods made outside China. Anyone who insists on good quality AND is willing to pay (more than child labour rates) for it. There was a woman who used to go round impersonating Lady Di, she lost her business overnight. Last I heard most Salman Rushdie impersonators had retired. People who accept that taxes must rise to pay for NHS, education, roads etc. (anything else the Romans ever did for us). Rant over
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Agreed, but the pedantic mathematicians will tell us that 2 metres cubed actually does mean 2m x 2m x 2m. When we talk about 2 cubic mtrs that is clear, but when it is written down as 2M3 it can get ambiguous. I'll get my coat.
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I used to have one but it didn't fit through too many gates. Mind you - when it did it was quick.
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To play to those you didn't get on with - 'Wish you were here'
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CS38 & 39, training in or around mid Sussex?
Shane replied to tim361's topic in Training & education
Unless things have dramatically improved I wouldn't bother with Brisbury. Long list of gripes - many years back I had to use my own saw on the CS31 AND share it with another candidate on the course! Some of the instructors are good but if you have a choice I'd go for Plumpton, or Merrist Wood at Guildford. -
I prefer the Gomtero (straight blades) - makes an accurate gob cut easier. But that's just me. I used to have a 'big boy' but it's far too embarrasing to carry it on the van.
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What Childhood Xmas Gifts did your Parents or Grandparents received.
Shane replied to Darrin Turnbull's topic in The Lounge
My dad got one of them 'pecking chicken' things made from a table tennis bat, some carved wood and a weight below which made the chickens peck. It was made by German POWs in a nearby camp. I got a Johnny Seven machine gun! My son used to get things like bikes, scalextric and so on. God knows what my grandson will get - at the very least he will get all my classic scalextric stuff. Mind thee, we wuz appy in t'old days etc... see Mpnty Python sketch -
Mine's fitted with a Romulan cloaking device. Very good theft deterrent but a bugger if you fall into it.
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We are off for a popadom frenzy next Thursday evening followed by some alcoholic thirst quenching. Our Christmas 'fun' will be in February when we have 5 days skiing. I'm picking up the tab on Thursday and will fund some apres ski events while we are out there. Been saving up for a few months already.......
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I am seriously thinking of setting up a go pro on every job where the public can get access. IIRC you are supposed to put up signs warning people that there is CCTV - but it would at least cover us for the 'accidental' accident brigade. PS did you see the video of the guy in the supermarket - the CCTV led to him losing his case. His dive was on a par with that of a premier league footballer.
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Archbishop of Canterbury doubts the presence of God!
Shane replied to the village idiot's topic in The Lounge
A small child is shipwrecked and ends up all alone on a desert island. His parents perish and there is no bible or any other religious work available. He knows nothing about religion. He spends all his life looking after his environment, taking care of the wildlife (living sustainably) ,treats all visitors well (assuming they don't introduce the G word). He is happy and he doesn't look for answers and just accepts things as they are. What will happen to him when he dies? What if he had been a monkey instead, or a pet parrot? No knowledge and no faith - no problem? -
This week your's truly and Mrs Shane have been doing some decorating (woo hoo). To help obviate boredom I found an old casette player and a couple of tapes I picked up (and didn't put down) at a car boot sale. I gotta say I had long forgotten Wishbone Ash . Having listened to it a few times while dropping wet plaster all over the windows I'm enjoying my historical sojourn back to the seventies. Ah... proper music. Anyone else been winding back the clock?
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That's so scary, exactly what I thought when I mis-read the title:lol: Can I apply for a job as deputy idiot?
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Where is IC Trees in all this? He usually leaps to the defence of Forst.
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Must say, judging by what I've read on here I thought the sun shone out of Forst's exhaust. Sounds far from good.
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Looking for free unprocessed wood - Harpenden
Shane replied to Purplestickmen's topic in Firewood forum
At last, the real generosity begins -
Undoubtedly there will be good reason for the change. I can't imagine too many customers being miffed if you have an out of date logo, surely. Why not change the logos as you upgrade the vehicles? Having 25 vehicles to change is a quite a nice problem to have. I hope you didn't expect too much sympathy...
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Some might suggest you look for one with a Toyota badge on it. The most expensive/painful things to put right are Rotting chassis, rotting rear cross member, rotting bulkhead. Other things to look for - lots of play in gearbox/transfer box/diffs. Leaky steering (including swivel pins on chrome spheres). Big impressive tyres with crack in the sidewalls. The list is endless nut if all the above is OK and it drives well and has a lot of MOT it might be worth cosidering. Come to think of it, why do any of us have them? Cos they are sometimes brilliant at what they do.
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It's so safe he feels the need to wear safety goggles underneath it.
