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Haironyourchest

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  1. Kulak - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
  2. That's a good way to look at it. I tore a rip in the outer shell of mine, caught the fabric with the tooth of a cold saw just clambering around. Has anyone tried the iron on patches?
  3. I had to buy Glads for my course. Only type C trousers in the shop that fit me, €320....man that hurt. All my adult life I've bought my cloths at the charity shop or Lidl. But I don't regret to money spent now. The looks I get from the wimmin when my back is turned. Worth every cent.
  4. Anyone here ever build a 090 clone from the kit? Or know of anyone who did?
  5. Long sleeve rash-guards for everything. Bought four "Sondy" brand on sale for 15 euro each, four odd years ago, still perfect. Mesh vented down the flanks, very stetchy, impossible to tear, snug neck to keep out chips, long, so you can pull them down over your pants to keep chips out there, wicking etc. I think they're 80-90 % Lycra.
  6. Ah! Now I see it!! Cool. (You have to diverge your eyes - kind of look "through" the screen)
  7. Same. And I'd use a cheap pole-saw to trigger the felling cut, just in case something random happens. And stick a pull rope up in the small tree first of all, in case it sticks with the weight and entanglement of the bigger tree bearing down on it, and needs to be winched.
  8. I can think of a few countries...but it would be very un - PC to "go there!" ??
  9. If Isis had been a/the world superpower back then, as Britan was...do you think the colonies would have preferred to have been colonized by Isis? (Not trying start a row - promise!)
  10. Maybe the Iranian people will get out from under before that happens. Hopefully. For no particular reason, a statistic about Iran: highest opiate use per capita in the world, at 3.3 percent. My guess: it's a pretty depressing place to live. Stunning architecture though, in fairness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalence_of_opiates_use
  11. People think Trump is a clueless idiot, yet he talked down Kim Jong, after N.Kora fired missiles over Japan. Looks like diplomacy to me. Got the US economy motoring again, 3% growth and that in his first year, when Obama said it couldn't be done. As the feller said, if he personally discovered the cure for cancer, people would still hate him. Three years as POTUS an didn't start a war, or allow the US to be provoked into one. Idiot, yeah, for sure.
  12. News to me, I'm interested, got any good links?
  13. He asked "How many?" Not if. He deemed the estimated figure of 150 disproportionate to the loss of a $110 million drone. I wonder if Khomeini was sitting in the White House, if he would have shown restraint. Or Clinton? My spies tell me the sanctions are really biting, and the working class Iranians are getting uppity. Iran wants to provoke a war - not a big one - just enough of a scuffle to get their populous to focus on the "Great Satan" again.
  14. Depends on antivibe or no antivibe. My mcullough blower has no antivibe, zilch - it's very buzzy, horrible to use, but was cheap. Should have spent another unred and got something with good handle antivibe.
  15. Buy "Fundamentals Of General Tree Work" by Gerald Bereneck in PDF format from Educated Climber, for £17.00 Best value for money you'll ever find. https://www.educatedclimber.com/beranek-fundamentals/
  16. 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.
  17. That's why he's a multi millionaire! ??
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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?
  21. Nice! ? Maybe have a few bogus cards as well.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.

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