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RCK, I very much appreciated your videos - many thanks for sharing them as I now have a couple of new techniques. I was not so put off by the speed of your video, background noise and silent parts as Kevin mentioned, but perhaps that was because I am a little more familiar with CAD and although I was just watching the vids, I was able to follow/understand your instructions with ease. I think your point about not teaching the basics is correct ie this video may be basics +1, but with pausing the video, I don't think many people will go wrong. As an additional resource for people, I taught myself most of my CAD basics from AutoCAD Tutorials, Articles & Forums | CADTutor lots of good examples to follow (although not TCPs etc. as RCKs exellent vids!) There are ways you can get AutoCAD for free - particularly if you are on a HE course as you can get a free student trial version that is a full working version for a set period ie the length of your course. Obviously this comes with the conditions "it can only be used for educational purposes in accordance with the terms set forth in the applicable software license agreement or terms of service" - but of course, just learn/evaluate it and decide if you want your own copy later. Available here after registering. Many thanks for all this RCK - I will be tapping you up for some more insider knowledge soon!

Also interesting looking piece of kit. Thanks for the tip.

This camera is a good tip thanks, Ive been on the lookout for a set-up. How long do you get on average out of your 32G card? Do you have to empty/change it regularly or does this simply re-record over the older data?

So it would seem, but their dialogue at the booking stage states to 'pay the deposit in order to confirm the booking with the agent', which at best is misleading, or at the worst, is a form of obtaining money via deception, which is a criminal offence.

I wish I found this particular discussion on Shiply before using them! It seems they have a long history of this type of shenanigans, and have even changed their terms and conditions to be able to withhold the customers money. Needless to say, I have reported them to PayPal, Trading Standards and I am taking advice on whether there is enough of a case for small claims - which I doubt Shiply would contest...

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That made me smile. He has a way with words...

A general warning about using http://www.SHIPLY.com - they do not follow a business model that includes giving any sort of customer service, while also putting as many obstacles in your way to recover any deposit you have left with them. The background is this. I needed some equipment transporting between Manchester and the South Lakes as described in this thread. I placed an advert on Shiply and got a good price of a fairly local transport company to pick up on a back-load. I accepted his offer and placed a deposit to book this in. Unfortunately, the transporter then text messages me to say he cant do the job as he only has a flat-bed, and missed in my advert that I need a hi-ab. I was on the PC, so attempted to contact him via the messages portal on Shiply, only to find that Shiply prevents you from communicating with your transporter via the Shiply message portal once you have agreed a transport/paid a deposit. This is the first annoying obstacle placed in the way by Shiply. So, I text back and ask him for the deposit to be returned as I paid via Paypal - this should be straightforward. However, no. He says he cant return the money as Shiply holds the deposit until the order is paid in full. Hence the second Shiply obstacle. So, I instigate a dispute via Paypal. This involves a formal notice being sent to Shiply's monitored PayPal account. They do not respond. A few days pass, so I send them a message via the PayPal dispute portal. Again no response. I email their customer services, and send another PayPal message over a couple of days. Still no response. Level 3 on the Shiply obstacle scale. While all this was going on, of course I used the Shiply customer service helpline (020 3137 2454 - and apparently open from 9-6, M to F) to call and try to get my money back. Guess what is the problem here? No matter what option you select on the dial-a-number phone menu, you cannot get through to anyone at all to talk to. Give it a try yourself! Now this is a level 4 Shiply obstacle. One more level and we get to battle the end of level boss. Today, in a bid to power up for the end of level boss fight, I have sent them a warning email to every Shiply mail box I can find, that if they don't return my money within 24 hours, I will be instigating legal recovery. It's just a shot across the bow, which will possibly be met with this continued silence, but its actually the first step I need to do should I have to take this to small claims. So, what to learn from this fiasco? Well, I would suggest not using Shiply at all, but if you have to: Get transporters details from Shiply and contact them directly Dont pay a deposit! Agree terms/Dates/conditions with the transporter and pay directly In short, just use Shiply for browsing the ads/getting bids and put no business through their website I am sure I have PayPal protection, but there is a prolonged delay on this until you can recover the money. I have since googled "problems with Shiply" and surprise, surprise - there are various entries for can't get my deposit back from Shiply... Ultimately, I really object to Shiply not responding to any communication from me, for having all these obstacles in the way, and for sitting with my money in their accounts while they know the transaction has been cancelled and there is no transportation service being provided. The only recommendation I can make is to avoid, avoid, avoid!

After seeing this thread yesterday, I picked up a fan this morning. The sales attendant said they have been very popular but they still had a few left. As the posh ecofan comes in at over £100 usually and the version that this Aldi one is almost an exact copy of is around £50, I think its worth a punt in any case.

Perhaps not - but it was exactly my reaction too! I wholly second this view. It reads to me that the OP is generally concerned about the "horror stories" of "trees and buildings... in close proximity to each other", which I take to mean that she is worried bout subsidence issues (even though she doesn't mention it), but particularly so as Mrs Gib further refers to getting a buildings structural report. I've said it many times before on here - just because you have clay soils, it doesn't automatically mean they are the shrinkable types (ie with volumetric change potential as a response to moisture levels), so while the buildings structural report may be a sound route to go down to determine the build quality of the house, it wont address the potential issues of soil type and condition, which ultimately will determine if there is a cause for concern relating to trees/buildings and potential subsidence damage. All other concerns relating to trees/buildings, such as the perceived potential for catastrophic failure, amount of light that will be in the garden, or whether or not the trees will drop leaves, will be covered by a standard tree inspection, or in reality, not really be a cause for concern in any case. Again seconded - the structural engineers report will not (...or shouldn't!) discuss trees, and likewise, any decent arb report will not discuss the structure of the building other to report depths of foundations as discovered when excavating a root pit for instance. Its all about staying within your own scope of expertise. A point to Mrs Gib - as others have said, let us know where you are and someone will be able to provide the right service to you to help you resolve your issues. Amongst other things, subsidence investigations are work that I carry out within my line of business, but I usually only cover the NW of England for this. An indication of where you are will help greatly.

Sorry Dan, but your advice is precisely the sort of 'best intentions' information that gets people and the environment hurt. Sure, you can buy chems off the web. You can buy sprayers too as we both pointed out. Yes, there will be water/chem ratio on the label which will give a dosage rate, usually for boom spraying per hectare, which is not what is needed here, or you may just get lucky and get some knapsack sprayer information. What you dont get though from just buying from the web is the important information on how to handle all this properly. PA1/PA6 course will give you knowledge on: - how to store/handle/use/dispose chems properly - how to apply the correct amounts per individual (that's person not equipment) - how to work out flow/dosage rate per equipment (the effects of the person and the individual both make differences to amout of chems used) - what to do in the event of an emergency - what to do near watercourses - how to identify potential hazards and stop them from happening - how to stop too much harmful chemical getting into the environment - what is needed in terms of additional equipment to ensure the individual does not become contaminated on site - what to do to make sure the individual does not take contaminated chems off site (and into their home to poison their dog for instance) etc. etc. etc. This is not covered through buying items from the web and just having a bash. It is covered through undertaking proper training. By your own admission you have not bought chems, which I will presume (at my own risk) that you have not completed your training either. You advise the OP to buy Glyphosate - but then say nothing about the connection between Glyphosate and its carcinogenic risk, nor do you advise any PPE etc. which tells me further that you are not best informed about this particular situation. I don't feel it is correct to give people information on spraying potentially dangerous chemicals which can harm them, their local environment or their pets and loved ones, without a full understanding of the implications, or without encouraging proper training. Yes, I'm on my soapbox now, but I would not be comfortable giving out information that could potentially harm someone - perhaps you should show some restraint in similar situations.

Best with a knapsack sprayer as for flow rates/application etc. these are all specific to your sprayer and the chem used. As advised, book on a PA1/PA6 course and they will train you in their most effective use. There is too much to explain about this particular subject that could be covered in a few posts. I appreciate you may not want to do a course, but look at it this way, I should hope you dont want to put a lot of harmful chems into your local environment at potential risk to yourself and the immediate flora and fauna. Proper training is needed IMO.

40 years old and still amazing. I never tire of listening to this: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZyMx2NXZM[/ame] An absolute classic. Bit of a slow start with the crowd mostly asleep, then all rocking by the time the 3-way guitar duel kicks in! You don't get many 7 minute guitar solo's any more either. A massive shame what happened to the band mind...

Sorry, Tree Officer (at the council)

Certainly with BS5837 there is the potential for interpretation as crucially, these are only "recommendations".

In short, yes, this would be the usual course of action - although if very good other practices could be put in place that were obviously to the benefit of the plan/scheme, then the TO would potentially not insist on full adherence.

Low plasticity is not the same as being shrinkable. The plasticity rating refers to the potential water needed to turn the clay from an adhesive bound structure to a liquid state. So, low plasticity suggests that your soil remains more tightly bound in higher water states, so is therefore less likely to be a factor in land slip or whatever. Although similar, the shrinkability limit (SL) refers to the potential of the soil to change its volume as a response to water content, in the usual shrink-heave manner. High SL potential is only found in very few types of soil that are mainly in the south east, hence the names, London Clay, Oxford Clay, Gault Clay, Kimmeridge Clay etc. The relevant BS5837 and NHBC guidelines aim to prevent tree/building conflict in relation to clay with a high potential for shrink/heave and tree proximity, hence without shrinkable clay there is no case to argue IMO.

Good links Paul, but I feel you may have missed one, which is probably my preference. The other links do have some overlap, but LIS is more directed to tree management being the FC provision: Forestry Commission : GLADE : Land Information Search There are Welsh and Scottish versions on their respective FC sites.

I totally agree Joules. Any future management, ie standard tree care, will accommodate the usual perceived tree related issues. Without shrinkable clay in this instance, there is nothing else to be done IMO. The trees are a condition of planning. Retrospective changes are hard to implement without real evidence. To the OP, I suggest finding out specifically what soils you may have, this link would provide you with some coarse level indication of the types of soil you may have in your area (it is not absolutely definitive however!). Further to that, you can send away some soil to be analysed - usually 1kg is needed, and this will determine if you actually have shrinkable soil or not. There are several soil analysis services (ask Google...) that will be able to complete this analysis for you.

He best stay away from Pendle Hill - they would never let him out alive...

Id still not suggest a fell, just rebuild the walls as semi-circular alcoves with lintles where appropriate. Sent via the arbtalk app, hence the brevity...

This. Basically how everyone should pass courses - although sometimes people get some insider help. I'm interested to see what the course is and what help you need. The mention of money makes me think you are looking for a ghost writer for your assignments?

None of the above. This is the best solution in my opinion - assuming this is a garden wall or similar...

Well, you and me both it seems... Sent via the arbtalk app, hence the brevity...