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a glug - that means an exact number of millilitres per kg of dry mortar mix

yeah - jack of all trades and a master of none - I get that, but I do get satisfaction from learning new stuff, I'm not particularly good at any one trade, but like to try my hand at different things, even plastering and car mechanics. There isn't enough time in one life to have a go at all the things people do for a living. I'll probably never get a chance to earn a few quid clipping poodles or shearing sheep. I asked the guy for extra as I didn't realise the materials costs of the sweep in grout, so up to £160 from £100. I will lose money on the job, but I often see reasonable patios in need of tlc, if I can get the hang of it I feel it would be a good service, maybe not as profitable as tree and hedge work, but I do get satisfaction from doing landscaping stuff, even just putting up a few fence panels, or laying a few turfs. @forestboy1978 I appreciate your choice not to repoint others work as you dont know if the slabs were on a solid bed or not. This particular patio is not real expensive stone, its the concrete slabs. I've invested in a few bits of kit for this upcoming job, hopefully this gear will do if I ever veer into the brick repointing malarky. https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/product/Festool-Ctm-36-E-Ac-Hd-4014549206577-240V-Cleantec-36L-M-Class-Mobile-Dust-Extractor?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrrC_2pjW2AIVhLDtCh1D9wSlEAQYBSABEgJ3gfD_BwE https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Makita-SJS-II-5-Angle-Grinder-w-Tuck-Point-Guard-GA5040X1-new/391449860928?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49131%26meid%3De238ee586544451bbf10a084b3ffcba4%26pid%3D100623%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D172218479346&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1

Mike Hills post was excellent advice - I would add it may be heart wrenching to do, but if you take out all the racking in your van a tracked chipper would go in between the wheel arches esp something like a TW150 VTR vari track. Search completed listings on ebay for tracked chipper - a tatty one for 7k. If you're van was emptied out you can chuck wood in there too. 200 ps should be good to pull 3.5ton plus 3.5ton trailer up hill! Ive only got the wimpy 140ps tipper version and that still pulls reasonably I used Tony Darbyshire for training - very good knowledge level. If you've already paid for it then too late, but I know I paid about half that for everything up to CS39 and that was even doing CS 39 twice as I cocked it up, cutting too close to body and other deadly sins. For 7k done as individual tickets you could have them all, rigging, medium felling, windblown etc. If you start advertising for tree work after you will definitely need to sub in or learn rigging, otherwise its trimming and felling conifers. Spending 7k - I would spend a hundred or so on books first and know some of the techniques before you start. Jeff Jepson - To Fell A Tree, and Tree Climbers Companion . G. F . Beranek - Fundamentals of General Tree Work ( now a £20 pdf) Also Best Practices For Rigging in Arboriculture. Probably £100 quids worth in total and a few months time to digest it all. Oh and just walk away from the knackered looking trees, let someone else hire a MEWP in until youve got the mark of it. Only thing I thought with Mike Hills post is he was close to distorting the chipper chassis winching with all those snatch blocks. Impressive though getting a tractor out

I'm losing sleep over FB too - shares went as low as $18 in 2012, up to $181 now. I looked at it at the time and passed on it - and life has passed me by:(

i was going to like your post - but now i know the dangers my new years resolution is to use the like button sparingly

I dont suppose I had a point really, just mentioned it as you stated hard work is the main ingredient for success. It struck me as a remarkable story as I've never been a really hard worker - three hours sleep a night for six months, made me feel like I should pull my socks up a bit. I said to her I'll have to do a bit more I'm not running at full capacity - she replied ' yes you'll have to get your whip out'. I dont think they would have beeen successful without all the hard work - but whether they chose to work hard of their own free will is another matter. Philosopher shoe gazers - most of them not got a pot to piss in

one of my customers has a farm - really nice place, she said for six months when they first started her and her husband went to bed at midnight and got up at three, can hardly believe any human can survive on three hours sleep, but she said is was when she was young before they bought the big place, don't think I could do six months of three hours sleep, 6 hours minimum, I do believe her story though

People like to feel they have some control over their lives, so the sciency stuff can be hard to swallow

Ok so Bell worked tirelessly in the lab on a problem he was immersed in of his own free will. He was a genius and no doubt about it humans can survive perfectly well without technology, but his work may have happened completely because of his neural biology and environment, not because his brain created some executive power that let him decide what to do.

all animals have problem solving skills - I can't see why human primates should be able to control their own destiny. I'm not saying inventors havent done something I admire, just seems to me that they did it because they had to, not just because they could. there was a study somewhere of learning via telepathy -something about monkeys learning to fish adrift bananas from the sea with a stick and another group of monkeys elsewhere were observed to learn the same trick instantaneously almost, of course this doesnt prove telepathy or disprove, but it was a possible example. Telepathy if it exists may be explainable by physics - electromagnetic waves like radio waves acting to depolarize and fire neurons via exciting the ion channels in nerve membranes - if so a telepathic connection could be severed by hiding inside a lead room

looks like theres plenty of free firewood on the floor

an all wheel drive transit tipper - over budget, but goes to show the parts are out there to make a transit tipper that can at least get in and out of a muddy yard https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014-Ford-Transit-T350-TDCi-AWD-TIPPER-ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE-125-BHP-4x4-4WD/321783404047?hash=item4aebc9160f:g:eEEAAOSw~e5ZUQPx

I agree - if its not safe as an anchor point its not safe to stand in - the only time, and not really relevant on quite a low hedge as above, would be in the event of a fall. If the climber falls through a certain distance then the rope goes tight the increased load could topple the mewp - a bit like snatching when negative rigging can break the rope if the bit is already near SWL and there is some slack - a doubling in weight for every metre fall or something. In this case though a fall is unlikely - he is not branch walking and his wrist thickness branch top tie in wont break on him coz its steel instead of wood. I agree very enterprising. Fortune favors the brave. Its not like he's doing mine clearance for a living. I want a mewp now, if theres room to drive along the hedge better than ply

It doesn't have to be right or wrong - it is just a fact that the financial markets attract people looking to make money from asset re-pricing. The same as a buy to let. I can't say I'm not jealous of those people who are intelligent enough to become high rollers. If people want to take monumental risks its up to them, personally I don't want to lose my home.

ah that sounds better, much more hard core sciency, better than saying Matelot can help it, no one can help it, it is all written in the stars, re the criminal justice system - my dad was a prison officer - he had one con who had cut someones head off with a penknife. I say save the taxpayer and use the killers as fertilizer. And the current wisdom is of course if we kill the killers we are no better than them

so if there is no free will how can you decide to open your mind, or close it? fatalism isnt all doom and gloom, people still focus and enjoy their lives, even if every neurobiological event is an emergent property of a complex physical system (the universe) much like gravity and electricity are also properties of that system. If you believe the scientists, once upon a time there wasnt even gravity or electricty, could have been less exciting back in those times

For me, this is easy to answer - it matters so much more when British people are killed because of genetics and probability - some here will have lost daughters and nieces at the Manchester concert for example, probably hardly any UK citizens lose close relatives when a bomb goes off in Moscow or Libya. The slims are not the best thing to arrive. I'm glad to have been born in a secular age, but you can't educate pork

wicked, it doesnt make life any less remarkable, but I do believe all of that

big trees look much nicer than little trees, they show an impressive part of nature, you shouldnt have to travel to a stately home or public woodland to see the big trees, these protesters know it takes decades to get a nice leafy avenue, all the crap the council spends money on, all the healthy big trees could have been trimmed regularly. Re the violence, if people feel they are helpless and being crushed by a big state machine they dont like - anyone can choose to use violence to achieve an end. In the old days the various kings of England, some of them only got into power by a lot of murdering

It did put me off the book when i read that in the back, nothing wrong with the content, very informative, but knowing that the author didnt know enough to keep himself alive, sod hazard trees, cordon off the area and let them fall down

thanks for reply, sorry I should have put a full stop and new para before the comment about shaping trimmed trees. I was referring to your last photo where you shaped the canopies of a stand, it was a bit of a jokey comment really as I am still not good at getting a proper shape when trimming trees, you seem to have got the knack though, obviously people like to see continuous curves when looking at a trimmed tree, not bits sticking out, which is what natural trees sometimes have, and what my efforts often end up with, re pollard my favourite

so what gloves do you wear climbing in the cold? Pretty big fir tree, when you look at a tree before its trimmed there are bits sticking out everywhere, you ought to be able to get away with wonky lines after trimming to leave a natural look

fault codes from led https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBZeBbb9PM

I often ask on the Ford transit owners forum - lots of working mechanics and other clued up bods http://fordtransit.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=5 I havn't had the immobiliser play up, but went through a couple of starter motors when the original factory dual mass flywheel was on 130k (dust from flywheel break up going into starter, apparently common), had the bell housing flushed out new DMF, clutch and starter motor, been good since. Another thing if you're not careful jumping them there is a fuse in a silly place integral to the battery earth strap, I managed to blow it and some cash as the whole lead has to be changed, supposed to be fused to protect the ECU.

whats happening in Sheffield pales into insignificance compared to all the chainsaw business in the Amazon basin, everyones got to earn a living, bit like when some Irish got violent with English squadies over there, the poor old squadies were only following orders, going about their lawful business. The Sheffield protesters are like a tree hugger version of the IRA - maybe some of them will end up on hunger strike in prison. Why can't they just go to an arboretum like everyone one else.