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Don't know who is camping it up down my road just now but it is pissing it down as I read this thread!
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Just curious, I guess the OPs customer is domestic / gardener / not a full time saw user and can afford to have the saws in the workshop while they argue about half the bill total. Might be wrong but if you depend on the saws to make a living then you'd pay up fairly straight away to get the saws back and profitable again?
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Not caught up with the news today but didn't he say the reason there are no adoring crowds outside the court is because the whole area is locked down.... and all the journalists waiting outside just took photos saying "Errr no, it is just that no one is here"
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We had similar in Edinburgh - big recycling bins for the street, and normal rubbish was a bin out the back of the flat. Similar no recycled food waste. Now I have a compost heap and the food waste bin is a spare store for kindling
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Up here it has been on the news a bit, loads of empty office space in the middle of town that could be converted, old warehouses to offices (and then to flats?), so loads of character but I think the hold up is where to put the wheelie bins of all things - offices get commercial waste collections and big bins, flats get little bins and the council.
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If they repurposed the town centres as residential at least from office space and upper floors of shops that might attract people to live and shop there revitalise them that way. The ever increasing expansion away from the town into the fields drives a retail park and amazon culture - if you are going to drive anyway, might as well go for the free parking. However if you lived above the shops in an upmarket flat, sorry apartment, then the shops you live by will get your custom. Might get the counsellors interested in town centres again enough to send some funds towards the homeless or rehabilitation places?
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reading this thread, about time to teach The Boys - going to start simple with 3 strand ropes though, eye splices to start
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In the city where I am a lot of the 'homeless' are the same group and actually do have homes - they just found a profitable way of living. The genuine are not in the city centre really, pushed out by this gang - however there are enough visitors who don't recognise them to keep them in business. I've known a few genuine homeless in my time (in passing not close buddies), many have accommodation available to take up (family for example) and many do... but the issues around them are not solved and many go back onto the streets again unable to do 9-5 living.. houses are cheap enough for them but the mental stuff and getting them to engage with that is a lot harder.
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I reckon that if they did they would build profitable houses on bland estates with no expensive infrastructure like social centres, schools, shops, churches, bus stops, parks and play areas. Planners at least can specify "build 100 houses but also build a shop"
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Suspect that to make a profit from them you will have to add value - for wood turners perhaps season / part season and cut to shape for blanks? For the artisty types perhaps cut them all to a uniform size and length.
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Was just going to say, Nitty Nora identified all the kids with lice all in one go and all could be treated at the same time. Don't think she exists any more does she.
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Seeking Advice on Tree Pruning Techniques
Steven P replied to stevesmithh's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Show 9 pictures and ask which squares contain squirrels. That works. -
all the same... for that 50k I'd also go for a ride in it! If you are planning to build there, can the sheds be taken away first - makes the job easier and maybe cheaper, likewise if the lawn isn't precious.... might not be much of a reduction though.
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... and at that rate I have a..... you could look at?
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£19 an hour - there are parts too, (£120 - £45 parts, £75, for 4 hours, £19) Got to pay for tools, tea, workshop space, tea, profit, tax, tea, insurances, and a brew once job is done.... you could probably argue that the take home pay is less than minimum wage
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Dying ash under TPO hanging over property
Steven P replied to nick9one1's topic in Trees and the Law
ooh, giving to charity... can you offset that cost against tax, and they could get the gift aid too! -
Heavy clay drainage issues
Steven P replied to Amateur Devon's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Another consideration might be a tree that enjoys water after doing all the ground works - keeping in mind the end size of the tree, and the proximity to the house - a small willow or something? I don't suppose the developers put in any drainage for the garden did they - somewhere to join any you add into -
Heavy clay drainage issues
Steven P replied to Amateur Devon's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
so.... new build house sounds like the developers scraped off all the top soil down to the clay. Big impervious patio area Artificial grass - not sure how porus this is but it has a nice big drain hole in the middle for all the rain water to run off into,... which is where the tree is. That's where you are at? My view is that all the rain water isn't going very far and what drainage it can find it is filling up - the tree hole. Looks like you need to add some sort of drainage to take the water away from the garden and not leave it in a hole in the middle - a trench part filled with gravel and then soil on top sloping away and to somewhere suitable to accept it. Are you able to peal back the grass around the perimeter to add drainage in there? -
Remove trees close to house?
Steven P replied to Ben Sarafyan's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I'd be tempted to take out the palm tree which will give more light to the garden and house, Might need more description of the cracks, are they just cosmetic - like plaster or is it the brickwork cracking -
Assaulting a member of the production crew or something like that
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If I was going for another petrol saw I'd be going 260 too. If I was replacing the 180 I'd go 36V battery*. Not sure I'd go mains powered, I'd worry about being tied up in cables * Other manufacturers exist...
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The Danger of Death label will tell you what it is but yes, it is going to be something in that order, maybe 3.3kV - still enough to cause some 'issues' to the driver, the truck and perhaps the wider local community if you strike it.
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can anyone help with a collection in Exeter please?
Steven P replied to se7enthdevil's topic in General chat
Will they let a courier pick them up if you arrange that? They would need to box them up. -
You're telling us that the driver wouldn't unload there and looking at the photo that appears to be an obvious reason why. Not really a thing to be arsy about. And in other news today I've just read was the Window Cleaner whose poles got to close to the overhead 33kV line causing a flash over, still in hospital, lost a leg and an arm I think.
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Do you have a budget in mind? Second question is would he be cutting firewood all day away from the house (petrol saw), or for short periods of time closer to home (battery saw).
