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Soil conditioning, meet air conditioning; as someone once said!

Bang on! This is pretty much what I was going to offer as help. I had the same - I thought of it as a crane/derrick and cables or a television mast or even that skylon - the floating needle - at the festival of britain: a solid flexible core (spine) supported by cables (muscle). You need the muscles on both sides to work together to work properly. Also the same as spud; I started to do a few sit ups - just by tucking m'toes under the edge of the bed - cos I just though you fat bastard get rid of that belly - I was shocked - I struggled to do five the first time - worked easily up to ten, then twenty, now, I could do thirty but get get bored at twenty - but I don't do it every morning - just about once a month just to make sure I still can. The result was incredible: without the stomach muscle my spine had cracked over all over the place and popped a vertabral pad out the side; now, with balanced muscle all around - whole new body! Not just lifting but walking breathing and just 'being' no aches. no pain, whole new body. I'll assume you don't smoke; if you smoke, stop or die horribly. The other thing I did was to give up the arm-chair. Years of armchair use had probably not helped as I always used to curl up sideways in the armchair and looking back my whole spine must have been like a cork-screw. I now use and have done for many years now, one of those wooden chairs like a kitchen chair but with arms - is it a welsh dresser chair? - with a small cushion tucked just so into the small of my back - you'll know when it's in the right place - oh! the relief! I got that from a chair in the outpatients waiting room. There was only a little low backed upright chair left, but when I sat in it, it was just right, I felt better after two minutes in that chair than I had done for the last two years! Damn near nicked that chair and took it home! Han't now had back troub for many many years - and am doing all exactly the same as I was before - including bending over with a chainsaw which now is easy - you can actually feel your body working properly! Hope this might help but never take medical advice off the internet; I am not a doctor; just shooting anecdotes. Best of luck Yourn.

Nice job. Everyone happy?

There's room for compromise there isn't there? Without cutting right back to the boundary and leaving an eyesore, you could still cut back substantially - and sufficiently to open up the view a bit* - and still retain a reasonably shaped tree. Or has it gone way beyond compromise by now? *even if cut back to the boundary, your client will still not have a completely clear view: there will still be a considerably sized tree there; he has the choice of a good looking tree with minimal/ un-noticable additional loss of out-look; or an eyesore with minimal/un-noticable gain of outlook. Maybe

Looked out the window. Gave m'self the day off. Put the kettle on. Re-reading Tansley's 'Britains Green Mantle' Happy Days!

Saw that. Simply thought... "Fucksticks"

Google earth search on those postcodes might be helpful, if only to re-assure you that they are actually existant. Second one is a warehouse marked* as Mowers Direct and the sign on the door says 'Chipperfields' - there's a mower on the sign and mowers in the yard. Street view screen-save below. (First post code lands in the middle of a field! But 'Hemnal Mower Centre' is flagged on a lane beside it. Sign at gate (on street view) suggests a tech firm is now there. ) *marked by a google earth pin not by a road-side sign

I hope you said, "Get a mooove on!" with all due tonality.

... which when produced and closer relacon thereunto being had will more clearly and at large appear! I love that shit. HD Y

Ooh! Easements and quasi easements regarding free light and drainage? I am not a Lawyer.

You know you're in Surrey when you pull over to let an ambulance through and someone pulls out and drives on towards the ambulance. Y also KWYI Surrey when you to stop to cut up a fallen branch that is blocking one half of the road (just a pruning saw job) so that everyone can get home for their tea and someone in a 4x4 drives down the side of the waiting traffic and actually runs over the branch that you're dragging out of the way!

Come on! Who was it? Dammit! Beaten by PaulITW on the Overloaded thread.

Ah! Vespanianus; s'latin for 'wasps up yer ring-piece' !

Top Story! Nice one.

Off the wall, may help may not. And depending on just how tricky the track is in winter. What's your nearest vehicle hire office? Hire a 'transit': ~£80 a go. For your £2 000 you get 25 hires. That's 6 hires per year/1 every other month for four years; Fuel would be about the same. No tax, no insurance, no MOT, (that's another ~£650= another 8 hires per year = 1ce a month)* no breakdown, no service, no washing, no repairs, no nagnagnag dowereallyneedtwovans theplaceisgettingsountidy andyouonlyuseitatweekendsforthefirewood. You wouldn't get 4 years of trouble free motoring off a £2000 hilux. And you get to spread the cost. And you don't have to buy another hilux in four years time; nor worry about having bin sold a lemon; nor worry about getting home on cold and rainy nights when it starts to splutter. Could you ferry a load down the track in the caddy when you're out there cutting to pick up later in the transit if the track is too tricky? Or just do the log runs in the better weather if you have storage at home.? *Blimey! You can hire 8 times a year for the same money as the basic running costs of the hilux without having to shell out for the hilux in the first place! This reply brought to you by Solutions<backwardR>Us (A division of Yourn Enterprises (Worldwide Logistics) & Solutions) Happy Days Y.

Betcha those padded puffa anorak things would clog up y'saw faster than a pair of chainsaw-trousers.

I think you're forgetting that in TF123's fantasy GTA3 world, you never actually come to any harm yourself. You can get shot, blown up and wiped out two or three times in an afternoon but when mum calls you downstairs for fish-fingers and getti, everything starts again. No-one ever dies except the robbers and they die cos they've only got knives, not guns like TF123 and even if the robbers did have guns TF123 has got a bigger gun and if the robbers have got mates, TF123 has got more mates. In his make believe world he always wins cos he's well jack yeah? But for everyone else - nearly everyone else - yes, you're absolutely right. Anecdotes trump eulogies every time.

Oh yes, course, you're quite right: how silly of me not to have seen that. Where do you draw the line though? Don't get me started on the misuse of 'epicentre'. Blammo!

Huh? So everyone except robbers then? Robbers still have to use knives? Or what? Your gun is still in the cab and you are still working at the chipper. The robbers will have guns too you know. If everyone carries guns everyone dies instead of going home and filling out an insurance claim. Oh and then later you'll have to make it a legal requirement that everyone carries semi-automatics cos that's what the robbers are now using now that everyone is carrying guns. And whereas before there was a threat of violence there is now death cos the robbers don't bother with the threatening bit first now they just shoot first. And then you've got to factor in the increase in death by gun during domestic and other incidents which until now have not gone beyond shouting name-calling and shoving because hey, I gotta gun now. And the increase in the suicide rate - due to the easy availability of guns America has (?one of) the highest per capita suicide rates in the world. Shit happens. Guns are not the answer.

"...one way ticket to P'ville" is part of the same scene in On the Waterfront Have a see. Which is the basis of what GP was getting at.

On the Waterfront; Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando; back of the car? "that night at the garden... you shoulda looked after me... "we looked after you; you saw some money "You don't understand, Charlie, I coulda bin someone, I coulda bin a contender... instead of being a bum,, which is what I am, let's face it. One of cinema's greatest moments. Is what I thought you were getting at. Deffo went over Vespos head by't look of it.

...instead of being a poster on arbtalk which is what he is , lets face it.

+1 for sturdy under-linen.

I just mixed a tin of tuna - fluffed up/flaked with a fork - into a tin of heinz tomato soup, in a pint mug. Microwaved for 2m 30. Hits. The. Spot. I reckon it would take a drop of Worcester or Tabasco sauce if you wanted to supercharge it; but even without, is definitely one for the flask now it's getting cold and damp. Happy Days. Yourn

just for clarification yer magneto part is a spinning magnet that produces a spark via a coil on engines with no battery. In a car, say, with a battery and associated electrical system, the ignition coil is energised electrically; on yer mower there isn't always an electrical system to charge the coil so a magneto is used. It is much simpler and more robust so well suited. The alternator is used - on larger mowers tractor mowers and cars to produce an a.c. current for lighting which is then whatsisnamed - rectified! that's the badger! - by the diodes to produce a d.c. current which charges the battery. Just for completeness: a dynamo produces a d.c. output directly. The magnets in the top of a mower are big and can also be used to find nuts and bolts dropped in long grass because after forty years you still think there's no need to put a sheet down when you do a field repair. Idiot!