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Watched all of his videos. The Indian one is hilarious. Everywhere else in the world he's tolerant and accepting of cultural differences, able to rub along with whoever etc. India was very obviously too much though. He gets pissed off.

As far as I can tell, knuckleboom sizes are done in tonne metres. So if that blue one lifts 6 tonnes at 3 metres, it'd be an 18 tonne metre crane. On another thread a while ago you said you'd have used a 100 tonne hiab for something. Did you mean 100 tonne metre? Internet not super clear on this subject. What's the common way people size and a describe them?

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You had 20 years’ experience in January. Don’t sell yourself short.

Paid travel?

What sort of capacity does that hiab have?

That must be abused to the high heavens! Fake work that never happens, bank transfer one way, cash back the other.

Have I accidentally raised a pertinent botanical issue?!

Well done on candela. I can usually remember mole but not that.

Centimetre is derived from a primary SI unit, the metre, which I think makes it a secondary unit or something like that. Litre isn't SI. Without googling, name the other six primary SI units.

Never seen anyone use mL to measure engine displacement before. Are you boycotting SI units?

How big was the ash dieback experiment tree? Did you factor juglone toxicity into your experiment? At what age/size of walnut tree does it start happening?

In a kinder world, I might offer to bring it down to something like five feet so that it can be regularly repollarded from the ground. But the world is not kind and I'm not optimistic about changing it today.

"Tree care question. Everyone's saying cut it down. Quick. Must look all thoughtful so they look like brutes who can only fell and I look like a super-clever tree whisperer." Moderation for moderation's sake. A competition to do least. A bad decision making process. Might as well be a civil servant. By all means be restrained and nuanced when restraint and nuance is right but be forceful and final when that's right.

Forgive me, I'm just being flippant. Tip gratefully received.

It's not just a liability issue. It's a reputation and marketing issue. If you cut it down and do a decent job clearing up, no damage etc, you're the guy that did a decent job. If you cut it in half and do a decent job clearing up, no damage etc and it later falls over, you're the guy who left them with a tree that fell over. It's not the whole story but it's the headline that everyone will see. Annoying but real.

That was my first thought yesterday. Then I thought open-minded thoughts like, "The customer can have what they want. It's their tree and their choice." Then I slept on it and I'm back to Mick's answer. If ten signs say turn left, turn left.

My chickens live in the north east of England, not Gerrards Cross.

My mate's first idea was a BMW motorcycle watercooled flat twin. I suspect that thing had something bigger.

Inch deep drinker OK?

I don't think I need to seat 27 very often. Wouldn't mind a 2CV now I'm thinking about it. As long as it's waterproof.

Is that a Zil? "What’s as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces? ... A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces." Probably a Volvo estate. I know a guy with sixteen (or something roughly that ridiculous) nice old ones crammed into an industrial unit in Sunderland. Entire cars are stored inside other cars. Some are on a mezzanine constructed with a sense of guile and resilience that might have been better employed getting one of the cars finished instead. When the place is inevitably compulsorily purchased and demolished, he's buggered. He's got nowhere to put sixteen cars. The unit is really weird. You have to wend your way round a really tight internal one way system to get to it, a big S in a big building with loads of internal divisions. I struggled to get a SWB Transit round the corners. You don't ask what your neighbours are doing unless they volunteer the information.

I'll take your word for it about stuff falling off but generally that doesn't look in horrendous health. If 0 is a perfectly healthy tree and 10 is utterly ashdiebacked to utter death, I'd say that's a 3 ish. Would be interested to see how others appraise it.

Does anyone remember the children's television programme, The Animals of Farthing Wood? It was all quite gentle and pleasant and as you'd expect. And then clearly one of the writers woke up very, very angry and decided that the primary school children who watched it needed to witness some brutal truths. It suddenly went from all the lovely fluffy creatures living in unrealistic harmony to bulldozers turning up to flatten their home for a bypass. Then, in the confusion of fleeing, the kestrels impaled the mice on thorns. Profound bit of television. Like Schindler's List for kids.