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gob cut in direction you want it to go. cut a quarter (pizza slice shape) out on compression side. bung a felling lever in. go around to tension side, line up saw so tip undercuts the horizontal cut by about an inch and engine end of bar sits at or just above level of hinge. cut from back, keeping bar parallel to hinge, keep at it until you get to your hinge (don't go through it though!). use lever to push it over. that seems to work for me and is what they teach on cs31. There will be limits to what you can put over with it, mainly you won't get a back leaner to go opposite way to lean in most cases.

Haha!! That's quality!!!

We all want our money for nothing and our chicks for free. Possibly.

I have what I believe to be lesser periwinkle (Vinca minor) growing in 2 of my coupes. It has formed a mat about 6-8 inches deep with no other plant species growing amongst it. Oak, hazel, ash and hornbeam seem to tolerate it, but I'm fairly certain I'm going to need to remove it. I'm not even sure how it got here as it isn't fitting with the parks history and it is a massive distance from housing. I'll take some photos and double and triple check first, but what would you guys suggest to eradicate it? There must be 100m square of it and I expect that it will only expand. Thank you!

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Likewise in conservation there are loads of different types of volunteer, mostly unskilled. At our place we have kids wanting to earn their fishing membership, retired people, school work experience, special needs clients, the occasional industry specific (surprisingly, this is the type we have the least of, but feel we give the best experience to), companies doing team building exercises (had navy up, teachers, Envt Agency...), community service.... list goes on. Bean counter in the sky sees 120 hours worth of volunteers for one day and says "we saved 3 weeks work.... very good value for money". If that's a group of teenagers with behavioural problems, that might tie up the whole team for the day, so 3 staff supervising (and joining in where possible), very little accomplished (in comparison with if we did it ourselves with powertools). Actual cost benefit = 3 staff days in debit. Times this by 10, especially in spring and summer terms, and we spend a hell of a lot of time dealing with volunteers (in addition to the regulars who we can leave to jobs).

I'd agree with that. I think I did around 7-8 months of volunteering, spread out over 4-5 years while I at uni then college and in between. It could have been much, much worse though. I've heard of people volunteering 5 days a week, including almost every weekend, and they haven't even got any entry level job out of it. Like Stephen Blair said in his "employment offered" thread (I think it was him anyway), he mentioned something like "you'll work a week for free then i'll decide how much I'll pay you based on how you performed", I can agree with that. A few days, perhaps even a week, gives an employer a chance to see how someone works and whether they will fit in. Miles better than a standard interview. You know that if you pull your weight and don't talk crap then you will likely get a job out of it. Limitless volunteering though with at best vague uncertainty of a job, one day, is unrealistic today. I regularly get asked "got any jobs?" or "how do I get a job doing what you do?", and they look at you like you are taking the pi$$ when you say that one of the most important factors is getting in at least 6 months volunteering before anyone will begin to take you seriously. A lot of good applicants never even make it to interview because they haven't the time to take time off work to go and pull trolleys out of a pond. At the moment we have one daily volunteer (and loads of people who do odd days here and there). He is young and totally unskilled. He came out of education with nothing and has been in trouble with the law since he was born. He's a good lad though, we can't pay him, we have no money, but if he comes to volunteer, we'll give him a little more responsibility. He loves tractors, so we are getting him used to tractor driving at the moment. It was quiet enough to give him a go forwarding thin pieces of ash. I got him to do a fairly complicated Z bend reverse to the timber first. He gave it a fair go. I was impressed. He was impressed. That's what he wants at the moment, just a chance to find out what he is actually capable of. He knows we can't pay him and that there is unlikely to be a job available.

No conflict of interest so all happy

@Rupe: Employed as a ranger for local authority, work for mate too but am not his employee as such, but I bill him for my time, if that makes sense.

I'm currently employed full time elsewhere but I've recently started doing a bit of work for a friend and called inland revenue to let them know. The amount of money I'll earn will be negligible, perhaps £1,000 over the year. I'm keeping records of what I earn and am invoicing my mate for what I do. I understand I need to keep some money aside to settle income tax when the time comes. After talking with the inland revenue person, I'm a little confused about NI contributions. Do I pay a % of my earnings or do I pay £2.40 a week no matter whether I earn £100 or £1000? Someone told me I might pay enough on my other job to not warrant paying NI on the private work? Thank you for your help.

this one is the original. Made the news a few years ago. Darwinism at work. YouTube - Chavs On Roundabout ( Long Version )

Why do I have 6 years in my head?

Body from Baywatch, Face from Crimewatch. I'd hang out the back of that one!

Yup. I have mild tinnitus in my left ear. It's all my fault though. Up until October last year, I was bang into cleaning my ears out with cotton buds. Then, my hearing went. I thought just an infection and went to docs for something to sort it as there was no improvement in 2 weeks. She had a look and said she could see bits of cotton bud in there so sent me off to ENT to get it sucked out. They sucked it out, along with loads of pus that had formed around it. Got given some drops and sent on my way. This almost cleared it up but it slowly became infected again. Got more drops. Again these almost cleared it but it came back. Got given more drops and antibiotics. Less pus this time but could feel some sort of blockage still and had mild ringing in the ear. Gave it a few weeks, went back to docs as couldn't be bothered letting it get proper oozy again. Referred to ENT as 3 different sets of drops haven't sorted it. The tinnitus doesn't bother me yet, but I certainly wouldn't want it getting any worse. It's weird really, as I've spent 15 years with my head in bass bins and still had perfect hearing and no issues whatsoever up until October. Moral of story is: nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear.

Certainly.... Can ya guess what it is yet? | Facebook Would have liked to have let soil settle and turf bed itself in for a bit longer but we needed to have it up and running for half term. There are discs attached to the ends of the tunnels so we can shut the rabbits out in the daytime if they are being unsociable, or to shut them in overnight.

Finished it at weekend, lobbed on rabbits and guinea pigs.

You don't. You can do individual and multiple windblown instead. I don't get why cs32 wasn't included in the list though.

Bare gear getting robbed from around the Winchester area. Must be proper organised.

He's out of hospital but still in pieces. Do you fancy a few days climbing/felling down here shortly?

I'm always quite chirpy on port. It's probably my favourite booze after Kronenburg. I'm always a twunt when I drink vodka so I don't anymore. Hmmmmmmmm might open a port now.

We were going to do this last year. We cut our ash off around breast height but when it came down to it, it appeared we didn't have enough to be of interest (only around 35 decent butts). We were happy to at least have given it a go as the hurley man said would have cut them out the ground himself, presumably to get the buttress. This would have meant not having to worry about blunting saws every 4 seconds. In the end, after sending photos of a sample group, he wasn't interested and so we just cut them to ground level and chucked them in the firewood bay.

Pretty much done now.

Surely the vouchers could be a bit more specific.

Thing I don't like about the whole licensing thing, is that woodland management for single species blots out everything else. We should manage woodland for diversity. Striking a happy medium is challenging.

Will you dig them out yourself? What sort of quantity would be your minimum amount you'd be interested in? Will you travel anywhere in UK? What sort of price per butt?