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Village Idiot, let me just ask you straight up: are you for global governance? No more nation states, no more elections? No more free market?

There are chemical wash-in products you can buy from hiking shops that supposedly stay in the fabric for weeks, even after washing again, that work, so they say. Can't remember the name of the chemical, but it's synthetic chrsanthymum extract, I think. Same chemical is in Spot-On, cattle and sheep treatment, much much cheaper. Also same chemical is in fly spray. You could try an aerosol can of fly spray and just spray your trouser cuffs, or wherever the ticks get in, and see if it works?

They move it all the time, spent fuel rods to secure waste facilities inside mountains in desert areas. Obviously moving active rods would be a problem, but they don't need to - just use up the current fuel (weeks, months?) don't add any more, then decommission the reactors. This assuming sea levels don't suddenly swamp the power stations overnight. There is no problem here. A quick Google search will tell you everything you need to know about radiation and nuclear power stations. The reason Fukushima is "underreported", as you say, is simply that it's old news, there is nothing to report. It's still leaking, still not fixed, and maybe never will be. But it's so diluted it's actually not doing much harm, if any. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencefocus.com/science/head-to-head-fukushima-vs-chernobyl/amp/

I use a Humboldt for that too, never squashed a fence yet. If it's a really valuable fence, couldn't you chain the butt above the cut to something in the fall-zone, to guarantee the butt end can't come back? I see they have 1ton chain hoists in Lidl for €40 at the moment.

Ok, let's say the ice caps melt and sea levels rise. Is it going to happen overnight? Don't you think they will move the plutonium to higher ground? Fukushima was a freak accident. The radioactive isotopes from Fukushima are also different than the ones from Chernobyl, and not as bad. Pripyat, and even the Chernobyl plant, is actually teeming with healthy wildlife now. The elephants foot, the most toxic object on earth, has actually lost about half of its lethality since the event. It takes five minutes to kill you instead of 30 seconds...nature is pretty resistant to ionising radiation, it's humans that are particularly sensitive to it. And also, the normal state of the planet earth is to have zero ice at the poles, it has been this way for most of planetary history, we are technically still in an ice age at the moment.

Look what happened to Macron when he tried to raise the diesel tax to subsidise electric cars. I've just chosen to act independently by going outside to gratuitously burn a gallon of petrol in an old barrel in your honour.

Damn, I'm well triggered now. I'll just say more thing, and then leave it alone: humans have always had a foreboding of the apocalypse. And yes, as some point in time, our species will cease to exist in a physical form, at least. The problem is trying to predict the date, and so far the pseudo scientists have got the global warming - sorry, climate change - apocalypse date wrong time and time again. Its just the same old psychological trope being played out now, with a veneer of modernity. Here's a list of failed doomsday prophesies in history. Often the same prophets kick the can down the road... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

Its a plot for governments to seize control of national economies by controlling the energy sector. If you really believe the media hype then I have to say I view you as brainwashed. The same crowd, in the seventies, eighties, predicted New York City streets under water by 2000. The climate has always changed. The Maunder Minimum, the medieval warm period, Vikings in greenland, etc etc. The hysteria is just bunkum. Hollywood clowns telling us we are being naughty while jetting around the world and consuming twenty times what a normal person does. Alexandria Occasio Cortez telling Americans they shouldn't reproduce, but still wants open borders. Al Gore, Mr rising sea levels himself, living in a mansion on the beach. It's crap dude, don't worry about it and live your life. Edit: And I used to believe in it as well, by the way. Until none of the doomsday scenarios I had ben told in my childhood came true, then I starting looking at the opposing evidence, including my own eyes.

Download The Fundamentals Of General Tree Work by Bereneck, from the link below. It's cheap, will give you an understanding of what it's about. The pay link is right at the bottom of the page https://www.educatedclimber.com/beranek-fundamentals/

I was watching an interview with him just the other day, his campervan lifestyle, diet, etc. He claims he wasn't a strong climber as a kid, and says he's not talented. His ability is solely the result of dogged determination and constant training. Incredible guy.

When women in their sixties start looking good...I smoked a pipe at 14 though, so I have a head start..

True! Quite right too, who wants an increased risk of death on the motorway? A "Sacred" fairy bush in Co Clare will not after all have to be destroyed in the building of a new bypass motorway, much to the relief of those who attach superstitious beliefs to such features of the Irish landscape. There had even been a warning from a folklorist of a curse on the new roadway and of motoring fatalities if the fairy bush was to fall victim to the £100 million plan to bypass Newmarket-on-Fergus and Ennis. One of the State's best known folklorists and story-tellers, Eddie Lenihan, had warned that the destruction of the fairy thorn bush or "sceach" at Latoon outside Newmarket-on-Fergus to facilitate the bypass plans could result in misfortune and in some cases death for those travelling the proposed new road. According to Mr Lenihan, the bush is a marker in a fairy path and was the rendezvous point for Kerry fairies on their way to do battle with the Connacht fairies. Under the bush, Mr Lenihan claims, the Kerry fairies would regroup and consult on what might be the best tactics in battle. He said their white blood has been seen on a number of occasions on the surrounding grass. He warned of terrible consequences if the fairy bush was destroyed, saying that the site in 10 to 15 years' time may have a higher than usual casualty list, including fatalities. He said: "It is sacred ground, it doesn't revert to being a normal place." During the last couple of months, the council has been carrying out archaeological works on lands surrounding the bush as part of preparatory work for the Newmarket bypass. However, the bush has remained untouched. Yesterday, the county engineer, Mr Tom Carey, confirmed that after surveying the fairy thorn bush in the detailed plans and drawings prepared, the council has found that it would now be able to incorporate the "sceach" into the proposed bypass.

Not that one! Fairies live in that one!

It's completely unraveled...I don't see this Gong Show ever coming right...Probably better just post a new thread, Woodcutter.

Balloons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2f2CvgLIg

That's completely awesome! Actually would be feasible to incorporate that into modern climbing, just as an aid, if course. Chimney rods, or something like that. Beats trying to advance by throwing a rope coil. Of course, that would mean climbing higher than the TIP... if there was some kind of modular pole system that you could also tie into, like a pair of sliding sleeves with eyes that would ratchet up the pole. With modern materials should be easy enough to make a product that would do think of the time saving.

Well, I hope something comes up. If not, maybe it's a sign from God that you should be quitting arb and moving to a career in textiles? Ask your higher self, Woodcutter, what golden thread led you here? “And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan”

And who says spelling isn't important in the manual trades? ?

Try cleaning out the break mechanism, its probably gunk built up in there. You'll want to youtube it, and be careful of the spring popping out, need goggles. Air compressor, dishwashing brush and break cleaner will do it. Also check the clutch is clean on the outside, there could be crud baked on there as well.

Polesaw, but it will be very hard or impossible to achieve perpendicular cuts to the branches. Or put up a scaffolding tower and make many small cuts.

This explains it pretty well

You can shuffle too. Maybe better then hopping, in case you fall over.

A difficult subject...would it be fair to say that we are talking about two different things? 1. Genuine mental/emotional distress 2. Narcissistic self absorption. The problem as I see it is all this is subjective, since we cannot really ever know what it is like to be in someone else's mind...however, there must be some objective factors we can look at and agree on, to favour one category or the other. For instance, when a person who has a history of being a self-centred, entitled so-and-so (like many celebrities) complains they have some sort of mental illness, one is inclined to think its band-wagon stuff. They may actually be suffering, but maybe their suffering is a result of being chronically out of touch with reality and self-centred, that is to say, their distress is a result of their own narcissism?

Thank you! Always nice to receive complements about one's protruberence.