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What's the point of any laws, licencing or not, if the crime can't be preempted? The threat of punishment after the fact obviously does not deter these kids, they know like as not they will never be caught, at least not for vandalism. Stop and search - with profiling based on neighbouhood, age, sex, appearance and sadly, yes - race, works. But the political courage needs to be there.

That's why he's a multi millionaire! ??

With the saw on my swisd army knife (and access to trees) I could fashion a Somali style club, or even a bow and arrows, given time.

A slip blade knife is not really a weapon, you'd be as likely to cut your own fingers to the bone if trying to stab with one. Slashing, yes, but you'd still want to be a bit of a ninja to pull it off and not hurt yourself. Throat cutting yes, but then you'd have to grab your victim from behind and take them unawares, and if you are in a position to do that, ie. a planned assassination, then you could just as easily choke him/her to death instead - the weapon becomes moot. So there is a rational to the locking blade law. Didn't Kahn put an end to stop-and-search with the excuse that it was "racial profiling"? I believe he did. Typical progressive denial of reality. The liberal mayor of New York did the same thing, stabbings went way up for years, eventually Rudi Juliani reinstated stop and search in certain neighbourhoods, and it went way down again. A law is only a law if the police can enforce it.

Some more pics of my skidding cut technique. I'm sure I'm not the first to figure this out, anyone else been doing this?

Nice! ? Maybe have a few bogus cards as well.

Use removeable magnetic signage on your vehicles. Remove before you arrive at work, if you think there's going to be trouble. If they ask, identity your self and someone fictitious.

Removing certain trees in a spruce plantation, congested, no drop-zone means taking them down in sections from the ground, until they're light enough to pull the butt end out and lay them flat. Promlem is, as the stem buckles, and the top part (most of the tree) drops vertically about three feet, the new, partially wedged shaped, butt end plants itself firmly into the ground. I could force pull this through the soil with a hand winch, but it would be very slow and tear a trench in the forest floor, so I came up with this idea. The Track Barrow wouldn't budge the implanted butt on a straight pull, but with a redirect at about 45 degrees (just a pole) it would lift the tree out of the ground and kind of "jump" the butt as the pivot log fell over. By repeating this, I could get the stems lying at enough of an angle to the horizontal to be able to straight pull them. Later in the day, I accidentally discovered a better way, where you let the bottom chunk buckle, but leave enough holding wood so it stays attached, so you have a three foot section flat on the floor, with the rest of the tree close to vertical, but still attached, and not dug in. Then chocker the butt of the flat section and the whole articulated affair pulls away grand.

Canada recently shipped 40 odd containers of recyclable plastic to Indonesia. When the containers we're unpacked it was found the plasic was pure rubbish. President Duterte demanded that Canada take it back, and Trudeau gave him the run-around, so Duterte lost his cool and threatened to declare war on Canada if they didn't take back their rubbish. They took it back.

Mama Mia!

You could also use a cheap kago drill on hammer setting with a spade bit sharpened to a cutting edge?

For dirty rooty stumps, sleepers and suchlije, there's a thing called carbide cluster disks, used with a concrete saw. They will cut through tyres, sleepers etc.

In Ireland the pine marten is coming back - was endangered for a while but they multiplying again. They are predating on the grey squirrels, as the grey is slower, and as a consequence the red squirrel is also coming back.

Assuming you believe humans cause it, or most of it (I don't) then anything we do is pretty meaningless and symbolic at best. China, India, Russia, USA etc. There's a lot of people in the world who want a better standard of living, and their children will want a better standard too. And they will have it, by fair means or foul. And I'm fairly sure they don't believe in AGW, or, if they do, don't care.

Last one, for the time being: moving tree ferns. I don't know how much they weighed, but two strong men were close to maxing out their skeleto-musculatory systems lifting the root end with a sling. A weird shape to manage, I had to reach over the frond end to get to the right hand side handle, obliging me to walk tip-toe at times. We tried different configurations, layed-across, butt end on a wheelbarrow, diagonal, but, in the end, this was the only practical method.

3 days? For some reason I got the impression it would be much longer. 3 days is not really enough to start, I think. To get a "comprehensive" crash course in beginner's arb in the UK you are looking at about a month's worth of training, plus assessment, if you want to train up to an "insurable" standard. If you're getting one on one attention, I suppose you could learn to climb in 3 days, but there's a lot more to it than that. What kind of arb work is around your area? Iowa is mostly open flatlands, isn't it? Any logging? Parks maintenance, domestic tree care, etc?

Once you experience the incredible cleansing power you will never go back. Not as a primary cleansing meduim, more of a final polisher. Also substitute for a shower after a sweaty day in the trees, when you just can't be bothered to bathe. Never flush them though, just ball up and bin.

Same. My grandfather worked for an insurance company. He never insured anything that he wasn't legally obliged to. Spend the saving on more and better safety equipment, and take more time to be more safe.

Yeah but "Human" is a head-the-ball. He did time for threatening staff at a convenience store with a shotgun, because he was 'depressed'....in short, the guy has issues, bless him. The fact that the OP is enrolled for extensive training tells me he's starting with an attitude of caution. As he said, there are very few arborists around his area, so realistically going it along might be his only option..

Yeah I follow him too, not my favorite, due the the hammer and sickle tattoo on his arm. But fair dues, he does put it all out there. The broken TIP = broken pelvis episode was an eye opener!

It's all back to the old toss-up of time vs. money isn't it? If one has time, but not much money, then all of these things become worthwhile, but if one has loads of work then it's a waste of time...unless it's something the kids can be put to work at.

Modified hydraulic log splitter (vertical) - time problem solved!

Hmmm. Very good question. I do believe you have me checkmated there!