openspaceman
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You miss the point entirely, it's not the inventiveness or technological ability we lacked but the commercial willingness and managerial ability to develop and prosper from it because of demands for short term returns. Whereas Germany has for decades had a policy of encouraging technological innovation by regional banks offering long term credit and family firms not playing to the whims of rich investors who might pull the plug at short notice.
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No, more the lax business ethos inherited from spoils of empire leading to unwillingness to forgo dividends in favour of investing in research and development.
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I don't doubt that but it may well be the reason our leaders of industry didn't evolve the way the German and Japanese ones did, it was too easy to plunder wealth from elsewhere so we've coasted ever since. When things got rough, paying the americans back after the war, industry was not resilient enough to meet the challenge
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my dolmar blower did this and I mentioned it here and the advice was it was coil related, as I had stripped the fuel system and carb. I put it away and forgot about it as coil was too expensive. When I finally got it out to fix it I first put a new plug in, it has rin perfectly since. I keep the dodgy spark plug for when someone annoys me...
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look up oak bracket fungus
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Good drainage, a bit of lime from the cement and little compaction because of the bricks I wouldn't worry much. It would be other contaminants amongst it I would be concerned with.
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Ok thanks for that. So if I am breaking the law by not having a second climber present, under what circumstances could or would I be prosecuted? For instance if I did have an accident leading to injury or worse and the HSE found out, would they still come after me even if no-one else was involved? As Jamie Jones says it's not climbing by yourself I was taking issue with but rather that as soon as anyone is helping you you take responsibility for them, so EL is a legal requirement.
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No it isn't EL is a legal requirement in that circumstance
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Robert Strouts came out to us to see why a few limes planted as an avenue were dying and decided it was honey fungus from infected chestnut tree stakes that were the cause, he used it as a example with picture in his book. Similarly the curator at RFS Wisley would not allow stump grinding and had stumps excavated and burned as he was worried about fungal attack. He was less worried about using leaf mould from road sweeping until the simazine started killing stuff ?
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Yes but the proposal was that the price would go up, which it will due to lack of supply of labour, but because the price-demand curve for a luxury good is shallow a small rise in price leads to a much larger reduction in demand. When I started (delving into arb from forestry) the demand was growing from the post war boom in the economy. There were few climbers. As the demand grew colleges churned out more climbers and more firms offered arb services, competition thus drove down prices as the demand increased . Of course with H&S considerations costs have increased so profitability has further decreased.
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Maybe soon but I've sent some photos to a couple of dealers to see if they are interested in buying them and I'm still waiting for replies.
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1974 1164
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Even I am not tight enough to keep using that
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With that grain I'd say an acer now
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No they wouldn't because arboriculture is a luxury service and the elasticity of demand is such that much of the work wouldn't get done at higher prices
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I was told strimmer head grease could be used in hedgecutter but not vice versa
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Being tight I didn't used to change mine till the bottom of the drivelink marked the bottom of the sprocket.
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This. Anyway even superannuated me gets paid £125 minimum for branch dragging. When I started climbers and arborculturists were few on the ground, now I'm bound to see three or four on the road to work, this meant wages were at a premium and more than train drivers. Now train drivers command a decent salary that is more than most in our industry do (albeit with antisocial hours and more responsibilities).
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I was thinking the hybrid between cerris and suber, one of the lighter ones like "diversifolia" there's one half a mile away if I remember to have a look.
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I agree . i dribble a bit of chain oil on mine before use
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That's because the stuff gets displaced by the ecentric action that reciprocates the blades, it doen't mean there’s not enough grease in the gearbox.
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looks like lime to me but the smell should be distinctive
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yes they did
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Erik that looks great. Is the cabin their normal home of just for vacations? What species is it made from, how old and the roof shingles?
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The Stihl grease tube screws into the thread on the other Stihl hedge cutters is the battery one different?
