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Hard day's work? Luxury I call it!

Together with Upspeak I will add Glottal Fry which seems to be mainly used by young women at the end of their sentences. They all make the person sound very needy. Taking the "T" out of the word as in "goh" instead of "got". Miliband and Blair being prime candidates in their quest to be trendy. Finally the use of inverted commas with the hands which seems to go well with wearing sunglasses on top of the head. (Doesn't seem to work for me mainly in cap and hard hat!) As the thread is named "pet peeves" these things are only minor irritants, I do have a life, need to go and chop some wood to make me feel better and forget about it for a while!

I too have this wonderful Elm in the middle of one of our fields and each year it developed a full canopy but later in the year there was a touch of yellowing in the crown. We lost all our huge mature Elms back in the seventies and they seemed to take several years to die. The canopy gradually declined. This tree has suddenly nearly died in one year just like your tree you mentioned. Just a tiny bit of greenery I was hoping to take a cutting but there are a mass of suckers at the base. Could the long cold wet Winter have had anything to do with it? We now just have one large Elm left in a hedgerow. There are dozens of sub fifteen year old elms which succumb eventually and I suppose in time the beetle or the fungus might mutate or the beetle might have a predator or a disease itself. The little Elms just waiting for their moment. Perhaps it has always been like this in cycles of several hundred years even.

It is subtlety different to me, with the former being inexplicable to a certain person whereas the latter unexplainable to anyone. A bit like the difference between inedible and uneatable (like a bit of meat from the BBQ the other night!)

60 litres according to this. But plastic can size limited to 10 litres and metal cans 20 litres both types fit for purpose of course https://www.jerrycans.co.uk/blog/are-jerry-cans-legal-what-is-the-law-on-fuel-cans

You would hope that the word "reasonable" would appear in these cases. Was the work done a reasonable piece of work in the eyes of a jury. It is against the law to do 31 mph in a 30 mph limit but it seems unreasonable to prosecute. Generally people are let off doing 34 or 35.

Why are some days sunny, the wood is perfect, the machinery never misses a beat and life is good sitting on a log in the woods taking it all in., while eating the lovely packed lunch your wonderful wife has made for you. Then another day is rain, mud, stone or iron in the wood, chainsaw will not start, run properly, you left important tools behind, nowhere to shelter, you hate the people you are working for/with and you drop your small screw from the carb and/or sandwiches in the mud....................

I liked the thinking behind this man's theory but apparently it has been dismissed

He built a large wooden box and gradually filled it with a cement/sand mix until it weighed 20 tons. in fact this way he would have already put the wedge under the box to save him digging the hole and going through the risky first procedure. I cannot help being a smart arse, it comes naturally, I was born with one! Actually I found this video on youtube where a man did a bit of lateral thinking on the building of the highly precise walls in places in Peru. So I am not really that smart!

Would he dig away the earth under one half of it, perhaps leaving the end supported by a small piece of wood. He could then slip the wedge under it and knock away the support, the block would tip and so on.

Amazing what you think of when you are stoned!

Just shows what you can do on your own with a bit of ingenuity, makes Stonehenge look easy!

How big diameter/length? and how much?

I have a 14 gallon sprayer on the back of the self propelled mower I use around the yard and garden similar to this one which costs £90 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Draper-Tools-34674-12V-DC-37-Litre-Spot-Weed-Killer-Fertilizer-Sprayer-ATV-Quad/201371719639?epid=1806155923&hash=item2ee2b097d7:g:o~AAAOSw~OdVeax2 The pump went wrong and the local dealer wanted £78 for a new pump This pump has a similar performance although physically smaller for £5.99 or £8 with postage. It has been working fine for over a year now, in fact I think it is slightly more powerful than the original and if it goes wrong I am not going to lose much sleep over buying another. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-12V-70-PSI-High-Pressure-Agricultural-Electric-Diaphragm-Water-Sprayer-Pump/263026519600?epid=18002556164&hash=item3d3d9a2e30:g:locAAOSwJAtZOQ1O

The Morgan car factory had a stuffed owl sitting in the rafters to stop sparrows dropping their stuff on the cars, Quite successful I believe https://www.amazon.co.uk/Popamazing-Realistic-Rotating-Repeller-Deterrent/dp/B01LCLG266/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1527685742&sr=8-2&keywords=garden+owls+to+scare+birds

Same as yours I thought. Free speech is paramount and the right to state your opinion as long as you are prepared to calmly argue your case without anger or name calling. As Peterson asks, who has the moral high ground on being offended. The man who says he is a girl but still looks like a man, especially in the nude,and is addressed as a man and thus offended or Peterson who is very offended by not being able to use free speech

Following hot on the heels of Buffalo's thread. (I am afraid I cannot come up with an answer to his problem) I have had my BR600 for some time an it performs very well on a full tank of fuel, until the tank of fuel is half full, when it begins to stutter and eventually stop. This has been the case since it was brand new. I know that I should have taken it back to the supplier some twenty miles away, but since I usually have had enough of it on my back after half a tank, I could not be bothered. It seemed easier just to top it up with fuel rather than mess around taking things apart and maybe doing more harm. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a simple, cheap solution?

He was brilliant!

Sorry to be a bit like me a Jack Russell terrier hanging on to this thread , but there are so many scare stories flying about that it is hard to see the wood from the trees. Firstly we are indoctrinated with the greenhouse effect which morphed into global warming now climate change. CO2 being assessed as the main culprit even though it makes up 0.05 % of the atmosphere and to which we contribute an even smaller proportion then NO2 was named and mammalian farts were the enemy now we are talking particulates and neither of these gases has been mentioned in the wood burning saga We are worried about conserving natural resources so renewables are the way forward, what now we are being told forget renewable wood and instead burn more precious oil and gas to produce more CO2................:??????

Whatabouytery sounds like the name of a Polynesian volcano!

I think it all depends on the volcano. Krakatoa sent clouds around the World and there were two or three years without a Summer. Wait till Yellowstone blows its top!!!

I followed their suggestion of removing the locking but on the handle which forces the rack down onto the pinion and replacing it with a washer This made no difference at all to the clearance suggested by the manual ( about a mm play from memory) whereas I should have been able to adjust it so that there was no clearance at all. i see the adjustment principal but have not yet had the time to assess why it does not work. I thought that perhaps they had changed the diameter of the little bush that pushes the rack down and that replacing it with a bigger diameter bush would cure the problem. When I find a bit of time................watch this space!!

There is an Arbtrolley somewhere under this lot, which is the largest load by volume so far and had to be Panda towed!