Haironyourchest

Pics or it didn't happen.

You know, one day, some other arb forum is gonna come along and try to poach our eggs...

I would consider trying to go part time at the warehouse - or some other steady job - and part time at the trees, on a casual basis working for yourself. You might find you're glad of some guaranteed indoor work come next winter, and take the tree jobs as and when they come up. Could do a bit of garden maintenance as well.... I've always thought there was wisdom in spreading the eggs around.

The Guardian...yuch. And at the bottom of every column they beg for money "While you're here - " ....shameless.

Found another one, Russian. But it looks like his lanyard didn't deploy? I watched in slow mo and couldn't see it.

Thanks for that! Nice one, just what I was looking for. So your man seemed alright after his fall, only deployed half his shock absorber after a 5 foot drop. The chimneys I do are two to four feet tall from the ridge, with a short pot. I wrap a lifting sling around the stack then lanyard onto that, with an adjustable lanyard in series to take up the slack. So fall would be about 4 - 5 feet to a 45 degree roof, then slide down. Depending on the roof the lanyard should stop me going off the edge. I'm working on a bail-out kit for getting down from dangling as well...

Anyone here ever take a fall on a shock absorber lanyard, like you ware on building sites at hight? I bought the harness and lanyard system for chimney sweeping jobs, as I have to stand above my anchor point. It's a basic concertina rip-out webbing thing, elongates to four feet and reduced the shock force on the body to 450 kn or so. I know about suspension trauma etc, but would like to know just what 450kn actually feels like. Loads of YouTube vids of weight drop tests, but not one with a live human...given the amount of jackasses on You Tube I am puzzled by this. I just want to know what to expect but don't want to waste my lanyard or blow a disk for the sake of curiosity. Anyone experienced this, or know someone who has? Replies appreciated.

I read a thing that said all lifeforms, even humans, are essentially highly complex bacteria colonies. Hence why human tissues can be grown as cultures in labs. Threads good today, just to keep it arb related, I'm splitting some massive spruce rings while I think about life...

Yeah, agreed. But we (in the west) have come a long, long way in terms of reducing pollution at source. A certain amount of state control is necessary. The USSR was notorious for polluting, same as China. Like we were back in the day...but cultures and nations develop...growing up in Ireland it was commonplace for people to leave scrapped cars rotting in fields for decades. Perfectly acceptable to chuck rubbish our the car window into the verge, and bury and burn trash on your land. Things have changed over the years, for the better. Voluntary changes in attitude are natural changes, and some enforcement on the few hold-outs is appropriate. What I take issue with are poorly thought out, sweeping top-down changes to our lives... Man I got to get off my ass and do some work.

Well, they reckon humans/homonids have been around for at least 2 million years in one form or another. So thats going back a ways... If our use of fossil fuels causes problems for the future of the human race...ok...so can we know the future? The so called climate scientists think so, I don't trust their predictions. They predicted New York under water by 2000...Even if the climate change hypothesis is true, does the earth actually need 7 billion people? The human species did fine for two million years with a crew of half a billion or so. If the population level goes back to baseline - a billion lets say - in the next few centuries, would that be bad? These are questions I ask myself on a daily basis...can growth continue exponentially? Our species is undergoing constant change and flux, and historically most of the changes have been "natural"... If we were to abandon fossil fuels, how would we live? Would the government give us all electric cars? Or just make cars unaffordable for most people so we would have to be dependant on public transport. To and from our jobs. The economy would tank, nobody would hire tree surgeons and we would be down the job centre. The government would have to find something for the legions of unemployed to do, and we would be given jobs working on farms, to replace farm machinery. We would be put to work in factories making solar panels. Travel to and from our wee jobs on electic public transport...no freedom. It would be like going back to the 1800's. I think a lot of people actually crave a planned economy. No pollution, no emissions, no difficult choices, fairness, everyone looked after but not very well, no feeling inferior or guilt if your doing better than others...yeah it has its appeal, I grant.

Having my toast, as it happens. To address the last five or so posts about pollution as a side effect of fossil fuel use: Yes there is some pollution, mostly urban from vehicles. CO2 is not a pollutant, it is a plant food. The global warming scare and the scientific consensus is a swindle, plain and simple. Its the green energy lobby, the tax-happy globalist-leaning governments who want to control the energy sector and therefore the economy. The atmosphere (oh God I'm so tired of this...) - used to contain many hundreds of times the CO2 it does today. The earth was lush, warm and brimming over with life, animal and vegetable. The natural state of the earth is to have no ice at the poles. We are still technically in an ice age. The sahara is greening because of increased CO2. The inject 5 times the atmospheric amount of CO2 into commercial polytunnels to stimulate plant growth. Reducing fossil fuels will wreck economies, and not reverse or halt global warming, if indeed it is happening at all, they lied about the data and tortured statistics, computer models very wrong and have recently admitted it. Heres the thing with the Green Agenda - its government trying to force the economy to go a way it doesn't naturally want to go, with the carrot and stick method of subsidisation and punishment. This is dangerous - its taking peoples freedom away. If the fossil fuels were to start running low for real, the alternative energy sector would suddenly take off like a rocket, driven by real consumer demand for cheaper energy and human innovation stimulated by necessity. But at the moment, crude is the most useful form of energy, its cheap, abundant, stores well, transports well, stable, great energy density etc etc. But trying to force us to abandon it and turn to the more expensive "green" option by coercion, based on a moral narrative that is simply made up......

Yes I understand your viewpoint VI, but I and probably two thirds of the world's population believe it to be wrong and misguided, just as you believe our viewpoint to be wrong. In the long term, that is. Drilling in the gulf will not destroy the environment or the climate. It simply will not. That is what we believe. There is no downside to drilling for oil, anywhere at any time, none whatsoever. We do not believe the media and leftist-government inspired "narrative" of AGW. We just don't buy it. When we run out of crude oil we can start tapping the hydromethane deposits, which currently hold three times more energy than all the known fossil fuel reserves ever discovered. Unlimited growth for centuries is what we expect the future to be. We don't want redistribution of our wealth to the third world, or the lazy in the first world. We want everyone to work and thrive, all the world over. We want strong national identities, all the world over, preferably on friendly terms. That is true diversity, different cultures in different places with strong borders to keep them distinct and seperate. If people want to change cultures, more power to them, but the mixing of cultures in the same place and the resulting conflicting moral and legal norms - we don't want. We just see the nature of man and the world from a different perspective...see, I can sympathise where you're coming from and where the Trump haters are coming from because I was one once. I used to long for global governance, world peace, fairness for all, etc. I've gradually gone over to the other side though. I see Trump as literally the Hail Mary Pass that saved humanity from an eventual communist style world government. Its like the magic eye pictures, reality looks like something, then you adjust your brain a bit, and it suddenly looks like something else...its a funny old life.. You're a good sort though, VI, and I believe you feel the same way about Trump as most of my friends, and I'm still friends with most of my friends! - I'm not trying to troll you, I just feel a moral obligation to defend Trump and his agenda from time to time.

One year of Trump, US growth at 3.6%. growth under Obama was like 1.1 for 7 years. Black unemployment at all time low. Illegal border crossings down. Multinationals moving back to USA. Yeah, he's definitely cognitively impaired though, and an amoral racist...

I think it makes him a better person. And anyway I wouldn't consider those statement actual lies, more like bullshit throwaway comments. I can tell the difference between a calculated falsehood and bullshit. Im a bullshitter too, so it really doesn't bother me. I feel safer being able to see the humanity of the POTUS warts and all, unlike Obama who's every utterance was considered, leaving the real personality hidden. So in a way, Trump is less of a lier than most politicians, in that he doesn't lie about his own motives.

Stihl HT131 4-mix is the industry standard. Mine has given some trouble - motor temperamental and failed killswitch. But when it work it works great. I run Aspen in it. I don't know if I would go battery next time, as I use mine to cut pretty big stuff and sometimes hours on end. Battery would definitely be a nicer user experience, more reliable, but for heavy work, I dunno?

Just been down my local. Found myself sitting next to a woman at the bar who I have known for a very long time, but not having much to talk about..drinking our pints of stout (Ireland) in silence, watching the news, silly horse racing etc...then the Trump tweets "story" comes on, and she essentially asks what I think about him. I had to play my cards carefully at this juncture, as I was pretty sure so was anti Trump. Long story short, she's a supporter! Great long chat, put the world to rights. More people on the Trump Train than I thought.

Chimps can tell when you're lying.

We share 98.5% of our genome with chimpanzees. And 97.5% with mice. And about 50% with watercress. Apparently.

Brian Blessed said he thinks Brexit will cause the UK economy to diiiiiive!! (Points if someone gets it) Bono.. 'nuff said

Yeah, it's a replacement for religion. Same as veganism, SJW culture, Marxist ideology etc.

...triggered?????⛄???

Yeah I just thought that, doesn't quenching harden metal? Or is that only ferrous metals?

Yeah sorry the washer is still in place, I mean I left the original one in - didn't replace it with a new one (yet). I've been monitoring the oil level, nothing unusual there. Cheers Felix

My 1.5 DCI Kangoo was making a ticking noise, identified problem as a leaking Injector seal. There was a pool of gunk around the injector and a "puffing" feeling if I held my finger near it. Anyway, I jumped off the deep end and pulled the injector, cleaned it, exteriorly, and cleaned the crud from the inside of the bore, while taking care to plug the opening into the cylinder with a rubber cone. Very carefully in other words. I didn't replace the copper washer, as I don't have one...put it all back together, and fully expected the van to not start, but it DID - and seems to be running smoother and quieter??? Is this normal? Should I replace the seal anyway or just keep touching wood? Anyone else have this experience?

Interesting read, confirms my understanding. There was a story on T-nation once by a retired pro powerlifter who locked up due to years of injuries so as he could barely walk. Same thing happened: he returned to training, not full intensity but full range of motion with resistance, and he was fine again.