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Well imagine how much better it’d be if the private sector was doing it.
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I’ve never got on board with shitting for pleasure. Do job, move on.
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The north east’s decline is being managed by giving everyone the dole, either at home with drugs and television or in some government job. How’s that going? Poorly. Not much real industry. Distorted markets. Swathes of pointlessness. Paternalism might be well intentioned but it doesn’t work. Have the humility to accept individuals can’t push components of societies round like chess pieces. The pieces WILL do their own thing and you’ll end up with a weird mess.
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I’d say it isn’t. If something’s dying, let it die quickly and with dignity. Don’t effectively put the workers on the dole where they still go in and pull the levers but know in themselves it’s fake.
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root ball Advice needed on how to remove a large uprooted tree base from site.
AHPP replied to handymidi's topic in General chat
Time and attrition is cheapest. Leave a tool next to it. Everyone who comes or goes has to hit it ten times on arrival and departure. Don’t let children hit it. Then they’ll really want to hit it. Then let them. -
Easy then. If it’s important/useful/worthwhile, someone will do it.
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Was going to let the others eat it but put it in the burn bin just in case it died of something contagious. Will do a post mortem in a bit. Still on with coffee.
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Advice needed on how to remove a large uprooted tree base from site.
AHPP replied to handymidi's topic in General chat
The whole thing, while out of the ground? I can imagine it scratching a lot of small roots and mud off but can’t see how it would do anything to the main boule besides roll it around. -
Dead. Duh.
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So you’re saying weather forecasting is important/useful/worthwhile?
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I can’t find one now but there’s at least one horrifying video out there of someone cutting an I beam (or H beam) lengthways. Lot of internal stress. Big twang. Bloke with an oxy torch gets batted into the next postcode.
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All the way through I assume?
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In fairness, I’d have done that. Weather forecasting is a waste of time. They’re usually wrong and you can’t do anything about it anyway.
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The predictable demise of George II.
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Could you post a photo showing what you mean please.
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Casting no aspersions. I assume it was the “old” that made you think I was talking about you. I was born in 1987 so missed what I now understand to be the important bits of the 90s. It sounds mint. I wish I’d been old and cool enough for it.
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Old football hooligans are hilarious. Two I know: A university lecturer’s dad who I did a tree job for. Interesting, chatty bloke. Showed me his setup for making dental moulds. Successful small business doing that. Banned from half the stadiums in the country. His daughter’s doing her PhD on the law around banning orders, presumably so he can go to matches (and not bray people) again. The bloke who runs my local hippy shop. I buy incense from him. He hires out the basement for spirit yoga and womb bathing etc. Loves a tear up.
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what is the most favoured top handle saw and climbing gear
AHPP replied to manchester tree services's topic in Chainsaws
I’d call 225 expensive when the proper ones are only 4-500. And what Mick says. It’s just wrong. I’ve had this with a winch component over the last few weeks. The pukka bit is from Germany and £163. China have ripped it off for £50 ish (it’s not a completely apples and apples comparison btw but go with it). I’m using the pukka one. I want to go to sleep at night knowing I’m adding quality to the world, not filling it with more fake shit. -
I’m not interested in blingy climbing gear. A VT and rope wrench works well enough for me. Made no real effort after getting that to become any more super squirrelly. I chose to focus on other things instead. Rigging basically. But when I was toying with getting a mechanical device a few years ago I did my usual obsessive amount of research and concluded that the bulldogbone was probably the best. Not much of a review I grant you but just how it looks from my POV.
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I’m sure they could. Or in groups to reduce the number of straps you need. Or buried. Or or or. You could keep them and store water yourself. It’ll seem like a waste of time until you need it.
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Cut the tops off and screw them to a wooden pallet. Add air holes if for logs. Cut them down to whatever height. I have some knee high crates for running tools around in. Easy to reach into. Will they last forever? No. Will they last long enough to be worth the twenty screws and twenty minutes? Only you can answer that but let's presuppose yes. When you cut them, make sure to do it somewhere outside of the environment so as not to pollute it with plastic swarf.
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I need to set up compost up there anyway. Could do the full-on humanure thing while I'm at it. Or I could shit in my house a hundred metres away like the civilised might.
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One step ahead of you.
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Got most of the chip up here and a third of the big bed hippified. The rest will go into storage/compost. Some for the chickens to play in.
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Oui, peds. The whole alpine bum thing. Snell’s field, dinner on the bleuet, jumpers for goalposts.
