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If anyone has any tree stuff to sell, the APF car park will be a pretty convenient place to find buyers. The code is this. If you’ve got anything to sell, open your car boot and perch there during leaving time. You’ll miss the traffic on the way out and anyone who spots this thread will know you’re selling. 10% discount on any deal with promo code, TARMACANDLOPPING. Don’t do it in the morning and keep your wares well hidden/secured during the day. Happy trading. I’ll be after a rigging bollard.

They’re not stacked! Is this a coded distress signal?

Quality of forest grown wood has been discussed on here very recently. Scandinavian stuff was said to be better but I believe the conversation was about the lower order stuff like first thinnings hardwood and “better” was more about easiness of harvesting for firewood and only very small sawlogs. I couldn’t tell you with any authority whether our bigger trees yield better wood than their Scandinavian counterparts but I suspect it’s good enough for most things, especially if people weren’t so wasteful. I’d be pleased for anyone more knowledge to chime in here. I’m just going on gut feeling inspired by the same gentle nationalism that built a lot of good shit in the past.

Your middle paragraph is where we agree particularly. We're chipping good timber for bullshit renewable schemes and getting the same wood from abroad. Genius.

It's only wood. Whatever we're importing because it's straight, tight grained, magic, whatever; it can't possibly be that we can't produce it here. We don't make much out of wood anyway. Thomas Telford designed (among other things) the Caledonian Canal in 1800 and planted an avenue of Douglas Fir at Laggan to provide the timber to maintain it. He'd be fucking sick if he could see the the profligacy prevalent now.

There'll be some nonsense funded by taxvictims, no doubt. If I was minded to attribute things to some global conspiracy or orderliness, I'd say it was a great way of burning oil in freight ships and all the things that entails.

The one I usually reel off is boats of trees coming from Scandinavia to the UK passing boats of trees coming from the UK to Scandinavia. It's fucking madness. I hope they sail off the edge of the world.

Or yeah, cut and tie until a better hitch works.

Try an English prusik. It's not cool but it'll probably grip.

Like pounds, dollars etc?

Do it yourself, little and often. Bucking Billy Ray on YouTube will show you how.

Long lanyards are mint. Mine’s 8m. 10m would be fine.

First year law students are nearly as bad as vegans.

Whenever someone asserts that the law is a certain way, ask what the legal authority is for the assertion.

I'm a free-marketeer so I understand it's none of my business but I hope people who specify stuff to be packaged like this get leprosy.

Report back on your correspondence with the very knowledgeable forester in north east Scotland please.

Anything can be done and it comes down to whether you want to spend lots of time forcing it to work or spend the same time doing other things. I think it basically depends on your approach to being a pioneer or just copying what people who are already making money are doing. I'm a shit businessman so I'd probably force it to work just so I could laugh at all the wealthier and more successful people who didn't bother trying.

Within conventional commercial forestry thinking (fell something, make it into a product, move it, sell it, next site, repeat), I think it's probably a non-starter. Everyone I've talked to about it and everyone I've seen talking about it on forums etc have failed to sell it easily enough for their liking. I'm sure there's a market but I don't know what it is and neither does anyone else (anyone who'll admit it anyway). They're not nice machines to use. They're a massive fag with leaves. They're still a pretty big fag with twigs and the idea of pulling out early is as bad an idea as when you were eighteen. The stuff doesn't dry well but the surface area means it gasses like fuck when you get it going. Unless you only load small amounts, you need high tech burning equipment to recirculate and reburn gas, air etc or it smokes like a bastard. I'd do it if I could use it myself, probably burnt in the sort of thing your neighbour has, or charcoal it and that's a conversation in itself (lots of processing and marketing required). I imagine that if you have to ask (i.e. you haven't worked out one of the very niche ways of working with one yourself), your life will be easier and better if you just chip and move on. A massive shame. I've been really wanting it to work and trying to think of ways to make it work for years. I've not given up but I know the odds are still well against it.

The Abom79 YouTube channel has some good videos on seal replacement (and most aspects of ram repair). One video is almost entirely about how to specify the correct two quid seal from a catalogue of millions.

Urgh. They're only doing their (miserable) job. And they work for the government. Not even the most genuinely helpful servant will get more than an inch longer rope when the time comes, brothers.

What Mark said. I'm weak but I use fancy climbing trinkets so I get the same or more done than strong people on prussiks.

Be on time, be nice, be cool.

Just a one but if the situation changes, I’ll be sure to report on the situation live on Facebook from outside Leeds Crown Court.

Yeah, it's the land subsidy issue for me. I wouldn't buy now.