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I don't know anything about the fish trade but you bought it.
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It was implied if not said. I'm surprisingly open minded btw. All you have to be is right.
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It does follow. What on earth makes you think that people who pollute appallingly are worthy of regulating how others pollute? If the example is too abstract, consider the millions of chair polishing jobs that only exist to impose and then satisfy state regulations. All those people drive to work, buy shoes they wouldn’t otherwise buy, get packaged sandwiches for lunch they wouldn’t otherwise need etc etc ad infinitum ad nauseam. Why do I think you think state regulation of stuff is good? You called for it a few posts up.
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As opposed to the slavery and other abuses that governments inflict on workers? Tax freedom day fell on the 30th May last year. Until the 29th May inclusive, UK workers worked to pay taxes only. Half the year, they worked for the state. And governments are the worst polluters. When was the last time you shot depleted uranium at your neighbours?
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The only proper regulation of a market is what comes from within the market. It’s the sadly more prevalent regulation of markets (interfering) by outsiders like government that fvcks stuff up and makes people erroneously blame capitalism.
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Putting up taxvictims' money for whoever is unscrupulous enough to take it is emphatically NOT capitalism. I couldn't tell you how to best make use of resources, sorting or whatever. Neither can any other one man. The market can though.
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Nah. Transporting rubbish uses shitloads of resources. It's not just a bit of fuel. It's that and then the vehicles themselves, then other vehicles that drive workers to work, then vehicles that drive trainers, accountants, marketers, lawyers, car designers, boot makers etc to work to support the workers who do the actual work of transporting the rubbish (and to support the supporters). Pointless work is far worse than it seems. Also consider most pointless* recycling is government led (ideas that are so good that they're mandatory...). When was the last time the government did something that makes sense? If they're doing it, it's probably a shit idea. *Not all reycling is pointless. Re-using stuff (including to heat your house) is recycling and not pointless. Sorting stuff into the blue bin so some chancing cvnt can sell it to Indonesia (to end up in the sea) is pointless.
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Documentary series/box sets and the like worthy of a watch?
AHPP replied to Ratman's topic in The Lounge
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A few months ago, I rolled a skidsteer on a slight slope about twelve feet away from the Thames. That could have been enormously embarrassing (as opposed to merely very embarrassing). . The same job required tracking a micro digger through a gap between two trees, over uneven roots etc right on the top of a steeper bit of bank. Someone else drove that while I rigged the roll bar.
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Rowan are susceptible to phytophthora aren't they? Don't ask me any more. I read it on a sign once.
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Directional?
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The majority of people on this site will not deal with trees like that very often. The UK's trees are mostly tiny in comparison to your tree and with different challenges. The few larger trees here will be dealt with by a lesser represented cadre of forestry cutters (who I hope contribute but are statistically less likely to). You'll probably get more useful answers from an American forum, especially from the PNW members. My feeling is that you've done more than enough by removing the back weight and felling with a Humbolt below the knots will be straightforward. Big face/wedge/gob cuts can be difficult to match, especially Humboldts. Take as long as you need to get it right.
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Your yard's on a bit of a slope.
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2/1 sideways or missing entirely, 3/1 upside down. Who wants some?
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If it's making fruit, it's working. If it makes less or none, hack it a bit. It'll either fight back or it won't. How incisive is that.
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There's a wonderful bit in Rich Dad Poor Dad where Richard Kiyosaki meets an author who considers herself highly cultured and a good writer and isn't pleased that Kiyosaki's books (which she thinks are badly written) have sold better than hers. He points out that he's a best-selling author, not a best-writing author.
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Cheers. I discovered similar online after spending the majority of the last APF being stared at incredulously by the various guys with Billy Goats on show. Machines with eight foot wander nozzles that are designed for crispy urban leaves. "Will these pick up piss wet conifer chip?" "What about with a hundred foot pipe?" "Errr. No, mate."
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One of my plans for if I ever run my own firm is to have a tow behind vacuum/blower on the back of the chip truck so I can suck chip out of gardens and blow it into hedgerows on the way home. The lads would love standing on the back and shooting the chip canon like they’re Rambo. Don’t pretend it’s not a good idea.
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An alternative way to look at it is that the trees are owned by a public body and you are the public so the trees are yours. The reality is that, however much you subscribe to that line of thinking, the state forest owners, the state police, the state courts and the state bailiffs subscribe to the more commonly held view that you should keep your peasant hands off their stuff.
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The article is about litigating against public bodies. It just so happens that the case in the article was about a tree but it could just have easily been about any of the many things public bodies do.
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Go on? What have I missed?
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Very similar to the NHS Litigation Authority or whatever they call themselves this week. They defend everything, including the utterly indefensible (amputating wrong arm etc), and run the fees up. Why should they care? It’s not their money. The tax cattle will pay up.
