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You could also vlog your progress week by week, take a go-pro along with you etc, and become a Youtube star like Reg Coats, Hunicke, Billy Ray etc? I'd quite like to watch "The Rake's Progress" as it were, a total greenhorn learning the ropes more or less on his own. I think it would make brilliant content!

Give it to your local New Age Travellers for their compost toilets?

Welcome! Be prepared to hire bucket trucks, spider lifts etc. For the jobs you don't feel up to climbing yet. Use every trick and crutch at your disposal, buy Bereneck's Fundamentals Of General Tree Work PDF at Educated Climber. Slow down and think, it's easy to get tunell vision in the tree and forget stuff you learned - you can get on a single track of how to proceed, and not notice other options, if you know what I mean, at least that happens to me.

My thoughts exactly. With the general decline in religiosity, people still have a built-in need to fear an apocalyptic "something", it's been in our genes for hundreds of thousands of years. And something to feel guilty about as well. Add it to the long long list of failed predictions. of doom..

Can you take and post a picture of the worms and other invertebrates? Or better yet, a video. Then, if we can see them too, we can rule out hallucinations.

Pulling small hung up trees, too much for me physically, but the Track-Barrow didn't even notice. I pulled a stone out as well, didn't take a picture though - roundy bastard, bout 150kg. Levered him loose with a couple of branches then pulled away with the Barrow and chain, again, no problem. Next project is to fabricate a light dozer blade or somesuch, so I can push stuff.

Just been using the Track-Barrow/Mini Dumper to great effect the last few days. Clearing a trail for horses through overgrown Sitka plantation, it's a five minute walk through the trees to the site, and I need everything: several saws, chain pullers, chains and rope, petrol, bits box, water, lever bar, slings, etc. Would mean walking back and forth from the van five or six times. With the dumper it's one trip (two for the polesaw). Saves a pile of time and energy.

Yeah, nah. I'll just spectate, thanks. Actually, could you get someone to video it and upload to youtube? - Tripod and landscape view, please.

The hawks nest tunnel was way worse than what the graph shows. The number of deaths from acute silicosis was around 300 at the time, but basically every man who worked on the tunnel died from silicosis later in life.

I have a medium duty aluminium one. Very light, I can move the whole thing around myself, on wheels on level ground, if its only built up to twenty feet or so. It can go up to nine meters I think. Really got to tie in to the wall, as the outriggers are often as not un-deployable due to space restrictions. If possible, I will open a window and fix a small g-clamp to the frame, then tie onto that - or failing that get permission to install expansion bolts with an eye. If you site them under sills and remove the eye and thread after, they're pretty unobtrusive, and then they're there for future maintenance use. Also good for securing ladders. Mine mostly gets used for house painting, the odd chimney access, second-story gutter cleaning and fixing, shop signs, facia, roof repair, window fixing, etc. Anything that you need two hands for, or two people, and a place to put your tools and materials. For arb related work it doesn't get much use, but is good for tall and deep hedges.

Maybe they had removed trees in a hedge before and the customer pulled a fast one and refused to pay "Because you killed my beautiful trees and I said to only do the hedge!!!" - so they are very careful not to get stung like that again? Maybe their boss stipulated absolutely leave any trees alone if you find them, no excuses. P.S I'd actually fly to the UK to watch the fight at the arb show! - please update closer to the time to confirm ? ??

I read a thing a while ago that there were zero deaths or serious injuries during the building of (I think) the statue of liberty, which one would imagine was conducted along the same H&S lines -ie. slim to none. I think people were just more in tune with their body's back then, more fatalistic, more confident and therefore more safe. No hesitation. Like Fred Dibnah. Mind you, I don't have the casualty stats to hand!

Left me without words. Respect to these guys

Tried it - delicious! Better than rhubarb. The Japs make tea from it as well, supposably has health properties.

On the subject of battery powered equipment, this is just out - a battery capstan winch!

Kind of a moot point whether it's cheaper or not, since arible land under oilseed rape or ethanol corn is not useful for food crops, fodder crops or grazing, thus driving up the price of food. So even if it was cheaper, you'd pay more for food. Now, it's true they do make cattle feed out of the biproducts from biofules. But there's still processing, transport, extraction and a whole massive infrastructure to refine the biofule. With crude oil, it's under the ground, so the land footprint of the extraction sites can be very small, or offshore, and some of the places it's found are not suitable for farming anyway, like deserts and tundra. I don't like the idea personally of using fertile land to grow "food" for cars. It just feels like the wrong way round, somehow.

My set up was shoestring, before LEDs, li-ion storage and brushless turbines. The tech is cheaper now, but for reliable supply it's still a massive investment, unless you have a very dependable River or somthing. Too much power when the wind, rain, sun is in force and not enough storage is also a problem. Some people heat huge water tanks, but that's an investment too. In the end, I was still using fossil fuels, parrafin candles, deisrl for driving, gas for cooking, (wood for heating). Not for ideological reasons, I just wanted to live remotely. Never bothered with a gennie, too expensive to run and noisy

Isn't USA the largest producer of oil today? No more foreign wars needed, maybe. Enough oil under Alaska to last a hundred years.

I lived off grid for eight years. Minimal solar setup, 100 watts of panels and 120 AH of storage or so. It was fine for charging a phone and a few lights. Its when you want serious power for washing machines, kettles, cookers, water heaters, power tools and so on that the problems arise. Even a site generator won't easily boil a kettle (it will but not good for the gennie) You're talking massive output for water heating...

When it comes to cell chemistry, I think they gave reached their limit, for the time being. Advances have been made on the changing speed side of things, and the max number of lifetime charge cycles, which is pretty great. But at present the li-ion format can only output so many amps for a given weight of cells, so it's kind of reached a dead end, as far as handheld machinery is concerned. Also the more energy you draw for a given time, the more monitoring teck you need to prevent the cells overheating. Too much draw means cooling fans, adds weight, etc. Then there is the cost angle, with li-ion being the industry standard for nearly everything, the eco omy of scale has made the tech affordable, but remember fifteen years ago when the new batteries hit the market, they were horribly expensive. Also, in order for the teck to be marketable, it also has to be safe. A li-ion cell packs the same energy as an explosive, weight for weight. Turns out they are pretty safe, if paired with monitoring tech. Could be a long time before experimental graphene (or whatever) batteries are at the same level of reliability and cost effectiveness.

The yanks want to grill him to figure out whether Hillary's emails were given to wikileaks by Russians or by Americans. The anti-Trump forces are pushing the Russian narrative - but there are pro Trump voices saying the emails were leaked to wikileaks by Democrat insiders supporting Sanders (Seth Rich - R.I.P). No coincidence that Assange is nabbed just as the Meuller report is about to be released. Brexit Party launched. Israeli elects Netayahu a fifth term. Uranus enters Taurus. Etc. For real.

You should. Especially when milling. And tune rich.

Willful ignorence is when we choose to ignore evidence that is available to us, when we are trying to descern the truth of a matter. There is irrifutable evidence on the skeptic side that the models were quite wrong, data deliberately fudged and ignored, ice core samples that refute CO2 driving warming etc etc. I made an effort to actually look at the evidence from the "wrong side" of the issue. Further research convinced me that the elements on the "warmist" side were and are being dishonest, in order to further a political agenda.

It may be carbon neutral if the are replaced, but what about the CO2 you produce to process them? Fuel, machinery - which produces CO2 when the metal for it is mined, smelted, fabricated, transported. What about the money you make from your trade? What do you spend it on? Do you donate all of your profit it to a tree planting charity? Fact is, everyone we do to improve our lives generates CO2 or "carbon"... I just don't believe the hype anymore, so I not bothered, but I feel badly for the folks that do believe and feel guilty about it. Freedom is a wonderful thing, if you're free to enjoy it without guilt.