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  1. GarethM
    Didn't he say he built it from a box, I'd say the guarantee is about as good as a chocolate teapot. Even more so if it's his 2nd.
  2. GarethM
    Why not tell us what it is!.
  3. GarethM
    Shot bearing would be my 1st guess.
  4. GarethM
    I don't think anyone would care in particular, but it always to have a rapport with wherever you're training. Obviously it's a business like any other, it sometimes helps things move smoothly 🙂.
  5. GarethM
    Erm, is Megan sending you out day labouring?. Anywho, personally I'd bite the bullet and pay the extra. Looks better to keep it all in one spot, even with a night or two in cheap digs 🙂.
  6. GarethM
    Sadly the world can't all be in management positions. There are also plenty of those that just can't do much better than minimum wage.
  7. GarethM
    What are you trying to prove, self employed=no overtime, it's just time. Those on low pay do rely on it tho, especially when it comes to paying for holidays or Christmas etc.
  8. GarethM
    I'm not sure about their tax system, i.was under the assumption most people had to submit their own tax thing in the USA every year, as they don't have a simplistic PAYE. Sure it's the no taxation without representation argument. The IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have to file their taxes? THECONVERSATION.COM A tax expert explains why the US continues to use such a complex and costly income tax system.
  9. GarethM
    It was best described as a country founded by Protestant or Quaker Christians types in a documentary. If you're not working, sleeping or praying you'll burn in hell. It's an engrained mindset that generally those who do well career wise have taught out of them, as a country they lack our history and reason for having so many bank holidays.
  10. GarethM
    It's an easy fix to put more money into people's pockets if they aren't taxed over time and doesn't impact businesses. You will never change for example the number of bank holidays, you've 300million people to convince, look at the argument for a NHS they had in the 70/80s. They just claimed it was all communist, similar arguments around the whole IRS instead of a simplistic HMRC PAYE system. The holiday thing is mostly the poor, those in middle class and higher government jobs take holidays and those are the ones who go abroad. Those that are poor are almost stigmatized for taking them.
  11. GarethM
    Reality is Trump can't change the holiday mentality, it's hundreds of years of built into the system stupidity. The low cost solution by reducing tax on overtime is an easy fix and hurts nobody.
  12. GarethM
    Go have a look at holiday entitlement over there, especially for the lower paid it's horrendous.
  13. GarethM

    Echo CS-2511

    GarethM replied to D Seaman's topic in Chainsaws

    Wouldn't that be the repair or carb rebuild manual and not the pre delivery inspection ?. @pleasant might have a better understanding dealer wise. But every piece of equipment I've ever bought from stihl was just assembled out of the box and fired up by the dealer. Don't even think the fuel mix was ever adjusted?.
  14. GarethM
    Take a breath and read the sodding thread, it's in a woodland on a golf course.
  15. GarethM
    You get one free pass what with it being on the bosses orders, but wouldn't they take your hard Scottish passports away instead of the wussy Man card ? 😉. I thought they put central heating users on some form of questionable watch lists, their version of the American communist kinda thing?.
  16. GarethM
    What's the weight of the Jensen ?.
  17. GarethM
    As you being arsey, I said "Anything over 8". For the simple fact a 10" chipper with just an engine is going to weigh what 2ton plus the 7.5 ton hgv to drag it's arse around ?. Plus tracks etc, Vs a 10" PTO at what less than a ton with a nice comfy tractor adding say another 4.
  18. GarethM
    Return your "Man" card immediately!. It's that warm & sunny outside I'm actually sweating on the log pile. That's from a man that gets called nesh sleeping in a god only knows how many 15+ togg winter duvet all year round and still feels cold.
  19. GarethM
    I just picked a brand at random, I've no skin in the game regarding chippers. Just an old TP tractor mounted, a lifesaver in my woodland. In my mind a 3 point mounted version for use deep in the woodland avoids have one more engine to maintain and fuel, tracks to replace etc. Plus I have somewhere to hide when it's break time or more likely downpour time, about 50/50.
  20. GarethM
    Surely anything over 8" is getting into tractor territory as it'd probably need 100Hp. An 8" Forst is what pushing 50HP
  21. GarethM
    From using in a big boiler, decent bed of embers and small scoops, once done don't open the door until it's disappeared or you can get a flare up.
  22. GarethM

    Advice please

    GarethM replied to Aled's topic in General chat

    A hiding to nowhere.
  23. GarethM

    Jokes???

    GarethM replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    Obviously a spare, as you always end up dropping one when you're doing something important. Unless you can do that string on each end thing you do with children's gloves ?.
  24. GarethM
    I'm not spoiling for anything, I've better things to do with my day. I've 300 of the bloody things stacked up and drying
  25. GarethM
    How the hell did you get a two car sized shed in the garden.

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