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She taught him everything she knows then. Nice result Sent from my LG-K100 using Arbtalk mobile app

Words with retard in them have limited concept in today's generation. Recently my nephews were playing a sensible video game with no blood. EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR 2 They were modifying the settings on the truck. When in shock horror they came across the word retarder. (A device that causes the engine to brake, saving wear on services brakes)It was worse than the vulgar swear words to them. I explained it's purpose and that concrete also can have retarder put in to hold back its curing to give a longer workability time. I'm retarded in the kitchen. I'm also a retard when it comes to embracing social media. You won't find my daily meals or turds on Facebook. Etc. Trouble is we've become so P.C we don't even use the word spastic anymore in the UK and once we had a spastics society. Now it's scope. Ask a 10 year old what a spastic is? I'm not been nasty, it's just all the narrowing down of language then correctness in excess. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

I went to a leylandii three times and didn't fell after a quick climb and finding a pigeon nest Everytime. Then dropped it after all the nests had vacated. There was still another nest in the very outer reaches of the flipping tree/weed. When I dropped it. Pigeons and collared doves now nest 365 days a year. Farmers and those country loving folk that leave cartridges and drink cans behind blast them in the winter. They still thrive. The reality is if you drop trees for a living, you are going to drop the abodes of living things now and again. But deliberate caveman it's in my way, I'm cracking on with my thing attitude is what has helped mankind get this far in to the mess we are. I find it bizzare when people tie their kills to fence line as a display of look what I've done. Before anyone starts about piecework traditions. We've moved on from chucking slops out upstairs Windows to the street. Dead things are disposed of in a more sanitary way these days as well.

Yes no probs Pat.

I wouldn't spray petrol on my food either

Just an update. I'm only the messenger https://hygeia-analytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/RP_R-liver-Tox-Lay-Sum_2.pdf Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Stump grinder I presume?

Try the treespade companies. Ruskins on here. Northern tree transplanters etc. They will be more aware off larger specimens. 6.5m is large. J.a jones at southport may be able to help sourcing them if they don't have them.

He was on here as chesterman. But only ever did 18 posts. Sorry I don't have a number for him either.

The berries make an excellent antioxidant or whatever drink and the flowers an excellent cordial. But you do have to make effort. Now is the time to propagate from hardwood cuttings, tear a branch off with a heal attached trim tear to a stump. Stick in ground. Job as good as done. They are terrible to have in a hedge but not a threat to an established woodland, they fail when it gets really dry. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

I make them stood up, start with saw bar facing up 45 degrees, butt power head up to log so it doesn't pull over, then maintain power head against stem, even take advantage of bumper spikes. Flat firm ground. Flat level bottom cut, easy and quick. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

I noticed this a while back. I use different apps on iPhone and ipad

Not masses of action but unpredictable and intriguing. The mentalist. Love his unconvential in the face of red tape rebellion as well.

Looks a tidy set up. All going well now. Your tipping trailer? Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

I thought a specialist broker/agent can do this for you, but I'm no expert. But it does cost and it's a bit of a faff. I know my pto chipper had to be altered from the American original design. Including an extension tray for the hopper which I took off not long after I'd got it because branches hooked it up and was a nuisance. Just saying & yes I know insurance, h&s blah blah. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Just seen my typo, I did correct it twice but it persisted "moms and fastracs" an extreme Chelsea tractor. Not a good idea! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

It costs to get CE Approval and they usually want something modifying . Which in a factory can be expensive to implement. Do you do the whole production line to same spec? Or do batches for certain markets. It could be something daft like working at height of the ground without a seat restraint and no provision for an alternative as an example. It's there for everyone's safety and product conformity, but like any regs it can cause hinderance.

Saw this happen on American chopper to show I just happened to watch once when on holiday. Worn ball hitch and dad very displeased with son!

I understand the toy thing. But speed designed machines. Moms and fastracs seldom seen ploughing unless it's demos to show it's a Swiss Army knife. Personally I'd either disc it or drag it with a chisel plough(bomford) or similar. Hope you have fun and any breakdowns are not too expensive. Tackle replacement parts can soon add up. On a plough not bothering with points can make it harder work and cause needless wear on landsides etc. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Yes import your own. It's a different scale of things but I use an atom drill chainsaw attachment from oz. it's non CE. It's better than the CE ones I've seen maybe not as safe with guarding. But the kickback is much less from what I've seen. Buy you own and use it yourself. Them Belle engined wheelbarrows are awful, unsteady back breaking , shoulder wrenching to steer. But they've got CE. Would I use one? Not likely. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

I was referring to the experience of others earlier in the thread and from memory it's been mentioned in previous threads about bolts shearing. Not having a petulant retort but who actually checks the towball mounting bolts. They could be part sheared for some time before failure and without taking them off, how would the average driver know. I'm quite a nit picker when operating commercial equipment. As I do relief driving.A few weeks back an 18 ton truck I was driving had them nut lock plastic indicators on, but I noticed faint rust streaks around some of them on the front wheel. I could spin the shoulder washers on them with my fingers! When We tested them with a socket 3 out of 10 sheared off. They were only partly solid. Yet the regular driver hadn't noticed for quite some time. Visually they looked OK, maybe the last time they were torqued they held well, it was an accident waiting to happen. Yes the trucks do get the required regular proffesional inspections. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

But if the whole unit shears off? It's not going to make a blind bit of difference.

Yeah that's fair enough and certainly not digging at you stevie. I've much respect for you and any pedestrians etc. When they had to release the data on accidents under freedom of information, I looked it up in our area. Every single accident with fatality in our rural area involved one or more of three things. 1. Sadly old people 2. Motorbikes (some in this group take extreme risks. Should bikes have speed recording devices on them? Trucks and buses do. They rarely have accidents.) 3. Young kids ( stupidity more than lack of experience in the cases I knew of) this is weeded out better I think now due to the astronomical costs of young insurance and better management somehow. So I can understand why when speeding in low speed areas is mentioned as a major issue but statistically probably a rare albeit very tragic cause of accidents. People do get peeved. It's better to report the offenders and their times of offending and catch them. But policing isn't what it was. To mention another instance a real idiot with a brand new ford ranger parks it on the left side of a sharp right hand bend facing either way(one is illegal in the dark.) the bend is blind and is 30 limit so he's "entitled" to park there. They won't do anything about it even though you have to pass it into oncoming traffic. At that same corner the sneaky local busybodies have their whield the speed trap sessions. I know which is going to cause the next accident. Hopefully when it does it will be damaging to the idiots ranger not the oncoming traffic. Also I've seen this bloke taking a tiny toddler out the pickup on the traffic side in the middle of the road. His other vehicle is a Harley Davidson if that means anything.

Sounds like a top gear moment. You hope they would value their lives more than the caravan, if push comes to shove.

Lots of good points mentioned from both sides. Everybody is precious about their own whether it be village, kids, horses or cyclists. The world I grew up in was progressive. Hardly any speed limits, bypasses, no traffic calming obstacles/irritations. You were taught to survive, look both ways, take care when on foot. Not blindly be on your phone with earplugs in and get hit and sue later. People's Driving irritates me. Warning I slow down for horses sticker in back window tart rushing everywhere recklessly until she sees a horse. People who fully intend to stop and wait at every roundabout then carve you up as they take both lanes. Cyclists in packs that you have to speed to get past them in a speed limit or cause congestion. Villages that " oh they've got a speed limit in next village we need one more than them" and the unnessasary lengths of speed limits. You hardly ever see a pedestrian near them. School 20 mph zones 24hrs a day 365 days a year. I've actually worked out the actual percentage of that time it's valid. Certainly not at 2am when Bolams puffing a joint on way back from pub blathered. Like all politics people are self centred, you drive carefully through my village, I'll drive fast through yours it doesn't affect me. Also the extreme cotton wool dictatorship that we are going through. I read an article in a mag why boxing and mma is so popular is because, society is tired of being restrained and told what to do. You can break regular rules and have a near death experience. Driving is to get to places. Technology and engineered safety is getting better all the time. Whereas we are regulated to be slower. It's frustrating and all the more so when imperfect people get self righteous about it. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk