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Increase it. Less work needs to pay more money with relatively fixed costs of living.

I was going to mention the one Andrew Camarata recently bought (video above) but I don’t know enough about groundworks to make anything like a recommendation. He makes excellent videos. I cringe at how abusive towards kit he is a lot of the time but he gets stuff done and it all still works. I’ve learnt loads from his videos. I fear that last sentence may give a digger driving instructor somewhere a stroke.

I do sympathise with the size of the lanes down your way, Jonathan but as you quite rightly point out, anything other than a horse is a problem. You might as well have a slightly bigger problem that is at least available. Short wheelbase Transits are pretty small and manoeuvrable and can be outfitted with transfer box four wheel drive systems from Ford pickups. Wranglerstar on YouTube has a video of his short or medium wheelbase adventure van being fitted out with one. I doubt Transit Connects are similar at all though. Likewise I doubt the power of either would be to your taste. You could just run about in a lorry when nobody else is on the roads and have a Smart car with a lifting eye on the roof you can take with it. You could get a plexiglass dome from one of those charity coin collection things you used to see in shops for your head. Image: Collection Box | The Original Roll-a-Coin IMAGES.APP.GOO.GL Found on Google from collectionbox.com.au

Mercedes G Wagen? I imagine I’m repeating what difflock posted 23 minutes ago.

Sounds vaguely like a movement towards the very attractive sounding no-dig permaculture. There’s a lovely film called Back to Eden where some half hippy, half evangelist couple get fabulous garden yields from just spreading woodchip and very gently weeding (no tilling etc). Assuredly Radio 4 viewing. Not sure how well it translates into bigger scale agriculture?

The economy has hit the top of the curve and is starting to drop in some areas. There will be lots of bust projects, non-payment etc in the next couple of years. I’ve reacted by putting my prices up and taking a deposit. I am considering taking 100% in advance but deposit is working for now.

Just a vaguely connected thought since we’re on the subject of water. If we as a country didn’t use seven litres of drinking water to flush a quarter litre of piss away ten times a day, perhaps we wouldn’t need to store so much water.

Make a horrendously heavy one out of 1/4” C section and make the vandals use it on everything. Lifting it on and off may teach a lesson.

Fourteen cans of lager and a powerful German saloon car.

Section 20 of that act allows for emergency regulations to be made by government ministers, such a regulation potentially being one that grants extra police powers. Like you say, I doubt it though. Bit tenuous. There may well be some provision in one of the Criminal Justice, Public Order or one of the ... (Miscellaneous Privisons) Acts for it. Or, like egg says, maybe there isn’t.

Out of interest, does anyone happen to know what power the police have to force people to move out?

A canoeist popped up on facebook earlier saying the Goyt may well run as they fix it. He sounded local.

Record yourself talking about something, put it on the internet, people listen to it like they'd listen to the radio.

Charge £20 more per day?

Lyon Equipment distribute Petzl stuff in the UK and have treated me very well a couple of times.

I want to compliment the paint job but that might make the inevitable pain greater.

Lots of places have roads funded voluntarily. You don’t need tax for them.

Novel. Did someone commission this purely for their own pleasure or were they somehow compelled/incentivised?

The question is more why should you have to pay tax on your vehicles. Don’t hate them just because they’ve not been hit like motorists have. Things being taxed isn’t a natural default.

Torx (star)? Use some kind of thread lock glue when you put it back together. I was up a tree when I discovered I’d lost a screw from one of mine.

Can someone recommend a good firm in/near Horsham to hire either a towed 5" Timberwolf or one of the larger wee chippers like a Jo Beau please. It'll be a weekend. Thanks in advance.

I swear around anyone; kids, clients, nobility, whatever. I'm posh so it's endearing.

My mate Neil is a deceptively capable cyclist. He has pedal clips (largely hidden) in the bottom of a pair of sandals. He goes for a ride at weekends on his touring bike, wearing the sandals and a floppy hat and generally looking quite relaxed. Weekend warriors in lycra on £3000 carbon bikes are drawn in like moths to a flame and push past him, at which point he calmly steps on it, keeps them on the hook until they're half dead and then pulls away up a hill to find a pub. I do the opposite. Any time I do a fell race, I wear a collared shirt. People think I'm some hard as fuck farmer's son who's used to the route but doing it with a sheep on one shoulder and a roll of fence wire on the other. As it happens, I'm desperately unfit.

That's one of the advantages of swingmills too. I'm surprised you're not interested. Unless it's waney edged slabs you want, you still need to cut twice apart from you have to move the wood for the resaw with a bandmill too. I assumed you'd be wanting to cut beams for landscaping?

A swing mill is surely the obvious solution. A man of your mechanical calibre must be aware of the options?