Gary Prentice

When I see people on their phones while driving I slam on the horn which gives them a cheeky little shake up. Only when it's safe to do so of course When I used to ride bikes, tapping on the window at 60mph did a bit more than shake some people up... In retrospect, pretty stupid thing to do (before anyone says) but it did bring their focus back to their surroundings real quick.

7622 posts! I'd assess your ability to express your feelings as more than adequate, and having read many of those I'd deny that your vocabulary is in any way limited.

That would be me

The quid in a trolley doesn't bother me, I can live with that, but I refuse to do self service. I've been directed to them with alcohol (once!) and you then need an assistant to verify you're over 18. I've tried putting a £50 note in - they don't accept them! Something always fails to scan, or scans twice, or doesn't include the 'meal deal price' or something else. I'd rather queue and amuse myself at the person in front searching their handbag for the purse/ the exact change/loyalty card etc

I hate it when..... profanity is used unnecessarily in day to day conversation. Maybe it's just more common in Suffolk

I hate it when I should be doing something productive, like now, but think 'I'll just see what's on arbtalk' and then .......

Yep, testing belt tension on a running engine is a very bad idea...

I googled 'how to meditate' at half three this morning - I don't sleep well. No self realisation but it got me back to sleep

Don't know why we never did that, our mechanic knocked up a little jig thingy to do the same thing

Might be a bit too modern compared to what you started with, but how about this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-cross-cut-2-man-saw/202144687957?hash=item2f10c32755:g:uCIAAOSwDkVZ~fP5

You can test the sensor by swopping the ‘flywheel’ one over to test the hood. (The sensors are both the same) If the flywheel sensor sensor is off , the rollers will only operate in reverse but the engine will run IIRC

Redwoods service department said both sensors, the hood and one on the flywheel pulley, should be a gapped to the thickness of a pound coin.

Yeah, innit!

Wonder how many modern saws will be around in twenty, thirty years?

Reading some of the opinions/posts in The Lounge, quite possibly...

Can’t moan at 37 years

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I think that’s really bad practice! As soon as someone starts the chipper, those mugs are going to fall off and break.

I think there may be a bit more to this than meets the eye. The reporting is really bad, a 'council spokesman said that there should have been fencing up with signs saying that the trees were protected by a TPO'? Since when! Reading between the lines, I think there's been a failure to maintain protective fencing, which had resulted in damage to the trees (which were TPO'd) and then the council may have had to consent removal due to this. So a contractor would have carried out the work legally, but the prosecution of the developers was due to wilful damage - resulting in the loss of the trees.

Fines go to central government

Fletcher stewart marketed another manufacturers chipper under the Kwik chip livery and name. Gibsons at, I think, Nelson or Colne are the 'go to' people now. Maybe email some photos for an ident?

Visiting family and drinking theirs?

He's alright, it was delivered yesterday

I apologise for the sharpness of my previous post, it was late and I was tired, not that that excuses anything. I don't deny that losing mature large species trees in the urban environment is ever a great thing. I also acknowledge that planting new trees and getting them established to grow to maturity is also very difficult. But don't we have to be a bit pragmatic. Many of the large street trees now reaching maturity were planted at a time when traffic volumes were much lower, underground utilities were far fewer and the roads weren't being dug up every other week. There was also a lot more public tolerance to nuisance issues such as shading, seasonal tree related subsidence, satellite/tv reception etc. I just look at the American streets with large trees, wide grass verges and concrete walkways and big front gardens and compare them with our urban streets. Bill Anderson was actually quoting some figure that demonstrate that if Sheffield had had a proactive tree policy over the last twenty years, during that period of time they would have removed and replaced more trees than Amey are actually doing now. And that would have been just good management, to rejuvenate the tree stock and create a good range of age classes throughout the population. That's food for thought. I drive around Manchester regularly and look at the tree stock there. Similarly there is a lot of infrastructure damage, unsuitable trees for locations, trees in poor health, poorly and excessively pruned due to complaints from nearby residents. Chalara is just becoming apparent, Horse chestnuts with leaf miners and blight. We're going to see enormous changes over the next ten and twenty years - we are going to have to and it's got to be accepted whether the people like it or not.Hopefully the Manchester councils will have learnt something from this Sheffield debacle.

I don't and can't remember where I read it. I'll email Bill and ask him and see if I can post it here. EDIT: After looking at the first three videos on your Facebook page, I don't think I'll bother. I've no intention to pandering to your agenda in any way, shape or form. Your videos, no matter how you attempt to justify them, are so overtly biased I'm having no part of it. I'll debate this subject with anyone, but I'm sure that your intentions are simply to use whatever comments you can gather here and to present them elsewhere to support your own aims. I'm out!