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Go back to one of your earlier ideas of mounting a chipper/branchwood logger on the Logbullet trailer? Still to waste though.

Best protection from rabbits is no rabbits.

Thanks for posting these finds. Keep doing so please. I suggested to the TaxPayers' Alliance the other day that they build a single database that shows all the various scams in one place. It's all public money so should be available for public scrutiny but most people don't know where to look (or indeed to look). Would save hypothesising about which scams someone might be on and then asking about them specifically (perhaps having to make freedom of info requests etc). You could put in the name of any person or business and see what they've had for what. Like wikileaks for angry people in local newspapers.

That’s Sir Twat to you.

You missed a trick with your login name with them. If you’d included the gong, they’d have assumed you were good for it and waived the £10k.

The reason it feels like extortion is that it is extortion. Write to the head planning man at your local mafia. Tell him that you’ll soon be comprehensively servicing his wife and charging him £234 for doing so but that the fee structure is clearly set out on your website.

I thought that (though would be delighted to be corrected). Maybe a combination of one of those pincer type grabs to split larger stuff down to smaller billets and a shear that cuts more like 200mm. Ideally in the same implement. Does such a thing exist?

They’re better than tents.

New builds are shit. There’s a thread about that.

Coming out of a closet near you soon.

People haven’t liked him since he posted about how he pays a guy on the dole two-and-a-half crowns a day to work for him.

Here’s the high quality technical drawing you’ve been waiting for. The crown will go where it goes but I can’t see why you couldn’t move the butt of a two tonne tree with a load of tension put on with a two tonne van and a big bungee (dynamic rope). Like when you spin a top so it’s butt towards chipper.

I’ll do a picture when I’m not slaughtered on cooking sherry.

Something I've been wanting to try for a while is setting up a quite elastic line to yank a butt sideways at the last moment to spin the tree. In your picture, say you had space to fell it towards the gate. You could pre-tension an elastic rope in line with where you actually felled the stem and gob and hinge the stem towards the gate (probably with a shallow gob so it breaks the hinge relatively early). In my mind, the top goes just to the right of the gate and the butt obligingly clears the wall, landing pretty much where it did in your photo but angled ninety degrees to the right.

Does your charcoaling process work as well if you leave twigs and leaves on as it does when fully prepped?

Would you charcoal with that load, leaves and all?

Is the sprouting not a good thing? Or does the willow outcompete the other species too much?

What’s the double standard?

Cameron era I think. I don't know what the law was in the golden era of mining. The starting point is that you own your underground and you own your minerals. Perhaps miners had to buy mineral rights from landowners (or just buy the land with mineral rights) or perhaps there was similar thing to the undercut fracking law where miners were statutorily absolved from what would otherwise be a trespass. I imagine it was the former.

It's the starting point. Often later modified. The up limit is better known. I don't know whether down is limited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_est_solum,_eius_est_usque_ad_coelum_et_ad_inferos The biggest scandal with the new laws about fracking btw isn't the stuff Dave Angel might complain about, rather that frackers can now legally trespass into your underground.

The law does.

True market value is observed in the absence of constraints. The current starting point in the UK is that you can't build anything. That's a constraint. Planning permission is currently a positively granted right to do something that you otherwise can't do. It's the exception, not the rule. In your example of a forest, the true market value would be found where TPOs don't exist on either your forest or other people's forests. That's your starting point. Adding a TPO to your forest and not other people's will drive your forest value down. Adding TPOs to other people's forests will drive your forest value up. I'd normally love to evangelise about the benefits of various (and all) freedoms but to be honest I'm fairly sick of this thread. Suffice to say that if I ruled the world I wouldn't restrict building at all. Who am I to tell people what to do with their property?

J, If you take grant funding you'll be a hypocrite or as bad as all the other people who think they know what's best for people other than themselves. Scrap the bloody lot, subsidies and land use restrictions, and what works will become apparent very quickly.

Land cost is very much artificially inflated by planning laws. I live in a very normal house on a fortieth of an acre. The land value is, pro rata, £1.8 million per acre. Then subtract the reinstatement value of my house, £100,000. Planning permission has artificially increased the pro rata value of my land by £1.7 million per acre. Undeveloped land around here is £4,000-£10,000 per acre. The value is roughly two hundred times greater because of planning laws. NB I'm in a very cheap area. In other areas, my land value could be multiples larger, probably up to £15 million per acre pro rata. Then you're looking at planning laws increasing the value of land by about two thousand times. Monetary policy plays a huge part. People invest in land (and other assets) because money isn't worth anything. The great thing about individualist politics is that no one person needs to know how to solve these kind of problems. They (people who might otherwise seek power) just back off and natural order is found. If problems arise, they're either brought on you by yourself, so your problem, or by an aggressor, who you can sue etc. At the moment, people are caused problems directly and indirectly (unintended consequences etc) by people they can't sue, principally the state.

Building land is artificially inflated at the moment.