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2/1 sideways or missing entirely, 3/1 upside down. Who wants some?

If it's making fruit, it's working. If it makes less or none, hack it a bit. It'll either fight back or it won't. How incisive is that.

There's a wonderful bit in Rich Dad Poor Dad where Richard Kiyosaki meets an author who considers herself highly cultured and a good writer and isn't pleased that Kiyosaki's books (which she thinks are badly written) have sold better than hers. He points out that he's a best-selling author, not a best-writing author.

Cheers. I discovered similar online after spending the majority of the last APF being stared at incredulously by the various guys with Billy Goats on show. Machines with eight foot wander nozzles that are designed for crispy urban leaves. "Will these pick up piss wet conifer chip?" "What about with a hundred foot pipe?" "Errr. No, mate."

One of my plans for if I ever run my own firm is to have a tow behind vacuum/blower on the back of the chip truck so I can suck chip out of gardens and blow it into hedgerows on the way home. The lads would love standing on the back and shooting the chip canon like they’re Rambo. Don’t pretend it’s not a good idea.

An alternative way to look at it is that the trees are owned by a public body and you are the public so the trees are yours. The reality is that, however much you subscribe to that line of thinking, the state forest owners, the state police, the state courts and the state bailiffs subscribe to the more commonly held view that you should keep your peasant hands off their stuff.

The article is about litigating against public bodies. It just so happens that the case in the article was about a tree but it could just have easily been about any of the many things public bodies do.

Go on? What have I missed?

Very similar to the NHS Litigation Authority or whatever they call themselves this week. They defend everything, including the utterly indefensible (amputating wrong arm etc), and run the fees up. Why should they care? It’s not their money. The tax cattle will pay up.

In which case you can be assured the terminology was either wrong, so absurdly niche as to be effectively wrong or 200 years out of date.

"[Vaccinations will be the end of it.]" Previous examples of British state issued vaccinations include small pox blankets and chemical castration of harmless benders.

151 (I prefer a backhandle) with a 12 or 14 for pretty much anything in a tree 201 backhandle with 16 or 18 for general ground use and occasional use aloft 500i with a 25 for everything else Replace the 201 with equivalent electric if the weight is comparable.

A cheerful national icon, sadly now replaced with some shit platitude about the state healthcare monopoly. Extinction rebellion have done the other side btw.

A friend near Durham wants a bit of something for a mantlepiece. 2"x10"x6' ish. Private message please.

Got it. Cheers.

I don't follow what you mean. Can you explain or post a sketch please.

At the risk of being a clever dick, both. Big bar for the gob (or possibly only the first cut) and small bar for the rest. I like to letterbox and plunge and am not above plunge-halving gobs now and then.

What’s regulating, Bob?

He probably can’t be arsed to move it. Offer £50.

My 500 went back to Stihl when it wouldn’t start. I suspected no fuel. It wasn’t coughing a fuel cloud out of the spark plug hole like a working carbed machine would but then again I don’t know if a working injected machine would do that anyway. Stihl said it was an ECU fault though they replaced the injector as well. It’s been fine since. Pukka saw.

His neighbours probably hate him. See.

The only thing that’ll kill willow is communism. Hack away however.

Can't tell 100% from the video but looks like a direct tip tie? Any merit to running the rigging rope to the tree further in the background and letting the cut tree down on a V?

I use the Buckin Billy Ray Smith method. Rounds on the floor or in a pile, kick them vaguely upright and flop/flick the axe off to one side as you strike. If the axe flops left, a split piece will kick off right and the axe will end up safely flat on top of the left piece. Or golf swing through rounds lying down. Watch Buckin's youtube videos and it'll make sense. Suggest watching them with the sound off and/or sped up.

Samantha. You're an old woman wanting to break into a profession dominated (for largely good reason) by young men. It's very competitive, most people make shit money and many people hate it after a while. You're at a further disadvantage being on an island with limited employers. Then consider we live in interesting economic times where bold career moves are risky, especially ones with significant money outlay for training that you might need to use to buy food with in the coming months. And as if all that didn't make for a steep enough hill to climb already, you're annoying, closing yet more doors. Now anything's possible of course and you may delight in proving me and the world wrong but you're starting at several large disadvantages. I'd ordinarily not care what you try to do but in this instance I must strongly encourage you to not give money to the absolute wasters who constitute the majority of the training industry in this country. Their undeserved dominance is making the industry shitter for the rest of us and I want them starved.