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Worked this afternoon. Right messy fir tree, 3 foot + at the stump, felled by somebody else and needs removing. Bit of a project, made a start....a local auld fella drove by, as he does, and stopped to chat. I said " Is to ok to make noise on a Sunday? Some people don't like it..." He just laughed.

It's a double edged weapon. Very dangerous for the uncritical. On balance it's been good for liberty, I think. Before the internet we still had propaganda and lies, but we couldn't leave scathing comments or share alternative sources of information. Before TV and newspapers we had church/royal decrees and nothing else - propaganda was total, in a sense. Its kind of up to individuals to choose to be sheep or not, in the tech age.

Just use a roller. Be just as fast.

Are you sure tech has nothing to offer the ancient crafts? In terms of passing on the skills, YouTube is a mighty powerful resource. Anyone can instantly look over the master's shoulder nowadays (many different masters even) and get tuition... I've learned welding solely from watching videos. The technical secrets are all there, nothing hidden behind the guild-hall doors anymore, the rest is just practice.

How'd he get up to the window? Can't quite visualize it. Surely the shit must've been put there with the aid of a spade, or stick or something?

In Ireland the news is always moaning about how they're living in squalid condition, rats, etc, and how there should be more funding or whatever.... Its like presupposes they're handicapped or something and can't do site hygiene. Why are there rats? Nobody seems to ask this. Everyone else seems to be able to live without attracting rat infestations.

They'll all move to Scotland as refugees. Sturgeon will be very welcoming.

Handiest thing for windblown is a polesaw. A cheap one. Do bore cuts and cut the triggers with the polesaw

There should be a downloadable "Alex" option for these devices... Does that same thing but rants with a Texas snarl.

Joking aside, the situation stinks to high heaven. They're psychopaths, and very clever. Hiding their malevolence behind ethnicity, gender, etc. - the sacred cows of our time... I saw this coming years ago. They're using the innate decency of people to bully them into slavery and oblivion. Sooner or later a collective self preservation reflex will kick in.

You probably have them an don't realize it. I saw a 4 plug extension socket in Aldi last year, checked it out and it was remote controlable wifi compatible??? A plug socket for God's sake...

We're all on a list now. Liking each other's posts.... See you in the gulag.

The only problem with Sunday is sometimes the weather is good on Sunday and pissing the days either side... The weather dictates when I work, as I'm a wimp and will not work in rain... Out in the sticks noise matters not. Can understand the Sunday thing in suburbia though...

The certainly are preventable. But it takes time, patience and discipline on several levels. Level 1. Mentally planning the work. Visualisation. Really thinking about it, as opposed to looking at it and thinking about girls. Level 2. Steady, considered, deliberate movement. Better than optimal positioning. Preparation in little things. Level 3. Self awareness of energy levels and mental concentration reserves. When the battery is drained you stop, no ifs no buts. You stop and recharge, properly, or go home. Level 4. All the ancillary risk assessment forms, insurances, first aid gadgets etc, while well and good, cannot compare with the preceding three levels. The issue with this ethos is TIME. It takes time, a recourse many do not have. It is what it is, you either got time, or not, or you change your life to make time, or you don't... Anything can be done safely and with "virtually" no risk, if you take your time... Let's take painting a window sill.... I'm talking about tying off a ladder with a rope through the top rung, big knot each side, 45 degree angle down to eyebolts set in the bottom of the wall, and a bolt-on footing to stop it kicking out. Climb the ladder with a positioning harness, short lanyard and prussic, clip to top rung, with no slack... This set up might take half an hour to set up. But there is no way you're gonna hit the ground. Can't happen. Can't kick out. Can't go sideways. Can't fall off. The only risk is going up and down, and if you have paired scaffold clips, you can obviate this risk as well.... Now, before you say "nobody has time for all that faff".... Well, maybe most don't, but I have done this very thing, repeatedly, for weeks last summer.

Jimmy Carr: “When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of 6 million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine. But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives." Well I've never watched the guy perform - he looks retarded and irritating - but I had to research him after this blow up. I laughed. I suppose, if the SNP had full reign, I would be "prosecuted"...

It was widely used in hygiene. Very excellent and cheap and safe chemical (probably why the EU don't like it anymore)

Did you try the nettles?

Mine's a "Max Axe" from Heartnett in Ireland, but it's a rebadged generic Chinese one. I'd say they're all pretty much the same across the board. I wondered about the extension cord thing ( I use mine with a 30 meter cord! ) - had an electrician friend check it out while running, put the meter up it's skirt and we split a few tough logs. He said the amp draw spikes only when it hits the end of the power stroke and you keep the handle pressed down (which is stupid anyway) or if it meets a hard stop like an unsplittable knot and you keep it going. So basically, borderline, but fine, as long as you don't force it. Found a pic of mine. I took the wee wheels off the back and moved them to the front, bodged them on with bits of the second activation arm I cut up. The "handguard flange" on the left arm which protects the hand holding the activation handle, got cut off as well. Ergonomics. Bought some proper wheels and a bit of rod to replace the back wheels, it rolls nice now, easy to move around and stands a few inches higher, which before the hand grip was a bit too low and caused me back pain. I'm 5'11". It's perfect now. Also replaced the hydraulic oil reservoir nut underneath. Went to use it one day and all the oil had leaked out - the nut was missing. Don't know how. Had to find a same thread but and silicone a washer on it, to seal, but it's been fine. The basic unit it solid and reliable, it's just little things that break. Still worth every penny and hour of faffing. If you ever do upgrade the wheels, go with inflatable instead if poly - the weight if the splitter causes a dent in the yellow poly ones.

I paid 580 euro for mine. Worth every cent.

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Try rubbing nettles on your knuckles. Burny but it's said to work, ancient remedy. Or bee stings, if you can get em. They have a long history of being a miracle treatment for arthritis.

Something like this is better. 1. Vertical is easier and more efficient. Split logs stay on the table (kind of) and can be rotated 90 degrees for another split. Get a wide wedge that fits over the blade . Be prepared to rework the edge of the big wedge with a grinder and file to get a proper edge. 2. Get 3000 watts. It will have a 15 amp "industrial" plug and they will tell you to install a 15 amp outlet. You don't need to do this, it will run off a regular domestic plug and outlet, even with an extension cord. But don't go more than 3000w for the electric motor. Get 9 ton. Slow but strong. The wide wedge speeds up the splitting for easy stuff and you still have the thin blade for tough stuff. Remove one of the activator handles and modify for one handed operation. This is essential, and easy to do. It should have a return stroke adjustable limiter, so you can set the stroke hight for the size of logs you are working with. This saves an awful lot of time.

Celox rapid z-fold in a zippered chest pocket for climbing. Got to be one hand, either hand, deployable. Lone working, even lone climbing, is a thing. We live in a time of cotton wool culture which is incompatible with the economic reality of some operators. Most often, reality wins... risk mitigation measures and extreme caution will have to suffice. People react differently to extreme injury and sudden amputation. There's no way to know how an individual will react until it happens. This has been demonstrated innumerable times by battlefield reports. An interesting read is "A treatise on musket ball wounds" (or something titled along those lines) from the American civil war. It was noted by the field surgeons that some soldiers would lose an arm to a cannon ball, casually twist their handkerchief around the stump and mooch on over to the hospital tent. Others would freak out and faint from a relatively minor bullet wound and think it was much worse than it actually was...

People get the government they deserve. A subservient, intellectually lazy, weak spirited people get abusive psychopaths. Cause and effect. The psychopaths produce policy and laws that further cow the people. If the people comply, they go further in the hole and the psychos are further emboldened. It's a reinforcement cycle. Once the slide into serfdom has started, it's very hard to stop and reverse. After a few generations the government schooling indoctrinates kids to be good little slaves...you end up owning nothing and being happy...not only Scotland in this mess, though they may be a bit further along to road to cringing serfdom. It's the malaise of our time; we are an overfed, spiritually bankrupt bunch of wasters (most, not all) and we produce government to match.