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**************** this stupid bollocks. My next vehicle will be classic.
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Cheers. The butler’s been grinding up layers pellets for them. Back with them tomorrow or Tuesday. Will update.
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How shut away should the chicks and new mother be? Locked in box? Locked in shed? Locked in run? Free range? Suspect closer to the start of that spectrum. There are loose geese that could eat them.
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As I become more capable with tools etc, I drift further away from using wood for everything, as a default anyway. Fixings for everything are so good these days and it's only a little harder to drill and fix to concrete, steel etc. Worth the effort if it's a job you want to stand for fifty years. Even things like small sheds, fences etc where just whopping it up with wood and screws seems obvious, you can make things last way longer with structural plastic. Wood splits, rots, is strong in one direction only etc. You can treat plastic like wood (i.e. screw into it without pilot drilling, cut it easily, bend it a bit) and it doesn't have the drawbacks. I'll still use wood if it's free/cheap or I want something aesthetically pleasing.
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Never used decent felt, only gashy garden stuff. For that reason I'm not a fan. Too fragile to work with, too fragile in place. I assume your pukka stuff is a bit more resistant to bending by heavy handed installers. The other thing I've never liked about felt on wood it is the water sandwich that you make if there's a leak. I helped my mate do his shed roof a few years ago. Brick built onto house, OSB and wrinkly tin on top. I thought it was a waste of OSB at first because the tin has enough intrinsic strength but the result is really good. It's airy in the gaps and nice and woody inside so slightly insulated and easy to screw to. And strong as **************** obviously, a design consideration because he didn't want scallys stamping through it to nick tools.
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Blue collar as ****************, that.
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My van doesn't have a towbar. It is a longstanding matter of shame, regret and, above all else, inconvenience.
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It's mighty white. Everyone at crossfit will be impressed.
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Blue Ford Ranger? Bought from a black man whose boyfriend recently decided tree work wasn't for him?
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This just in. Two hatched. Other two eggs gone cold. Is a 50% success rate considered good? We think it is.
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What are you looking at going to?
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In the nicest possible way, why on earth not midline? If you’re going to do something new, it should do what existing things can do and then more, not less.
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If you like Senser, you might like Vacant Stare.
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On protesting too much: I’m Lynemouth’s angriest snorkeler and I make my own good luck. That’s why I joined the army, for all the dicks to suck. I kissed a boy in ‘91 behind the guardroom door. That didn’t make me gay because I think he liked it more. By ‘93 I’d shagged a corporal a in a basha tent. You learn to love the ones you’re with and I loved loads of men. I’m Lynemouth’s angriest snorkeler and I’d bum any man. God bless the forces because they made me the proper bloke I am.
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An excerpt from The Ballad of Incandescent Dave, a forthcoming work: I’m Lynemouth’s angriest snorkeler and I’d like to report a crime. Steven P won’t describe his coal and I’ve asked a hundred times. He still won’t say what he does for work and it’s doing in my head. And that sime42’s just a spineless tool who couldn’t lie straight in bed. I’m Lynemouth’s angriest snorkeler and I want some ****************ing answers. You’re all bunch of no good coward blagging ****************ing chancers.
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If you see any Amey vans or workers about, still let the air out of their lungs to be on the safe side.
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Can’t you get Coronation Street over there?
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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?
