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Traffic wardens serve their country and uniformed dolescum are still dolescum.

For how long were you housed, fed and paid from taxtake in the army?

Best stop paying them both to be on the safe side.

The rich can be as bad dolescum as the poor. Poor people get universal credit. Rich people get land subsidies. It’s all scrounging.

I used to love listening to Bob Harris Country on the way back from the smallbore club at Bury St Edmunds. Used to overtake everything for sport in my fabulous little 1.6 petrol (carburated) Vitara. Fabulous thing. Haven't had a vehicle with a good radio since. Wednesday nights from memory.

Clip a foot/knee ascender in if you're worried about that. Help bring the saw up with your leg.

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A crime brief in the toon of my acquaintance reckons top end of A1 - four years. She’s biased though. Like half of the north east, she wants the guillotine. If it’s going to be televised, they could do it like Deal or No Deal. What’s Noel Edmonds up to these days?

Read with mother. https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/criminal-damage-other-than-by-fire-value-exceeding-5000-racially-or-religiously-aggravated-criminal-damage/ Culpability - It's A or B, probably A. The level of planning is either way. No revenge and no risk to persons but definitely intention to seriously damage the tree. The wall damage being intentional or reckless will barely play. It's about the tree. The wall financial value was so low as to make it an add-on only. I don't think there's anything from C to nudge an A down to a B. Call it A (high culpability). Harm is category 1. A1: Starting point - 1 year 6 months’ custody Category range - 6 months – 4 years’ custody Maximum: 10 years’ custody (basic offence) Then start nudging it up for things like do they have a load of form, were they on bail for something else when they did this, was it because they hate foreign trees etc. Let's assume neutral for this since we don't know anything (or I don't anyway). Then continue nudging it up for other listed aggravating factors. Three of the list of ten definitely play. Nudging the starting point up 30% gets us to 23 months so far. Then nudge it down for bleeding heart liberal stuff. Are they sorry etc. They'll have a sob story of some kind but I can't see much washing. 5% off if they're lucky. 22 months. Then some technical/procedural stuff like did they cough early or did they put the prosecution to the trouble of a full trial? Full trial so no credit. Adjust for totality. Nothing complicated here. Very isolated offences. Maybe a bit extra for the wall. Maybe not. So on the guidlines and with the information I know (not much - I don't read much news) 22-24 months. I'd say they court will want to give a particularly harsh sentence to give the public blood but that's why there are sentencing guidelines. 24 months is pretty much in the middle of the range. Easy for a judge to go with that so as to limit accusations of undue harshness/leniency. Let's not rule out an angry judge giving them a walloping one and saying, "**************** you. Appeal it on your own time. I'm off to lunch. You're off to prison." though. There's probably some stuff about how much time you spend in an actual prison before being let out early or whatever. I don't know anything about that. If I had to guess, 24 month sentences, 12 months inside and then let them out once the point has been made. But I really am guessing there. Sentencing and mitigation is a whole sub field of legal work btw, like stump grinding. There are briefs who specialise in being good losers. General point: The courts punish offences against property disproportionately sternly compared to offences against the person. Someone up the page pointed out rapists can get comparatively derisory sentences. Yep.

I'm with you on thickness for this sort of size saw and use. I think there's a tipping point where the advantages of removing less wood are outweighed by the worse chip evacuation (like friction of water against the wall of small ID pipe). Bigger kerf is nicer for gobs too. Either just using two or three kerfs to make a little square gob, having to do a longer cut diagonal to the grain on bigger gobs or having to do a lot of both to turn a gob to sawdust when you're right over something fragile that the gob piece could break and you can't easily catch it and throw it.

I think normal 220 chain is 3/8 pico 1.3mm.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/criminal-damage-other-than-by-fire-value-exceeding-5000-racially-or-religiously-aggravated-criminal-damage/ Place your bets.

Pretty sure I was thinking of surveyors, not tree surgeons. As you were.

I was wondering the other day why nobody has put a 500i injector and ECU onto a different saw yet.

I of course refer to your very apparent general contempt for the theoretical, ideological or even the very modestly circuitous. You would not have been remotely interested to hear the reason for charging £787. 16 instead. You don’t care about that sort of funny bollocks.

Isn’t there a list of exempted trades that includes architects and tree surgeons?

I don’t know. My kitchen window looks at the side of a shed.

Working example. GRCS with a visor, new from Honeys website £3293 excluding VAT (£3952 including VAT). Removing the 30% retail margin gives £2533. Then adjust for condition: 20% (very poor) - pay £506 40% (slightly poor) - pay £1013 60% (fair) - pay £1520 80% (good) - pay £2026 100% (perfect) - pay £2533 So that GRCS that Mick saw advertised for £2500 would have had to be in 99% condition to be worth the asking price. His appraisal that £2000 was a fair price would put the condition at 79% (which it roughly was). Perhaps he uses the same calculation I do.

Yes except I’m not a tyre kicker. If I was offering £64.18 for something, I was wanting to do the deal for £64.18, not just talk about VAT with them. Got the deal 10-20% of the time. Got an interested response to the maths 20-30% of the time. Got an angry response to the maths 60-70% of the time. The remaining 10% of the time I was talking to someone like Mick, the assiduously disinterested.

It also won’t surprise you to learn, Mick that I have a pair of calculations I used until recently (I’m VAT reg now - yes, my soul hurts and penis shrinks every time I charge it) for buying and selling stuff. Buying, I worked back from the lowest available new price including VAT, removed the VAT and removed an assumed initial retail margin that paid for warranty and statutory protections for the first purchaser only. That shows the true price of the thing. Then I adjusted for condition and offered accordingly. Selling, I made sure to charge the true price of the thing (condition adjusted) plus a sum equal to the VAT charged when new. So I got the VAT amount back either or both times. You can imagine the abuse I got when making what looked like insulting offers on things. They weren’t insulting. Them expecting me to pay their tax and for their buyer protections was insulting. As well as saving/making me a few quid and helping me cope with the miserable, taxed world, it was a useful piece of activism. A lot of people just said **************** off and never thought of me again but I made a few of them (rightly) hurt for how the exchequer ****************ed them at the shop till. Yes. Can confirm it is nice to have this much time on my hands.

Yep. I’d go along with that. I used to use 60% of new price including VAT as a fair second hand price for a fair thing (so £2400 in this scenario). A ten year old sailing winch owned by a rough tree type is probably sub-fair though. I nearly sold my GRCS for £1500 (no VAT) a while ago. I backed out. £1500 was too cheap. £2000 (no VAT) would be more like it.

“Probably” being an extrapolated 70% in a sample size of 17. Far from conclusive. Only a little above 2:1 in a small area. Could be anything.

A million quid more property damage and ten million quid less spent on grapplesaws. As ever, man plans and god laughs.

What do you think killed the 8?