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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.

Tell that to a bank with billions tied up in seafront development. You really think they can't afford to pay for the real scientists and the true forecast? They can't afford not to. Bottom line, the banks can't afford to be suckered. The "climate scientists" were wrong 40 odd years ago and the banks knew it.

Yeah...I been taking a sabbatical from the internet last few days - phone trouble.. had a long rant on the other Global Warming thread. Heard a thing on YouTube the other day that made sense to me, to paraphrase: The most powerful institutions in the world are banks. Banks care about money, and nothing else. Banks make money by lending money intelligently. They have the resources to hire people who are very very good at making accurate predictions about the long term future. Yes, they occasionally get it wrong, but mostly they get it right, or they wouldn't have such vast wealth. Banks have been, and continue to invest in seafront realestate and development to the tune of trillions a year. Some of these investments are decades long loans. Twenty years ago the "climate scientists" were telling us many of these seafront areas would be underwater by the year 2000. They were wrong. In 2000, they were saying they would be underwater by 2020. We're not there yet, 8 months to go, but I think it's safe to say, they were wrong. A lot of angst was suffered for years by millions of people because of predictions that were just plain wrong. And the banks knew it the whole time. The kept investing, and continue to invest, in seafront development. Just a thought...

If you ate bread this morning, you ate glyphosate! They spray is on cereal crops to stop the growth and essentially kill the plant, for drying on the stalk before harvest (I don't like it either, but we've all been eating it for decades) Injection is preferable because knotweed is such a hardy plant, leaf spraying may just kill the upper portion of the plant and not get absorbed far down enough to kill the rhizome. If the plants are a first year infestation from imported nodes, then the rhizome may not have developed much, and maybe just painting the leaves with a soft brush will kill it. If it's been around more than a few years, you should inject. Regular concentration roundup prep, injected into the centre of each and every stalk, preferably at or just after growth peak, near the ground. Use an agri syringe and big needle, and cut or sleeve the needle so only 5mm or so is bare, so you can press it right onto the stalk without the chance of it going clear through the other side - will speed things up. Don't know what amount to inject, sure it's easily found by googling.

The patent for gyphosate (roundup) expired a few years ago, spawning cheap generic roundup. This put a dent in Monsanto earnings. I'd not be surprised if some big chem company is behind this to ban glyphosate so they can corner the market for the latest greatest safer, expensise (and patented) herbicide. Bare in mind the court was trial by a jury of hippies and the victim was a minority, in California, where hammers can cause cancer (no joke).

Yes, indeed that's the salient paragraph. So, I read this as government control over the economy. To paraphrase "The people won't change vouluntarily, so we will force them to change". This is communism. Rationing. No travel without a permit. The end of growth, private enterprise, personal wealth etc. Do you read it differently?

Did you read the article? He's essentially arguing for a government controlled economic model - ie. Socialism (Communism), same as Alexandria Occasio Cortez.

Just read this piece by George Monibot. He finally lays the agenda on the table: "To stop global warming we must stop economic growth." In short, they are agitating for communism. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/26/economic-growth-fossil-fuels-habit-oil-industry?CMP=share_btn_tw

Yeah! That's a great application! I saw some other gadget that was a essentially a battery powered Frog clip, remote activated to disingage.

Just stumbled upon this. A very clever gadget for certain applications - but not really something I'd be keen to experiment with. Just figured I'd share it.

I did. Bought a Hank of 11mm kernmantle and hand ascenders and a cammed descender and learned how to climb on a RADS or "YoYo" set up. I'm getting sick of it now. It's fine for straight up and down, but very fiddly for limb walking. Hard to operate one handed. Lots of taking ascenders on and off... I find I usey 5m lanyard more that the climbing line for advancing and positioning, which is just a very short Ddrt system.

Climbing helmet Stein Kask, ground helmet Husqvarna branded. The ear defenders make a poor seal on the head with the climbing helmet, I don't know why, but others have found the same problem. Very sensitive ears.