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Therein lies the problem with your single track thought process, your blinkered with no peripheral vision. Happy to plod on sheltered with false comfort. Personally I can see pros and cons for both sides of the debate and voted accordingly.

Pallet floor, use 4x2 and ply/mdf to construct sides, back and roof put a bit of felt on the roof and you have yourself a cheap easy to build log store.

Same, I check every tree so I know I’m covered but I have no problem taking anything down. I sometimes think this is such a shame to remove but then I think about where my rope guides going. I work to live and as others have said if it’s not you removing it someone else will, I have a family to feed and bills to pay maybe if I was loaded I’d be more picky but I’m not.

So now people who want/voted/support brexit are scumbags?! You really are a bottom feeder. Your problem vesp is you like to research within the worlds largest library as you put it but your only guided to research what you want and like so your views and knowledge will always have tunnel vision. You should pay pay for that tv license it might be the making of you and broaden your horizons. Can you see any positives to leaving? I’m only asking for 1 can you at least acknowledge 1 positive from leaving the EU?

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Great analogy. What if the hitman has bills to pay and is having a slow month so needs the wedge?

Yes he did.

http://dailym.ai/2ka0pUa I know it’s DM but still great Europe here we come.

Love your honesty.

Absolutely it is!

Shit that’s below the belt!! Sounds fierce round your way!!

Wasn’t it Cameron who won an election with the promise of a referendum? Strange he was a good prime given that he had the chance to be so on the back of a promise for us half wits! Us halfwits votedvhim to get to the referendum. If he was so good he’d steer the nation through brexit and finish the job he started!

Brexit supporters in the cabinet have agreed the UK should offer to pay more money to the EU as it leaves. But no formal offer will be made until the EU agrees to begin talking about a new trade deal with the UK. But despite this, BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said leading Brexiteers in Theresa May's cabinet, like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, had agreed to support her in paying a "much larger sum" - as long as the EU agrees to begin trade talks, which it has refused to do so far. And no final figure will be agreed until a trade deal is agreed, he added.

No we are saying we will pay £40billion dependant on the outcome of the talks. We we aren’t agreeing to pay that to/then talk. Its a a way to move talks on to the meaty stuff get a deal in principle then we can look at it as a whole if it’s value pay up sign it off and crack on if it’s not value don’t pay up and drop to wto rules.

Thanks Gary I’ll see if I can find it online to have a peruse.

Amey seem to be good at getting these types of contracts jeez. From those links it seems common place that Amey are crap and have contracts terminated, it may be worth leaving them too it. Enough rope to .......

Fair enough but I highly doubt the contract says they can remove all of the trees though without council consent. Still the blame shouldn’t lie with Amey it’s who’s given them the go ahead. Another shortcut for Amey would be to shut roads to cars so they don’t have to maintain them at all and reallocate their use as widened footpaths so residents can avoid falling over buttress roots and raised tarmac.

Again maintaining the trees is multiple pay days over the next 25 years. By taking them out it’s a 1 time pay day. I highly doubt its ameys idea to remove the trees, it is more likely the council are acting on a survey, drawn up a plan and sent a tender of works out. Amey won the Tender and are merely trying to work. I don’t know about the trees in question specifically but could they be near their end of lifespan? It would be interesting to see local reaction if one fails and causes serious damage? In a perfect world we would leave every tree to do as it pleases and replant in stages so our trees are at varied ages and stages but in a fast paced ever expanding world this just doesn’t happen. I suppose an option could be that residents of Sheffield who would like to retain the trees in question could all agree to have their council tax increased to specifically pay for future maintenance of the trees they so wish to keep???

surely Amey would prefer to leave all of the street trees so they can be paid to repair the roads and footpaths every year?!

Moral high ground with her or for the trees?

Ok I hope I am not going to get shot down in flames here but with what’s going on in Sheffield I thought I’d post/ramble some thoughts and questions. Why are we in this job? Do people hold such high regards and morals for trees or do you actually if I may be blunt just love the job of removing them climbing them pruning them? I may may be selfish but I love working on trees (conifers excluded) be it raise, reduce, thin or remove yes it’s hard work but it’s selfishly satisfying admiring your work after a hard day. At its most simple any and most work on trees harm them yet we all love a before and after. Yes its it’s nice to work on trees that are goosed or to reduce some that will blatantly extend the trees lifespan but we all must work on perfectly healthy trees to satisfy the customers demands ie a reduction to allow more sunlight in the garden. So are we as a trade looking out for the best interests of trees as a whole or are we following best practices and guidelines whilst getting paid to do something we enjoy or are we somewhere in the middle? If you where based in Sheffield and Amey subbed you in would you do the work and get paid or stay away? Has anybody walked away from a job because they think a tree should be left alone? If you have why have you walked away from jobs? Thought this type of thread could raise some fat to chew and be a litttle different from brexit.

If I read correct the tree in question was not in great shape maybe I would have asked all your neighbours to go indoors swiftly followed suit and observed to see if maybe they could have done their jobs. Without getting involved in the moral dilemma or offering an opinion of what I think about the situation as a whole is it at all possible to see it how it is in that the decisions have been made and one way or another the outcome will be the same but the lads on the ground are just doing their jobs and probably have mouths to feed and bills to pay like most of us.

And that my friend is where it falls apart! If the negotiations haven’t yet started on trade which they haven’t soooooo the UK government don’t really know the shape of our trade deals with the EU and the EU don’t yet know the shape of the same said trade deal then how have these so called forecasters got a clue?!?! its beggars belief! Guessing on the basis of assumption! Wow that’s great ........ don’t they have a saying about assumptions down sarf. I forecast that when we leave the EU if we manage to prosper Greece, Italy, Spain and the likes will want out before it becomes a federal state. Of course that’s based on my assumptions which I openly admit I have plucked from thin air.

Hey Alex what’s your insta I’d, nice vid by the way.

I have a jotul and have always lit it the same way, firefighters with small kindling with the burner door slightly open once in a bit more kindling plus logs and close the door. Never fails.