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Cable bracing and inspection qualifications?
AHPP replied to Treerangers's topic in Trees and the Law
Bollocks. Years ago, my then boss (in a completely different industry) told me that we weren't going to do anything to guard against a perfectly legitimate risk because that would make him liable for it, grumble grumble, law's an ass, etc etc. My sense of injustice was inflamed and I suspected that that wasn't really the law. Fast forward a few years, I spent a while reading thick books about the law and discovered that I was right; ignoring a potential problem until it's a real problem is, legally speaking, a shit move. I've seen a few of your posts about the law on here and your understanding of it is fabulously bad. -
We think about saws very similarly. I've got a 500 with a 25" and a 661 with a 36" and it is a luxury. I'd rather not have the 661 but swapping 25" and 36" bars on the 500 just isn't realistic (unless you're one of those mad Scandinavians who can change a bar in 4.3 seconds). I got the 661 because it was a good deal and it'll ideally live in a mill for stints as long as possible. I always reach for the 500 if I can for normal stuff.
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That's a fast flowing canal!
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I once watched a friend smoke an entire box of cigarettes standing over a molehill with an auto 5. He was there for hours. Dedication. Fruitless but dedication nonetheless.
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You could offer to insure with them again next year (at an agreed premium!) if they cover the hire cost. I'd be amazed if they accepted but it won't cost you much to ask.
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Suffice to say we both understand the situation.
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Yeah. I said that. You missed the important bit where the government cvnt gets paid for setting it up. That's the bit that makes subsidies increase prices, not just get to the same price another way.
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I didn't realise. You called for them to do things. Say your ideal government gets in. You give them loads of powers. A few years down the line, a worse government gets in and inherits the powers. How pleased are you now.
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Once these people start interfering, they can't/don't stop.
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You'd see the real cost at the shop, which is preferable to the current system of seeing artificially low prices but paying the real price plus some. Subsidies make things more expensive. The thing still needs paying for but then so does the administration of collecting tax and paying the subsidies. You pay less at the shop but more overall. Say milk costs 80p. Pay the shop 80p and the milk's yours. Now say some government cvnt decides to force milk to be 60p at the shop. He gives the farmer 20p so he sells it to the shop for 20p less. You pay 60p at the shop but you've had to pay the 20p the farmer got in tax somewhere else and then more tax to pay said government cvnt to go to work, say 5p. 80p milk now costs 85p.
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State food control. No thanks. North Korean famine - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG And since this thread is primarily about the environment: Aral Sea - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Stop calling for the state to do things. At least on the planet I live on.
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I even love Sunderland.
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Despite many reasons to not love England, I love England. We’re only the poor man of Europe in the same way some old-money gentry looks poor because the jacket that his great grandfather gave him is tied up with the string that his grandfather gave him. We’ve got wealth (and class, and grit, and guile) in spades.
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Pigou was a commie loser.
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I don't know anything about the fish trade but you bought it.
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It was implied if not said. I'm surprisingly open minded btw. All you have to be is right.
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It does follow. What on earth makes you think that people who pollute appallingly are worthy of regulating how others pollute? If the example is too abstract, consider the millions of chair polishing jobs that only exist to impose and then satisfy state regulations. All those people drive to work, buy shoes they wouldn’t otherwise buy, get packaged sandwiches for lunch they wouldn’t otherwise need etc etc ad infinitum ad nauseam. Why do I think you think state regulation of stuff is good? You called for it a few posts up.
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As opposed to the slavery and other abuses that governments inflict on workers? Tax freedom day fell on the 30th May last year. Until the 29th May inclusive, UK workers worked to pay taxes only. Half the year, they worked for the state. And governments are the worst polluters. When was the last time you shot depleted uranium at your neighbours?
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The only proper regulation of a market is what comes from within the market. It’s the sadly more prevalent regulation of markets (interfering) by outsiders like government that fvcks stuff up and makes people erroneously blame capitalism.
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Putting up taxvictims' money for whoever is unscrupulous enough to take it is emphatically NOT capitalism. I couldn't tell you how to best make use of resources, sorting or whatever. Neither can any other one man. The market can though.
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Nah. Transporting rubbish uses shitloads of resources. It's not just a bit of fuel. It's that and then the vehicles themselves, then other vehicles that drive workers to work, then vehicles that drive trainers, accountants, marketers, lawyers, car designers, boot makers etc to work to support the workers who do the actual work of transporting the rubbish (and to support the supporters). Pointless work is far worse than it seems. Also consider most pointless* recycling is government led (ideas that are so good that they're mandatory...). When was the last time the government did something that makes sense? If they're doing it, it's probably a shit idea. *Not all reycling is pointless. Re-using stuff (including to heat your house) is recycling and not pointless. Sorting stuff into the blue bin so some chancing cvnt can sell it to Indonesia (to end up in the sea) is pointless.
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Documentary series/box sets and the like worthy of a watch?
AHPP replied to Ratman's topic in The Lounge
I’m just getting back into The Blacklist. I’m a series behind. Not a clue what’s happening. -
A few months ago, I rolled a skidsteer on a slight slope about twelve feet away from the Thames. That could have been enormously embarrassing (as opposed to merely very embarrassing). . The same job required tracking a micro digger through a gap between two trees, over uneven roots etc right on the top of a steeper bit of bank. Someone else drove that while I rigged the roll bar.
