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Just asked my girlfriend....it depends how close your fiance is to the happy couple. If they close friends then you in trouble. On the other hand, she says, if the work was for a super important cliant and couldn't wait, then that balances out a bit.

Holy Mackerel!

Yeah thats true, obviously the kids are selected for their "stage presence" and some scripting goes on. Maybe its not a truly scientific experiment but I believe the kids are genuine enough. Even if its not "true" so to say, at least it might make people think. Kiddies in the doldrums might watch the shows and it might trigger something in their minds like "Wow, I never knew there was such a thing as tree planting! - if that rocker guy could do it, maybe I could...." - maybe start them on a positive train of thought.

Ever since Theresa May took the reigns of the Brexit wagon I've been fancying her more and more by the day...no joke!

Ive been thinking a lot about this issue. I believe its a major societal problem in the making, but can be remedied in time, with social awareness and political will. There's a series called "Worlds Toughest Jobs" where they take three British layabout kids who want to get on in their lives but lack direction and motivation - they send them to do hard manual labour. Very interesting how they react. Very, very interesting experiment. I strongly recommend this series, I was absolutely fascinated. [ame] [/ame]

For farmers and industrial level operators, yes, I agree, but garden guys? really? They sell the stuff in a squeeze bottle like 2-stroke oil, x number of capfuls per gallon of water. If someone offered me a free course I'd be glad to take it, but no way would I pay £200+ I mean where does it stop? I hear in Belgium, if you build your own house, you have to pay 6% VAT on your OWN labour. If you're a registered builder, you pay the full whack. Where is our civilisation going? Roll on deglobalisation I say, sack the pen pushers and send them into the potato fields.

I see your location is "Middle Earth"....pray tell, are you a Guardian reader by any chance, Inthewoods? Idiot though I may be, I have done hours of research, both scientific and anecdotal on glyphosate when the issue reared its head in May - mainly because I was worried about my own health. Some (14) scientists in France were paid to produce evidence that glyphosate is a human carcinogen. The best they could do was "probable". Previous studies found no health danger. I don't like the way big AG use herbicides and I try to eat organic - when it comes to grain based foods - as much as poss. But the reality is roundup, as used by granny, or granny's garden guy, is as safe as any other household chemical. Gloves, mask, no problem. Do your research - try the dry boring scientific papers, instead of Natural News. Is it good for the environment, no, its not, but a gravel yard is not a productive piece of ground anyway, and the amount of glyphosate used by homeowners is minuscule compared to AG. If you want to entertain the conspiracy side of things - which I do - the agenda behind the control of gyphosate was simply pressure by chemical companies to push their new patented expensive products. The patent on glyphosate expired a few years ago and generic brands or mix-your-own would have really eaten into monsanto's bottom line. The fact that granny can still legally buy a litter bottle at huge expense should tell us something. The ticket thing is just another UE boondoggle. I can legally spray roundup for granny, so long as I don't accept payment for it - a load of bureaucratic foolishness....

Problem solved. As for the ticket thing, sure if you want to be a professional weed controller then go for it, but if its a case of helping out a client now and then with some domestic spraying, then the ticket is simply another stealth tax, IMO (and, I'd wager, 99% of the Ag. sector) We sprayed roundup for decades without mishap or undue environmental impact. Paying 300-700 odd bucks for a licence will not make domestic spraying better or safer. When it comes to agricultural spraying, maybe the courses are a good thing, maybe not, I don't presume to say. Glyphosate is a pretty low level chemical, they use it to kill cereal crops before harvest for goodness sake, thats why there's roundup in our systems, breastmilk etc - its residues are in flour because it was sprayed on purpose, not contamination drift from granny's bottle sprayer.

But seriously, as I understand it, plastic hard hats have a lifespan of five years from "when they are put into service". Its the UV light, temperature changes, chemicals and general ware and tare that degrades the plastic material. In a stable environment, they should not chemically change much in two years from date of manufacture. Even if they were exposed to light in the shop, it wouldn't be UV as normal window glass blocks most of that, hence why you can't tan indoors. If we're talking construction helmets, the support strapping should be changed every 12 months. The constant flexion of the plastic head bands weakens them. When it comes to higher quality special trades helmets, I don't know.

Standard retail practice - stack the freshest helmets at the back of the shelf...gotta reach further back next time.

Roundup in 5 liter jerrycans at around £50. If the UK has the same new laws as Ireland the shop won't sell you the 5lt unless you provide your licence OR a "name and address". How stringently this will be required depends on the shop. I would bet my bottom dollar there are shops around who won't ask too many questions, its just a case of finding them. Ask around the immigrant community, there may even be a black market for roundup. I stocked up before the new rules came in, roundup is stable for at least a decade. If anyone with a clipboard and yellow vest shows up, you're the landowner.

Roll on globalisation!

Sure it probably costs the earth. But would be easy to build one, a polyethylene barrel halved and bolted together again longways would do much the same thing

This tread started off about stretchers. Just saw this Slix Stretcher Kits By ISC, in Wales. A flexable pasitic "spinal Board" that you can drag across the ground. Looks like something that might actually have some useful application, in that one could load it up with kit and drag it through the woods, giving it a secondary role as a stretcher if need arises.

Old Conveyor belt from a quarry, if you can get it. Cut it with a jigsaw, drill and bolt on. Will outlast the machine by many years. Will be 10mm plus though, might not bend and flex as well as the 3mm, if thats important.

Great to hear. I suppose that was why all the smoke - diesel wasn't burning. Thanks fellows.

Oh good! I was worried because diesel has a higher energy potential and I thought it might have detonated, stressed the engine etc. It was an expensive machine. Thanks for your reply!

Yesterday fuled my Maruyama 23cc long reach hedger with what I thought was aspen from a nearly empty aspen container. Wouldn't start, cleaned plug, spark test, pulled the filter out on the intake and left dangle while I cranked it, dried it out, still no joy. Tried the lighter flame at the plug hole test and no flame, also couldn't get the plug to go on fire, that should have alerted me! So this afternoon, prepared to clean the carb, though Id give it one more go, filled the tank with aspen from a new can, and it started and belched white smoke. Ran it for a while, and I kept thinking, wow, that lookes like unburned diesel smoke, but it can't be....then I remembered filling an empty aspen can with diesel (white) for a mini digger some weeks ago, little bit left so hung onto it for the van and forgot about it. Smelt just like aspen, to my nose. Realising my mistake, I emptied the hedger tank into a jar, refilled with aspen and it still smoked. I figured the filter was still holding diesel, so swapped out the filter and no more smoke. An inspection through the exhaust port showed no damage, but looking through the plug hole I could see what could possibly be a narrow vertical abrasion on on the cylinder wall at the 10 o' clock position, if the exhaust is at 3 o' clock. Just wondering if the ten or twenty seconds I ran it on maybe 30% diesel could have caused damage? Any notion?

Anyone know of a UK or European retailer selling the Thomson Uniscender? Cheers folks

Anyone on here ever watch the Dog Whisperer? Not that I presume dog owners (Im not one) don't understand dog psychology, but it was an eye opener for me. Sometimes the devil is in the detail, small modifications in family behaviour dynamics can have a major impact of dogs, apparently. Wish it worked on cats.

So they didn't find the barrel of moonshine then?

A sad day...Iron necessity as they say. A friend intervened with her dog - A chronic infection and four surgeries later and she still has all her fingers. Ive been bitten a couple of times, with no serious harm done, but one always has to think of children and the elderly. At the time, I let it go, but the one Rottie that bit my arm grabbed the arm of a four year old girl a few years later and dragged her into the street. I wished I'd followed my incident with legal action.

http://orig09.deviantart.net/e43e/f/2013/070/2/3/ultramarine_by_thomaswievegg-d5xoh4o.jpg Note the holy charms - no PPE outfit is complete without holy charms.

I don't think political experience is a prerequisite. He'll have aids and minders to manage the paperwork and hold his hand. It's the willingness to make full use of the powers of the office that is key, the details are managed by underlings. If he only does one think in office - abolish the federal EPA it will be worth it. That, and firmly establish that the emperor has no clothes (the emperor here being the nebulous social conditioning of denial, PC, fear of censure, etc etc, that afflicts the West) - and he's already pretty much achieved that.

My hiace used to heat up towing uphill. Mechanic just pulled the thermostat out "no need for it" he reckoned. Still heated, but not as much, the thermo gadget slightly impedes the coolant circulation, apparently.