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    Communism would have meant Stalin having the same standard of living as someone piling up the spoil in a tailings dam
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    Black popular could be a good street tree with the right care?
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    What I was getting at is plane (and lime) seem very expensive street trees that will always require periodic removal of new growth. Why not use other species that aren't going to need cutting so much? Hardly anywhere has room for a mature lime or plane.
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    tree 'work' should include specifying and planting the street trees. Surely there are better options these days that don't need bits sawn off regular.
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    bit of arbtalk thread archaeology re working on stilts https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/63339-stilts/
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094309/Gardeners-use-stilts-cut-maze-Longleat-House-Wiltshire.html
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    Damn thought I'd had a brainwave then, was wondering how long before the Nobel prize is awarded, turns out it's been done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HzXjRq6tP8
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    Thanks - I did try this and gave up - ok on rough stuff, but clipped faces seemed to get pulled about too much and nowhere to lose the leg inside the hedge where I wanted to place it, too much clutter. I prefer on ply and small extension ladder leaning on hedge, especially if it is with 2 rungs overlapping to stand on. Hey - you know like plasterers wear stilts sometimes!?
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    several methods needed to cover most work 3 leg adjustable tripod - great if garden is sloping - not good for wide tops, don't get you near enough extending ladder with approx 4ft by 2ft thin ply bolted on temp, lean against good solid high faces (not griselinia etc ) get on top of the hedge, shrubbery (with no regard for your own personal safety) new method - tell them they need someone with a platform and walk off feeling like a beaten amateur
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    It is a thread about reaching out and loneliness.
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    why would anyone want to hurt him? he's only spending a few minutes communicating through the written word
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    so you've got a medical condition? I don't mean mental health problems, but actually some physical damage to the spinal chord? It can't be old age, plenty of posts on here documenting foresters in their fifties and sixties still very quick cutters
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    cats arse if you couldn't cope with doing it yourself
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    Cabstar or Grafter? Iveco Daily worth a test drive. Used to be option of limited slip diff with Iveco. 3 litre engine one Id recommend trying. Upto 180hp options. Mine isnt adblue, not sure on latest one.
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    so there is no limit to the amount of countryside and woodland developers should be allowed to level and build on? As long as they've got finance to purchase the land any amount of concrete and houses is OK? My stepdad from Brighton - he said when he was a kid the drive from Porstmouth to Brighton was through loads of countryside, nowadays all the villages and towns are joined up all along the coast road. No matter who has the cash to buy, land is a finite resource. Just because people know how to make money with sand and cement, doesn't mean they are not scumbags.
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    Fell, not only subs possibility but risk to roof as it gets bigger, plus right over gutters. That garden would benefit from a nice ornamental tree a bit further out. My suggestion - this coffee and cream or a similar nice coloured maple/acer
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    The boss may have been worried about the fork breaking during winching, as with SRT - a base tie puts double the load on the anchor compared to canopy anchor. I can't explain the physics behind it but the books will have vector diagrams and loads of arrows, Newtons laws blah
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    the consultation draft is still floating about http://lists.tree-care.info/sympa/d_read/uktc/BS3998/BS3998_DPC_1_8_08.pdf 88 page pdf - they may have changed the odd bit, public libraries used to get or have access to BS
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    Evil bastard Normans started it all, Irish minding their own business before then
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    I was writing imagining the mindset of a republican - to them Ireland is an island the British invaded and they still control the northern part
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    Reading the article it mentions the Easter Rising 1916. Looking at photos from the time of the aftermath they tried with everything they had to end British rule, but 103 years on still not got rid of us. It's not enough to fire a machine gun and shout 'get out of my country' they would need to mobilize in greater numbers. Maybe Paddy Power has a wager 'odds on British being forced out of Ireland'
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    the boffins predict the cost of batteries will keep dropping. Cutting costs is not the same as increasing the energy density of a battery - I'm guessing this will be more of a challenge
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    I don't know if @Vespasian is right about a battery saw never going to make anything like a good 70cc felling saw. I agree that volume of petrol is a lot of energy to squeeze into a plastic case. One battery for the gob, then another for backcut etc. But Eggs is right - Vespasian will never understand a complex subject like battery technology from Youtube presenters (self appointed experts who equip themselves with jargon to lend themselves an air of authority). The only way to know the cutting edge is to read the research. Unfortunately it takes a genuine interest in the subject to motivate oneself to read research.

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