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I assume you were joking but wouldn't it be lovely if you actually did it and people just knew you'd be early/late depending on the season. They'd go out of their way to have the bag in the cup as you arrived to show how on the ball they were.
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Yep. You've worked it out. Rent kills it. Half arsing it kills it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game
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North Korea used to do that. PT - Pyongyang time. It can be peds time now.
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Or something to do with hunting.
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Is there something you can temporarily invest in every year? Buy a few grand of fuel while you're making the money; burn it or sell it while you're not. Gold? Lead? There must be some kind of financial instrument available between two legal personalities? One is a tree contacting business. The other is a payroll business. Or a workshop business you sell welding gas to in the summer that uses it in the winter. There's your answer, Traktordoktor AS.
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It's bloody ridiculous. Solidarity. I tried resisting. Left all the house clocks on normal time (which the man sets too but it has to be something) but phones, computers etc all change themselves.
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Never heard that expression. Does it mean to spend a lot or work a little so as to break even or only make (show) a modest profit?
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JFDI. That’s marketing right there. You’ll be the English fellow in the yellow (pickup).
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I suspect the not mixing rule is if the oil(s) have some of the more particular additives (anti foam etc). Like the special stuff you have to use in the VW 1.9 PD engines.
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2005 2.5 diesel Renault van mainly. Maybe the Honda and Honda clone on the Skidster and chipper if that's 10w40. They might be 15w30. Can't remember. I rate it as a 3/10 or 4/10 crime.
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I gather it’s poor form to mix engine oil, certainly grades but ideally not even brands. Well I have a load of 5L oil containers with 1L of oil in them that I want to combine in a big container so I’m not tripping over so many. All 10w40 semi synthetic. As crimes go, rate this one out of ten (where 1 is it’ll be fine and 10 is instant engine death).
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Plenty second hand with 1 or 2k on for £5000. Whether that tells you what they're like to live with...
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Not seen one in the wild here yet but I'm relatively rural. I tried to convince my mum to get one to drive 4 miles to the shops twice a week. She could charge it off the solar system on the garage. Instead she spent four times as much on a hybrid that only charges off the petrol engine in it. She might want to go from Suffolk to Edinburgh at any moment you see and the three other internal combustion vehicles here weren't enough for that. As part of a fleet, why wouldn't you have one?! Probably park three of them in a standard space.
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I asked about the relationship because I saw the fliplines at Jones but didn’t buy because I didn’t like Jones. Now I see some at yours (from memory, the same colour, the same length choices, the same lack of grabs) but I’d feel uneasy about buying if I suspected Jones creditors were owed and left wanting and stock that could have eased their suffering had been subject to some kind of disappearing act. Forgive my cynicism if that isn’t the case.
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I started seeing adverts for them on Facebook not long after Jones shut. Their websites cast a similar shadow. I’m sure they both had deals on the same wire core fliplines. hmmm
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Is this FR Jones's stock?
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What yacht does he have?
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I watched a twenty minute video of him that a friend sent me, with either an open and neutral mind or even a slight predisposition towards him (sixth form common room politics - yes please, Mick!). I was struggling to isolate any actual point he was making after about two minutes, the same as when I tried reading Marx et al. A red flag. If you can't explain something well, you don't understand it well. Then he got actively worse and just started being wrong about things. Don't ask me what. I've forgotten and I'm not going back to remember. He's right about the existence of inequality but moderately wrong about the cause and very wrong about the fix. Rubbish communist. No ideology. I'd have had time for him if he could talk about the building blocks but he can't.
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On vehicles, I have recently fallen in love with this. Available in city car and rural utility trim. Nine grand new, max speed 28 mph, range apparently 43 miles. Watched a video of a bloke driving one round London. He was struggling to do 9 mph up a hill. No radio. Windows don't even roll down. The left/right door panels are the same and the front/back bonnet/boot panels are the same. You could probably charge it from two solar panels on the roof of the garden shed in which you keep it. Lovely. Just lovely.
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Watching with interest because I planked some ash for this purpose a few weeks ago. I think I went for 2" or 2.25" wet. I wouldn't use it wet because it'll then dry and shrink in the tool eye and be loose. Am aware of things like force drying in hot sand but no experience of it and would apply the normal rule that shortcuts are shortcuts. I made an oak handle for a sledgehammer a few years ago. Octagonal like a Japanese carpentry saw. Irregular to feel slim and a palm swell in both dimensions. It's the bollocks, if I do say so myself.
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Gardeners. I've often thought a gardener would make a useful groundsman on a big job. Handy for moving and replacing shrubs but mainly doing a lovely job of the tidy up when everyone else is tired and can't be ****************ed. They'd come with ten kinds of rake and know which one to use. Or even motorised vacuums etc, which tree blokes are usually too stupid to own despite being perfect for heavy clearup. I rarely get involved with this sort of tawdry business of course but I was shovelling sawdust and twigs alongside a guy on a blower the other week and we were having a mare getting it out of some ground-covering stuff around the stump.
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I've long thought a big job should have two climbers on it, a little one and a big one. The little one can scamper around being fast and light, set ropes, while the big one is humping the bollard in and setting it up. Chop and change as appropriate but definitely leave a good bit in the big one's tank for the big saw work at the end of the day. I (a little one) will often get to the 661 stage of the tree and ask myself what the **************** am I doing up here with this massive heavy bastard (doing simple chogging that anyone can do) when I'm already tired from being fabulous all day on the branchwork. Or just two little ones if it's gay stuff like pruning. Either way. Negligible extra cost over a groundsman only. I'm not sure I'd hire someone that couldn't climb, unless they had some other skill. And there's no site down time when the climber needs to eat but the groundsmen don't.
