Billhook

Yes the age thing creeps up on you doesn't it! I suppose there cannot be a crime in thinking about what you might like to do even though the actual physical side may not be threatening! There would be a lot of people in prison if thinking about it was a crime

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How would you fancy your chances against a dozen ladettes on the street corner shouting "Whooaarr, show us yer twelve inch bar" or " 'AV you gotta woody mate" I used to try and deal with gangs of women from Boston Docks who were potato picking and if they thought you needed a lesson they were quick to go into action. Luckily I could run a bit faster in those days, but boy were they rough../

Just wondered how much of this has been identified. Perhaps not so much racist or insulting Leave/Remain voters It could be due to this new initiative in Nottingham https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/13/nottinghamshire-police-count-wolf-whistling-hate-crime I do not know any women who are upset by a wolf whistle. Usual response when asked is that they quite enjoy the complement, especially as they age! The thought of one of you young bronzed lads, muscles rippling, confidently striding past a group of girls and comments such as "I'd like to see what that guy has in his lunch box" leading to reporting it to the police as a hate crime is a bit oxymoronic. In the report it says any unwanted verbal communication could be construed as a hate crime. What next? "Can we have the next dance?" "Can I buy you a drink?" "Fancy going to the movies?" If the woman just does not fancy the guy, is it now a hate crime?

Looks as though you have a fair amount of trees there to keep you busy!

Just wondered what the great minds of Arbtalk thought about air travel in general. We seem to have a troubled World where the choice of destination is becoming more and more limited, vindicated by the amount of people choosing to take their holidays in the UK. Northern Africa is mostly out, Middle East not good, Russia, Paris, Southern France and now any Church. This is a project fear that really works however brave a face politicians want to put on it. With all this in mind and the fears of global warming, pollution and energy conservation will we be looking at any expansion of any airport as a complete folly in the future?

I tried to move four oaks about four inched diameter at chest height. They were growing well around the edge of a lake, I had planted them in 1996 but they were too close and needed thinning. I picked the best looking ones and put them into some parkland as specimen trees. I used a Vermeer TS44 treespade which seemed to be boss of the job. They seem to move well but they did not survive as they all had developed a big tap root when they were by the lake which was severed by the Vermeer. I moved other trees successfully but oaks are prone to this tap root problem. If I was going to try and move another similar oak I would put the spade in and out a year before I moved it but it must be better to find one with a proper root ball. In your case a bit of investigation with an air spade might be the answer

Ibuprofen can trigger heart failure, experts warn

Do you think that it has been the subject of some topiary in the past as it doesn't seem to have any long branches giving it a well balanced shape which may have helped it survive.

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I am over sixty now and I used to have a lot of back pain in my twenties and thirties which I do not have so much of now. Lessons learned over sixty years 1. I always start the day with a 4 mile bike ride which includes two steep hills so that most muscles are warm before starting physical work and the body system has been given a chance to work properly 2 With chainsaws most of the work I can do with the smallest Stihl 170s so I am not carrying something around that is too heavy/noisy/powerful/ vibration prone. Try and buy the best antivibration saw, wear ear defenders and good gloves 3 Really consider what I am doing before I try to lift something and if the forklift/hydraulic grab is there use it. If the peavey is there use it. 4 I try to miniimise the handling when cutting up a tree so that once the branches are stacked on the muck grab I do not have to lift them again until I take them out of the ton box and put them on the fire. The muck grab presents them to the Palax Combi in much the same way as a log deck. 5 Do not soldier on after a minor injury just to prove what a man you are in front of your workmates. 6 I do not use ibruprofen as I need to know what is hurting 7. Once you have a bad back or neck I have found that massage and chiro only relieve while they are being administered and often I am back to square one by the time I have driven home. With backs and necks the solution for me is to strengthen the muscles around those areas with exercises which will hopefully hold the vertebrae apart so the nerves are not trapped so easily. Once the damage has been done it will never be quite the same but you can help a lot by strengthening exercises My recovery time now is much shorter when I have the warning "twinge"

'Weapon of mass deception': Tony Blair and the Chilcot inquiry - how newspapers in Britain and around the world reacted I wrote the only letter I have ever written to the press after it was announced that the Americans had put up a $20 million reward for Saddam Hussein dead or alive, just as though it was some Western movie. My letter went something like "if I found Saddam lurking in my shrubbery and shot him dead because I assumed he had weapons of my destruction on him, would I be able to claim the $20 million reward or would I end up like Tony Martin" My point being that if we were legally at war I would be legally able to shoot him but if as I suspect we were not legally at war I would be in prison. They never printed the letter

Can you put up a youtube video of how it works and results please?

I expect Roys will enjoy his bottle of Single Malt!

We still have many letters from the First World War. My Grandfather Jim was wounded in April 1916 at Souchez near Arras, and the gangrene which followed the shrapnel wound in his foot eventually led to his leg being amputated in July in Oxford. He was still a skeleton in November and it killed him in the end in WW2 when my father was away with the RAF and Grandfather overbalanced while cutting branches by a pond, fell in and drowned in a few inches of water having hit his head on a rock. These are letters from the Somme written by Harry Wayman to his great friend my Gt Grandfather also Harry. They would both be about sixty at the time. Written in pencil enclosed in an envelope which read “Field Post Office” “Field Censor Passed” “ On Active Service” “Examined” BEF France 6/5/1916 My Dear Harry Thanks many for your letter. I haven’t seen Jim’s name, papers are rather few and far between here and I have been very hard worked lately. I am of course sorry, very sorry, but at the same time knowing this war and the happenings in it I am relieved to think that he will retain his limbs and health and also he as the doctor put it I hope he has not suffered much, was it a shell or grenade? I trust that he will get on rapidly and that you will see him soon in England once more. I shall be very glad to hear how he goes on. Where I am now it is by no means pleasant even for war, I can assure you and I can’t see that the Hun is short of much. As the papers say there is great activity which means a lot, some of it not nice to talk of. The men seem fine and I have as much admiration for them as I have contempt for many at home, meddling politicians who are awful and responsible for so much. Well, things look like going on, it seems sometimes a lifetime since we shot partridges doesn’t it? Good Luck Yours ever H.R.B. Wayman Ps it was damnable the recalling people from leave at 10 hours notice. It was after all a mistake. BEF France 3/6/1916 My Dear Harry Thank you for your letter, but I was and am so very sorry such bad news of Jim’s wound, and hoped to hear better. His youth and strength I’m sure will count for much and I knew that his pluck was always all it should be. It is bad luck, I sincerely hope that they will save the limb and that I shall soon hear better news. Things have been very active here lately and a tremendous amount of shelling. It is a ghastly war and will doubtless last a long time and it is likely too, as the papers say, but no one knows. We can stand it longer than the Hun I think. It is a great mistake to think the Hun is not a fine soldier or a fine fighter. Of course we all knew their dirty tricks and I’m not referring to them. There is no rest here. My C.O. is away in hospital which leaves me in command for the time being, so I have a good deal to think about. It is wonderful how the men stick things, I am very proud of them, Of course discipline is very strict, as it must be, but that is essential, and they know it. I hear news of a naval engagement but have nothing definite. Hoping Jim is better Yours ever sincerely H.R.B Wayman P.s. It seems ages since we shot together. BEF France 24th June 1916 My Dear Harry Thanks so much for card, I am so glad to hear Jim is a bit better and sincerely hope he will maintain progress. It has been and is a trying time for you all and for him poor chap, and I trust his pluck and constitution will push him through. How well I remember the old dining hall, it seems aeons ago now I am so busy that I have hardly a moment, things have been very very strenuous now, as I have been commanding the battalion for nearly a month as the C,O is dead poor man. My men have been doing so well and they did a particularly fine bit of work Hoping for more news of Jim Yours ever H,R,B,Wayman BEF France 16th August 1916. My dear Mr Hoff I was so glad to get your letter containing the good news that Jim was out of the wood, he must have had a perfectly marvellous constitution. I pray he will get well soon and be able to get about. It is wonderful nowadays what contrivances they have to enable one to do so, so don’t take too gloomy a view of things and if he goes on well I am sure you won’t. At this present moment the Huns are shelling this place and sending bits about. We are not on the Somme now, we had 11 days of the battle and the sights one saw were indescribable. A great many men I knew are alas no more. It was a very warm place. We who came out of the Somme are now in another part of the line, which after the Somme battle seems comparatively quiet, although we are very close to the Huns, a very few yards in parts. I hope to be able to tell you about it some day if I’m lucky enough to return. The Huns fought well and I saw many prisoners Good luck and hoping Jim is going on well, remember me to him please Yours ever H.R.B Wayman

I would second that

I suppose that you could eliminate all the supply/breaker/cable issues leading up to the motor by borrowing a tractor driven 3 phase generator and connecting it to the machine directly.

You were not honest in telling us your true dream of what you wanted to do to the Tesco's girl and she intercepted your wicked thoughts and did not fancy your wicked ideas!

I was fully expecting that one from you! It is easy to be cynical, especially when you come from a world of chainsaws and winches and if something does not work there is a logical process to find out the problem and sort it. I was talking about the parking to a very pretty young lady and she said she always finds the space in Tescos because she is in contact with what she calls her "Parking Angel" Real New Age stuff It was not this lady by the way Put your 'Parking Angel' to good use - Julia Wilmot - Writer - Inspiring Stories Now if you had taken the right vehicle into Tescos in the first place you could have parked anywhere you wanted! [ame] [/ame] or better still this [ame] [/ame]

I was brought up in another county about sixty miles away and although we owned an derelict windmill here we never thought that we were going to live up here. But events changed and we moved up in 1970. I lived with my parents for a bit until it was too much to bear but had nowhere to go locally. The only chance was to convert the old windmill but since this was an AONB and outside a designated area for planning this seemed impossible. However I managed to convince the council that I had a good plan and built it up brick by brick. I bought an old barn with 40,000 16th century 2" bricks and by the time I had cleaned them, stacked them, hodded them and laid them I must have handled each half a dozen times. My cousin shook me the other day when she came to visit. We were brought up alongside each other nearly as brother and sister. After a glass of wine she said "Well you always said you wanted to make a house of the mill ever since you were a little boy" I could not recall ever saying that, but it must have been at the back of my mind for all those years.......

I agree with this particular angle on positive thinking. You cannot change things when you are up to your nuts in it by just singing "It's a Hap Hap Happy Day didleoodledidlodlelyA!" But it is surprising how many people just go off to work and have no real dream of how they want to end up in the future. It is important to take time to visualize perhaps an arb business of your own, a house on the hill with a forest and land, loving family. What ever it is just hold it in the front of your mind and then let it go and drift into the back of your mind. I am convinced that there is a process which we have lost over time but which our ancestors were fully aware, as are several peoples which we call primitive living today. Bushmen Aborigines, native Indians. When these people were looking for water or herds of animals they would gather and maybe with a little help from a bit of weed, visualize their quarry. Maybe make a few cave paintings to help. When they go off to search they were very much aware of little signs to steer them. Today we may see these as little coincidences, just bumping into an old workmate in the middle of an unfamiliar town. When I was younger I would just say Hi and what a coincidence meeting you here and leave it at that, but now I might ask if they have time for a coffee and sit down with them to find out what it was all about, not by a direct question but just seeing where the conversation led. This is an example of being positive but to many of you it will seem trite and uncomfortable. There is of course I think a limit to your dreams but I have an arbtalk experiment for you all which is not at all embarrassing and may prove to be useful. It is the lightest example of positive thinking and demonstrates that it works. The next time you are about to go into a familiar busy town and perhaps want to stop at the bank or a particular shop, visualize that parking space as strongly as you can. Have a lot of faith and put it to the back of your mind.. Continue your journey into town and keep the faith of that particular spot even if the place is busy.This is the difficult stage as it is very tempting to lose faith and head for the main pay car park but keep the faith! Try it a few times and you can decide whether Billhook is talking Billhooks. For those of you who discover it to be true, you can then gradually ramp up your dreams to create the reality. Do not ask me how it works but it does.

I cannot think why we need a petition for Farage when there already has been a fair debate on April 26th organised by the Spectator and Andrew Neill, at the London Palladium, in front of a large audience. [ame] [/ame] With Chuka Umunna, Liz Kendall and Nick Clegg speaking on why we should remain and Kate Hoey, Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannan speaking on why we should leave. It was very clear that the reasons to remain were weak and the reasons to leave were strong, vindicated by the audience response at the end which showed a very strong desire to leave having heard the arguments. Liz Kendall was left speechless a couple of times. Andrew Neill conducted the whole debate in a very fair manner, much better than say Dimbleby. It is an hour and a half but covers most of the discussion on both this thread and the Brexit thread. So make yourselves a large cup of tea and have a supply of your favourite biccies at hand!

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Three of us were in our tractors first thing on a Monday morning. The tractors had been left in the field over the weekend. I turned the key and nothing happened. Looked over at the other guys and saw them having the same problem. All the batteries had been nicked. Much swearing, scumbags etc. Then found that they had bothered to put all the nuts back on all the battery clamps and terminals, rather than just cutting the battery cables. All this meant that a short trip to the local tyre and battery store was followed by a quick battery fitting session and I think we were going again within the hour. If they had cut the cables it would have been a different story. On top of this they had left my favourite spanners and other tools as well as my portable transistor radio. Is there such a thing as a good thief? Or perhaps a less bad thief!

I always thought it was the sound of the garden shed being flattened by my misdirected hinge.