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I think that you can draw a reasonably clear line here. 1.The penalty is not only match decisive but exiting tournament decisive. 2.There is an extra amount of time to be given to the TMO to be sure of their decision, since the match is over and it is not disrupting flow of the game. So those are the two additional reasons for the ref to consult the TMO. Keep all the other reasons in place for making his own decision

Warmings! 1 Sharpening the chainsaws 2 Loading all the equipment. 3 Carrying the equipment to the tree in the wood 4 Clearing the brash around the tree 5 Sawing the tree, hammering the wedges 6. Snedding 7 Cutting into logs that can be manhandled 8 Stacking onto an Arbtrolley 9 Hauling said Arbtrolley through uneven and often steep terrain. 10. Throwing logs from arbtrolley into trailer 11 Picking up logs to cut into sizes suitable for the splitter 12 Loading the splitter 13 Picking up the split logs and stacking logs in the wood pile 14 If the woodpile is not near the place of splitting there is another trailer loading operation 15 Chopping the Kindling 16 Loading the logs into a barrow 17 Unloading the barrow and carrying the logs into the house and stacking in the wood box 18 Taking logs out of the wood box and taking them to the stove 19 Realising that you have forgotten to empty the ash, so back to the shed to find a metal bucket followed by a yomp to the ash pile 20. The fire at long last!

But refs used to be horrendously wrong in the past without the help of the camera and team behind it. Things have improved a lot. Surely it just needs to be honed a little more in the right direction. The rules say that he can only refer to the TMO for a "foul or a try scoring opportunity" Can't this be extended to "Match winning opportunity" without much fuss? There is no issue with breaking up the flow of the game with a lengthy analysis as the game had effectively ended at that point.

The Lucas Super Slabber cuts up to nine feet wide and any length with extensions! [ame] [/ame]

Since the last penalty was so important and decisive, and there was plenty of time for a good look at the video replays, should not old Joubert have asked for a bit more deliberation from the TMO?

Very sorry to see Scotland go out in such a way. Completely robbed! However they can hold their heads high as they played so well and can now progress with a greater confidence. So many crucial bad decisions against the Scots. If it had been an English referee I hate to think what might have happened!

That was fast and effective! Many thanks you you both

Some sort of willow?

We have two new French neighbours in their thirties, both doctors of geology. Drinking wine with them is certainly an education. I felt like a heathen.(probably because I am) Firstly they surprisingly are not at all snobby about their wines which they know very well. I would expect them to have bottles of fine French wine only around the house but no they have Greek and English wines as well, just for their interest and give praise where praise is due. But more importantly and the reason I am putting this on this particular thread, is the way they drink their wine. Very, very slowly and one glass will last as long as it takes my wife and I to polish off a bottle. This way not only do they give themselves a chance to really taste the wine, (they spend ages smelling it before they drink it!) but they give their system a chance to absorb it gently and just drift into an elated mood rather than becoming incoherent and boring like me after one too many! They usually cut up a carrot with a yoghurt dip which has a spoonful of mustard in it, and some cheese cut into small pieces. Just feels very healthy.

Other Hypotheses to test while you are at it 1. Sit at the same distance from the fire and stick in a poker and stir it up 2. Put on a thick fur coat 3 Take all your clothes off 4 Test acid rain theory while you are in the buff 5 Turn round and test harmful emissions and noxious gases theory This last one may also test for Krakatoa type eruptions and other volcanic activity

There are so many variables that I cannot see how you can reach a conclusion. It all started with "The Greenhouse Effect" and man made global warming. This had only one conclusion, that man was the cause of heating up the atmosphere by burning things, from forests to fuels. Suddenly it transferred from Global Warming to Climate Change. This opens up a whole new range of possibilities and could account for the planet cooling as well as heating up. Somehow you have to balance the emotive picture of a polar bear balancing on what looks like the last iceberg in the North Pole, with the fact that the coldest temperatures ever recorded have been found recently at the South Pole. Many are distrustful of the scientists because of the smell of money. If you were an underfunded weather scientist working on a boring job and suddenly some politician asks you to go to a smart conference in Copenhagen, staying in a plush hotel, that may be attractive. When you make a case for global warming and you are asked to more conferences you soon realise that the stronger you make your case, the more money is thrown at you perhaps to such an extent that you start to manipulate graphs and figures to suit. I think that most people will agree that we want to breathe clean air, and that we need to conserve energy by not wasting our reserves and going for renewables where they make sense. If we go down this road surely this will also achieve the objectives of the global warming brigade by cutting down on greenhouse gases, and everyone will be happy (apart from the oil companies!). We all have to believe in Climate Change, just look at the difference between the weather today and a week ago!

Don't tell me she plays rugby as well!

It has only happened twice in the twenty years that I have owned the Lucas Mill. When a huge tree has come down in someone's garden which has no access for any vehicle. Both times a tree surgeon has called me because the owner wants the wood planking. The surgeon has done all the boring work and tidied up the brash and left me with a couple of 20 foot long logs nearly four feet across at the widest with the oak, less with the walnut. ~My only worry is metal in garden trees which did not happen in these cases. The first was a farmer who wanted 8x8" gate posts from his oak and he was really chuffed with the result. The second was on a large walnut where I had a cabinet maker standing alongside telling me the sizes he wanted as he was making a desk and some furniture for the owner. Sunny days both times, no metal and we put tarpaulins down for the sawdust and running boards for the arbtrolley so at the end there was hardly a mark on their precious lawns! But apart from two very happy customers, I really enjoyed the days, sitting on the log at break time in the sun with a cup of tea and biccys, no breakdowns just everything going perfectly. Just wish it was like that every day!

Did you learn that on the CS31?

Also this urgent need to go as you become older is amplified by the sound of running water, or even worse as I found out when filling the chain saw, the sound of pouring petrol Just filled to the brim when that urgency occurred. No time to screw on cap and it the hurry to unzip spilled some fuel on the active hand. The blissful relief of the bladder was followed by a fiery stinging sensation in a sensitive place. Bad habit

I have never met a her who wanted to put wide wheels, flared arches, bonnet scoop and American V8 in any car!

Bit more to it than that. If you are in a strong financial position and have scruples then you can say what you want but if you are starting out, working for somebody, short of money with a wife and child to take care of, the tree comes second.

I suppose it happens in many different occupations. Say you were a classic car specialist, perhaps in Aston Martins, and somebody came along with a beautiful original DB5 and wanted you to put in wide alloy wheels, flared arches, bonnet scoop and American V8 and was paying top dollar, would you tell him where to go or just take the money because someone else surely would.

Just watched the second half of that second video, and it is definitely tree porn! Almost needs moderating. 10 Bears has started something. Whatever next? Bonker with a conker? Sex with a Salix? (At least no headaches here) Porn with a thorn (For S & M, yeeeow, could be a bit too prickly.

Found another to feed the fetish! [ame] [/ame] This one has had its soundtrack removed due to copyright but it could well have been je t'aime. You will just have to sing it yourself but you had better stop if you feel the sap rising and are going for a woody!

[ame] [/ame] I don't think there is a law against it! If you become excited about the branches you may be done for stalking!

With the unguarded PTO as well it is to Health and Safety the equivalent of what Jeremy Clarkson is to Political Correctness. They say two fingers to both, but unfortunately being left with two fingers may be the best outcome when things go wrong in this case!

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I totally agree with Haljam and Commando on the Vision 500. We also have a 650 with twin doors which takes big logs but is a pain to control, particularly the ashpan door. We have an Aarrow Stratford for the water which is good. But the Clearview Vision 500 has passed Alicydon's test with flying colours as far as my wife is concerned!

Ash body? Maple or Rosewood neck/fretboard?