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I was going to write basically exactly that.

I'm too young to have shot pistols when they were (relatively) common but I have a section 7 range pretty close by and am open to doing a bit of that. I like stuff like the Webley Fosberry and that Russian gas sealing revolver with the cylinder that sits forward as it times. The innovative rather than the visceral. No interest in especially big revolvers etc. I'm primarily a rifle man. Sold an AR this afternoon as it happens. Aim to replace it in time for next year's imperial at the very latest.

Are you bat certified though? On the shooting, I quite like modern alternatives to traditional staple English sporting achievements (like the oft vaunted left and right on grouse). Round my way, it’s a first round hit on the 300m frying pan across the motocross track with a .22. A fast crossing pipistrelle with a hushpower and subs could be your local sportsman’s boast.

Openspaceman, the voracious capitalist he is, will surely be back with an offer to take a photo of his for $20.

Interested but not $29 interested.

Nice. Post the leaflet if convenient please.

What's the radiotir?

No. Christ. I don't care that much. Thanks though.

Can you remember any names, inventors or anything else about that that might help me find some pictures of it please?

The tight zipline is tied to a tree at the top of the woods, left of photo and tensioned by a car or something at the bottom of the woods, right of photo. Low stretch best. Dyneema rope can be had second hand from the fishing industry. The hill man slings up wood with disposable chokers (orange in photo). Several can be clipped to the main rope, either in the loop or above the knot. The thin blue rope is your haulback. Once you've clipped on enough choked wood, wrap the haulback a turn or two round a tree near the choked pieces. The bottom man pulls the main line with a capstan winch (digger tracks stood off the ground make good capstan winches). The choked pieces will lift off the floor and the green and black prussik (klemheist in this photo) will keep them up. The hill man, once the pieces are high enough, lets the haulback wraps off and the winch will switch from lifting to dragging downhill. The bottom man, once the pieces have arrived, unchokes everything, puts the chokers back on the main crab and pulls a few tens of feet of mainline onto the uphill side of the red pulley by pulling it through the black and green prussik. The hill man pulls the whole mess back up the hill with the haulback and hopes to christ it doesn't snag on stuff. It probably will. Once he's got it, he'll have however much mainline the bottom man pulled through to walk the main crab and the chokers to the next batch of pieces and start the cycle again. It might work without the prussik. You'd need scrap of hanging tail rope on the main crab so the hill man can pull the crab and chokers down. Once the bottom man is winching, the hill man could manually hold the haulback back as much as possible and quickly wrap it to a tree if the mainline needs to do a bit of lifting instead of pulling. Play it by ear. Hope that helps. Have fun. Bear in mind all this stuff will be under tension with wood and metal rigging stuff attached. Stand in safe places where you won't get hurt if anything breaks.

The sort of wankers who’d happily leave a creaking liability to fall though an orphanage between when a patently obvious problem is spotted and when the bat twat can inspect it (after he’s finished writing up some guff for a wildlife trust, in three weeks or so, weather depending, if he can be bothered). I attended a bat workshop once. Absolute waste of time. The bloke’s answer to everything was that “proper consideration needed to be given.” Wouldn’t give examples of how anything could actually get done. Wouldn’t say what was the law and what wasn’t (I now suspect he simply didn’t know). Basically just pointed to fifty acres and said you can’t really cut it. Smashing.

Another example, presented to me only this morning.

I’ve done the world the greater disservice by not mentioning it more forcefully before. He’s been talking weapons grade rot on here for years.

Could you zipline it? Rope tied high up a strong tree at the top, choker your wood and clip onto the rope, have someone at the bottom tension the rope (car, digger etc). You’d only have to carry rope, choker rope/slings and biners up the hill. Obviously take care to not bombard the car with sliding logs. Redirect pulley not very high up a tree or something. Edit: The more I think about it, the more I think you’ll be lucky to get away without a haul line of some kind. Adds complexity. Pulling downhill with a Norwegian reeve most realistic but if you have the inclination, the full English (reeve) is available.

MOT testing. You can drone on about excessive corrosion within 30cm of prescribed areas and people will have to listen. And it’s state sponsored so should fit well with your current working ethos of doing nothing actually productive.

Do Timberwolf not tell you to use new bolts too? Torque specs for stuff that you really don’t want to come off accidentally are often such that the bolt will stretch and become a use once item.

Khriss, you absolute waste of space charlatan. You've just trotted out a truism to try to look clever and then got something completely wrong. There's a pruning wound in the photo and the lack of deadwood in a cedar that size is itself a strong indicator it's been deadwooded at some point. Cedars that size will almost always have deadwood. And something you just can't help yourself from doing is attempting to throw a spanner (any spanner) in the works with some legal/eco bollocks. And it's not merely a meticulous consideration of all factors. You just love it. You remind me of an archaeologist I once had the displeasure of meeting, who proudly proclaimed that his job was to stand in the way of progress and waste people's money. He was a twat too. You only take in idiots with scummy blarney like this. The rest of us aren't impressed and would rather you took your corporate shitehawkery to an industry that's already full of it. Maybe building snagging or insurance sales.

“Hope is not a strategy.”

Unleaded fuel duty of 58p/l and 20% VAT on petrol and diesel. 5% VAT on domestic electricity. They’re thinking ahead about how to tax motorists.

I’m enormously sympathetic with you about your chipper btw. I’d be furious. I’m currently looking at buying a comparable piece of equipment and I’m negotiating money off purchase prices in exchange for not having a warranty. I read some warranty documents. Utterly worthless.

Merde?

One bump for a weekend. Private messages please.

Deposits focus the minds of people engaging freelancers.

I’ve recently coined a phrase for disappointing spectacles, Cumbrian Tourist Attractions. They’ll slap up a sign and tourist map for anything over there. The Hanging Walls of Mark Anthony is a prime example.

Various religious/biblical phrases, stories, fables, anecdotes etc. I still think religions are a load of nonsense (only when they’re not being actively evil) but they spin good yarns. God speed, insh’allah, it’s god plan for you etc.