Steven P
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There is a fine line I think, turn up in a rust bucket and you'll get suspicions about the quality of your work. Turn up with 2 brand new trucks, a brand new pick-up and again, questions thought. I wouldn't worry about age - would be a petty customer who runs out to check the reg plate to see if it was this years or last years truck - but would worry more about if it is tidy and presentable. 20 year old Transit that is in good nick or a battered 1 year old, the 20 year old would give me more confidence. Would help if it was all logo'd up rather than a white van with only a mobile number on the side.
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You're just proving a point here. What exactly are you bringing to the discussion?
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As above, Peds wants us to disagree and fight with him, another EU incentive that we are forced to follow (being the smaller market), a good idea but EU.... what did they ever do for us.... (same as all small device charges in EU will be USB C to reduce waste... means frustratingly I'll only need 1 charging cable in the house and not 17 different ones)
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That's right, continued a with a discussion when a pertinent point was made.... and your next discussion point... pure pointless drivel of pictures.
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Seriously what is the point of you being in the discussion this evening, bringing nothing to it. Bring something fresh to the floor, credibility might be something you'd consider?
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What's so funny about that, it is a relevant comment in a thread about the US President and how their system is also a 2 party system. However I can appreciate how you brought the discussion just so much further forward with 4 pictures.
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Musk throwing his money this way because the 2 party system works so well in the US as well, with even less chance for a smaller independent party having any influence at all?
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I'll have to get the pen and paper out later to do the same sums! (but approx half that for me, £500 to £600) Which works on StevenP justification 'saved £600, can afford a new garden toy / splitter / axe / saw
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Not quite up to 10.5, probably 5 with the Fiskars, a little at a time (amazing while the family are putting on their shoes to get out I can be ready, grab the axe, split a round, tidy up, lock up and be in the car.. just as they are locking up the front door)... but that is not for everyone.
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The one at the top is towing the other one, 'something' is firing out the back of the toed. Aliens!
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Same thing happened with drinks cans, newer design so that the tab 'won't' come off. We got used to them too. Will make a big change here when I pick up the rubbish in the street - bottle caps ground into the mud are a pain to dig out. Sorry, meant to fight you.... hate them, change is unnecessary and always a bad thing when driven by the EU and all the hippy green types. I demand the ability to remove them so I can spread my litter in smaller pieces around the countryside.
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I was going to say the same however age and fitness plays a part. Always look at some of the hydraulic ones and think can be quicker with just an axe.
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Kind of my thoughts too, Trump had outshouted everyone else into submission so no one else really stepped up to have a go, rewarded despite everything. If there were 2 equal candidates, Trump would still be there but I suspect those more neutral, overseas and so on would prefer 'not Trump' to Trump (as President or as a candidate), Harris suffered from Bidens late decision to pull out I think, and again like Trump no other viable option given the time frames... if Biden had pulled out a couple of months earlier or given Harris the heads up earlier the outcome might have been different.
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Busy day today... but a quick one, do you think the republican party could have made a better choice? My views won't surprise you that Trump is morally bankrupt who carries a lot of baggage. However most other candidates would have had a good chance against Biden (initially) and later Harris. I don't think rewarding him with a pass to the presidency was a good move. Like I said many times above, if Trump was a bloke living down the street would you give him the time of day bearing in mind his crimes (and lack of action against Epstein). In my charity works such a man wouldn't be voted as president or chairman of any of the groups, too much of a liability.
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Anti-Vibration (I have an earlier hedge trimmer, very similar handle arrangement, 'AV' are 2 elastomer type blocks located where the handle is bolted on for example)
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...but cannot hack when your love-in with Trump gets questioned. If you read back a bit, Gareth there likes Trumps politics but also knows that Trump is actually a rapist (in the common sense of the words use, not the legal sense of course), amongst other things, where you cannot see past the poster boy images you post. I can accept that - Gareth and I are probably never going to share the same political view - but just a blind "Trump can do no wrong, never has done any wrong" is deluded to be honest.
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Likewise the firewood in the garage that is too long gets a tinkle before I bring it in (however that is split, can probably get away with one of the micro battery chainsaws for that)
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Going back to your question, how much wood are you splitting or intending to split and what wood? I usually use an axe but it gives a real appreciation of what splits well... and what doesn't. So a nice straight 30cm long piece of ash, dead easy, a 30cm long leylandii (just in my mind cause that is what is out there to go at tomorrow) with half a dozen 2" side branches needs a bit of thought where to go. Taking that to the log splitter, easy wood and you shouldn't get a problem, but knotty, twisted or 'Y' pieces might be a problem. Similarly I think the base of this tree is about 2', 60cm diameter, but that weight of green wood might also cause problems. Split enough wood for a Christmas day fire and nothing else it will last for year, split 1m3 a month perhaps not so long So what are you planning to split and how much?
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You've never said he wasn't a bad man that is true. On this thread there are a few going to great efforts to avoid saying that he is. Distractions to other bad men, changes of subject, mild insults (not you on that one Gareth). Almost is if saying that Trump is a bad man, done some very bad things sticks in the throat. Trump is not a good man. Been saying this for ages, and still to be convinced otherwise. However if it is just semantics were talking about between the legal term rapist and the common understanding of rapist, that is not a biggie as far as discussion forums go - the actions resulting in that law suit still happened however you describe it.
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Exactly. However are you now using Hunter Bidens cocaine use as evidence that Trump is innocent of all crimes - including the sex crimes? Not sure there is a link to be honest but willing to listen to how they are related.
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.. and unless you are willing become active in (local or national) government your views, thoughts and opinions are going to matter zero. All you'll ever be is background noise. If the foreground noise is a chainsaw the background noise diminishes further. Engaging with official channels might mean spending time out of your daily life (sometimes multiple times with determination), but if the issue is great enough it is a price worth paying.
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UFO is only 'U' till the rational explanation comes along, but yes, post more of the videos.
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on the wind up while lunch cooks.... Looks like Labour are doing stuff: More migrants removed from UK since Labour elected than in any six months since 2019, Home Office says UK.YAHOO.COM More migrants have been removed from the UK since Labour was elected than in any other six-month period over the past five years, the government has claimed. The Home Office...
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No but then you cannot proclaim someone innocent because there is another out there also doing dodgy things though can you? "He was a bad man until that other man did this and now he is not a bad man, the stuff he did is no longer a matter for the record"? One thing this thread is missing though, no one apart from me it seams is thinking what would 'we' think if the crims he committed were done be a neighbour? Would he still be defended?
