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Give old petrol cans to seventeen-year-olds on learner motorbikes and tell them to fill them up and leave them in the boot of their dad’s car.
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I use Motomix. Would happily use Aspen. I pay for it (despite the revolting level of tax). My saws always start well. I've left saws for a year or so and they start and run as though they were last used yesterday. My dad uses normal petrol mix in his saw and various other 2 stroke tools. Constant problems. People I climb for use normal petrol stroke mix. Constant problems. Reports on here average out to similar. Various engine menders report that most problems are bad fuel. And you really notice the stink and headaches from normal petrol mix when you're used to Motomix/Aspen.
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Didn’t you offer use of your equipment to get it out too?!
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Best timber for reinforcing the bank of a large pond
AHPP replied to Bunzena's topic in General chat
More the pity. Venice is a fucking shithole. I’ll be glad when it’s sunk. -
I’ll take a product from a Vietnamese sweatshop over one that customarily involves war to acquire. Or I’ll use neither. That’s a market choice. Not relevant though, besides considering whether you’d trust government renewable power sources to be any more ethically procured. As an aside (but relevant), my last year’s electricity and gas bill came to a tenner but my water bill was four-hundred-and-something pounds. Guess which market has competitors and which market has a state enforced monopoly.
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What domestic energy crisis? Idiots pay too much and will be poor until they’re dead. Shrewd consumers have worked out better ways and their wives’ bosoms are the best in all the land. Seems fine to me. Now imagine the government mandates that you have to use a certain energy type, possibly from an approved supplier (an MP’s cousin probably). That’s a monopoly and everyone would be equally fucked. As a shrewd consumer, I don’t want that.
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If it’s a good idea for them, people will do it voluntarily. If it’s not a good idea, no reason for the government to push it on people. You’re probably right about the lobbying.
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In conclusion, if the government could just fuck off out of everything, that would be nice.
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I agree it’s criminal that every house doesn’t have all the very widely available stuff that makes bills smaller and probably saves whales but making things compulsory will just put the price through the roof. Car insurance is an example. Me and a mate both drive shitters worth about £300 with a full tank. Mine is in the UK, where insurance is mandatory, and costs £420 to insure. His is in New Zealand, where insurance isn’t, and costs £80.
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Free ash firewood - gleaning after thinning near Taunton
AHPP replied to Big J's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ask on The Alternative Living Group on facebook. Plenty of flaky vegan cunts but also some properly together people who would be very grateful and respectful of your job etc.- 1 reply
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Best timber for reinforcing the bank of a large pond
AHPP replied to Bunzena's topic in General chat
Plastic? You can screw, drill etc easily. -
A friend polishes a bronze shovel that’s used exclusively for collecting dog shit.
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Looking for cheap, and probably decrepid, chipper.
AHPP replied to markieg31's topic in General chat
I drove a yacht from Basingstoke to Suffolk a few years ago. It was fine until about three miles from home, where a wheel bearing started screaming. Limped it without the wheel falling off, just. Lucky. -
List everything please. It won't so much bore me as help me plan.
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I’m about to begin sea trials with a knut after wrangling with that problem for a while. Has been working fine dangling from the loft hatch.
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Environmental vandal (mother in law rant)
AHPP replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Let her. It’s only a hedge. She’ll die and you can plant a better one. In going to war with her, you’d risk going to war with your 65% stakeholder wife too. That needs sorting out though. Pay lawyers and accountants to unfuck it all or you’ll end up with the smelly Aston Martin problem being your whole life. -
Where’s this Aladdin’s cave in Sunderland, Bill?
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Public liability: The usual setup* is that Tree Company Ltd is the bona fide contractor to Mrs Miggins the customer and Tom the freelance climber is a labour only subcontractor to Tree Company Ltd. Tree Company Ltd are liable for their own negligence (like their chipper leaking oil onto the driveway) and are also vicariously liable for Tom's negligence (like Tom dropping a branch through a greenhouse). *Tom might have an unusual setup where he's a bona fide subcontractor to Tree Company Ltd but would probably know if that was the case. Employers' liability: Unless you're taking a groundsman, don't worry about it. Professional indemnity: Don't know. Never thought about it.
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Use of a chainsaw without any CS certification
AHPP replied to jimmy45d's topic in Trees and the Law
So PUWER doesn’t say it and the code of practice isn’t law. There have been 37976 pieces of secondary legislation passed since 1998. If the government wanted it to be law, it would be law. -
Use of a chainsaw without any CS certification
AHPP replied to jimmy45d's topic in Trees and the Law
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It’s what you do with it that counts. Ask your mum.
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Is that on .043 or .050 driver chain? I run my 170 on .043 and think I’ve chosen poorly.
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I was thinking about this earlier today after seeing a bollard with a square hole in the front, I assumed for a 3/4" impact gun. I'm sure I've seen someone before, probably on youtube, who had a Haarken winch key chucked up in a drill too.
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Are you absolutely stark raving mad? (You are absolutely stark raving mad.)
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Much obliged, folks.
