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  1. the village idiot
    Who rattled your cage timbernut? I'm really not a fang of such venomous posts. They squeeze the life out of these threads. Any more like that and I'll dislocate your jaw!
  2. the village idiot
    We're probably just not addering their numbers up properly. It's an easy enough missnake to make.
  3. the village idiot
    Nice find! That's my bedtime reading sorted.
  4. the village idiot
    This would depend entirely on what any final crop was used for (furniture/building/future fossil fuel replacement), and whether once forested the land was kept under tree cover into the future.
  5. the village idiot
    The old curator for nematodes and worms at the Natural History Museum was called Professor Wrigley.
  6. the village idiot
    Did anyone read about the rift developing in the LGBT community. Apparently several high profile figures have left to form a separate group. The chief executive of Stonewall (gay rights charity) was asked to comment. His name is Paul Twocock!!! ??? No I'm not making it up. I read it in a dead serious article in the Times whilst on my own in the Waitrose cafe. Burst out laughing which was rather embarrassing.
  7. the village idiot
    You do hear about these 'end of the World' cults who spend decades anticipating and structuring their whole lives around the fact that the World will end on a very specific date. I've always wanted to be a fly on the wall to watch their interactions with each other on the morning after the date has passed. "Oh"!!? "Um" "S'pose we better go and get some milk"
  8. the village idiot
    Have you tried meditation? Also takes discipline, but it's free.
  9. the village idiot
    Presumably you didn't mind that the singer was a little hoarse?
  10. the village idiot
    Yeah, I used to say 75 but people tended to get angry. People are a bit more comfortable with 85. This is plenty of time to have a thoroughly excellent life, especially if it is planned out knowing when the end will be (this is important). The savings on care and treatment (sometimes for people for whom life is no longer worth living) would be huge. If people want to go earlier, and are of sound mind, they should be allowed to.
  11. the village idiot
    I've often thought that it would be a good thing to know how much time you've got to live from a very early age. I'm basically talking about enforced euthanasia for everybody at say 85, but knowing about it from childhood. You would be able to plan to do all the stuff you wanted, you can mend any broken relationships. You can die with all your loved ones around, out of a hospital. Have a big, planned 'dying party' where you get to say everything you want to everyone. Life would become more 'certain' and tangibly special, less would get put off, and a huge drain would be taken off the NHS. Sounds crazy to begin with (knowing when you are going to die) but I think it has a lot going for it.
  12. the village idiot
    That's quite an interesting idea.
  13. the village idiot
    The insect with the largest recorded 'hind quarters' is the South American Derriere beetle. Posterius bulbousum Apparently it's back end is so distended that the beetle cannot locomote, and lives out it's entire adult stage confined to the same spot. The insect is slowly raised up from the forest floor, perched atop a thin pole of it's own excrement. Eventually the beetle is blown off by a gust of wind and the process starts again. The tallest recorded 'poo pile' was discovered under a phlange palm in Bolivia. It measured 23ft in height! Derriere beetle expert Dr Cornelius Crump of Yabbadabbadoo University has posited that the spire could have eventually topped 30ft or more had the beetle not crushed itself to death under a developing coconut.
  14. the village idiot
    Certainly. No problem.
  15. the village idiot
    You may well have met Pete Fordham there. He is a regular volunteer at the Wood I manage. He's coming on Monday so I'll give him a thorough grilling.
  16. the village idiot
    Blast! I was going to go to that but completely forgot about it. Are they definitely planning to plant to replace the lost Ash?
  17. the village idiot
    My advice, for what it's worth, would be to not make any big decision on it just at the moment. See how you feel about it all at the weekend.
  18. the village idiot
    Good on them! Can't be easy running a busy pub, especially with such limited mobility.
  19. the village idiot
    Good work Watson. Out of my league unfortunately.
  20. the village idiot
    What's that grab you've got on there Tom?
  21. the village idiot
    Do you know how much it is? Can't see a price on the link.
  22. the village idiot
    Steel or rubber tracks? Are there any brands particularly noted for good auxiliary oil flow?
  23. the village idiot
    What are people's thoughts on an ideal size machine for woodland work? I personally don't need to move the machine off site. Most common job would be log handling, rarely anything huge. Would also be good to have the option to power a flail/brushcutter head and the capacity to grade over some rutted rides. All thoughts gratefully received!
  24. the village idiot
    Excellent. Thank you
  25. the village idiot
    Think I might have asked this before, but what is my best option for log handling? I want to take cordwood from a stack, slew it round 180 degrees and then crosscut with chainsaws whilst holding the log off the ground. Logs are generally 4-5 mtrs long and up to 20" diameter. Am I better off with a grapple or a screw splitter? Let's say on an 8ton machine.

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