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Understood, but still if it came to court, the landowner will be pushing his narrative and the pub guy pushing another. If it comes down to word against word, the outcome depends on who is the most convincing bullshitter really. I still think the pub guy would be fighting an uphill battle to convince a judge that the landowner was negligent for hiring him. If pub guy knew beforehand that he wasnt up to the job, then he himself would be negligent for accepting the job, and probably guilty of deception and as well, for misrepresenting himself. The convention is to take people at their word, if they are adults apparently of sound mind. If the landowner hired a fifteen year old kid with a saw though, then he would be negligent.

Another massive hurdle to overcome in S.S Africa is the age demographic. Check this out https://www.populationpyramid.net/sub-saharan-africa/2017/ The whole place is basically little kids, teens and young people.

They were doing ok until contact with Europeans. Its not about race, its about culture - but culture and race go hand in hand, and in the case of Africa are very close. We're taking about a culture that was still in the stone age two hundred years ago. Literally, the stone age. Little or no metalworking technology. Two hundred years ago. We in the west, and the peoples of the east, have been building complex civilisations for at least ten thousand years. The sub saharan Africans never left the stone age, they just kept right on at that level. The injection of technology into their cultures was detrimental to them - totally banjaxed the delicate balance of reproduction and food supply that they had maintained for probably a quarter of a million years before. The oral tribal wisdom chain was broken. The balance of power between tribes was broken. Our ancestors did this, but they and we should not be blamed, it was inevitable. It's was inevitably happens when a stone age culture meets an advanced culture, the stone agers get fucked. If the Chinese had gotten to Africa first it would have been no different. This is a culture that has no tradition of intellectual advancement. A culture that functioned in its environment, when homeostasis was operating, but one that cannot function now. Its too late. Individuals of any culture and race are capable of transforming themselves, and in that sense we all have the same potential and race is not a thing - we are not limited by our genes - but in reality our race and place of birth also ties us to a culture, and that culture is a powerful thing to overcome. Its like a gravitational force. The culture of Africa is, I repeat, still in the stone age. I was reading about Bennelong, an Australien Aborigine who was captured and became westernised. This is a stone age man who hob-nobbed with aristos in England. It can be done, but on a planetary scale?...I don't know...

Oxfam is part funded by government - taxes - in other words. That's why it made the news, the gov. is threatening to pull their funding if heads don't roll, or so I understand.

We should bring back tar-and-feathering, and the stocks!

Well, actually it sometimes is. Just to be pedantic, if the local pub chainsaw guy did hurt himself, and sued, the homeowner would only become liable if negligence could be proven. Or proven "enough" to convince the court. If the pub guy represented himself as an experienced and competent operator (and remember in the eyes of the law tickets are not the only indicator of competence) - given his reputation and self affermation as such - then the homeowner would have satisfied the duty of care. If the pub guy turned out to be lying about his level of competency, then how could the homeowner be expected to know? That the the crux of negligence - if you knew and didn't/did do somthing about it, then its negligence. If you genuinely did not know, then you cannot be convicted of negligence.

Some of my regular clients have live abroad and have holiday homes near me, I do bits and pieces as and when and bill them when they arrive. They'd be fine with mailing a cheque but it really doesn't matter to me, I know it's as good as paid. Unless they unexpectedly die of course.

I don't mind waiting six months for some customers. Depends on the person and the situation. What gets me is people who have, or could have in 5 minutes, the cash to hand but make you work for it. Latest job was "Call to me before the weekend with your invoice and I'll give you a cheque." Called in the afternoon to confirm "meet me at 8.00" - (this is after a half hour drive) waited half an hour and called again. Eventually shows up and we do the invoice together, then he goes to the office to write the cheque. How long does it take to write a cheque?? Five minutes, apparently. I imagined him fighting a Gollum/Smeagol type battle with himself to do it...some folks just have trouble letting go of the wadge..

Phone them and ask exactly how thick the finished, planed product should be then mill accordingly

Mental exercise: would you venture into or through a ghetto at night? Or in daylight? Racist graffiti telling you you're not welcome and gangs of youths giving you the hairy eyeball from street corners? Would you want your family to have to traverse these places? At present the no go zones are relatively small, but they are growing. If the birth rate and cultural self-segregation continues as normal, whole cities will become no go zones. This will happen with accelerated speed as the natives flee their homes when they see the tipping point approach. Yes, there will be war in Europe, not this decade but in the next few.

Funny thing, I did the CS32 course last year and the instructor supplied us (only me and another lad on the course) with 550xpg saws. Both refused to run properly, and we all three ended up using my little rear handle 201 for the last three days. For the assessment they purchased a cm261. Said they only had the Husqus because of a corporate sponsorship deal and wouldn't buy them again.

Maybe the OP is really an arborist and is trolling for lulz?

Yes, agree about stubs tangling the access line. The thing is I can only take so many minutes on spikes alone before my feet and knees start hurting, so the stubs are just for comfort. I place my feet carefully, so the gaff is embedded as well as the stub taking some of my weight, do a few gyrations and such to confirm everything is sound before cutting etc. Maybe with really good spikes I would not need to, but I bought the treehog budget option as they were on sale. Also the odd stub keeps the rope out of the danger zone of getting spiked. I priced the job at 300 euros, (and had to fight for it) and my groundy got 200 of that. Wont do similar job again for that price, but it was good experience and confidence building.

Thanks 4 replies, yes I was on spikes, just left long stubs for more comfortable positioning - I cut them flush on the way down, just leaving a few for footrests. I'm gonna have to wash my gear, will try the soap flakes if I can't get rope soap soon.

So did my third proper conifer removal yesterday, the first being a leyland cyprus and the 2nd and 3rd a pair of sitka spruces. Counted rings about 35 years old, two feet at the base and about 18m tall we estimated. Tough work if you're not used to it. Went up the first stem on my own and cleaned all the branches with a handsaw, then the next two afternoons came back with my pal and finished with chainsaw. Got them down to about 5m then straight fell. Phone line on one side, under and through the boughs, so was pulling the bigger ones with a tag line and directional cut. All finished without incident. One thing though, my rope and lanyards are mankey with resin now. I have two Finch lanyards, and they both became virtually unusable by the end of the second day, the rope just jamming in the cam. So frustrating, and very hard on the arms...I'm wondering, does anyone here use a Petzl Zillon lanyard, with the mini-zigzag? If so, how does that fare with resin?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing - chuck a rope in, cut at the red line with a polesaw and pull the sucker over, simples. Probly take an hour and a half.

Hair follicle?

Coneheads?

Anyone been following the Devin Nunes Memo story? Should be dropping before the weekend. It's the showdown at dawn between Trump and the Dems...interesting stuff of you can get yr head around the ins and out of it.

Nitril so called "riggers" gloves, popular with motor mechanics. Gray back and black palm.

I take the pipe outside once a year to sweep, so I can inspect it minutely - never had a problem with creosote buildup beyond the usual. But I season all my wood for at least a year, normally more as it would be lying around for a while before I get round to splitting and stacking.

Yeah its cold alright. Just took some readings, all at the same distance, about two meters. Stovetop: 196 degrees celcius Top of pipe: 40 degrees Own hand: 34 degrees.

My stove is single wall until about 6 inches from the ceiling. Measurement taken from the single wall pipe. You can track the Lazer down the pipe and see the temp going up and up the closer you get to the stove. The outside Aire system was common in open fires, usually with a manual "blower" somewhere near the fire that you'd crank a handle. I think it was a rich man's gadget, don't know if they really work that well, but in a closed stovebox I imagine it woukd...

I just bought an infrared remote thermometer in Lidl. Been checking my Jotul stove, the firebox is like 250 degrees and the metal stovepipe neat the ceiling is about 35. So it appears most of the heat is being trapped in the house, which is good. Thing I wonder is: is it better to pipe the air into the stove from outside ("mushroom" inside firebox) or let the fire draw air from the room and pull in new cold air through gaps or a cracked window? If the air in the room is being slowly replaced, then the temp will be lower, but the air fresher. If drawn from an isolated source via a feeder pipe, then won't the air in the room be stuffy?

Left my Husq in a shed for a few months, and the rats got to it...had to strip it down and sterilize the whole thing. Be careful how you store if you use veg oil for chain lube...