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Great idea, how you gonna attach the leather? Not supposed to stitch through the cut padding. What about just waring leather chaps over the trousers? Any way you do it's gonna be hot though.

What about tyre chains, any good? Anybody tried them? Problem with tyres is they chemically delaminate after about 5 years, weather you drive on them or not. Chances of a blowout multiply exponentially after 6 years, and yet the rubber can look perfect. Most people will use up their tread inside of 5 or 6 years anyway, so its no loss, but if you buy two sets of tyres, you're effectively losing half of each set to entropy. Thus, I would mention chains again. Or here's an idea - tyre sharing - you rent a set of winters for the cold season, return them in spring, then they ship them to the southern hemisphere as the winter kicks off there.

Ok, got a real one: when a supermarket product is marked down on sale, but rings up at the full price. I actually returned to Tesco with six packets of beef jerky for this reason after checking my receipt in the parking lot. Photographed the price tag on my phone to show the customer care lady, she still walked across the store to check, leaving three people waiting in the queue for 6-7 minutes. I got my three euros discount though, at the collective cost of probably a manhour.

I hate ..Bono. The self-righteous hypocritical nanny. Really loath him.

Yeah, got a point...Let's get back to criticizing fatties!! ?

Village Idiot, I used to believe that stuff too. I think for the most part you're right, but it's a mechanistic view of the world that leads to what? If all human actions are preordained, and there is no free will, how can we judge anyone based on their actions? The default position on everything, would be "its not their fault, it was just their nature" - so we would have to tolerate everything, or accept that our own natures are incapable of tolerance beyond a certain point so don't blame us when we start killing people because we feel like it - after all, we don't have a choice in the matter. This is how the animal kingdom operates, from bacteria colonies to elephants. The law of the jungle, the law of instinct. Actually, a lot of human cultures seem to have been this way too. But what you describe as the "illusion" of self awareness, the choice to exercise will - not in an effort to satisfy instinct - but rather to override our animal nature for a higher purpose - well thats free will. The freedom to use the will as we see fit. In accordance with our higher mind, not our instincts. So what is the higher mind? Is that also a phantom of our brain electrochemistry? That is the crucial pivot of the argument: where do thoughts come from? Are they generated by the physical brain or by a higher non-physical power? If they are from the brain, then we are animals through and through, morality is an illusion, civilisation is an illusion, our cities are cultures are no more important than termite hills. We are, actually, a cancer on the planet which should be eradicated for the greater good of all nature. And nothing we can do will change that because we are incapable of change, originality, growth, etc, because we are just following our programming. But if we hold that thoughts come to us from a higher power, and our brains are just sensitive receptors - then we can exercise free will to act on those thoughts or not. Now we might say that even if thoughts came from a higher power, then we would still be puppets of that higher power, and without true free will. That may be the case, but its a better deal then being an animal. I have done thought transference experiments and derived knowledge of future events that there was no earthly way of knowing. Proved to my own satisfaction that thoughts are not a product of the brain, and information, intelligence is not confined by time and space. I can't prove it to you, but I choose to challenge the naturalistic argument whenever it appears - nothing personal!

Yeah they do. The cut profile is not quite as refined as what a file makes, but it seems to work fine.

Just for kicks...

Look into buying a load of past-it scaffolding and build the barn out of that, handy 8x4 bays, perfect width for a pallet, strong, and it would be classed as temporary.

American guy sees three gargantuan lasses at the bar, speaking with an accent. He approaches with curiosity and asked "Excuse me, are you ladies from Ireland by any chance?" The girls are shocked and offended, one replies "WALES!!" The guy responds: "Oh, I'm sorry - are you whales from Ireland".....(wakes up in intensive care)

Trump, Israel, Embassy, Riots. Just spent the last few evenings studying up on history of Israel. Wow, what a tragic mess.

Highlands and Islands I would have thought.

What's a "Milf"??

Watching crash test vids on YouTube this eve, got me thinking about unrestrained cargo and bulkheads. My 04 Kangoo has a really Mickey mouse bulkhead, if you can even call it that. A few tubes with weak mesh in between, no way it's going to stop a generator, heavy tool box or 10 bags of cement travelling at 30 - 80 mph. Research reveals that even solid bulkheads will buckle under severe impact, apparently the aftermarket ones are only required to be rated for 25kg at 30kph/mph or something. There are tie down points, affixed with an 8mm bolt, but I wonder if that is actually enough to hold a heavy load? I have a couple of boxes bolted down to the tie-down threads, one is plywood and I have a notion the box would actually shatter rather than pop the bolt. Bit worried about the whole thing. I really don't want to have to ratchet tie-down every tool in the van. Thinking about fabricating a really strong metal box as big as the van bay, maybe a foot tall, with a hinged lid, and bolting that down to all four tie-down points, but that's nearly more difficult than building a metal bulkhead. Any thoughts on this?

Think the morals part comes into play geographically. Some places have an overabundance of trees and while they may be nice and all, it's not like new ones aren't growing up all the time. Other places, certain big old trees, it would be a sin to butcher. I felled three nice oaks in Brittany twelve years ago, on the whim of a client and still feel remorse about it. I do think some trees are more special than others though.

Nice vid by the way, I always thought it was a photo. I heard they also used a lot of native Americans from a certain tribe in the early days of skyscraper building as they apparently had a generic trait that gave them immunity to vertigo and fear of hight. Could be a myth though...

The men of our great grandfather's generation had way higher testosterone levels. Proven fact. Nobody knows why we don't - could be plastic bottles or soy.

HiI have a tirfor clone too, (0.8 ton) more than happy with it. For the fast, long pull it's king. More often though I'll use my chain lever puller, 0.75 ton, with upgraded 4 meter chain. The whole package it small and relatively light for nearly the same power as the tirfor, no need to worry about kinking the chain, or damaging the chain with abrasion. No fear of cable jaggers. It is slower though, and limited reach, but I pair it with a 30m dyneema winch rope and the 4m of travel the puller affords has never not been enough to pull a leaner over. I made my puller, dyneema rope, dyneema sling, chain choker, various shackles etc all fit in a metal box bolted to the floor of my van. This set-up is always with me, and has got me van out of the mud a few times. The puller was from William Hackett UK, they very affordable, but the extra long chain can be spendy., But it was special galvinized German chain. If you go for a generic 8mm chain China import, chain is cheap.

Lithium battery tech will take off in a few years, they've discovered a way to increase the number of charge cycles from 300ish to tens of thousands. The only thing limiting batteries right now is the life span, so that you have to replace them after five years or so. For folks who dont travel far from home, a battery vehicle would be ideal - cheap to run, quiet so you can hear your tunes better, reliable.

The equivalency to lorry drivers is not quite right IMO. The roads network is uniquely dangerous, accidents caused by hgvs have a very high chance of mass casualties. Its a risk factor many orders of magnitude greater than tree work, and rightly requires some governmental oversight, like licencing, tachometers etc. (That being said, lorry drivers are still poorly paid, for what they do - the licencing requirements benefit the public, not the truckers, and self employed truck drivers now have to pay to be retested every few years). Not so with tree work. The reason you don't get guys felling trees onto motorways on a regular basis is down to fear of liability, so the gov. Or landowners hire people who can demonstrate competence and carry insurance. This is a side effect of the free market - risk Vs reward. Licencing would not benefit people like me, because the market I work for - domestic, and private businesses - will only bare so much. Having a "licence" would not make our customers pay more. They will instead turn to "non union" guys - the gypsies. This would then require the state to chase the gypsies, which the state will not do, because they are too costly to prosecute. Or criminalise the customers for hiring gypsies. I don't want to live in a society like that. Next thing house painters will need licences. Window cleaners. Chimney sweeps.

Oak is notorious for warpadge, even factory made composite boards will warp when taken out of the plastic wrapper and exposed to different temp& humidity conditions. I milled some 2" thick boards similar to what you describe, havn't used them yet but was thinking rustic steps. For a bartop, I would cut an inch thicker than you need them, stack and let season, then mill again, at least on one face, to flatten out. Any cracks can be filled with clear epoxy and sanded before finishing, actually looks really cool. For a bar counter they will have to be pretty flat as wobbly pints will cause vexation.

A mechanical aid makes the whole process much more enjoyable.

Yes the top of the flu should be 2 feet higher than the ridge of the house roof I think, otherwise you can get wind Eddie's, downdraft, won't draw kind of problems, or smoke coming into upstairs windows.

Yes I realise that, we live in a free market economy after all, at least in UK & ROI. Actually I was going to edit that and soften it a bit but whatever. I do painting, gardening, building etc. Even bringing rubbish to the tip for people with my trailer, without holding a waste transport certificate!!! The horror...the reality is not everybody needs, or can afford, a hot-shot tree surgery company.

Thank's mapleacer - for just flushing a third of my livlihhod down the crapper, or making me a criminal for doing trees part time. Nice one.