Johnsond

Very articulate reply as always J but “Starmer” no way !!, I just can’t see the quality of character in him that’s gonna be needed to sort things out if indeed it ever can be under the current system.

I keep hearing about the green new deal and green jobs 🤷‍♂️ Ive been in and around the offshore and renewables game for years and virtually zero of what we see around our coastline or blighting the landscape inshore is built here or installed by a UK workforce. It is a total cash cow free for all what is going on in regards UK offshore wind farms right now, yet it’s barely ever mentioned.

I look forward to the day when the scrutiny you seem to get off on is used on the next incumbents of Downing Street. It’s toxic and long term does nothing, accountability yes of course, what we witness nowadays 🤷‍♂️No thanks, you think it’s helpful!! most people I talk to are rather weary of the tactics used by MSM over the past couple of years in particular the relentless scaremongering regards covid.

Don’t be a twat this early in the day Mick, no one said at any time that a government should not be held accountable, any fool can see the level of MSM frenzy and scrutiny at the moment at any opportunity is not helpful in any way shape or form. PS You wonder why I bothered my arse to point out your mistake regards the Docherty quote 🤷‍♂️

Sadly J the merry go round will continue with whom ever comes in after the Tories. Possibly a honeymoon period, but no doubt that will be followed by absolute forensic scrutiny and saturation MSM coverage and criticism thereafter. Possibly a bit of regional destabilisation and a military intervention or two if they listen to Blair. My eldest son is an absolute Labour fanatic, part of me is hoping he gets his wish and experiences a period of Labour governance if only so he gets to see first hand how shit they are too and how little changes in reality, seeing as he’s too young to remember the shambles that the last Labour administration left things in. I can’t help cringing every time I see that woke, whining, knee taking covid warrior Starmer on tv and thinking that’s the best opposition we can muster.

Few more days onsite for a previous client, mix of Oak and Walnut. Some of the Oak was pushing things a bit, only one small nail over the whole period which was a change.

You can have this crap and the 6 inch nail for free if you come and sort the 36” freshly sharpened chain I’ve just mangled on it 😡

Figure of speech eggs ffs, of course it doesn’t bloody work if you are so far in the shit as a nation you have to borrow money to fund a I believe 2 billion costing caused by said tax cut.

I guess the country and its finances are so ****************ed we literally have to borrow to reduce tax take off one particular group !!!!. That same group would still be paying 40-41% tax on their earnings. When you actually stop and think about that you realise what a knife edge things are on and how far we are effected by the whims of the markets.

Lynemouth is fed by rail too, not sure where Drax is supplied from.

Nope no secret at all, Lynemouth power station (foreign owned of course) is the one I think you are referring too. Converted from coal and as you say sitting in top of millions of tons of recoverable reserves. The drive to green net zero utopia has literally turned into a cash cow for those involved. What needs bringing to the gullible masses attention is what’s actually going on.

Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada APPLE.NEWS The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada. If you want to see pure madness and insanity at work the whole green ticket attached to the burning of wood pellets is it, mind you with £6 billion of subsidies alone it certainly is profitable. Panorama would be well advised to take a look at UK renewables as currently it’s nothing more than a massive cash cow for predominantly overseas firms, which we the taxpayers are funding, value for money it is certainly not.

I can’t disagree that the optics were dreadful, whom ever it was that advised in the current climate to throw in the removal of the 45% and bankers bonus caps 🤷‍♂️a massive own goal to say the least. A reduction to the 40% ie the people ( often natural conservatives) grinding it out trying to get on would have been a far better idea. I’m a conservative by nature but also as I’ve stated many times believe in state ownership of essential services and strategically important industries, Right here and now the current political set up and MSM ability to focus on and build up/ pull down an individual at a whim just puts us in a two part in out dance, I’ve certainly zero faith in Labours ability to come in and start sorting much out, especially after watching Starmer recently talking crap on renewables etc. One thing that the last week or so does show is the insane vulnerability of the majority to the whims of the so called “ market” ( playing with numbers and products that sane people can’t even comprehend) people and companies that I’ve no doubt have done very well and generated billions out of the recent situation. I think we are being utterly played at the moment on a scale we can’t even comprehend.

War is a very very profitable business.

No Dempsey it is literally at every possible opportunity, that’s the nature of the interweb I guess,not to worry Easily disproved bollocks is it ??. Newsnight 😳🤷‍♂️ may be running with it, but main news at ten show did not even mention it !! . The coverage of it has been extremely low key, ( bearing in mind it has huge long term consequences for the EUs main economic powerhouse) that’s a fact not bollocks. Like I tell the wife occasionally, “ you ain’t always right”. An interesting topic that will probs go the normal bitch fest route when people can’t stand others having an opinion.

No bolts, welded and laid continuously off a pipe lay vessel. Too deep to just simply send divers down and even if there were flanges to unbolt he’d be a braver man than me to start releasing the tension ( bolts are stretched using a hydraulic system of jacks not tightened by rotating nuts as such) whilst the line is still hot. Divers worst enemy “ differential pressure”

Well the damage pattern will easily give that away ie internal of external force direction and subsequent breach etc. As for the internal option the technology to pig lines has been utilised by the oil and gas industry for ages. Google “pipeline internal inspection or pigging” and there’s a load of info on it.

If I said shit you’d say sugar Dempsey. The coverage of this has been very low key ( when you actually consider what’s occurred) compared to the hysteria over a choice of media favourite crisis of late. Mind you a murder in 1976 and kids and vaping plus half a dozen other stories before we get to Sweden finds another leak🤔priorities priorities. Just sat and watched the BBC news at ten headlines waiting patiently to hear the Nordstream incident get a mention!!! Not a peep 🤷‍♂️but the final article was globally significant ie Coolio “ of gangsters paradise fame” has died aged 59.

From a purely technical point of view most of the route of both Nordstream 1 and 2 are within the reach of divers using either air or mixed gas practices. The support required to utilise the latter would not be something you could sneak in and do unnoticed. There are numerous countries that have the capability of utilising manned and unmanned subsea vessels to carry out placement of charges against objects or targets( maybe now the vulnerability of the huge amount of subsea interconnecter cables and pipelines to Europe and Scandinavia needs a look at) some of the techniques used during UXO clearance ie acoustic triggering are out there and easily available commercially. What’s obvious is the fact it’s a well planned and coordinated effort which has achieved its aims quite spectacularly, although the coverage within the MSM for what is a huge event is actually quite tame seeing as we live in a world where the word crisis is thrown about often. As for the reason why 🤷‍♂️It’s a big game being played out there and the minute you start looking out of the box you invariably incur the tin foil or moon bat one liners. One things for sure we probably know far less than we could ever imagine.

What a Strong Dollar Means as Global Economic Worries Grow - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM The value of the U.S. dollar is the strongest it has been in a generation, devaluing other... Sterling is not alone and this has been building for ages. What’s new is the MSM running with it in standard push a crisis hysteria mode.

Couple of days milling on a beautiful location for a previous client and forum member, met another arbtalker onsite doing the tree work and assisting with the milling. Mixture of Oak, Beech , Ash and Spruce. Weather pretty much played ball and apart from the usual few bits of metal hidden here and there it was a cracking couple of days. The 6 tonner with a grab/rotator is an absolutely brilliant bit of kit 👍👍

A lot of the last few days is utterly bewildering quite frankly Mark. But what does really make me frustrated is all the lies and misleading renewables headlines, in particular Starmer today. The great hope of offshore wind and all the jobs it will create. No one seems to want to ask the questions regarding the fact that very nearly 100% of what you see around our coastline is built overseas and shipped here on foreign crewed and flagged vessels and again installed by foreign crewed and flagged vessels for predominantly overseas energy companies on absolutely hugely profitable long term supply deals. The talk of supply chain this and that is just a drop in the ocean. Do a bit of digging on the Dogger Bank project Mark ie where the manufacturing and installation profits and jobs have gone and you will see the utter lunacy and massive lost opportunities of it all.

No feud Mick, just a bit of banter, mind you, regardless of the exciting life you must have you still took the time to comment on it !!. Things that bore me I just sail on by eh rather than waste my time commenting 👍try it sometime.