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the main factor for wanting to keep on existing must be love? I don't think so - people keep on existing when nothing has gone wrong in their brains - when they commit suicide it's like a car engine that packs up e.g with a blocked fuel injector. I've always had problems with the L word. Like the Beatles 'money can't buy me love' - love can't exist in a dead body and money keeps the body alive - so even if money can't directly buy love - love can't happen without money
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capitalist pig investment banker Macron has blocked it
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the trouble is Richard is in Surrey - where you have to charge the earth to even consider buying a house, he feels frustrated that he can't own the home of his dreams - the only solution is no more immigration ever
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maybe it's lack of intelligence - I've noticed a few people like me - blundering around without ever getting anywhere fast - it's only natural some of the primates will secure more resources than others
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i always think the tree cutting operations are much more expensive to do than hedges. My hedge gear hs87t 40" (weapon), hs86r, kmht, ht131, rake, blower, tripod ladder, tipper and panel van - I'm not buying them every year, or repairing them all the time. Hardly ever burn more than a fiver of fuel in a day - maybe I need to eat more Weetabix
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i think it boils down to some people are less skilled than others - I know I couldn't tackle some of the huge broadleaf reductions, or the tricky dismantles with time constraints - and the £150 a day is fine with me. No great expense involved in cutting hedges, or doing the easier tree jobs. The big boys are worth more because they have the skills assets and experience. The fact I can do at least some of the work the pro's do for maybe half or 2/3rd price - I'm still making a living at 500, 600 a week. Loads of people are less successful and still get along - gives me something to aim for - if I grow up I want to be a £1000 per week entrepeneur master tradesman type effort
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trouble with hedges is its not difficult work - you don't need £60k of assets on site, or be highly qualified. I know my hedgecutters are a cost spread over how long they last and a bit of fuel, tripod ladder, few bits of ply to surf on, tipper, no big deal. A tree surgeon good at reductions and technical dismantles, perhaps with his/her life savings in a yard and machinery - and a gardener working from home can both hold the machine and wave it about, although the tree surgeons results will be a geometric masterpiece - the gardener will just rasher off the growth and shrug off complaints about the rollercoaster top so I've heard anyway
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4.5 woman days
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My Ridgeline Moonsoon elite has been through brambles, but not rummaging in thorn hedges. Still nice and waterproof. Comfortable to work in sub 5C. If I was good at shoplifting I would get a Swazi
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so was 300 odd on Amazon, seems to be on sale for 90 odd here http://www.mypfc.co.uk/men-coat/jackets/snickers-18882604007-size-x-large-gore-tex-shell-jacket-yellowblack-gjk2a04i3.html?limit=25 not sure I'd want to use my debit card on that site, they haven't even completed the about us section on their site, possibly scammers
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Just get something cheap - if revolutionary waterproof fabric hits the market youll wish youd saved the 500 for that
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i messed up in a similar way but without pull rope, surrounding trees too close to let the top freefall and it found its way back to me, the twigs dragging down across my shoulders seemed to take forever
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great hook, I always remember the other one 'like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown' ha ha
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the betting firms must be doing well out of this "While you can’t bet on politics or entertainment props in the United States, you most certainly can in the offshore markets and especially in the United Kingdom, whose citizens seem to revel in wagering on what happens in Washington D.C. PaddyPower, an Ireland-based book, has seen a big swing this week on multiple Trump proposition bets. Most notably, on the prop of Trump ceasing to be president this year – via any means – PaddyPower moved from 10/1 down to 4/1. That means the bookmaker more than doubled the chances of Trump’s presidency ending in 2018. The odds of Trump being impeached slightly tightened, from 2/1 to 6/4, as did the odds of Trump leaving before his first term ends in 2020, from 6/4 to 5/4."
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seems to me if they used thicker plate and stronger pins the zigzag links would be up to the job without needing additional friction, although the device may then be prohibitively heavy to lift
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what i find hard is small diameter cuts , with everything wobbling about, or snapping, maybe i need to get in the big trees where you can lop a decent diameter off without it noticing
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Sorry i was trying to be humourous, i meant a pulley pruner that could swing round and cut at 90 to the pole, if one existed it would mean you could shorten the branch your stood on.
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something with a lopper head movable through 90 degrees that doesn't need a hydraulic hose to power it, or just be happy with internodal cuts
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bloody hell - their dogs were good, this Atlas thing jumping over the log, going to be much better than the groundie calling in sick coz he was caning it
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do a busmans holiday, you show them how to pilot a desk, they show you how to gid rid of unwanted woody plants
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A future iteration of sex dolls, even better than the real thing, complete with heating element round the old jubbler, only 500 credits
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Soz, my fault, best for me to lie low now n av a social media detox
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Don't forget Jews and blacks Didnt think the jews were noteworthy theives, unless you count the extortionate interest rates they charged as money lenders
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the gyp know an even cheaper way
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I'm no expert - but a road I work in has a big line of copper beech that were pollarded at about the size of yours, possibly bigger and the regrowth is now 4 to 6 inch diameter. Historically beech pollards were common, probably to get firewood. If you did it at Christmas as a kill or cure, you may end up with something you can take back to pollard knuckles at major forks by the top of the trunk every 3 years or so, and clear the trunk to suit your taste. Definitely try to initiate a pollard before a fell, such a beautiful colour. If it was pollarded it may be possible to trim the regrowth after 3 to 5 years as a lollipop shaped beech hedge one tree long, annual trim
