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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Squaredy replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Well yes but it is more than that. Food, drinks and many other items double UK price. Even in a supermarket things like packs of ordinary biccies start at $3. I can get cheap biccies in the uk for under a pound. Their petrol is still half our price and I am guessing energy prices also much lower. -
Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Squaredy replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Yeah my wife thinks they were from sports direct! Tell you what, anyone who thinks the UK is pricey should head to the USA. Haven’t been for fifteen years but I always used to find everything really cheap in the states. Not any more! -
Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Squaredy replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Amazing tree spotted in Miami today in Bayside.. From google seems to be a banyan tree and only about one hundred years old.
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I don’t know how NRW got involved sorry.
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Not so far from the truth in the UK, look at the headline my wife just spotted:
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Yes they dropped the case. When I say average diameter, I mean average for each log based on the diameter at each end. That is very accurate. And the way I was able to help the guy apart from telling him how I would work it out is by letting him borrow my FC books. NRW had told him about the existence of the proper books giving all the different methods of calculation but not let him have them. Luckily I had the books he needed.
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I was approached recently for help from someone who has been accused by NRW (FC in Wales) of illegal felling. They were all over him, yet they had no idea how to calculate timber volume. They wasted loads of their time and their victim’s falsely accusing him of criminality. They had measured the eight trees in question and then used those measurements to determine the volume felled was 5.2 cubic metre. What they seemed unaware of is that trees taper. Using their measurements and average diameter the actual timber felled was less than 4 cubic metres. Yes, they really had calculated the volume of each log based on the diameter at the thick end only. And these people probably have forestry degrees and pretty good salaries paid for by our taxes!
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And now I realise I am a plonker as this was last year. Anyway, socks are always good.
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Socks are always a great gift in my book.
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Sounds awesome. At least if you fall through the ice I guess you will be able to stand up in most lakes?!
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I’m with relatives in West Palm Beach, currently 6 degrees and getting to twelve by lunchtime. My cousin who lives here says he has never known it so cold. All the locals are hunting out their jumpers and coats from the back of their closets! It is forecast to be 25 by Wednesday though!
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Thank you, I had a feeling that Andy’s figures showing they were making loads of money was wrong, but I really couldn’t be bothered to spend time reading up on it all! In fact I am sure I saw a headline a few weeks ago saying they have lost so much business due to the strikes they have had to make thousands of posties redundant.
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Posties do not train for three years and take people’s lives in their hands, so I think it is much simpler than nurses. At the end of the day if they aren’t happy then leave and work for someone else. Posties going on strike is going to destroy their business and therefore their jobs anyway, so is totally self defeating. Remember their main business these days is not letters but packets, and there are plenty of other couriers very happy to deliver them. If I need to order something for work now I make certain it is not being delivered by Royal Mail, unless I can afford to wait weeks for it to arrive.
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I have a horrible feeling that this is not a joke
Squaredy replied to Billhook's topic in The Lounge
Speak for yourself Mr Bullman. -
This is a genuine advert on a massive billboard I spotted in New York today.
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Weight estimation for level load of Leylandii wood in single cab pickup
Squaredy replied to briscoe's topic in General chat
About 550 kg. -
To be fair we did walk up the last six flights as the queue for the elevator was half an hour! Very impressive lifts - ground floor to eightieth in less time than some uk lifts do four floors.
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I was on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building today on the observation deck, and in the open air there are about 240 halogen heaters on full blast! I guess the USA still gets cheap electricity then! Quite why they feel people need to be warmed when outdoors and high up I can’t quite fathom.
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Just as I said…..hideous!
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Yeah fair enough, you clearly know what you are up to. I would not want a Trekkasaw personally because of the wide blades. Cost a fortune to buy and sharpen and really no better than a narrow band like on a Woodmizer. A swing mill is a good bet, but of course if you mainly want slabs you are back to chainsaw milling. The Pieterson has a neat trick to produce a double width board, but only about twenty inches I believe. I used to run a Lucas mill, but eventually bought a band mill.
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Absolutely worthless not worth milling; give it all to me instead.
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Brrrrr!
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The only problem with this is calculating the volume. Every stack of logs will have different factors meaning ten different people will come to ten different answers as to what the stack is worth. Whereas weight is independently measured by an accurate means (timber lorry). If you feel you would lose out because the stack is partly dried you will have to price it accordingly....which I know also leads to endless discussions about how much it has dried! I don't buy firewood any more, but when I buy sawlogs I make sure I know by which measure I am going to be charged - usually weight.
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What make/type of gloves do you wear ,working in your wood yard?
Squaredy replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Where can you actually buy these gloves? The link is to a website giving full details but no purchase option.
