kevinjohnsonmbe

It’s not always (directly) the fault of the tractor / driver (or the lorry or the digger or the crane etc). I totally accept that and that’s what the company boss was alive to when I spoke to him today. But the bigger the vehicle the more should be the responsibility of the driver of it - it has the potential to do so much damage. I’m firmly of the mind that we should all drive on the assumption that there is a complete fwit around every corner because one day (today for me) you will meet one. My mate lives up that lane and drives it like a lunatic, if it had been him driving today we’d have both been toast! From 2000-2013 UK road deaths have fallen from an average around 3.5 to 1.7k / PA. That’s a lot of people not getting home from work. Ease off a touch and get home safe....

Frightened I’d imagine. Big adrenaline hit followed by a good raging at, then a phone call from his Guv’nor who also had the right hump. I should imagine (hope) he pulled up round the corner and changed his gorillas. The boss was pretty savage, although he did say he gets numerous complaints and it’s not always the tractor drivers fault. I understand that, there are some career moaners out there. I’ll ask him how the driver relayed the incident to him, if he tried to blag it, I’ll show him the vid.

That’s me SOL for a while now! All used up.

Speed, downhill momentum, a slippery road surface and a blind bend.... It was bloody close! I’m seriously wondering if I should just send it to his boss or wether I should send it to HSE. If it had been a dotty old maid or a school-run-mum I think it could have been a fatal. What if the yoof doesn’t learn from a life experience and keeps going like a maniac? I’ll speak to the boss again tomorrow and show him the vid. What would the AT massive do? I’m struggling with this one.

Very nearly lost it Mr E!

I was on my way for a fry-up! Didn’t want to delay and was seriously in danger of losing my temper.

The very few words he was able to get in were.... "it's the weight...." I think my reply was something like "no it *****ing isn't, its the speed you little ****!"

For him, it was lucky it was just a boy, otherwise it'd have been farmer without a block!

Came pretty close today.... Lucky the sound was off, bit of a red mist moment.

needs a tug? What are you having sent aloft... the truck??

No worries! Time I had a re-read too!

How to try and be constructive without pouring cold water on the concept? Tricky.... (1) It comes across as a not particularly well conceived attempt (I'm guessing by the educational institution) at a student project for the sake of a student project rather than as having any real beneficial output for the industry. (2) It's EXCEPTIONALLY rare that a truly unique, innovative, 'must have' product can be identified, R&Dd and delivered to any sector of industry - most of it has already been done before or is exposed as a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. (There are exceptions to this rule obviously, but they happen after some serious thought, research and investment.) I had a look through the survey and agree the comments of Mr Blair. If you want people to spend some time on it, it needs to look like some effort has been put into it. Apologies for the negative feedback (but times money) and you're asking for input from busy people....

Reminded me of this one from 2014 in Plymouth Steve. Perhaps it could have done similar but it had to be cleared because the remaining part was in danger of going the other way towards the house! I guess it's only really suitable to leave them if its an open grown park tree with plenty of space. Shame in hindsight...

Not a recent event, but first time I'd seen this one at Lanhydrock House yesterday. 2 huge lower limb tear-outs well established into their new position. Imagine if it just kept doing the same thing every 100 years or so...

Good question and good response! An hour is a sensible radius for travel. I’d do similar (S Devon / Cornwall for me) Maybe with a few MO owners making it known where they might cover and what attachments they can offer in Arb / landscaping work there could be a mutually beneficial co-op with other Arb outfits. On the right job a MO is doing <5 men’s work by my reckoning!

I’m on the same page I think John. Certainly not in disagreement! Not that you did, but I do get frustrated with the inequality of the equality argument.

Mmmm... you’re probably right John. But to discriminate, criticise, condem someone for the circumstances of their birth could be thought of as a disgraceful act of racial prejudice..... Unless they happen to be white, male, middle aged and from a ‘priviledged’ back ground - then the people that appear to be so agitated about such issues of ‘equality’ seem to forget their sensibilities. Just an observation, not saying Boris isn’t a liability, just that ‘hate’ has many faces....

Kernow...

This question came up previously... Is my memory right in thinking if the council do do (do-do!) an attempt at a proceeds of crime recovery, they bear all the costs (and potential for failure) but don't see any of the money if it is successful? If that's the way it works, it would be no wonder if the council aren't keen to take all the risks / costs / work for no apparent gain (notwithstanding the deterrent effect.)

Keep it local!

Good luck with that! It’s addictive! The more you use it, the more useful it becomes!!

Wasn't it a case of Trump's weird address to the Boy Scouts that caused Tillerson to call him a moron? Maybe that was the final straw? Trump - NK? Was Obama- NK a good scenario? I have passive support for the Catalans. I like 'Localism.' But, it seems to be quite a contrary scenario though... EU - Social democratic Spain - Spanish Socialist Workers Party / Peoples' Party Catalonia - predominantly Socialist Is this Lefties taking a dump on Lefties? What's not to like??

Anyone think the potential near future in Spain could be more directly relevant and important than the (seemingly) quiet situation in N Korea?

There's so much more in 'that' book which I really enjoyed. I can't type it all up, and you probably wouldn't read it if I did. The 'problem' with humans, is that some want to get on, some can't be arsed and some want a free ride. The trouble with those that want to 'get on' is that, sometimes, and to massively varying degrees, 'someone' has to take a slice of brown pie so that the other can get on. How do we get over that problem? I wake up at night with double leg cramps but I'm supposed to feel empathy for some waster that does SFA all day? The wasters are shouting the loudest at the moment so far as I can see... Should we look at politicians like football managers? 1 bad game and you're fired? Which politicians would that leave us from the current batch? Not sure what the question is there.... I would send you the book if you fancy - it's in the "Freeman on the Land" principles. It's well outside my 'usual' genres, but like it I really did! Especially as the next in the hoist was Tommy Robinson's 'Enemy of the State.' What was really interesting, like listening to LBC, was that all the moral outrage was totally one sided. If you took all the principles and moral outrage from the FMotL concept, then applied them to the way the "Enemy of the State" was treated, there'd be Vendetta mask wearing career anarchists in waves outside the Palace of Westminster! (If we're still talking Boris) He's thinking at a different level... He's quantifiably psychopathic (according to my previous reference)... Is it his problem if 'we' don't get it, or is it our problem for not thinking at his level? Open question, I'm asking myself.... He's quantifiably psychopathic! What's the opposite of that? And what would happen if everyone was the opposite? Would that be Communism / Socialism? Does that work??