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Extremely interesting. Please post the list.
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Pay attention. We're on the same side. And I've been eating two cream teas a day for the last five weeks (with only occasional respite when the shop ran out of clotted cream for 20p) so I'm not sure what you think you can tell me on the subject anyway.
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Part of a forthcoming series on cooking by virtues and traits. My coconut milk curry for example rewards preparation whereas omelettes reward industriousness.
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I did pizzas tonight. Cranked seven or so out in a row while throwing back box Malbec. Happy guests. Restraint and minimalism is key for pizzas. Thin base, don't overdo toppings, enjoy sloshed while trying to speak Italian.
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I read fine print too. Most of these sorts of financial products aren’t worth a wank and the people selling them are usually clueless spivs at best (and sharks at worst). Insurance is the main culprit, equipment warranties also very bad.
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High Hedges - killed if cut to actional hedge height?
AHPP replied to benedmonds's topic in Trees and the Law
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For work aloft, weight is most important. Stihl of Germany, my brand selected, An MS two fifty, or thereabouts; The frame and crankcase, is slightly slighter Than the two sixty, the full thoroughbred. In the forest, you must strike the balance Twixt weight and vigour; the greater import, To most cutters, always the lattermost. So two, three, four sixty; choice does abound, Bar lengths dictate, the model exactly. My assumption, that you do not ascend, Would bias decision to the power. But for leisure, who cares for production. Go lightly, lest your back ache unduly. That was harder than a limerick.
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It was a hole in the tree big enough to lose a fat man through. The top of the trunk was at least the size of a beer garden umbrella. My Hobbs strap needed extending to go round the base. Maybe slightly easier to see in this one. Phone was in the chest pocket of a jumper with a zip pocket. I sweated like a bastard all day just to have it to hand.
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Poplar pollard. Neat little zig zag predirect to keep the rigging all slick and in-line. Little things like that set up in the first half hour of the day make rigging for the next six hours of the day nice and boring.
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I enjoyed the peak version of that last week. Was booked to climb. Ended up just watching a lorry grapple saw snip down trees, occasionally ringing up logs held by it. Felt like cheating.
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You do rub people up the wrong way (and I should know…). I don’t mind much because your contributions are usually pretty well considered, however brusquely put, but it is possible to be uncompromising and still convivial.
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I’m a well above average penny pincher and I winced when I saw the thread topic. Besides tyres and brakes, I can’t think of anything worse to skimp on. Pay for OEM.
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I’ll keep it in mind but I’d prefer chest. You rest saws etc on your legs.
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I gather the screw type are quieter than the piston type.
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Alas. My trousers only have hips and arse pockets.
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I’m trying to take more photos while I’m climbing so need my phone handier than the bumbag I currently keep it in. Trouser pockets are out because it’ll get crushed etc. Chest seems most obvious. Shirt top pocket is ok on tame climbing but wouldn’t trust it when I’m leaping and swinging etc. What are people doing?
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Don't be obtuse. You said in a previous thread that you lobbied the government to keep the recently dropped licensing requirement. Shall we get rid of all training? Not for me to say. Get rid of all government and whatever is worth having will still happen. Whatever isn't worth having, won't. And yeah, I put my money where my mouth is.
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No. The tree industry is generally real and productive. People want to make things out of wood and to look at the sky. Driver training (where the training is de facto necessary for licensing) almost exclusively exists because of constraints placed by earlier governments (that you lobbied for I recall). It's artificial and a harmful drain on other people. Someone has to pay £500 for a trailer course. That's £500 they can't spend on good shoes for their children or on an evening course to better themselves.
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So I should keep my mouth shut when they're plundering someone else and be glad it's not me? That's serf talk.
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You really are wired like a big bully's little bitch. The government does a rare thing and leaves people alone a bit and you're genuinely annoyed that they're no longer granting you your monopoly at the expense of everyone else. Take a bloody hard look at yourself and find some way to lift up your fellow man rather than treading on him to get a little higher.
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Stupidly didn’t whip the camera out while this (right stem) was on the hinge. I only had about forty seconds. Ash top, going out at exactly the angle it looks like. Bored and released and the wind sat it back UP onto the bar. Obviously more sail and/or wind than it looked like. A slowing of the wind let the gob half close in proper slow motion. Must have been at least five seconds. A little novelty on an otherwise straightforward thing.
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Dolescum writ large. Receive a lot of tax loot in land subsidies and similar. Use it to monopolise what could be productive land and property while excluding the people who pay for it.
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May I encourage you to just plant the trees yourself and keep the National Trust out of it. Certainly don't give them any money. They're a bunch of arseholes.
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Occasional user, not owner. The Forst ST6 infeed is rubbish. I'd want to know the ST8 is better before ordering. Engine better though. The old Timberwolf 190 diesel was intimidating; the new 280 petrol is considerably less so, hits the no stress easier, throws worse. Consider the petrol if you have cold enough weather to make diesel engines inconvenient and are open to supercharging it.
