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Amey had a contract with Sheffield council. Amey could survey trees, specify work AND do the work. i.e. They had a blank cheque. Cut down loads of perfectly good trees. Locals furious. Big fuss. Then they moved onto Birmingham.
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If you're in Brum and into trees, did/have you kept abreast of the Amey contract?
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Is pump fuel detonation-safe in these things? Or do you street map them with retarded timing? Do they get the power from higher compression or from just blowing ****************tonnes through with big turbos?
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A gunsmith in the states whose work I occasionally check in on (Chad Smith, LongRifles Inc.) also does some machine work on top fuel cars. Absolutely mental numbers. Thirty-man teams doing full engine rebuilds for four seconds of white hot fury. The numbers for everything are astronomical. Horsepower of a small asteroid etc.
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That's what you want from a race car isn't it? The hit of the whole fruit. Thermodynamic and mechanical limits reached.
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What's race fuel at this level? Presumably one a bit tamer than nitromethane and methanol?
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Unimportant celebrity dross. Very serious problem.
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Would you be concerned about buying a house next to these trees?
AHPP replied to Stout's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
What the **************** did topping those achieve. Demand a rude but feasible amount of money off to punish someone’s crass specifying. Can’t confidently help you with the subsidence etc. Anecdotally, looks ok. But more generally, what are they hiding turning down a free tree survey? What do they already know? -
Ash tree with dieback - whose responsibility?
AHPP replied to Pidgeonpost's topic in Trees and the Law
Since this is about state records now: I’m anecdotally aware that anyone presenting themselves to a council office in business hours can demand to see a TPO on paper for free. What’s the bit of law that compels councils to show you? I went looking for a similar right to inspect land reg documents for free the other day and came up wanting. Bastards. -
Talk us through what’s under the hood, what fuel, rebuild intervals etc.
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You’re going from strength to strength, Pete.
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Ash tree with dieback - whose responsibility?
AHPP replied to Pidgeonpost's topic in Trees and the Law
£11 for some things, including inspection in person. Bastards. -
Depends on your definition of big. First thought is a triangular prism from three heras panels and push it around the grass. I reckon you'd get four or five discrete sitings.
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Tenth of an acre, productively engaged. Smashing job. I know of chickens in much smaller bits.
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Fire in garden, can trees be saved?
AHPP replied to Codythedog's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Not enough context on photos to say confidently but I bet they'll stand safely for at least five years, probably 8-10. Let the microbes do just enough and it'll be less stuff to get rid of when they do have to come down. -
Still one of the best opening lines out there.
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Not often I poach eggs and even less often I get it right. Should have been bold and used the bigger ones. Asparagus from the Suffolk asparagus mountain I’m presiding over. One of mum‘s historically more successful crops. And since we’re now flexing on vegetable production, how big’s your garden, sime42, you villain, you scum you vermin? Can’t answer? Pathetic. Probably don’t have a garden. Fantasist. You’d have been laughed out of my army cadets with that kind of shithousery.
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Yeah. I take back what I said about the oil volume. Its not excessive. It’s right. Other things have too little. Things should work easily, not marginally. He says using everything he has at 150%, 95% of the time…
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Sailor a decent alarm clock atm, derivative to the alarm clocks of the dog walkers going past the house. A lot of newcomers to the village in a new estate over the road. I feel a bit bad him harassing them at the fence but it’s better he conveys a firm (if slightly annoying) message than someone tries to burgle the place.
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Did my Opico Skidster the other day. Filter in there was Donaldson P169797. Cleaned with kero and air and put it back in since the one the shop sold me (apparently same as the Donaldson doobin gave me the number for a few posts up) was an inch shorter. Diameter looked OK. So maybe Sherpas use a 2" filter and Skidsters use a 3" (both approximate). Mental amount of oil in there. It was five or six brimmed catch cans, either 4 or 5 litres each. Very pleased to find clean fluid, not even as dark as a rum and coke. No shit or steel in it and I've used it hard. New fluid is basically invisible on the dipstick. Bit of colour would help.
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Fire in garden, can trees be saved?
AHPP replied to Codythedog's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Cool. Leave them for a bit. See how they do. Turns out I'm not a cunnt, Mick. -
A Loncin is only £370 + VAT! I am constantly in awe of how things that can do so much work can be made so cheaply. Imagine giving one to a medieval grain miller. He could do a year's work in an afternoon.
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Go on. Post the videos (of course there are videos) to really take your licks. It'll be good for the superego.
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Fire in garden, can trees be saved?
AHPP replied to Codythedog's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I'm not sure who was being misleading through ignorance or mischief but it wasn't me. I didn't give a botanical answer because I know that I don't know enough to give one. I did do exactly as I'd do standing in the garden, try to serve their interests. If they can do without that bit of garden, just leave it for six months and look again. If their daughter's getting married here in three weeks, I'll cut them down tomorrow, sir. If he wants strictly botanical advice, it won't cost him anything to forget what I said. -
Fire in garden, can trees be saved?
AHPP replied to Codythedog's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Value is subjective. They might be goths. They might be blind. They might need them to block a view for a particular period of time. They might need the shade. They might need the shadow hitting the kitchen window to remind them to feed the cats. Hence my (I think) fairly open minded approach.
