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IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! That was a fucking handsome house. Hard luck and good luck.

That's a bloody dangerous thing for you to say! We've seen the things wot broke thread you know...

In my personal opinion, it’s £24k too much. It’s £24k that will go to the government. Some of it, the HSE will waste on printing glossy leaflets telling builders to wear a warm coat (or similar bollocks). The remainder will go to making laws like those which make employers liable for employees’ mistakes, letting idiots with saws drop their boss in the shit or limited liability corporation protection that lets bosses hire idiots safe in the knowledge they keep their house if an idiot harms someone/something. The common law rights wrongs where they occur, costs little and doesn’t have all the bad side effects of government. Don’t reach for the government to solve every problem. They’re shit at it (and in this case have actually done the opposite). Hundreds of years of legislation didn’t stop a tree going sideways. Fear of getting sued keeps people sensible, unless vicarious liability and/or limited liability are in place of course, in which case, yeah, fuck it, just cut it at the bottom.

Do you mean you’ve only just heard about the outcome or do you mean you didn’t notice the video that anyone on tree Facebook pages and tree forums couldn’t have possibly missed for about three weeks? The one that since then gets brought up all the time.

Everyone’s a bloody tree surgeon. Go out for a drive at 08:00. Fuckers are everywhere. That and the fact that six inch chippers can be had from general hire shops. Supply and demand not in your favour. Yeah, you could make it work but it’ll be hard and you won’t make much money. A niche machine is probably a better bet.

I’d have thought the digger first and then start looking for a hook lift. Think how handy it would be to leave a bin being filled while you collect and empty another. A groundwork man I know has a pair of lorries with hooklift and HIAB on each. He loads a five tonne digger by pulling it on in a bin with the hook or can load a one tonner straight on with the HIAB.

I use one. Won’t go back to not using it. It’s just some 50mm webbing and a ladderlock buckle. Mainly good for keeping harness up when you’ve got a heavy saw on it but also provides a chest point for long ascents. It’s difficult to say whether it’s helping my back but my gut feeling is that it is.

I’ve been saying exactly this about helmet comms for ages. Someone will get hurt, a lawyer will ask what communication procedures were being used and a tree surgeon will say, “We usually just shout.” Then the other side’s lawyer will point out that Bluetooth kits cost £30 per helmet and a judge will give someone a massive bill.

I know; the bastards. I’m going over to chemical energy. Food is zero rated and I can use my new axe.

Liquid fuel attracts 58p/litre duty and 20% VAT whereas electricity only attracts 5% VAT, though I suspect your presentation isn’t weighted too heavily towards the moral aspects of tax avoidance...

That programme makes me see red.

I’ve just finished several days’ wading through logs with a maul and need a shed pursuit to keep me busy before I’m given more to do.

Head currently at two and seven eighths of a pound. Offcut in the shot nearly half a pound. To be used for knocking in wedges and cutting the odd limb. Shall I: lose no cutting edge? lose 10mm of cutting edge? lose 20mm of cutting edge?

Is there a way to be notified by the app if Rhys replies to you? Question open to all of course.

When I freelance climb, I give my boss-for-the-day a helmet with them in. Some of them say they can’t see the point and nearly all of them are asking me by elevenses where they can buy them. Find my installation guide I mentioned earlier in the thread btw. I found two earpieces way better.

Look through my posts on here. I showed how I installed them on a helmet.

Today’s discovery: If ever there was a tool to flick about firewood, it’s a garden hoe. Very handy.

The cheap Bluetooth ones on eBay (mine are Freedconn brand) work fine. I’ve had mine out to about 200m though a building and some trees and clarity was fine. They’re advertised to work to 800m.

Most people would hand their children and car keys over if anyone with hi vis and a clipboard asked them to. Just crack on.

I've heard similar.

Centre Parcs are a cracking operation. Excellent logisticians, getting guests changed over on Fridays etc. A mate once had a heart attack in his villa and they were amazing. On site ambulance defibbed him and made safe passage for the NHS ambulance to get him out. I arrived a couple of hours later to look after his kids. Was met at gate, given maps, keys, etc, chauffeured in. Everybody knew to expect me, restaurants knew not to charge me. Very organised. Yeah, they certainly know how to charge but I respect them a lot as a business. Luckily, the swimming pools are great and included in the main price.

It’s a fucking shithole. Full of rat race tossers in financed Chelsea tractors and second only to London and the Vatican for the modesty of broom cupboard any average worker could hope to afford. I’m sure your job’s fine but the effluent Home Counties are most certainly not.

And since the thread has now touched on spouts, another thing the new MotoMix cans probably won't do is take an autosealing spout like the old cans would. Can you get a spout (autosealing or just more accurate than free pouring) for Aspen/MotoMix cans?

huck correct as often.