Steven P

I don't know if it is PeteB's company or his cooking ability.

For kickback, so long as you arent cutting with the tip of the saw the risk is reduced. From what you say, cutting at the middle of the flat edge will work for you. Sounds like you are sensible but if you haven't considered them then eye protection (a helmet with a mesh visor), head protection, gloves and leg protection could also be on the shopping list. Battery, no need for ear protection. As for speed, a petrol and battery chainsaw can both get the same chain speeds (outside of the wood), petrol generally keeps that speed higher for longer in thicker pieces of wood... but for small stuff - your 4" - both should keep their chain speeds pretty high and similar cutting times. If you ever watch youtube the speed test videos are never on thin branches... So I wouldn't worry about that

Not sure if you have to pay for access but if I remember right 'BSI online' has all the standards

Oh, so you think that Trump is named in the Epstein list? Never thought that you'd say that.

A rare moment of agreement with you Haironyourchest, I don't think that Trump is named in the elusive client list either. I've been saying all along that Trumps involvement and guilt with Epstein is his silence, the enabling that allowed Epstein to rape multiple children where a word from Trump could have spared them. Trump did know, "he likes them young". However that does not mean that Trump is entirely innocent in sexual assaults and crimes... just not a client of Epsteins. I'd also go so far as no 'freebies' either from him... he would have been named by now. I would not however be surprised if more allegations came to light after Trump dies... much the same way as Saville and Al Fayad. Note also the image I posted earlier, Trump sees no harm in associating with sex abusers and rapists - see those who he wanted to appoint to his cabinet - it his world it is normalised.

I'd echo that, battery saws are great - maybe not as powerful as a petrol saw for the same ££ but win hands down for convenience for smaller jobs - especially for occasional use. Great if you are using them in the garden and don't want to use the neighbours with a petrol saw and noise. For what you want 4" pruning you wouldn't notice any difference. Keep the chain sharp. With that size of branch you'd probably get quite a lot done before you need to charge the batteries too. For top handled, your hands are a bit closer together so a little less control - hands further apart gives a bit more control, but by itself this is not a dangerous hold.

Now you mention it, yes select the squares with presidents

Now you're getting somewhere, Epsteins best friend, the title holder of this thread, (rapist, serial sex abuser, multiple bankrupt, strangely quiet on Epsteins crimes, buddies with world leader mental cases...) ... Epsteins bestie... and when that bestie is in ultimate charge of the investigators that client list weirdly vanishes? Hmmmm.

Yes corroboration, "For secondary care services, the UK’s healthcare system is residence-based. This means that you must be living lawfully in the UK on a properly settled basis to be entitled to free healthcare." "Hospital treatment: Hospital treatment is free of charge for people who are ordinarily resident in the UK. This does not depend on nationality, payment of UK taxes, National Insurance contributions, being registered with a GP, having an NHS number, or owning property in the UK. To be considered ordinarily resident, you must be living in the UK on a lawful and properly settled basis for the time being." This was from the horses mouth.... "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-entitlements-migrant-health-guide" ... illegal immigrants, for example those crossing in small boats who don't make a claim for asylum through to holiday makers who overstay their entry requirements, or temporary workers overstaying (these last 2 are the types who come through airports... and look like you or me, but are rubbish on Farage YouTube clips).. illegal immigrants are not considered ordinarily resident and are not allowed NHS treatment. Hope a bit of corroboration clears it up for you!

Anyway what I was going to say - looks like Trumpys advisors are taking the p*** out of him feeding him false information - 11 false claims in a single meeting, even he isn't that stupid (though there is the option that he is following Bidens footsteps and age related loosing of the marbles). Fact check: Debunking 11 of Trump’s false claims at Cabinet meeting UK.YAHOO.COM President Donald Trump again turned a Cabinet meeting into a wide-ranging conversation with reporters – and again uttered a whole bunch of false claims in the process. Also noting in the above that his much publicised 90 deals in 90 days on deadline day has turned into 3 deals and 87 arbitrary import taxes.

Didn't Gates retire ages ago? Though he does still own shares in Microsoft - I am not sure he is in control and fairly sure he doesn't have a secret lair with 'kill buttons' to create blue screens of death at will on any PC (running windows software). (Windows has lost it's dominance, probably nearer 60% of computers now if you account for servers and special stuff rather than domestic computers). Editing this one, I could visualise Gates sitting in an office like Mr Burns, "Smithers, hmmm....")

Wow, have you been missing the copy and paste function while you've been scuba diving? That was a scroll fest of nothing. Illegal immigrants: 'they are entitled to primary and secondary care free of charge'.. no they're not. Only emergency care. I assume you mean asylum seekers who are of course here legally. They only get primary care.

I think there are going to be major strops about AI drugs, if the decades old method of mRNA vaccines (the covid type) are considered too new and untested then AI invented vaccines? not sure that will get universal acceptance

Was just about to say the same

This is starting to be a tricky week for Trump, 24 hours to make 90 trade deals with the world to cut his self imposed import taxes The press has got a renewed interest in Epstein... and this time round half the photos published have Trump in them The 'First Bestie' has decided to start his own political party A massive delay in response to 100+ deaths in Texas (where most politicians would be straight in there with words, he wasn't)... but he will be visiting 'probably' on Friday.. suspecting so on Saturday he can bag a new golf course to play on... and the response from his team is prayer... nothing tangible So be prepared for some Trump strop twatterings this week

Proper tanked it down here last night, overflowing gutters after 5 minutes rain, blue skies now but the ground is still soaked

Pretty much yes, take the NHS as an example, with its 190 Billion budget, sure you are going to find savings in there but not to the scale that the politicians think they are going to find. 1 Billion is a huge number for example but 0.5% of the entire NHS budget. Given that the politicians have been studying the NHS (and other services) for the last 20+ years to find waste as I say, I would be amazed if they find 1 billion wasted cash. So yes, in relative terms, there is no waste in the NHS budget.

I won't hold my breath though that in the next year the NHS will 'save' or allocate to other things 6 billions, or even 1 billion. See my point is that if this waste is so obvious to all why hasn't it been fixed in the last 20 years or so? They have put some of the best managers in charge - far better than any of us at a keyboard, a whole government department, prime ministers with an interest in the politics of "We've saved billions", and the apparent waste is still there.. billions of it. My opinion though, if you look at the NHS, what care we might receive today is heads and shoulders above what we had when we we children. I'll assume associated costs increase with it to provide that increased care. Politicians apparently see rising costs as a bloat in the system and put that down waste, something to be cut, to make political gains from. If the waste was so obvious to all then it would have been cut out years ago.

.. with a family like that I am not surprised one of them would be OK at first aid!

I might transplant them somewhere sunnier - they only get morning sun just now (the sun what we are getting anyway)

I first learnt to drive on site with my dad supervising us - he was on site... somewhere - aged about 12. Nothing wrong with that.

Nice, mine hasn't ever done that well, usualy when I pull it it is a small bulb, enough for 1 - which is fine for me (my base garlic was from the supermarket, probably have enough growing from that single bulb for a full year now)

Just to correct the 'man' frim Blyth who doesn't know where coal comes from, and to stop him banging on on about private healthcare in every thread for the next millenium... in my case, heakthcare is provided by the employer, for all their employees. No option, no hypocrisy, if there was an option I'd be sticking to what has worked for me so far, which is NHS treatment, I tried to correct you but I very much doubt that will be the end of that, probably you'll mention it till everyone is sick of that as well as your coal.

As far as I can tell - have it but never needed to use it, UK Private health care covers things that the GP looks at and leaves the NHS to the tricky things like A&E, but some things the NHS will do better anyway (I think once diagnosed the headliners - like cancers and heart disease the NHS is up there with the best), so private will not do that so much either. In the US private healthcare covers everything. Pretty much agree with this one. A percent of GDP makes sense, but perhaps with an absolute minimum that they need to provide for should be guaranteed (in the extreme odd chance that GDP tanks). Yes changing government adds inefficiencies due to change.. 4 years later they are on track and then it is all changed about again - that is where the money is wasted, not in the basic system though.

Anyway, as you were... NHS and Farage. He is going to hunt high and low for efficiencies, waste, and savings. The same that the Tories have done for 15 years, the same that Labour are doing now and did before the Tories. Do you think that if there is massive inefficiencies and waste they'd had found it in the last 20 years? If not it is well hidden... but no worries, Farage will find it. (to cross thread a bit, same a Musk in the US was going to find trillions of waste... he didn't). Pretty much in all public services there is no waste, there is no budget for it. 'Waste' is another term for "Cutting stuff we don't like politically... but cannot say that outright".