AHPP

And my house is already pretty uncivilised.

I have breakfast up there most days. It’s where my main cafetière lives. I could put solar on the pavilion and never need to leave. Joking aside, I am trying to move out of my house and into something considerably less civilised.

Because there’s basically never any need for it. It’s unnecessary violence on heavy, expensive ropes and there’s usually just as much risk of mishap from swinging pieces as there is from bouncing pieces.

I get stuff gunned up on the GRCS if I’m high enough. The rigging is usually off when it’s getting down to 500i and 661 chogging though .

Wasn’t aware there was a chicken thread. I’ve been derailing the veggies one. Sorry, arbtalk vegans.

Exhibit A, @Steve Bullman

I have 16” 3/8 pico 1.3mm on my 220 and I often do a full day on two 300s batteries. That’s big trees but usually rigging small numbers of big pieces. I don’t cut and chuck or shred stuff very often. It’s only felling or firewooding that the charger (the top end one) can’t keep up with.

Bloody double posting again.

Cancelled by lunchtime. Not enough tickets sold. Common enough for nobodies like us. I did happen to notice from instagram though that the kid who runs the venue was away down the country playing a festival with his own band. That’s probably why he did sod all to promote our show. Saved rushing back. Spent the time I would have been shouting at mackems mixing cow shit and topsoil to dress the bed in the polytunnel.

An earlier morning than usual sat up the garden, watching the hens obediently troop in and out of the coop to lay. No chickens currently visible. Enjoy this picture of most of the dog instead. Shortly off to shoot clays for the first time in a decade or so. Had a rattling big pot of coffee to ensure I swing like a cornered stepchild.

Bloody double posting again.

‘Application to set aside judgment in default’ is what you need to google if I’ve understood/inferred/guessed correctly.

Traffic wardens serve their country and uniformed dolescum are still dolescum.

For how long were you housed, fed and paid from taxtake in the army?

Best stop paying them both to be on the safe side.

The rich can be as bad dolescum as the poor. Poor people get universal credit. Rich people get land subsidies. It’s all scrounging.

I used to love listening to Bob Harris Country on the way back from the smallbore club at Bury St Edmunds. Used to overtake everything for sport in my fabulous little 1.6 petrol (carburated) Vitara. Fabulous thing. Haven't had a vehicle with a good radio since. Wednesday nights from memory.

Clip a foot/knee ascender in if you're worried about that. Help bring the saw up with your leg.

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A crime brief in the toon of my acquaintance reckons top end of A1 - four years. She’s biased though. Like half of the north east, she wants the guillotine. If it’s going to be televised, they could do it like Deal or No Deal. What’s Noel Edmonds up to these days?

Read with mother. https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/criminal-damage-other-than-by-fire-value-exceeding-5000-racially-or-religiously-aggravated-criminal-damage/ Culpability - It's A or B, probably A. The level of planning is either way. No revenge and no risk to persons but definitely intention to seriously damage the tree. The wall damage being intentional or reckless will barely play. It's about the tree. The wall financial value was so low as to make it an add-on only. I don't think there's anything from C to nudge an A down to a B. Call it A (high culpability). Harm is category 1. A1: Starting point - 1 year 6 months’ custody Category range - 6 months – 4 years’ custody Maximum: 10 years’ custody (basic offence) Then start nudging it up for things like do they have a load of form, were they on bail for something else when they did this, was it because they hate foreign trees etc. Let's assume neutral for this since we don't know anything (or I don't anyway). Then continue nudging it up for other listed aggravating factors. Three of the list of ten definitely play. Nudging the starting point up 30% gets us to 23 months so far. Then nudge it down for bleeding heart liberal stuff. Are they sorry etc. They'll have a sob story of some kind but I can't see much washing. 5% off if they're lucky. 22 months. Then some technical/procedural stuff like did they cough early or did they put the prosecution to the trouble of a full trial? Full trial so no credit. Adjust for totality. Nothing complicated here. Very isolated offences. Maybe a bit extra for the wall. Maybe not. So on the guidlines and with the information I know (not much - I don't read much news) 22-24 months. I'd say they court will want to give a particularly harsh sentence to give the public blood but that's why there are sentencing guidelines. 24 months is pretty much in the middle of the range. Easy for a judge to go with that so as to limit accusations of undue harshness/leniency. Let's not rule out an angry judge giving them a walloping one and saying, "**************** you. Appeal it on your own time. I'm off to lunch. You're off to prison." though. There's probably some stuff about how much time you spend in an actual prison before being let out early or whatever. I don't know anything about that. If I had to guess, 24 month sentences, 12 months inside and then let them out once the point has been made. But I really am guessing there. Sentencing and mitigation is a whole sub field of legal work btw, like stump grinding. There are briefs who specialise in being good losers. General point: The courts punish offences against property disproportionately sternly compared to offences against the person. Someone up the page pointed out rapists can get comparatively derisory sentences. Yep.

I'm with you on thickness for this sort of size saw and use. I think there's a tipping point where the advantages of removing less wood are outweighed by the worse chip evacuation (like friction of water against the wall of small ID pipe). Bigger kerf is nicer for gobs too. Either just using two or three kerfs to make a little square gob, having to do a longer cut diagonal to the grain on bigger gobs or having to do a lot of both to turn a gob to sawdust when you're right over something fragile that the gob piece could break and you can't easily catch it and throw it.

I think normal 220 chain is 3/8 pico 1.3mm.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/criminal-damage-other-than-by-fire-value-exceeding-5000-racially-or-religiously-aggravated-criminal-damage/ Place your bets.