AHPP

Someone must have seen it?

There was a link on here a few weeks ago to a site/document with a quite thorough list of uses for different kinds of wood. So for example you look up sweet chestnut and it tells you what you can use inch or two coppice poles for and also what you can do with a bigger stem. Detailed properties of the wood, so good for burning, making charcoal, building, whatever.

Can't find it now. Can anyone remember the link I'm talking about?

You would be correct, our only restrictions are TPO's, conservation areas, and felling licences.

your lucky, i had to cut down a tree, that the neibours did not want cutting. It turned out that she was a police lady. About half an hour later as i was starting to deal with the brash, two police cars and four officers turned up, and i had to wait in the police car while they 'sorted it out'

Not a good day.

That smacks of so much abuse of (perceived) power. Can you recall everything that was said to you by the police quite clearly?

But then if the marines had some backbone they would have said that the injuries to the assailant happened as a result of them restraining him and individual to had already stabbed one of them and was posing a risk to the others and members of the public.

 

As it stands, saying it was a result of slipping and falling off the curb smacks of something to hide and that the marines as well as the police involved had something to hide which would indicate an inappropriate amount of force, it also brings into question the rest of the story because if lies are tolerated then who is to say that the shop employee didn’t secrete the laptop as a plausible excuse for the marines given the marines & the police have potentially lied and concocted a story of slipping and falling off the curb.

 

After all what US court is going to convict 4 marines who were collecting toys for tots minding there own business when suddenly one of them gets stabbed by a knife wielding assailant fleeing from a shop which they then grab and throw to the ground face down and hold in arm and leg locks for the safety of themselves and the wider public until the police arrive, had they have used that story not a single question would be raised about the facts nor their or the polices honesty would be impugned and the perpetrator would have almost certainly been convicted.

Good points.

Furthermore:

His story

Their story

The truth

Correct me if wrong but pigeon comes under vermin and I am sure that the client can contract somebody to remove the nest ie you:confused1: If you come across say a Robin nest during nesting season you must leave it or if accidentaly removed try and relocate it at a similar height, the mother will usually find it.

There are different kinds of pigeons but most can be destroyed/nests destroyed under the same rules that govern shooting. You've got to be doing it for the right reason, like the protection of crops, public health etc.

I imagine it's all in the Wildlifeand Countryside Act.

Try and get hold of the company that did that and report em to RSPB, RSPCA. Would be a hefty fine for them and maybe 6 months prison for bloke who felled the tree.

What, so you would report one of your own and get him imprisoned for what would probably/possibly be an accident/misjudgement.

Come on, RangerMatt. Be good enough to answer the man's question.

Do you really want the chap put in prison?

I recently thought about entering into local politics because I'm fizzed off with ineffective people working at local level but then they are held down by the regional councils who are held down by national policies made up by the mandarins who rule this country out of Whitehall, not Downing Street.

 

But yes to one post, greed (power or money or fame)overcomes ones beliefs!

Brussels?

Further to my post here I have received the following reply from my MP.

What do people think about the following points of view?

1) A helmet without a chin strap is useless because it be knocked off.

2) A helmet without a chin strap is worse than useless because not only can it be knocked off but it gives the wearer a false sense of security.

Drink driving is a reasonable example:

Think of people you know. Has 1 in 7.6 of them been arrested for drink driving in the past year?

Now take into account how many drink driving stops would not have been recorded/an arrest made because the MP does a deal with the policeman whos stops him.

I doubt this particular statistic is as cut and dry as it might seem.

Sounds like a business opportunity for someone...there's a potential gap in the market here.

It'd be lovely but I can't see it coming off. As a country we're a bureaucratic bunch and it wouldn't be long before someone wanted a certificate of attendance. Then it wouldn't be long before some certificates of attendance became perceived as more valuable than others. At some point there'd be an argument over who knew best about something and before you know it there's a hierarchy.

Perhaps someone tried to use a certificate of attendance to buy a new top handle saw from a dealer who would normally want to see an NPTC unit or two. More arguments, more ego, more officialdom.

You could just as quickly end up with another line of certificates or a governing body struggle.

Either the above or just nobody would be interested because it doesn't seem like as good value if you don't get a ticket from it.

The people making the money on assessments do so because it is perceived that "you need your tickets" and they can charge what they want if people "need" what they have.

I'd love to see more high quality, no vested interest, no need to be there, doing it purely because you want to (with no assessment or whatever to cloud the mind) training in loads of circles but it's not how the common bureaucracy craving British mind functions at the moment.

I'm hoping there will be a general wise up in the area of "qualification" as it becomes obvious how useless 90% of post millenium graduates are.

I'd be surprised if those statistics are right but the point is a good one.

Not that my views are anywhere near as synchronised with current legislated reality as I'd like them to be, but what's it to you?

Their tree. They can do what they want with it.

I'd be pissed if my neighbour thought he could tell me what to do in my garden in exactly the same way I'd be pissed if he objected to a planning application.

Long live classical liberalism and the free market economy!

P.S. I hope you don't feel as though I'm being rude or speaking out of context but it was a good opportunity to make the point.

signed up, payed, filled in basics, no calls..!!!!

more or less sold out anyway. had 30t at 35% that didnt have to touch.

But like you say ,site was late to launch but on a cost to return basis,was poor advertising,,,??? try ebay @40p per month.shop windows and stove shops.

Hardly fair. Your ad has sod all information!

I'd be interested to see the page hits:enquiries ratio for your ad against other ads.

Yes but to give advice you need to have done it not be going to do it.

I wouldn't say so. A new angle, perspective, approach (and without the potential bias of having always done it like this) can come from anyone.

You could flip the bar and see if a cut bannanas the other way.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OnsVDKjhpc]YouTube - The Straight Story - Official Trailer[/ame]

Another good one someone just reminded me of is Leaving Las Vegas.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlYWZgCIgo]YouTube - LEAVING LAS VEGAS - HQ Trailer ( 1995 )[/ame]

The trailer makes it look a bit **** and isn't a true taste of the most desperately sad film out there.

If you like Shawshank try Forrest Gump, A River Runs Through It and The Straight Story (though don't expect too much from A River... if you watch the others first).

Work with height differences and conveyors/slides. Something as simple as a table and/or a pit could have gravity moving stuff sideways and a vehicle moving stuff upwards.

How close to the ground can you get the bottom end?

Sunny but baltic in Suffolk. Rayburn is still going.

Cool. Is the height adjustable at all?

...and that you'd be allowed to do if you were born earlier. The 1997 age lottery irritates me something chronic.

I sent the following to my MP and am chasing hard. I encourage others to do the same.

Dear My MP,

I obtained my bog standard car driving licence after 01.01.1997 which allows me to drive cars, lorries <3500kg, tractors, mowing machines and mopeds (with trailers <750kg behind the car/lorry/tractor). People who obtained their licences before 01.01.1997 automatically got the parts on their licence allowing them to drive the same, as well as lorries <7500kg and minibuses, trailers >750kg on both and vehicles to which parts L and N refer (UK Driving Licence Checks | Driving Licence Checking | Driving Licence Verification Service from Licence Check).

Terrified, clinging-to-the-wheel, forgotten-where-the-brake-pedal-is pensioners who got their licence from the post office between the wars can drive a minibus of 17 victims with a couple of tonnes of trailer on the back.

My mother and a friend of mine, quite careless women of 64 and 41 respectively who often bump into flowerpots on the driveway, can happily terrorise those on pavement corners with a long wheelbase lorry loaded to the gunwales.

I, a quite able and practical 23 year old, who would find it very useful indeed to be allowed to drive small lorries and minibuses to do stuff like picking up machinery or taking groups of scouts on camping trips (the sort of things that stand to benefit the economy and well rounded society), can't because of some age lottery.

If the 1997 change hadn't been made fewer people would be driving chronically overloaded Transit vans because they don't have the part on their licence for a bigger (safer) vehicle (and don't fancy shelling out £1000 - £1500 for it) and fewer people would be driving vehicles they just don't have a licence for. Also, it would be easier for people to get into jobs where these sorts of vehicles are used (and indeed would save organisations like schools a fortune having to put teachers through minibus tests).

I'd like you to speak to whoever you think would have a sympathetic view to my plight, particularly people responsible for jobs, employment, the economy etc.

Letting people do more stuff = people do more stuff = economy does better if the Country isn't sat on its red-taped hands.

Please keep my abreast of how you get on.

Yours sincerely,

AHPP

I have a flat belt on a saw bench that is the current bane of my existence. Bloody thing just keeps breaking alligator joints.

Apparently Firestone do rubber flat belts (would be interested to hear of any others available) but would rather sort it in house before spending money.

Has anybody had any joy with sewing flat belts?

Whatever you make in life, you have to start with a hole.