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Thinking outside the box here: a Transporter or similar, medium sized van, with a tracked mini dumper in the back. Configure the dumper to hold all your gear and keep it all on the dumper. If the track is undrivable, back the dumper out and go the last bit with it. Can go into the trees as well, less walking. Couple of planks for crossing deep trenches etc. Save energy by not carrying your gear, take your gear to the work in one trip instead of two or three. Dumper can even pull trees around, within reason. Plus, you have a mobile base for your stuff, so it doesn't get scattered around the woods and lost.

Not me, one of my clients. I can supply ladies too. My cut is 20%. Full STD clearance certs provided etc. Don't know about trailer licenses, I'll check. PM if interested.

Studies were done on this. Sadly, wrapping doesn't do much. Gloves neither, unless they're so thick as to compromise grip. I've tried pipe lagging, half inch thick. Did help a little, but not worth the loss of ergonomics.

Hot strong chamomile tea. The chamomile stops or neutralizes the scalding, protects the skin, allowing hotter water to be used than normal. Trick from a nurse.

I'd love to buy or build a scalpel with an adjustable depth gauge. Something spring loaded would be nice. Set the depth of cut, place over splinter, close eyes and exhale, press button.

There's a local legend where I live, about a lady who got Weals from a blackthorn prick and died... I've found the swelling usually goes away after a week. If the tip isn't too deep they surface eventually.

As predicted by the tin foil hatters, you will need a booster to retain your vax pass. And a year ago this man was saying NO vax passes in the UK "That's not how we do things here" etc etc. Wakey wakey.

Been there, done that. The tips break off and cause swelling. There's some kind of poison in them. Personally I would not have gone with the antibiotics - the overall impact on gut health and immune system is not worth it for a swollen finger, IMO. Thorn is a legitimately dangerous tree. I punctured a band new van tyre driving over a blackthorn twig once. Will not touch thorn with he hands these days, polesaw and long handled tools only, bent pikes etc. And full face protection.

There's a relationship with bar length and cc, but it kind of amounts to the same thing as log diameter, especially with milling. Could also go 8 tooth sprocket and skip chain

I lived off grid for 8 years. Very basic set up though, so not of much interest I suppose. 100 watts of PV and 120 amp hours in dump salvaged gel-cell Panasonics. Was ok for charging a phone, running a car CD player and a couple of car bulb lights (before the days of LED). Still have the panels but the batteries are long perished. Same system would be more useful nowadays actually, as I have more rechargeable gadgets and the latest led tech is just wow....the problem isn't entertainment comms and lighting, it's heating (kettles, cooking, water heaters, washing machine, dishwasher, toaster). Heating with electricity requires enormous currant. Workshop machines is another problem, but that can be worked around with a generator...

True. Back in the day they actually worked though. Scythes and spades etc. And from an early age too, mind. Modern farmers mostly tootle around on the quad or tractor. I've milked a cow. Bloody hard work, forearms aching after, and dangerous. And that's just one animal, twice a day for a couple o days... The lassies in 1900 got through I dunno how many cows a day. Christ they must have had some grip, I'd be embarrassed to compare myself to one o them. So basically, yes, farmers today work long hours but it's all really work, as such.

They be using work lights in winter. Up at three in the morning for lambing/calving, working through the night at baling time, always dicking about with machines or sommat after dark in winter, in the rain... Long hours, but more "lifestyle" than "work".... Maybe I have a romanticized notion of what's involved.

Fascinating. Back in the day, more people were farmers. I believe I read in 1900, 90% of Americans were farming. Less in Europe, as we industrialized earlier. Farmers work dawn to dusk, but it's not all flat out graft like working a factory assembly line.

Soak the whole thing in a bucket of warm water with dissolved baking soda for a few hours, then rince.

I got a couple of Van Beest green pin snatch blocks made in Netherlands. They were cheap, €150 each some years ago, 6 or 7 maybe. Rated 4 tonne, but that's for lifting, x5 safety factor, so fail at 20 tonne. They came with built in shackles rated for 6 tonne. Two grease nipples, one of the shackle swivel and one for the bronze bushing. 10-12 mm groove. Each unit weighs 16kg... Massively heavy and strong things, for very reasonable money.

Ah. Hadn't thought that far ahead....

In Ireland as well. Waining sunlight but warm temps, the leaves just fell off green or stayed on and turned brown... personally it doesn't bother me, I'll take brown leaves over freezing temps any time. I do feel sorry for the fashion catalog photographers though.

Did it several times this afternoon (get your mind outta the gutter). Trees on a roadside wall, phone wire on roadside, fell into a field. Holly, elm. Big gob, two chaps pushing with a ladder, made the back cuts with a polesaw. Well sketchy, county style.

The prize should be the elm slab.

150 kg without tongs. (Edited, just re-read the specs, 48" thought it was 24") My kitchen worktop is elm about the same size.

Tested the dumper modification on a job yesterday. 20ft cyprus "hedges". I fabricated a towball plate which attaches to the dumper, and a gooseneck hitch which attaches to the trailer with the aid of 4 g-clamps. Still needs some tweaking. The ball is center of turn, so the dumper can pivot with minimal stress. Trailer ramp (trailer grade plywood) goes on top of the trailer with ratchet straps for a work platform. The trailer weighs about 400kg with all this and a man. The dumper pulled and pushed it no bother on flat softish lawn, but struggled on slopes, especially with turning. It did expedite the work a lot. Gives you around 5 foot extra hight and a very stable footing.

Mullet and chisel job?

The problem, if we accept the "consensus" view as correct, is this: All economic activity, generates CO2. Even so called green jobs, generate C02. People plant trees, let's say, and are paid. They spent their wages, and the goods and services they buy generate CO2. Every time a coin changes hands, CO2 is released. This is because our population runs on fossil fuel. Our other commodities - plastic, metal, timber, food, water and so on, are also dependant on fossil fuels. The only way to stop the release of CO2 is to completely swap out fossil fuel for electric at the ground level. But the building of an all electric infrastructure requires fossil fuel, and will do for many years. If we want to maintain our "standard of living" this is. The other option, is to reduce our standard of living. What this really means, is moving to an essentials only economy, where commodities are rationed, rather than competed for. It means the relinquishment of choice for the masses. The third option is let the fate of humanity play out. Maybe use up all the fossil fuels and starve. Maybe heat up the climate and starve. Maybe the climate heats up and we don't starve and we reduce our consumption by necessity because the supply is no longer there. Unknowns. But people are afraid of the unknown because they have children. Understandably. The problem with the second road is we are talking about communism. Children will grow up in a totalitarian system that artificially limits their potential. Is this a future worth having? In other parts of the world, people will continue to use fossil fuels, climate change or no. They will economically advance and emit more and more CO2. Our changing social model will not prevent this. And the elephant in the room is this: is the hypothesis of the predicted climate Armageddon actually true? And, if so, are we actually causing it? What if the climate is changing naturally, as it did in the past? This debate was quashed by the establishment, in the same way the debate about covid was quashed. It smacks of forceful manipulation and leads many to doubt...