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this is the only one in the list that bothers me - some of the richest people in the country have got there by having lots of low paid workers to staff their businesses, I'm thinking the likes of Phillip Green. So the government have had to subsidise their businesses by topping up the income of shop workers with tax credits, housing ben etc. Ill gotten gains that should be plundered by inheritance tax. I'd like to see JRM lose a slice too - he reportedly look a 1M divvy from the fund he cofounded, no mention of him forfieting his salary, even with that tremendous wealth. Scrapping inheritance tax seems like making sure the hard working pure greed can always trample the thickos underfoot

have to agree with Stubby - what a drama queen, certainly no need for 3 exclamation marks, one would have been more than enough

Also if it's hawthorn, yes a polesaw helps, as it's not really doable from inside

an ordinary hedge cutter won't cope, but the Stihl single sided R type were made for it, mine is old model HS 86R good for upto an inch, I have that and a battery topper (from inside as Pete says), except today I had to leave part of it, almost mangled it, they need to be told - nothing after the second week of June

Not how I interpreted it. Sure there is finite carbon, but it's only CO2 that is thought to trap heat in the atmosphere, like an insulating blanket. Australia has just passed legislation to mine a coalfield the size of UK and China have approx 200 new coal fired power stations in planning, or under construction. A few thousand vans and chippers is not even going to register. People like Greta who give up their time to protest get my respect. Australia and China need to understand how badly their actions will affect the whole world. They are like 'doesn't matter to us, we don't have beautiful glaciers anyway'.

you won't get volume reduction, but buy a field and dig a massive hole (by hand of course) and transport the arisings to the hole by horse and cart, then thow them in,. When one hole is full, dig the next one. If the field is big enough the stuff in the first hole will have rotted by the time you run out of space

buying a battery chipper won't help - lithium mining is turning the world into a toxic wasteland. The apocalypse is coming, no matter what.

I've been using the Vactan rust converter, then a 2 pack epoxy mastic (Jotamastic 87). I got the idea of epoxy mastic from Arbtalk someone mentioned it, then I googled it and saw Rustbuster used it to treat a Ranger for the RNLI I figured they had the choice of products, so there must be good reason. Rustbuster seem to have made a trade out of it and their prices - if I paid myself what they had wanted, could have gone on holiday anywhere. https://www.rust.co.uk/product/rusty-s-technical-details-em121-epoxy-mastic-326 Jotamastic 87 was cheaper ebay than Rustbusters version I've only brushed it on, not messed about buying the proper thinners for it to spray it. There is summer and winter hardener, the winter hardener the paint goes off too quick if its warm.

what we want is a book on how to trim big trees to fit into small gardens, not so it's good for the tree, but so it looks good and minimises the chance of the tree dying. I couldn't write that book, I don't have enough experience, but you do. I will suggest a cumbersome title "Everything you need to know to become a successful tree person in the UK, including how to change the bearings on a chipper" My only suggestions for the first draught - prune Walnut July/August. If customer asks best time to prune oak and beech say December/Jan after fungal spores have been released.

I thought it was just a stock photo they used, as the damage is in yellow paint

It occurred to me a while ago the use of thinner plate around a rotor housing so young people don't have to take a trailer test is not exactly helping safety in the event of a problem. Problems seem extremely rare given the number of machines in use - and given the volume aftermarket blade manufacturers do! If manufacturers wished to build a machine that didn't split open like the ones below, I wonder how thick the rotor housing and first part of chute would need to be? My guess is 3/8" plate for rotor housing and first part of chute. Maybe the increased thickness would mean towing around an extra third of a ton. Maybe good for hire machines where punters perhaps more likely to pick up some woody crap with a bolt in it and chuck it in the hopper.

He jealous of him . BJ 55 all ambitious and well paid, shacked up with his 31 year old chick. I think fewer people would call him a liar if he put the age gap in mrs favour and started cohabiting with a 79 year old

Backtesting is a term used in modeling to refer to testing a predictive model on historical data. Backtesting is a type of retrodiction, and a special type of cross-validation applied to previous time period(s). (def from Wiki) hindcasting is used as a similar term in meteorology Obviously some of the scientists will make things up 1 to further their careers and 2 because they believe passionately in climate change and a little fabricated evidence is for the greater good to help convince the public. However, there has been fairly rigorous backtesting of predictive models against observed data. Personally I don't think they are just guessing. screenshot from this article on backtesting climate models against observed data https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming

Hmmm I expect there are arb consultants with L6 diploma not earning as much as the savviest tree cutters and landscapers with no quals that took more than a week to pass. Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, both dropped out of their degree courses. Some people are smart enough to find their own way.

Now (autumn) must need extra cover - double indemnity perhaps £$, as all those open pruning wounds are exposed to airborne pathogenic fungal spores.

Maybe she's getting ready to morph - soon she'll be recommending mass sterilization in Asia and Africa as the only way forward 'our troops must go in with surgeons and not return until we have filled 50 ro-ro bins with testes and ovaries' The birth rate in England and Wales - measured as a proportion of the total population - hit a new low in 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics.The average number of children born to women, known as the total fertility rate, is also down, to 1.7 - from 1.76 in 2017. As of 2018, the total fertility rate in Sweden was 1.76 children per woman. Among native-born Swedes, it was even lower, at 1.67 India's average fertility rate between 2015 and 2020 was 2.3 per woman (not a soft target as they have nukes) The vast majority of the countries in the world with the highest fertility rates are in Africa, with Niger topping the list at 7.153 children per woman, followed by Somalia at 6.123 children per woman. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Chad follow at 5.963, 5.922 and 5.797 children per woman, respectively. Greta's script (hope she's reading) 'The west should be pointing the finger at Africa and saying right you monkeys this isn't about racism it's about self preservation - we've had enough of you lot rutting away and then coming over and clogging up the wealthy countries, adding to their pollution, taking their land. You Africans and Asians, with your selfish DNA, sensitive genitalia, and basic emotions are making too many of the toxic primates, we can't cope. It's time you started controlling yourselves to prevent causing the world even more misery and suffering than you already have.'

There was no opportunity cost to yourself in replying to his post

they do seem to get more out than goes in - unlike us. However the 1:34 ratio seems much higher than the figures I could find for 2017 on EU website, in that year it was more like 1:6

If it was me I would go through the tests in the manual (link below) before ordering parts- looks like they are plug and play (not like a Transit one) but may be wrong. Compared to the cost of the chipper or even a Vanguard engine I don't expect the special tools shown in the repair manual are that dear. https://www.mudbuddy.com/manuals/vanguard/vanguard-37-efi-repair-manual.pdf

ART positioner with swivel - there was a vid with a climber who had worn all the red anodising off his, must have paid for itself many times over. When changing over high up and throwing the rope hanging off the positioner you have to trust it - the internet would have hopefully told us if people were plunging to their deaths due to ART positioners coming apart, not heard one incident with them. The Trango Cinch, if they still make them, is smoother for abseiling with a long lanyard on the bridge in single line mode.

Thread title should read affected. Control the population? Imagine an experiment with say 10 rabbits introduced into a 10 acre enclosure with impenetrable walls. They would go at it until the graph plateau - some starvation as they reach the carrying capacity of the enclosure

Some of the tree men on here own 1.5 acre plots like you, most of them used to be window cleaners

£500! how much to sort this out £25000?

he asked for instructions so he could do it himself - is it not good business to share tricks of the trade on the forum? It would have taken five minutes to ask the technicians the preferred method to remove and install the bearing and post a quick step by step how to on it

I don't shape these, but as an example of what I was suggesting