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Better go on strike for more pay like the junior doctors!

Spot on there. Until the invention of the rough terrain forklift/telehandler all the jobs on the farm were not only back breaking but dust laden in confined spaces. Loading and unloading 1 cwt sacks (used to be 16 0or 18 stone before my time!)of potatoes, meal, fertiliser, seed corn. Trays of seed potatoes had to be filled from the cwt sack three at a time then stacked then loaded into the planter. Shovelling corn into augers out of bins, unblocking combines, stubble burning. Forking sugar beet, hand hoeing sugar beet Working as a student on a dairy farm had a lot of the above but also the physical part of dealing with large animals. Some of the early tractors were unbelievable for noise and dust and heat. A day in a Track Marshall 90 after a stubble burn with the hydraulics so hot by your right elbow that they would burn you, the noise deafening, lungs and eyes full of crap and the levers so hard to pull that I have yet to meet anyone who can beat me at arm wrestling. And yet I am still in awe of all you tree climbers and am much happier doing the ground work!

I thought that they were storing electricity in the form of hydrogen by electrolysis in certain places like Orkney. The excess electricity could then be used in the form of a hydrogen fuel cell at a later date. I like Elon Musk as he has a vision. He is a very rich man from selling off his PayPal business and is not interested in making money so much now. He obviously does not want to make a loss but his vision is to wean us all off hydrocarbons and power the world with batteries. He thinks that he could power the whole of the US from a relatively small area of solar cells. The excess generated could be stored in car batteries or in domestic battery units He also wants to form a colony on Mars to start an emigration off the planet, hence the formation of Space X He seems to be acting in a philanthropic manner and I would love to support him one day when I find the £100,000 odd pounds to buy a Tesla Model S!

Now you have no excuse to bottle out of those scarier arb jobs!

All the more reason to take good care of the crown!

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Try the Tommy Cooper test If some days you think you are a Wigwam and other days you think you are a Teepee..........you could be too tense

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?

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

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]