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  1. the village idiot
    Excuse my ignorance, but can you describe what you mean by 'loose pins'? Is this hitch a separate piece that goes between the machine and attachment or is it permanently fixed to the attachment?
  2. the village idiot
    Need some advice from you fine people. I'm looking to buy a fixed grapple, (the type with an integral ram so I don't need a welded on thumb bracket) and potentially some other implements to use on hired in excavators (5-8 ton) What is the best sort of linkage to specify on the attachments to ensure that I can fit the grab etc onto a variety of brands of excavator. Hydraulics is a whole nuther issue. I'll come back to you on this one. Many thanks, TVI.
  3. the village idiot
    That worked a treat Stubby, although my braille is a little rusty. I think he said "Six sheets of A4 and a pickled egg."
  4. the village idiot
    I'll have to ask him, he's a bit hard of hearing mind.
  5. the village idiot
    Got a couple of likely candidates but I am in Suffolk! Fairfax, my headless apprentice is included for scale.
  6. the village idiot
    Can you calculate VAT/end of year returns on it?
  7. the village idiot
    Bless you.
  8. the village idiot
    Really useful pictures John. Have you got any more?
  9. the village idiot
    I believe we would need something akin to what you are describing but wouldn't put it quite so starkly. I don't think we would see the end of growth (there are many ways to grow, GDP would admittedly take a hammering). I dont think it would be the end of private enterprise or personal wealth either. We need to do things differently, but there would still be plenty of 'winners' financially. It's not just climate change either. The rising global temperature along with the impending AI/automation explosion will mean that the standard capitalist model simply won't work. Something like Universal Basic Income will become a necessity, and we will need to find other avenues than wealth accumulation to give us our sense of purpose. There are real opportunities here amongst all the gloom, we just have to start thinking a bit differently and more deeply about what really matters.
  10. the village idiot
    We already have a government controlled economic model. What Monbiot is saying is that we urgently need to alter it. “our current economic model is threatening the foundations on which human wellbeing depends” To keep global temperature rise below a catastrophic limit we need 'rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society' This needs to come from government as we are too far down the line to wait for people to make individual choices. The message that we have to change radically does not go down well with us so we tend to just ignore it.
  11. the village idiot
    There's plenty of wood out there. Is it a problem of not enough cutters, or not enough will from woodland owners to carry out management?
  12. the village idiot
    There's been a few people on here saying that cordwood is getting very expensive. Maybe some firewood people are getting out of the game?
  13. the village idiot
    Cor! What I wouldn't give for one of those!
  14. the village idiot
    OK. Just trying to get to the bottom of your reasoning on this. Debates on abortion always go haywire. Shall we leave it at agreeing to disagree?
  15. the village idiot
    Are you religious? Do you believe in souls?
  16. the village idiot
    Forgive my retardation but I simply don't see what moral objection there could be to vaccinations that are proven safe, or to using stem cells cultured from a long ago aborted foetus. It might sound bad at first reading but it really isn't. Surely it is more immoral to not protect your children from easily preventable diseases that could kill them? Would you refuse a new heart for your sick child if it came from a recently deceased donor child?
  17. the village idiot
    Like breffni said, the original stem cells were taken from an aborted foetus decades ago. They have since been cultured from these originals in labs. Foetus' are not aborted in order to obtain ingredients for vaccines. You have to see them for what they are. Cells. You are imbibing other humans' cells every breath you take.
  18. the village idiot
    I try to get my buyers to collect before the bad weather starts. Any that don't get collected in time I cover. They are all wholesaled, I don't do deliveries to the end user.
  19. the village idiot
    They are just trying to stop children and adults dying from easily preventable diseases. To spin this as some sort of first step to sinister practices seems unduly paranoid.
  20. the village idiot
    Where do you see it leading?
  21. the village idiot
    You did ask! ?
  22. the village idiot
    Too right Beau, I've got 20 lined up ready. Always up for suggestions too if anyone has read/listened to any good ones lately?
  23. the village idiot
    Absolutely Stubby, If there is awareness of the decision then it must have appeared in conciousness. The decision came from the brain though, and the illusory 'I' doesn't speak brain. Neither does conciousness, it just sits there and watches.
  24. the village idiot
    We have two electric/hydraulic splitters which run off a diesel generator. We are softies who don't like having an engine chuntering away next to us while we work. The splitters are on long leads so the genny is quite far away.
  25. the village idiot
    Thanks Gary. Believe it or not we don't have a processor.

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