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Gary Prentice

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  1. Gary Prentice
    You’ll have to explain. Not a clue what you mean Eggs
  2. Gary Prentice
    And me.
  3. Gary Prentice
    Who are all these people? Offer something for nothing and all these lurkers appear - 1 post in several years - way to go Steve.
  4. Gary Prentice
    And the interconnectivity isn't just local you know! They're talking to each other, I tell ya!
  5. Gary Prentice
    We've a small site job monday at Sutton Manor, St Helens. Is there anywhere local that will take woodchip and timber (Sycamore and a small birch) With thanks in anticipation
  6. Gary Prentice
    I very much doubt, that they would have appreciated it then though, to be fair.
  7. Gary Prentice
    Is it C? The MS880.
  8. Gary Prentice
    LGBT+ now Mick, don't forget the +
  9. Gary Prentice
    Now now Stubby! Although invoicing that way would be quite profitable. " The job was £100, but I only did half of the work, so that's £200. I'll take away some of that figure, so it'll be £260. So the total cost is £300.00. Can I run you to the cash point?
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    With your ability to massage figures like that Vesp, you should be a politician, or a mob accountant. If we're reading the same article, 5% of the prison population (Not 7%) that identify themselves as Romany, Gypsy or traveller includes women. So take women out, be generous and say they account for half of your 7%. How does dividing by 2 double the numbers? So 3.5% are male, take away those <10 & >30. Now bear with me, take numbers away and the original number gets smaller! You're guessing at 28%, and then saying that thirty percent of the male traveller/Romany/Gypsy population are thieves! If you're going to be clever and use empirical data to prove a point, you need to be a bit less obvious in your creative accounting methodology.
  11. Gary Prentice
    I hear ya! mine was four months overdue, when I realised. Now marked on my google calendar
  12. Gary Prentice
    Renewing road tax is such a great reminder about MOT certificates
  13. Gary Prentice
    Thanks Mick. We had a vented tank/cap off and only a little bit of welding to do. So presumably not too much in the way of heat build up. TBH, neither the mechanic or I even considered that risk.
  14. Gary Prentice
    I thought we'd forgotten something when we welded ours! Is hydraulic oil a real high risk?
  15. Gary Prentice
    Nicking stuff is a job to a certain percentage of the population. And generally, they're good at it.
  16. Gary Prentice
    Seatbelts and sofas contain all the essential food groups, don’t they?
  17. Gary Prentice
    Mine managed to eat all four seatbelts when I left them in the car for ten minutes. And the arm of a leather sofa!
  18. Gary Prentice
    Just wondering, had all the pages except hornbeam fallen out of the tree book?
  19. Gary Prentice
    Not forgetting to alternate hands.
  20. Gary Prentice
    Definitely the most unusual reason that I've heard. please, no pics!
  21. Gary Prentice
    I'll get back to you on this, Janey. Later today. Maybe..
  22. Gary Prentice
    Thought that was just leaving the pub!
  23. Gary Prentice
    Maybe they need better trained groundsmen, or to adapt their methods to make life easy for the lads on the floor so there's little to do when they're done.
  24. Gary Prentice
    Without a doubt Steve, but they are odd days IME There should probably be a fourth category, the S/E climber - I don't remember doing the easy stuff so much when I was S/E. Lets have everyones order though, not just hardest, and what their normal job is. I'd like to see if climbers rank climbing as hardest, groundsman grounding and cutters cutting to see how much bias there may be
  25. Gary Prentice
    Just out of interest, and after reading a post on the number of trees that a decent hand-cutter will/could/should do per hour (30!), what's peoples opinions on the hardest/most physical job in arb/forestry? To start the debate, being from an arb background I'd rate the order as hardest - hand-cutter, easiest -climber. I'm not talking about the ivy infested dead tree/big rigging jobs in soaring/freezing temperatures, but the general day to day average jobs. (And lets leave all the mechanical/plant assistance out of the equation too! )

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