Vespasian

You might not be able to fathom an answer but I can.. Early Islam wasn't what it is today, its been stiffed by hardliners over the years.. at one time collecting books was seen as the mark of a good scholar.. Later Islamic leaders went so far as to burn any books if it hadn't anything to do with Islam. Luckily by then the old works had found their way into Europe through Spain.. The Rabbinical European Jews went the opposite direction, from hardline isolationists to people wanting to mix with the rest of society. They began to open schools teaching science and other disciplines.. mostly because they were barred from christian schools or universities.. Its no surprise the Jews excelled given they have a higher IQ in the population then we do.. something to do with Rabbis who were generally pretty bright getting all the women.. and doin most of the breeding. So it isn't a mystery. Jews wanted to learn, Muslims didn't.. Oh, and the Jews aren't a semetic people, by and large they are of European decent.. converts to the faith more than semetic immigrants.. You might say they're what Hitler wanted, a European super race..

Oh did he now!!. well I'll tip my hat to the fella... to many soft uns these days.. I used to tie in with a bit of bailing string or owt lying about.. rachet straps seems like a godsend.. I wouldn't expect anyone to do the things I've done mind.. but seein as its me doin it, I'l do a job as I see fit...

I dread to think how they went on fifty years back, what without tickets an all.. training and tickets, who needs em

If you think the same way at fifty as you did at twenty, you've just wasted thirty years of your life. Mohamed Ali.

Wish it was, would of cost me less on keeping it on the road..

I'd stick at it and find something else to do besides tree work.. make tree work your No1 priority but get somethin else on the boil at the same time.. And on the off chance you're a bit to keen, learn how to say no... if a jobs out the way, or to much trouble then fk it.. let someone else do it..

I was wondering about this, I get the sense of freelancer reading through his post..

Well it would help had I been a mathematician.. as it is I can't be expected to make any sense of all that galumph. If your asking me, just ask a logging company how much they extract per hectare and build an analysis on that. I'm sure its much easier to calculate from logging data and extrapolating that data to cover a wider area of interest than faffing about the way these morons are doin it.. reminds of the story of the money NASA spent inventing a pen that works in space, only to find the Russians used a pencil..

Come back when its explained how its done. all I've read is its done with lasers.. not much to go there is there.. Mind you, you post a report to a scientific rag and it says lasers were used to get at the stats, they're much happier to publish the story.. Tells you more about the quality of the editors than any science that might,(caugh) be involved..

people will believe absolutely anything.. How does a laser get through leaves to begin with?.. must do it in winter when theres no leaves blocking the view.. oh, but then again the other branches in the way.. is it on a drone?.. I've an idea, guesstimate the volume as best can be scientifically ascertained and you'll do better than spending 150 grand on some stupid gizmo dreamed up by some bozo wanna be science student... People, most scientific literature is bollocks on a stick... just because its in a science rag don't mean shit..

Snow everywhere, a month too late.. now I've seen you, you can piss off back were you came from..

lovely looking things.. In case anyones interested, I was. heres how they're done..

my question would be is that a private road you found your kit on?... a case of park it here lads, thanks for the tenner.. worse than the thieves some people...

I make sure I have a slush fund ready every time my MOT is due...

A lad from Breightmet and someone from the travelers site in Moses Gate, never would of thought!!!.. How do you know the lad was from Breightmet?.,..

Its just come to me, a friend had her shogun nicked off her yard in broad daylight a month or so back.. I'm sure she mentioned a silver vauxall.. looked Romanian from discrimination she was given... headed off towards Bury. said there was about three of em.. About the i before the e.. spellchecker sorts that all out for me..

No problem, we're always happy to help.... Just out of curiosity, and to settle any dispute.. why did you point out you were coming from the services?.. now be honest, no ones gonna bite you if you felt it might give you a bit of a thumbs up... And to be honest with you, I wasn't having a go at you in particular, just the general idea of ex service personal making a thing of it.. And why I'm on the subject I was doin a tree the other day, and managed to pull my back out moving the logs out the way.. its put me in a fowl mood and I wonder why anyone wants to do any sort of tree work if it involves two days stooped over afterwards... perhaps its why I tried to point out you might not really like it.. its harder than you think it is..

Yea, just thought he'd point it out...

Ah shut your trap, "you hate me".. drama queen!!!... And, I haven't got anything against anyone who's been in the forces. I'd happily sit down and listen to hrs of their adventures. What annoys is introducing themselves as ex forces like it entitles em to some respect.. yea, well I'll respect someone when I feel they've earned it.. being in the forces might be nothing more than sweeping floors.. if they did something worth reporting on then I'll tip my hat.. And I remember a thread sometime last year, a fella trained William or Harry as a pilot, I think it was that scotish lad who worked on oil rigs gave him a hard time(pretended to work on the oil rigs).. I'm trying to think if Mr Bullman had somethin to say back then..

I'd get a mid'ling sort of a saw on the off chance chopping tree's isn't as easy as it looks.. And, somethin thats bin botherin me is the, "I'm leaving the forces".. like so what!!!.. what do you want a medal?.. Would be nice if all we were told was he was looking into getting into chopping tree's as he's moving on from his current job.. I don't know about anyone else but doin time in the forces cuts nice ice with me....

Hang on, don't you think the advice aught be try it out first.. a day or week doin the job before he decides its for him.. Can't see the sense of paying out good money only to find its not exactly what you expected it to be...

I'm sure if Jody wished. he could of furnished us all with the grisly details.. Its gotta be hard enough to speak of a good friends death without having to throw a biography in to boot..

My theory involves the loss of weight bearing down to mean the trunk might expand in some way as it hasn't the need to support the previous weight that it had.. You could test this theory out.. find two tree's of similar age an size close by to each other, pollard one and take measurements thereafter of both tree's trunks.. see if over the span of a few years the pollarded trunk hasn't gained some measurable girth on the unpollarded tree..

Funny thing is, I think it will.. Not sure how much it might be, but I'm sure its coming in the not to distant future...