GarethM
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Because the MSM types are all pretty much anyone but Trump. Same with most high profile actors & celebrities, zero clue about actual policy or how the world works as they all live in a bubble. But trump probably has the military vote after his jab speech.
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Everyone raves about them on YouTube, then they seem to go almost radio silence about it afterwards. Personally I went pto chipper, salvage what's usable and everything else gets blasted. Prefer rocking up in a field and removing most of a tree, leaving just a stump at most, would love a grinder but I'll let nature it that 🙂
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I'll be 1st to say it makes terrible fuel. Save your money and chip it
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Granted you can use the argument for all industries including cars, tractors and microchips. Whilst not necessarily knock offs, they sell the die and manufacturing equipment to the competition in say Japan and china for a tidy sum once it's say 5 years behind your current product. Everyone benefits, whilst you're loyal customer base buys the newer and usually better products. The special sauce is usually how it's machined and metallurgy rather than just a patent
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Plus you don't actually need to own a shotgun to have a certificate. But it's good for the grandkids, when you fancy a rare day out with the clays. Makes borrowing or using a club gun or relatives easier. I'd actually recommend anyone with kids to get them a certificate, as soon as possible as it makes section 1 easier with history.
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Personally, yes it's a faff but better to keep it active just incase the mood changed 🙂. Even a crusty old shotgun isn't costing more than a couple of hundred quid every 5 years.
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It's more a check of your records than an actual medical. Whilst not a legal requirement, the FEO have pretty much made it a default requirement even more so for Section 1. Usual blame shifting I thinks, since 2019 approximately as in the past they just asked them to say something. But, usual dr's unless it's a few quid they won't say so made it another form filling exercise, providing your ok and not on antidepressants or migraine meds they'll have very few questions. Get a digital copy and keep it too. Plus some drs can refuse to do it.
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Whilst at the same time everything else gets more expensive and things don't increase.
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Granted if they're paying for digs you usually get an allowance for evening meal, breakfast if it's not included in the digs plus lunch. Think my lot gave £20 for evening meal and maybe a fiver for lunch and breakfast. If you're only away for 2/3 nights that's not too bad, I had a lot that wanted us in Livingston for 10 days straight. We lost staff like flies, me included as there's only so many hours of netflix!.
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I'd try hooking up a small 1000w heater or something around the house to see how it fairs. But a small pump is only going to give you a few hundred litres a minute at zero head
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So charge what you would for a 3/4 days ?. Double pay is 2 days, plus 1 for recovery, plus the cost of the road stuff.
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Petrol definitely will always have the grunt and volume. Anything other than a 230v will probably be quite glacially slow but it's only 1000 litres, what about something like a hose lock water butt pump running of an inverter ?. Benefit being you can use a hosepipe.
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Reality is security have no more powers than any other shop worker or citizen, whilst a visual deterrent to your average chancer and getting paid more for a uniform. It's probably better to just have two extra members of staff, unless you go USA style and have everything locked up behind glass. Granted there's a bargain booze like that near Manchester airport, it's like Argos behind plexiglass.
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We've all been there in our yoof, in my 20s I was a mobile engineering type covering the whole of the UK excluding London/South East. 1000s miles a week wasn't unusual, so 12+ hour days with two 3 hour jobs per day with an hour's drive in-between, excluding emergency weekend call outs to the south east repairing some else's bodged jobs. Mileage got so bad they couldn't insure the lease van and I ended up in a hatchback, plus side I was paid milage whilst running LPG. These days anything more than 40 miles away and the next day I'll pay the price physically and be rewarded with a cracking headache. Plus I think today's roads are worse, I remember doing the snake pass almost every day and at cough cough speed. You can't even do the 40 let alone the 60+ of the past.
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If it's a diesel Karcher even the lead on the machine gets a bit warm, 2.5mm should be fine.
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Yeah, stainless can be a right pain in the arse compared to aluminium ones. Have you tried the next size up length wise, sometimes it's better to use the longer size with a washer on the inside. Also helps to reinforce the hole and spread the force so they're less likely to rip through and come loose.
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I'm guessing the nail was getting stuck inside the mechanism?. I have had that happen usually when the rivets aren't the correct compression length for the application, so you end up going to town and it locks onto the mandrel.
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Wouldn't it be a fuel pump version as the tanks usually a way from the engine ?
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They do a little keyring one for climbing
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And the emperor's new clothes are so resplendent.
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Probably over pruned my holly
GarethM replied to Unfortunate Fool's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Personally I'd prune them both to ground level, being 3 ft to the wall and 6 ft from the house will not be good in the long term. Maybe a hedge or a few shrubs but not holly. Something that's easy to remove if it gets large without a root system that'll undermine the house or the footpath. -
Concreting or tree work?
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I thought every fly by nights tool of choice was a pole saw ?
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Whilst it's been a long time since I was an apprentice, albeit briefly as back then it was like £70 a week but that came with conditions. I don't think your actually employed as an apprentice, they're usually government funded and these things come with lots of strings attached to prevent what's happening. Or tax breaks, I'm sure someone will have a better explanation?.
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Shouldn't you also be going to college as part of the apprenticeship as I presume you're not on full wage ?.
