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  1. Having read this thread I guess I must be invincible - I eat carbs every day and I'm not unhealthy, unwell, or unalive. Perhaps I have 'evolved'...?

     

    Seriously - if it works for you, great. However, just for the record it is entirely possible to eat non-paleo and be perfectly healthy. :D

     

    Tony, you are falling at the seemingly unsurmountable human hurdle - short term thinking.

    You may be fine and outliving your forefathers, but nature works on a much longer time scale and we dont really know the long term effects we are passing on to our children who in turn pass it on to theirs etc etc.

     

    For the record, while I like the general approach of the paleo, I dont jump into these things boots and all, but take an approach of gradual change to anything I do - nature has shown that sudden changes often come a cropper after an initial period of improvement - fad diets being a good example.

    In this regard, our change to a grain based diet over the last 10 000 years has been IMO a relatively gradual change in natures terms, but significantly more dramatic has been the very recent change to highly processed grains that are milled and then stabilised chemically to preserve them till we get round to using them. This has all happened in the last 100 years or so - a flash in the pan on natures time scale, and to my mind far more damaging than the previous 9900 years of grain consumption where grains were generally stored whole after harvest and then ground as and when required.

    A further recent and very damaging effect of modern food practice is the lack of seasonality. We tend to eat stuff all year round whereas in the past seasons dictated what we ate - ie stuff that was growing in the same conditions we were living in and therefore having appropriate nutrients for those conditions.

     

    Personally, I think the human body can cope with all sorts of variations in the short term, but thinking long term, we need to be a bit more circumspect.

    Unfortunately, we will not be around to see the results of our choices.

    Yes,humans live longer now than ever before, but at what long term cost??

     

    I suspect that our short term thinking is probably natures way of ensuring our own downfall as we get increasingly arrogant and play god without understanding the bigger, fuller picture, thereby ensuring the earth goes on long after we humans have shuffled off this mortal coil.

     

    So, dont think that answers many questions, just my two pence worth :lol:

  2. To be fair, you shift a whole lot of chainsaws. Some of these smaller dealers might not sell a chainsaw from one week to the next which I suspect changes the perspective somewhat

     

    I can see where you are coming from Steve, but in this situation the original salesman who was dealing with the OP was doing one thing - sale of part to fit at home- which was presumably not outwith company policy, only for the boss to come riding out all guns blazing with a completely different story. The salesman might well have been working the guy with a view to the mower sale and future business which was pretty much shot out the water by the boss' approach.

    I think the boss man should have checked what was going on with the salesman by calling into the office quickly before barging in.

  3. Here's One I made this year .Second one I have made

    Standard dining table size

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    nice one slack, but wondering what size 'standard' is?

    How did you find the stability on that one - base looks quite small relative to the top?

  4. Utilities are working on pipes under our field and they have a 22 ton machine on site. I asked him to spread my pile out a bit. Makes life a lot easier and I can find all the ready to split logs at the bottom!

     

    I want one like yours Steve. Would be mighty handy on lots of jobs!

     

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    :thumbup:bet that took him no time at all with that beast - wouldnt want to even think about how long that would have taken with a small machine let alone by hand :lol:

    All about having the right tool for the job, or in this case knowing someone near by who has the right tool and asking nicely :lol:

  5. saw a Goldoni 2 wheeler a few years ago. Think there is a range of sizes and you could spin the handles 180 degrees to either have the PTO fwd or aft facing, depending on the implement attached

     

    edit - just had a quick google and quite a lot of implements available for them, although I suspect the likes of the backhoe will have limited use :-)

  6. Fair one, but not this week thank you very much. Our sister ship drew that short straw this patrol. Spent more than enough time down on the continental shelf boarding the Spaniards and kicking the French out of the scillies this autumn just gone. Not pleasant in some of those leftover hurricanes! But the Thames estuary is still equally miserable tonightI

     

    with you there - did enough of the rough stuff in my youth and happy to be in the pond, especially the last few weeks :thumbup1:

  7. Fair question,

     

    I'm not a lichenologist unfortunately but imagine its the age of the host (this one being around half a millenium) that is critical for the conditions required for this particular lichen.

     

    The surrounding trees are young in comparison and do not provide the same growing environment .......yet

     

     

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    mmm, not making life easy for itself is it.

    Presumably with man out of the picture there would have been a lot more of these older trees ??

    Nature does work in mysterious ways

  8. Jonothan,

    Twice the Price is ABSOLUTLY correct

    For a LT20 with hydraulic options

    £17,938.00

    Plus a wheel kit at 4k

    = 21,936

    plus UK carriage at about £650.00

    = £22,588.00 at 1.6 Ex rate

    = $36,140 = virtually twice the US of 18,995 for the LT35HD

    Talk about being bent over double.

     

    wtf - got to see the justification for this?????

    Not as if they are not making money on that price in the states as well!!!!

    Rip off Britain still exists. :thumbdown:

  9. 59" - didnt think it would drive that for milling :thumbup1:

    That said, cant think I will be needing more than the 46", but you never know what might come along :001_rolleyes:

    As it is I could get by with the 36" bar for now, but I suppose might as well go bigger if finances allow, then covered for more eventualities.

     

    Cheers Alec

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