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Why are so many willing to subject themselves to £10 an hour considering the skill level and kit required?

I’ve been to see that tree in person. It takes your breath away. Really hope they can be saved.

I don’t think you can travel to the US yet. Think you can from November though.

Senior management as well?

It’s scandalous that the feel they can offer a wage this insulting with a straight face.

Well done? 🤷‍♂️

If you’re distilling you have to remove the heads and tails anyway. Anyone with a Still knows this. As Methanol has a lower boiling point than Ethanol it’s going to be one of the first spirits off the run. For example, in a 20 litre wash at about 10% ABV you’ll produce a very small amount of methanol. So discarding they first 250mls is more than enough. You’d not take much of the heads or tails anyway, a little each side of the hearts for something with flavour like a Whisky but nothing but hearts for neutral spirits like Vodka. I’ve heard about the off-shore hooch unban legends as well. I still find it very hard to believe. If the lads brewed something like bread or fruit with plenty of sugar they might be able to make a wash at 10%-12% ABV, but I’d expect it to be much lower at around 4-5%. If they drank this the minute quantiles of methanol would not do anything to them, just like the methanol present in your can of beer or glass of wine does nothing to you. They’d need to concentrate the methanol by distilling it and capturing it before it mixed with the other Alcohols produced and have a single person drink that for that person to have an even remote chance of going blind. There is ways to distil off-shore with something like a fish tank heater, a plastic bag and two buckets, but then all the produced alcohols would be mixed as there would be no way to separate out the methanol, Ethanol and all the other fusle alcohols. It would just give them all a bad hangover. Most likely they drank MEG, methanol and Ethylene Glycol which is used heavily off-shore. Either neat or mixed in with their prison hooch to really get the sausage party going.

Methanol is one of the first alcohols to be produced when distilling crops as it has a lower boiling point than Ethanol. Which is why it’s a bit of an old wives tail that drinking moonshine will make you blind. When I was distilling with a Reflux Still (I built a Boka) Ethanol burned with no visible flame. If you look at old F1 vids of re-fueling spills that have caught alight it looks like there is no visible flames at all.

A lovely Turkish Hazel I spotted in the Oslo Botanical Gardens today.

Might have to to pop over to my local estate buddy and see if he has anything. Delivery from Scotland might kill it though.

Never sold or bought a car then?

Then you’d be wrong.

Tell him it’s now £600, but you’ll drop it to £550 as a gesture of goodwill. [emoji16]

I’m feeling left out. Which ironically seems to be the basis of the me too movement

Add me to the list too please. 🤣 You’ve become increasing obnoxious of late and have what seems like a very high opinion of your wokery new line of employment.

An hours drive up to have a look and quite and an hour back again. That’s half a day busted. Not gonna get much else done that day. Then another day to do the job and if there is any complications, ie the window gets damaged it’s on the builder to make right. So I guess you could call that two days and £300 a day. You can put your panties back on now. 😁

He’d not bother unless he was making £5-600 profit. He has as much work as he wants making at least that a day.

They do say it’s grim up north. That's a wage you can exist on. It’s not living.

Good luck 🤣 I guess you’ll be waiting till the next oil crash before you see someone quote you the figures you’re demanding. On the other hand I can get you as much references as you like for my brother. Backed up with pictures.😉 Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Why risk it? The fact you think you are determining rates explains why you’re still waiting.

Cheap as Chips 😁

AKA Whataboutism .

Does not surprise me in the slightest he holds such horrifying views, he is everything thats wrong with the western world today personified.

Unless they are all wearing Longsdale Trackies, Crocks and a Tee-shirt splattered like a painters coverall then it won’t be authentic.

Think that was Rig 45? This is the new one.