Goaty

The above is true. I spent £500 last year on getting my 2000 plate escort van through mot. The garage said buy another van. I went with the fact I knew what the van had already had done. Buying someone else's problems is time consuming.I'm looking at a 4x4 pickup replacement long term. As yet have not had the financial priority to get one. £500 is cheap motoring as many allow thousands per year in depreciation. That's without maintainence. Id probably stick with your motor until you are flush. Many change for brand new every 3 years to avoid repairs etc.

Oh but it is, that means no need to chop much wood this year. With all the extra time jon for one could take over the parish council for a year and get his village sorted with the extra time he will have.

Some I've seen in nz. They are more comical or cheesy than us. Crew cut (lawns) Lawn rangers Tree men does( you could follow it with catchy marketing line) Tree wise men Special branch. Tree fella Etc

Ebay selling fees are expensive in my opinion. They take around 10% plus 10% of postage cost. Now PayPal is on top of that as well!! If you do free p&p it works out better from a sellers point. Last year I sold our tractor in the business office industrial section as a classified ad with set price. £10k it cost a hundred pound to sell. Another was sold as buy it now for a little bit less but he paid around £450 in fees. If it had been listed in motors, it's alot more! If using ebay take time to work it out.

£5 a meter if plain sailing as a guesstimate. Either hard work digging in, or fast done in a day or two by professionally equipt outfit.

I was in Trinidad in 2010. Sweltering it was, windy also being in the West Indies, sunny nearly all the time. No solar power, wind turbines or other green energy. Because gas and oil is plentiful, as everywhere and everything use the easy option first.

Definitely, in my 20+ years of working, thickness is on the increase, being in horticulture I started out in an industry that was laden with those unfortunate to have mental health etc issues. I'd rather work with them than the average teenager that is leaving education now. They qualify at school allegedly better than I ever did. They think they are cool, clever and got it all Sussed. I reckon many of them probably cannot wipe their backsides effectively. Though I've never investigated. It is weird. Ancient civilisations got stuff wrong, but if you could bring ancient Romans, Egyptians , Vikings etc back they would be flabbergasted to see our technology and the muppets that float around in the same society. Not just the young ones, it's incredible how many of my age or older have survived.

Trucks not in Dunedin by any chance TTM?

As many others on here I started on peanuts and remained on them for years. I have a genuine enjoyment of work. I still have a good work ethic. I've also employed young lads on a weekend, holidays etc. 10 years ago I paid a 16yr old £5 an hour, he was a good grafter for me. I since regretted it, he went on to use that as a benchmark. "I've been paid £5 an hour, I'm worth it" attitude. Now he's an arrogant the world owes me. I feel I contributed to that. Similar has happened since. I genuinely think the performance bonus scheme tailored to the individual could be best. Pay a flat rate. Then keep in mind the continuing performance and give decent bonus perhaps when he/she is going on holiday, buying first car etc. make it unexpected/irregular. Hit and miss. That way you will not get sulks if it's a hard time for the business, keeps the joy in the bonus as well.

With a machine costs/outlay go up obviously but the rate per person shoots up. In nursery conditions. 3 people. Driver, planter, person handling plants to keep machine going etc. 70 plants in 10 minutes with a single row machine. Plants up to 8ft in height. Spaced at 3 ft. My approximate guess. Great if thousands to plant. Bouncing up and down on a spade in weedy matted vegetation with clay underneath is not as pleasant or satisfying in my opinion. Rarely does anyone prepare or want to pay for cultivation for woodland planting.

We will have this for sale shortly. A Toyota Avalon v6 3.0ltr auto built by Lexus I'm told. £500- 600. All the luxury electrics work. 1995. Local pick up only. Located in Dunedin NZ.

I get 100mb a month on 3G struggle to use 20. I do my web at home in my own time mostly.

In wintery conditions. We average 100 per person per day. Planted not just stuffed in and stakes and guards. All done by hand. A planting machine can really take things up a notch if site and conditions allow.

Are you really bored Jon? Nobody selling butts or buying firewood. You need a shed and a project like a tractor. Maybe a cider bar in your man cave. Then you could Play darts with pals instead of watching it and strictly goes prancing.

Most footballers should be disqualified automatically for lacking personality.

Another no here, I'd have to be housebound and unable to turn the TV off to do so. Don't watch any sport. Probably watch less than 3 hours of anything on average per month. I find TV pedantic, dumbed down and un stimulating.... In New Zealand at the moment and it's absolute trash here. Might as well watch teletubbies all day long. As long as I'm not in a restricted situation I can occupy myself. I was asked!

I too have one, it's a big improvement. I think already two threads exist on here. At one point they advertised on here.

I have read about this and heard of real world experience in uk and Zealand. But never done it myself. Bamboo is in two general forms, creeping or clump forming. The clump forms are easier to deal with as they don't repropagate like the creeping so easily. Dig the clump type out which is hard going by hand and any suckers that may reappear destroy as they come. Digger will be much better if you can get one in. Bamboo stores its energy in the canes. So the more you destroy the growth the energy supplies are depleted. This leads to the plants demise eventually. I could've used Latin and official bamboo speak here but imagine we are talking lay mans practical terms here. If you are just wanting to suppress it. Just chop it down, fire it or whatever. Eventually it will die. Interestingly many types of bamboos of the same variety flower all at once worldwide for a short while. Maybe a couple of seasons. Then die of the exhaustion, but this can be every few decades. A long wait but it would be annoying if you did all the hard work and they were due to self suicide shortly.

My bad, I meant 1st as in before Columbus and date of modern America. The natives where there before the modern history. Smokin and chilling out.

Land hopped it seemed. Scandanivia, islands, Greenland, Newfoundland then India as Columbus insisted, but we know now the U S of A. But it's all vague and not down in writing. Put your coat back on the hanger you can be Donald of Trump:001_tt2:

I've been reading made in America by bill bryson. Apparently the Vikings got their first and some people were speaking English before colombus hit the continent.

My thoughts exactly. Who is going to pay for running costs. It will be 300 mile a year machine. The walking bus is better for them. The environment and even the less well off parents can partake.

I think like every subsidised scheme driven by cash incentive (greed) it will sink or run aground. Look how we have gone round in circles with agriculture, the grain mountains dumped in the 80s, set aside, stewardship. On it will go. The future is a heap of redundant biomass boilers getting scrapped! The owners will probably not lose out due to the generous funding, but what will be next? Again we are not thinking far ahead. Firewood will keep selling until it's outlawed if it ever is.

Minimise handling, have a sequential flow of production. Mechanise as much as economically possible. I use sawhorses, the Oregon easy cut is excellent to quickly process smaller girth sticks rapidly. Hire in a processor if overwhelmed. As you are handling your waste, you don't want a choked up yard distracting from your more profitable main enterprise. Use staff to do it when weather is bad or work quiet. It can be an effective part of your enterprise or a frustration. Think smart, invest a little. Work easier.

Very easy to make. Could you loan off a nearby nursery? Depending on size,equipment and access a digger/tractor with an endless sling. Nurseries handle them with these looped around the lower stem. You can get hooks which are similar used in forestry, not tongs just one hook on a handle.Abattoir meat hooks are similar. But doubt they would be keen to lend. How big are the trees/balls?