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I can be as cynical as the next man about beggars, drugheads etc but do keep a bit of an open mind. You don't know whether the man in front of you is lazy scum with no excuse or whether he's gone down a path that started with his dad's mates taking turns to rape him while his dad put fags out on the back of his neck. Or something in between.
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It’s a metropolis.
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I've driven through Penistone fifty times and always noticed the very smart barn and the logs for sale signs. I don't suppose that's you is it?
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Back up again. What hashtags are people using to look at tree killing machinery? Diggers, skidsteers, grapple lorries, telehandlers etc.
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I threw some red cabbage and vinegar in some questionably clean jars and forgot about them for months. Didn't even cover the cabbage. Tipped it around a few times in the first few days. Still fine. You can't go wrong (you probably can go wrong).
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If you build it, they will come.
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Mainly gives it to the government to spunk around the economy on wars, the dole etc. It trickles down to where most money ends up, landowners and producers of fags and booze. The money supply aspect of economics is monetary policy btw. The other side of the coin (pun intended) is fiscal policy, which is tax etc. Spend the evening following links on investopedia and look forward to being better informed and furious by bedtime.
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The slavers want you to think inflation is some complicated thing about the price of milk so you don’t realise, firstly, that it’s them causing it and, secondly, how harmful it is. Here, the guy who causes inflation (by printing money) says he’s going to act forcefully to tackle it. He could start by not causing it in the first place. Deceitful scum. Once you get it, every article you see that blames it on Brexit, sunny weather, myxomatosis, the Jews, Wimbledon attendance etc will leap out at you as the bullshit it is.
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Good article.
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It's the increase in the money supply. Say there's £100 in the country. You have £1. You have 1% of the money and therefore 1% of the spending power. Then the central bank (BoE here) prints another £100. You now have 0.5% of the money and spending power. The confusing bollocks about the price of milk, interest rates etc is put about to keep people talking about them when they should be more aggrieved at central banks making the pound in their pocket worth less.
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I was going to go with, "**************** off, shitehawk." but thought I might let others get in more fleshed-out arguments first.
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I usually offer those optimists £20 on top of the price and ask when will be convenient to collect.
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They’ll get dirty over five years. Makes more of a difference than you’d think.
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What is the correct method, Commissar?
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I really want to like rigging wrenches but surely annoying when you want to send a saw down or a really light rig. A bit of friction is so easy to put on elsewhere.
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I understand they're prized for pollution tolerance. Surely there's some other tree that's tolerant enough, otherwise suitable enough and isn't bloody poisonous?
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Keep one on the line. You can leave it with the main rigging anchor (or just use it as the main rigging anchor) or take it with the crab to redirect or span rig.
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**************** the modern world. Let it grind to a halt and starve through competitive ignorance.
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Further to what Dan said about small trees, I have a cambium saver type pair of rings that I use for smaller and simpler stuff. Usually just about long enough to do a main point and a redirect point but I’ll make them a bit longer when I replace the rope on this pair. You can always wrap a branch to use up extra rope (and keep them in place). You can of course choke with them too or just use one ring and tie with the other end. Or a biner through one end and they’ll retrieve with a knotted rope. They’re also my crane tie in. Handy thing.
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They’re just nice. Lighter than pulleys. Nothing ever runs over a sharp pulley cheek. The little bit of extra friction stops your rigging line shooting up to the top of the tree if you drop it. I almost always use a pulley on my main anchor and a ring on a redirect over a favourable drop zone. Having the pulley first in line probably makes lifting with the Hobbs easier but I don’t know how much it really matters. Two rings would probably work fine too. They’re a lovely sweet spot of friction for most tree things.
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Why do communists drink rooibos? Because proper tea is theft. I think I told that one on the last flask thread on here.
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I really must get a bollard on my grab… Have you worked out the trick for anchoring with the grab yet? Rotate the pincer into digger thumb orientation (as opposed to scorpion orientation), open it and use the thumb half of the grab like a winch spade. Dig in behind roots for extra hold. You can get a bit of pre-tension on if you nod the grab back while you pierce the thumb down into the ground. Once you get good, you can retract it cleanly and leave a barely visible hole. While you’re getting good, you’ll dig geet holes in your customers’ lawns.
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You’re the most outspoken cryptoskeptic I can think of on here and, I suspect, a free-marketeer. Launch Diggercoin for a laugh.
