kevinjohnsonmbe

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??

I think (a) naturally follows (b)

Not excusing it Mick. Recognising it.

I think you're spot on Gary! I had to dig back to a book I read recently and I'd like to share a passage from it. 2 reasons really, 1, because I think you're spot on with Boris and 2, that I think (if the extract is to be believed) many more of us than actually think so might share some psychopathic tendencies. Veronica: of the Chapman family, 2010, Freedom is more than just a seven-letter word, 2nd Ed, Milton Keynes, Tamare House. Chapter 5: Global Elites/Psychopaths "...I'll simply quotes ONE, verifiable, medical/genetic statistic: "One in every 25 people are born psychopathic." That's a quote from the studious works of Psychologist Andrew M. Lobaczewski. See his book Political Ponerology: a science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (1998). Since there are 4 x 25 in every hundred, this means 4 people in every hundred, or 4% of the total population are psychopathic. According to my arithmetic, and taking the population of the United Kingdom as 60 million people, that means there are 2,400,000 psychopaths out there. Does that mean 2.4 million 'axe murderers'? Well no, not exactly, as you will see, but it does mean that there is the potential for 2.4 million 'axe murderers'. Phychopaths-in-society tend to be much more subtle. (And get a heck of a lot further than axe murderers, as we will see). It all comes down to what a psychopath actually is. Put simply it is a person who has conscience. No compassion towards others. No empathy towards them. Unable to feel guilt, or shame. How does this occur? It occurs because of the lack of a gene in such a person's DNA. The gene that creates 'feelings towards others'..." The book is a fascinating read and the passage extracted above is only a snippet of the whole chapter which I found truly enlightening. On the off chance anyone wants a lend, I'd be happy to mail out so long as it comes back.

I've got the front flail and have sometimes wished i'd got the side variant but I understand what you mention above.

Are you perhaps cutting him a bit of a tough deal there Mark? Not disagreeing just for the sake of it (unusually) serious question... No doubt what he said could be (has been) described as tactless and crass, but is it disdain for human life? Those that are dead are already dead, those that aren't, well, they aren't. Are we better hand-wringing over those that have passed already (maybe if it leads to a change in the way such issues are addressed in the future) or are we better trying to look to the future. Or are we better just keeping the hell out of it - for better or worse?

Hang on there.... What happened to: "...We've all been sat in the middle of the dead tops looking 20' to each side at the regrowth wanting to plunge a topper into our heart and end it all...." Have you been going out the house all kitted up, spent the day in the pub, then grabbed some random hedgerow greenery to stuff down your shirt before you get home......???

Alright Mr E, I'll look at it another way.... He's been sipping Champagne and eating canapés today.... I had to get undressed outside before coming indoors because I was that clagged up with concrete dust.... He's cleverererer than me!! PS - barring the Queens speech thingy - I'd be a bit too close to a glass house to criticise him for the things you mention!!

Stupid, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, isn't Mr E. Educated at Eton and Oxford, President of the Oxford Union, journalist with the Times, editor of the Spectator, London Mayor and Foreign Secretary.... Lest we forget, he had a cult like following as London Mayor - crowds chanting his name and I think it'd be a fairly safe bet that he WILL be PM one day. I doubt he actually says much without thinking it through fully beforehand. Some of what he says will not be popular with some people but with a CV like his, I also doubt he cares about trying to please all the people all the time. We all know that's just not possible!

Have you used the side flail in the pic Richy or is it a screen grab? There's a discussion about flails here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/864020940410560/?ref=bookmarks