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Go Dean, Go, makes sense to me. Same diesel price for all as well.

Absolutley spot on:congrats: My point to a tee. On HGV you are supposed to know all the updates and changes, I've never had one ever. So doubt they will inform B+E drivers. Commercial operators are supposed to inform their drivers, Im sure they have other things to deal with and Im self employed, so slip through every net. I didn't know until this week(had HGV 17yrs) that on a paper tacho chart VOSA have big issues about the surname should be above christian name. Or they get upset. Ive not done this for 17yrs! My first name has preceeded my surname all my life! As I've said before you need to be a legal professional to drive commercially. Im in the middle of a 3 week stint relief driving and realise I now hate driving because of juggling red tape, and the idiots you have to deal with. I prefer working with animals.

Pto chains are rubbish whether you spend £20 or £2000 on an implement. Yet HSE like to see them in place. I suppose they are designed to give.

I would play safe and leave tailgate at home. Cut down on weight and another loose article.Tipper trucks drive round without tailgates on with bulldozers in the body and tailgate off.

Depends which hand you put where! Hope the winning bidder doesn't go bragging he's got a left hander. It will haunt him for years!

I also know of someone who works on oil rigs who does because the clause was badly worded. it said the owner had to work on the land so he did christmas trees, and that covered it for him.

Depends on the local interference brigade. Fewer people now work in agriculture due to mechanisation. Therefore it is a problem getting occupants/buyers.I know if you are retired from farming it still counts as agricultural occupant. A good way is if it "Looks like a farm. " I.e sheep or poultry in field etc. Therefore you can rent the land for grazing and not have the hassle of farming. If you go through the correct channels, it will likely not work in your favour. I know a case were the non farming occupants were forced to put on the market their property but it never sold so they stayed put. But an arrogant I can make noise in my yard won't wear well.

Been to hong kong briefly on stop overs of a couple of days, very hot/humid, polluted. I would find it difficult to work in that. Also the crowdedness and food not my thing either. But I assume you are aware of these things. Also read in National Geographic recently that the two civil systems with China has tensions brewing.

Usually mates from pub, case of who you know!

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I did a favor for family 5-7 tall leylandii. Trunk girth 40-60cm diameter. Quoted £300 to just drop them and chip on site. Took around 20 man hours(tight awkward area to work in) Paid brother £100 or 150 cant remember. Plus costs in tractor/saw fuel etc. Got a puncture on the front tractor tyre it was a write off, sidewall damage. New tyre £312. Me out of pocket by alot. I would of quoted at least double normally.

Picture says a thousand words and what I think. Was there with wife who wouldn't of made it to the first limb and a 70+ Aunt and uncle. I posted this before on a thread about freeclimbing, where many of the posters climbed for fun. FUN: A dirty word from bygone times when people did things because they knew they had capabilites and they wanted to use them. Before everything was disapproved of and off limits. Do firestations have stairlifts now instead of the firemans poles?

Agreed, but who listens! Also young tree will outgrow a more mature one. I wouldn't bother with compost, particularly for birch they grow on rocks, sand, wet or dry soil. Get healthy young trees. Any birch should of put on a minimum of 30cm growth, this season by now if its 2ft or more in height. Dig hole and fork bottom of hole over to a spits depth. Assuming you take 30-40 minutes per tree. (Room for error and unexpected obsticles/delays) Id say you want to be £7 minimum a tree for your labour to cover getting to site and other costs. Do not pay silly £40 for a 6ft birch in a 10 litre pot. I subby for a wholesale nursery. You would get it for less than £10. They mess around with irritating landscapers because they are trade, why not you? We grow grafted cultivars in 2 ltr pots at 4ft- 6ft and they go to other nurseries for around £4 each! However wholesale growers do not like to mess around with dippy indecisive customers. I can plant 10 large rootballed trees and stake them in around 4 to 5 hours. So if you arent a chatterbox and a tea supa should be done in a morning .

I was once away from home and had a shirt with only holes for cufflinks and no buttons, but had forgotten the cufflinks. Popped into screwfix bought some stainless nuts and bolts. Secure and manly cufflinks I thought and I did get good comments from blokes , but rolled eyes and tuts from fashion police (Women)

Heres your postcard. I contacted fiskars uk. They didnt spell it out but they releasing the x27 in 2013. Obviously another market control thing. As everyone but uk seem to get them. Im personnaly boycotting them at extortionate prices and going to try and get one from the USA. On principle. Why should I pay 3-4 times more than an american for a european product????

Already posted under elf and safety.

Jetison the trailer, keep the number plate. It will likely still be there tomorrow.

O dear Will. New Zealand driving will send you crazy!!!!!! No traffic but what there is seems to get in your way. Everything is in slow motion with traffic. I suggest you start breathing exercises or something now.

We have great friends in Dunedin and the climate in summer I find nice. Its not a tourist sort of place, just a pleasant place to be. We will be going there next time we visit NZ.

Straw merchants use them for gathering from fields I think speed limited as well.if you know one worth asking how they go about it

That is when we get smoked, but not always. So will advise as we go and maybe try it with it off then put it on to know if it does make a difference.

I will guinea pig. Ordered one and will let you know how it goes. Our problem is trees nearby and sometimes hard to light and smoke comes into room. Etc.

I surrender Scotsmen are really tighter than Yorkshiremen.

Buy a good book or two, look up on web, ask on arbtalk. It would have to be a really good course to make worthwhile me thinks. Just don't take on mammoth jobs to start with.

BBC News - Bike rider survives lorry crash after riding through red light This could've been really nasty!