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so you seem to be saying the cash on the street she gets given is all being spent on injections - the gifts from passers by are making her worse. If she had no cash she couldn't buy drugs, but could at least still go to food banks. Top tip for new year - never ever give cash to homeless - only hot drinks and tinned food and corrugated iron and second hand sleeping bags - dont give them brand new sleeping bags or theyll sell them for cash to buy drugs. Best thing would be cart them off the street into a special facility where they perform neurosurgery to remove the part of the brain that creates pleasure from opiates

be good to read some of your exploits working in the big trees too , and like others have said any photos of exciting stuff. Although I understand proper tree men aren't preoccupied with photos and videos - they do the exciting stuff because they enjoy it, not to show off

the dealer with the pitbull - so he sees the state she's gotten into by consuming his merchandise and he knows it's better money and easier than manual labour. People like him deserve to become the targets of vigilantes - he may even walk along thinking 'if I didn't sell to her, someone else would'. Dealers got rid of by mercenaries paid for by a caring billionaire would be good

so surely it is fair for the government to call it a crisis - its an invasion in my mind. After a few weeks of 40 a day this is another few thousand bods hoovering up our debt funded handouts

drawing from my secondhand copy of Brickell: Pruning and Training shows sorting out a neglected tree, although leggy ones trying to reach the light will be harder to work with

some people get obsessed - think this was posted before, from a 2013 newspaper https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437247/250-varieties-apple-tree--thanks-bit-hard-grafting-years.html

it looks like the hedge shades it for at least part of the day? even so I would let it spread horizontally and take the highest vertical growth back down

or at least they are willing to buy boxes of tricks - not sure an OBD blocker would have deterred them, but it shows the port is one vulnerable point

short of paying someone to point a gun to your head with strict instructions to blow your brains out if you stop reading, can't think of anything

genuine low hours = the hour meter may not have been tampered with at all

could have saved a few quid there

and you can't be bothered to write a three page essay to explain

interesting - even with a haas and a foot ascender you still have to hold the rope, so no harm in adding a few extra grams of ally to the tangle

out of the ones who actually had the balls to do this - what percent actually ended up making decent regular money without gaps? My gut feeling is that fraction isn't any less than the cohort that went into arb employment and stayed on the books or went as roaming labour only. The young budding entrepeneur can hire in experienced help if he sees fit and if he is intelligent enough he will eventually stop making mistakes on pricing, feeling happy his labours are not paying the wages of someone else's office staff.

I'm adopted

you know how Vespasian got banned the other day - it got me thinking - any professional troll should have at least 20 other accounts active so they can keep posting in the event. He hasn't got one of mine though, I swear

totally - I don't care what they charge or how they work, but they are just known for clubbing together and encouraging each other to steal. Someone out doing work with machines they've nicked, or bought knowing they're nicked - those people are pathetic excuses for human beings. The human nervous system isn't capable of producing enough pain to adequately punish them

I dont want to become another cash cow for life saving Aspen. My MSA160T is good for fume free conny hedge topping. Only wish it was built to take a beating

almost certain it will - medications what you need Aspen - never wanted the cost, spent countless days on a hedgecutter, no bother, if there's a slight breeze it's gone anyway. Tree and grass pollen can make asthma worse, the asthma nurse told me to take add an antihistamine when the pollen is high, she also recommended a flu jab, sometimes I bother to go get one. I'm five years older than you and have always had asthma; inhalers have improved - an inhaled steroid for control (mine is Flixotide - good gear) and a bronchodilater (Ventolin) if you get wheezy during exercise or wake up with a tight chest. In the last few years they gave me a long acting bronchodiater as well called Serevent - this one in addition to the inhaled steroid has helped me through some long hard days. Apparently a recent development in the treatment of asthma type airway constriction is ablation of some of the smooth muscle lining the airways - I've not been offered this, maybe it's reserved for real oxygen tent cases, but I like the logic of it - ablation means to remove or destroy - so at least some of the smooth muscle lining the airways is permanently got rid of by clever machines. I've always accepted the explanation that asthma is caused by things triggering smooth muscle spasms.

I've always been suspicious of the term professional, something a bit punk about me means I will never be able to join the upper echelons of society

don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - all that legislation and box ticking is a whole lot better than what went before - vile businessmen with business values treating their workers as expendable.

hey JC - I have a question for you, as you seem up to speed with the more serious safety considerations - if it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that a 5 ton ratchet strap will stop any barber chair ( the trunk may split, but will be contained), then would it be then best practise to place an endless strap above the cut rather than climb? The only negative I can see applying this in the case of this accident is the situation Skyhuck described of the butt end coming back, as the climber wasn't high enough. Can you think of any other reason why climbing higher would be safer than the ratchet strap and a lower cut? (sticking to this particular tree for the moment)

If its too small for a ratchet strap, would a Jubilee clip suffice?

I accept that from his position you are correct about the danger of just flopping it he is not high enough to guarantee it wont come back if the tips hit before it parts with the stump, my comment was in reply to hair on yours more general statement that youre always in trouble without a gob. Not so, and taking the sides out to a third, without a gob, then back cutting is a perfect good method a for flopping leaners from the ground and b for limbs if high enough up to guarantee the tips wont land before it tears off. If he really wanted that whole lot in one I cant see why a dogtooth wouldnt be safe?

Ive always thought forums will be at least half amateurs, as many pros are fed up with helping newbies and dont want to think about work when they get home