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Oui, monsieur. Deux milles Euros.
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Aye. Sitting out to shoot thieves is probably illegal.
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Firstly, consider my reply as mine and the other bloke's as his please. Right, read what you said. We weren't talking about good reason to acquire guns on licences. We were talking about the normal law of self-defence. You can do whatever with whatever if it satisfies the normal requirements (reasonableness, proportionality, imminence etc). You're basically right about self-defence not being good reason to acquire firearms, for normal sportsmen. Example: You're a small woman out pigeon shooting with your wheelchair-bound teenage daughter. Five big men with knives burst through the hedge, tell you they're going to rape you both and kill you both and then they all lunge at you. You can shoot them. You go home and apply for a licence for a pistol for self defence. You probably won't get it.
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They are.
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First day taking him to work. Rather easy. We had the run of a basically empty farmyard. Not expecting climbing to be as straightforward.
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The silly title and stubs aside (and in fairness at least some of them are left for a good reason), I found this quite relaxing. Nothing mega mega. Just a guy taking his time on a nice day. Not thoroughbred educational material, just pleasant watching.
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It's on a television advert too. Guinness? Specsavers?
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My Hobbs has never moved when cranked hard (has a couple of times when not). It's got far better pointy bits on the frame. Would ideally like to pin the GRCS to the stem with some gurt lag screws too but there's nowhere very obvious to do that. I'll see how I get on with it with a mind to one day building a better one.
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Well I don't mind a 170 or 180. 162 feels considerably cheaper. Didn't run the saw. Just on the shelf in a shop. Nose looks like a nose.
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Him. Sailor. End of November. Two and a bit. Smashing chap. Likes hares.
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Quality.
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Find the post please because that's superb.
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@eggsarascal Do keep up.
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I like to think they started by just easing the bumper against the doors and worked up to ramming.
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Part of the joy of a van is having a place at knee height to sort stuff out and the ability to get changed in the dry.
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I say SWB low roof would do but sixty seconds later I'm now thinking taking a small/half empty vehicle is just wasteful when I could have space for ground protection mats or something instead. It's all outlook. Do you want to provide the maximum you can provide or just be a happy medium?
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It's particular to your circumstances. If you're only ever going to take a climbing kit and top handle, then yeah, whatever car and a trailer for wood. People carriers are a bit taller, which is nice. At the other end of the scale is that bloke in the converted fire engine with thirty saws on board and god knows what else. I've just about outgrown a MWB high roof van but only because I preserve bed space and skidsteer space in there. As a pure tool van, SWB low roof would be fine. 3.5 saws plus spare bars, 3.5 climbing systems plus spare stuff, 3.5 rigging systems plus spare stuff, Hobbs, GRCS, petrol capstan, tool bag, 20 litres Motomix, 20 litres unleaded, probably a can of unleaded mix, axes, poles, bag of tongs, wedges, tape etc. Lot of tat and I still have to fit my dog and my ego in the cab.
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As it happens I'd rather have a Smartwinch. But as it happens I do have a GRCS and want a visor plate for it.
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Guarding me in the workshop.
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White wine is just white wine.
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Handled a 162 today. Horrible.
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And since it's on the subject of mounting a GRCS for removals rather than pruning, has anyone got any tips for solid mounting? I'm thinking along the lines of taking the rubber feet off and replacing them with spikes.
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Before I suffer the indignity of buying new, does anyone have one of these for sale? https://treetools.co.nz/rigging/rigging-parts/grcs-visor-plate
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I'd climb it. I will climb it if you pay me.
