trigger_andy

To whom are you responding?

I know I dont need it. And Ive already had Covid. No sigh of anti-bodies though, Not that it matters anyway. But I will need it if I wish to keep my job. I see sage are pushing for continual mask wearing in public, in perpetuity and also seasonal lock-downs. And this is a supposedly measured response to a virus that kills people older than the average age of death here in the UK. I really do wonder what it would take for people to put their hands up are admit that the draconian measures far outweigh the severity of the Virus and who it genuinely affects.

Pfizer given protection from legal action over coronavirus vaccine by UK government WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK Pfizer’s UK boss refuses to explain why the business needs protection from legal action But you still cant sue if anything happens to you further down the road. The government has basically signed the waiver on your behalf. You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects. The government likely won't compensate you for damages either WWW.CNBC.COM Companies like Pfizer and Moderna have total immunity from legal liability under the PREP Act if something unintentionally... I guess its a gamble I'll just have to live with. But hopefully I get the opportunity to take the Oxford vaccine. Scoff all you like but Id rather limit my exposure to new tech vaccines and go with the tried and tested old school variety.

I dont disagree with you. But they are already paying tax on selling that land. Good for them if they make a killing on it. You'd do the same and dont pretend you'd not. And if they had to pay a further jealousy tax then the price they'd ask/demand would increase as well, simply pushing up the cost of the housing even further. We're not (yet) in a communist country and thank feck for that. Its a form of jealousy when you want to double tax a private individual selling land to developers. Do you honestly thing that if the Farmer went all altruistic that the developer would pass the savings onto the house buyers? No ones that naïve. When you come to sell your Starter house will you do so to a poor first time buyer at a price they can afford and make potentially a significant loss over selling on the open market? Or perhaps you'd welcome paying a punitive tax on it instead? Or is this tax only for other people and not you? Well, thankfully thats a Pipe Dream. One or the other, but not both. Call it whatever you like I dont think Farmer Joe should pay any tax on selling his land anymore than you and I should making a profit on selling a house. Its a slippery slope when the public wish private individuals to be taxed even more out of nothing other than envy. We should be careful what we wish for.

Of ringed-up logs? Burr Oak?

Good grief. Jealousy will eat you up from the inside.

You think there is no tax to be paid on selling a field for millions?

I think its more of a personal dig to be honest. Had someone else said as much he'd most likely agreed with the sentiments and then he'd have Mr Wet Blanket nodding sagely in the background.

You're free to interpret my comments anyway you see fit. Ive given you my reply and if you still wish you put your own bias on it then feel free.

No, Im with you on that. I really do not wish to take a rushed through vaccine for something that for the 99.99% of the time will have no affect on me. My Father-in-law has just taken it, his opinion is he'll be dead before any ill effects come to light anyway. I can see that reasoning. When you have to sign a waiver to take it its quite worrying but in my main job I'll have little choice. I'm spending way to much time in quarantine as it is and now the bloody SNP in their bid to out-do Boris has insisted that travelers from every country has to do a 10 day mandatory quarantine in a hotel at a cost of £1750. Id be far happier taking the the traditional Oxford type vaccine as its a tried and tested method, but admittedly with unknown long term side efects. The Pfizer one is a huge unknown and I really hope its not the once forced on me.

man in the arena - Bing video WWW.BING.COM @Johnson

Laugh all you like Sky but the facts speak for themselves, even your beloved left wing hate rag says as much. Top 1% of earners in UK account for more than a third of income tax | Institute for Fiscal Studies | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Tax revenues ever more reliant on small group of high earners, says Institute for Fiscal Studies

The rich are already taxed to the hilt! The account for the vast majority of the tax raised in the UK .

I think there is many facets as to why we're being forced into such a draconian lock-down. Arse covering for a very poor initial reaction, blame for this can also be laid firmly at the WHO's feet though. Arse covering for continual cock-ups and wildly wrong predictions. When you hear it from the horses mouth when they have their guard down then yes, Id be inclined to believe them when they're caught with their pants down and rubbing their hands in glee. And you just have to follow the money with the Tories. The Track and Trace App and numerous other contracts being awarded to their mates. We're talking billions here. To say that this pandemic has not been used to line their own pockets is at best naïve and at worse self induced ignorance.

Not the quickest with the 4 way on through beech but quicker and easier than by hand.

Im looking at doing some splitting jobs myself but have no idea how to price it. Im getting paid from my work anyway but with so much going on at home it would not be worth me doing the job unless it paid well enough, but that sounds unlikely.

How much does a Splitting job pay you?

Damn, the UK government proving to have gotten more and more right as time passes. Will be ignored by the haters but even they must begrudgingly admit that after a rocky start they're doing rather well now. We've also delivered 10% of the worlds doses to the UK population. Another massive and ignored milestone that the Government should be very proud of.

Couple of pics with the safety gubbins removed.

Ive got that very model! Rock call theirs the ES 22t Venom and no longer sell it as they no longer need a EU compliant Splitter since we're free of the EU diktats. They sold the last of theirs off cheap and I got one for £1500 delivered. I'll see if I can dig out some pics and a wee vid. I removed all the EU nonsense so its now a single handed operation and removed the kill switch that stops you operating it in the horizontal. I really like it and have split quite a few tons with it now. The 22t force in my opinion is not over rated and if it does not split a log it will just smoosh it apart, ie a union or a real knotty piece. I see the add has them at 24t but I assume Rock downrated that to 22t? The 4 way head is good if you get a chance to buy one go for it. Rock stopped selling them as folk tried to force big lumps though it and ended up breaking the 4 way head and complained. Its fine for upto say 14" logs. I got mine free but they are about £50 and well worth it.

All healthy Tree's. Maybe its the magical Angus lands that are so fertile that give us amazing quality Oak and also the Cattle. Ive always just taken it for granted as so much of what I mill here is like this. @Johnsond should be happy.

Now that is some stunning workmanship! From what Ive read there is two different types of fungus that causes the oak to darken. I have loads of slabs of 'brown' oak drying at home, but Ive none of the much darker and obviously rotten type. Id say 50% of the Oak I buy my way is classed as 'brown' oak, but the Fistulina hepatica infected one and not the fistulina hepatica which I think we're seeing in Sauls Logs. Brown Oak | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwood) WWW.WOOD-DATABASE.COM

'Brown' Oak is on thing, but obviously well advance rot is another. I jus dont understand it. Folk dont seem to rate Beech much but I have some slabs with stunning colours and patterns in them. Ash is another that cant seem to be given away for more than firewood prices. The Tree Surgeon thats trying to flog me those saw logs knows this as well. He loves it and to be fair its nice timber. I get customers who are specifically after Oak and Elm mainly. I sell some Spalted Beech now and again but thats mainly to a guy who makes Pens outta them. I did myself outta a few quid when a lad came down for Oak and ended up taking larch instead. He did offer me the same money for the Larch as he was gonna pay for the Oak but I turned him down. Would be the interesting to see some finished pics of what these guys are doing with Oak with advanced decay.

As I say, you must be able to flog sand to the Arabs and fair play to ya. Id have had that ringed up and in vented bags by now.

With that much rot? Get through that by break time.