Steven P

Ahh, I eventually understand, another rich and powerful man has used his position of wealth to rape young employees - many of them believing they were the only ones and no one would believe them, the scale of his offences only coming to life after his death.... and his life and influence has gone... but lets throw that story to one side since Raynor has had a nice holiday in New York (and for the record I did the same thing years ago, slept at a friends flat, views of Central park, not sure it is worth the money to be honest, New York isn't as friendly as they suggest, very busy, smells odd, very tacky)

Hens like to scratch in the ground so the horizontal fence should be outside the run?

So you'll know that they weren't presented with enough evidence to make a successful prosecution then and are just trying to add to your daily "Starmer Report" of any bad news instantly linked to him then? Keep grasping. Not the CPS fault if the evidence wasn't presented was it? (and this is a failing in the system with rape cases, evidence can be tricky to lock down enough to make a winning case, especially if the defendant can afford the best legal team)

Fox Food!! The need to scratch at the earth, you need to stop the foxes digging in so bury the fence a bit. Likewise, local farm place lost a lot with the fox going over the top.... so a roof would be handy too. Might need open the shelter up for cleaning? Hinges? Not sure here but would it be too much of a heat trap, boiled eggs in the morning? Might need extra vents apart from the door? I might be tempted to take the floor out too

Probably need a photo to give people an impression of its worth. Just working it backwords for value.... Suppose the end product is £1000 of useable planks (not sure here). Take off 1/3 to 1/2 for the retail profit, that £1000 is now say £600. Work backwards, store it for a year+ to dry takes up rental yard or shed space, spend a day in a saw mill, lets say that is 2/3 of the costs, so £200. Add in local haulage, £100... suddenly that single large tree isn't worth a lot. Many trees and the haulage will shrink per tree, the saw mill will be more efficient working at scale and a bit more money in it. Cut to disks as unsplit firewood you will probably get more, split and sell more again, split and store till mostly dry - 1 year - and more again (noting the rules for selling seasoned or dry fire wood)

Showing your ignorance again... Did you read the news story or just become enraged by a headline...again... So in the news stories the evidence was never shown to Starmer, he had nothing to do with whether Fayad was prosecuted or not. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that before posting you had read and understood.. and hence my comment of a leap of faith that Starmer was somehow responsible for Fayads rapes. Obviously I give you too much credit.

Generally at the weekend, yes.

Missed that one, suspect a race to the cheapest price has been the cause. Some due diligence missing as to whether they can afford the quoted prices - especially when you are talking that amount I'd expect someone to ask about profit margins and assess viability. £1.84 billion.... should give 7 to 10% profit minimum...

Wouldn't touch a wet belt engine ever again. £2500+ to change a timing belt, plus when it start deteriorating it bungs up the oil pump (so a new one required), you need a full oil system flush.. and when I enquired a couple of months ago half the garages just laughed at me for asking if they could. Cheaper to get a run around instead and scrap the 5 year old car.. which I am sure if environmentally sound.

That's a massive leap of faith that Fayads crimes of the mid 80's are Starmers fault. And in developing news, I got caught speeding in 1995, Boris Johnsons fault for the introduction of speed cameras in that spot in 2022.

My petrol hedge trimmer gets used only a couple of times a year really (no hedges to speak off, it is more a toy machine nice to have), needs a couple more pulls than the saws to get it going but so far reasonably reliable even with it being left (Stihl). Every now and then it gets some carb cleaner squirted at it and some oiling and cleaning. If I was starting out I'd go battery now though - what is stopping me changing over is a doubt that any DIY warehouse priced battery equipment is likely to do OK, but any serious stuff will struggle. How much work will these be doing and will the cutting be small stuff or will you need a little power behind the cutting? Having said that mum has a Ryobi for the bushes in her garden (honeysuckle and so on, no thicker branches) and it does OK on that - her choice was the battery matches the small lawn mower which is what I would consider, look to more than the trimmer and strimmer, will you want other tools? If so look to the whole range and if one battery will be compatible with several

The Brother is off up the West Highland way, I wonder why now?

I think a lot of therapeutic remedies are "got off the computer screen for an hour and socialise IRL" remedies !

Sometimes members here have some, sometimes not. Sometimes it is a patience game, you have to remember you'll get a call if it suits whoever has the logs. Perhaps there is a closer free tip site for that days work than you, sometimes you are the closest. Tip sites tend to work well for tree surgeons working outside their area, local ones will be sorted for where to tip, others might not want a 20+ mile drive home with a load of arb waste. So give the tip sites some time, they do work. Weird as it may sound, not every tree surgeon and so on are member here - if you want to put in some leg work you might want to call locals direct, try to time it so they are not hanging off a tree when you call (e-mail works, phone first or last thing) but remember that they could be getting a lot of calls. Last tip is to walk about at lunchtime and listen - if you hear a chainsaw a friendly face asking politely if they have anywhere for the logs can often be better than a phone call. However remember if 'free' then tipping them at yours has to make sense to whoever has them

Bugger, I am going to have to change my compost habits - don't want to go all hippy-fashionable rather than just dumping-ashes-on-grass-clippings unfashionable

... so it is not a waste product, you are producing organic soil improver (https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/wood-ash-using-in-garden) though you will need to get the farmer to spread some of it on the fields or take it home to the garden - it is part of the process to create an end product. and because I was curious there is a market for it too: 3L Organic Wood Ash Fine Powder Garden Plant Fertiliser WWW.LOGSDIRECT.CO.UK 3L Organic Wood Ash Fine Powder Garden Plant Fertiliser Dusting Pottery Glazing Organic Wood Ash plant Fertiliser in a handy 3Ltr bag, double Screened to A Fine Powder. Wood Ash...

Seen a few of these posts - very similar - 'neighbours new extension is cracking*, the existing tree is at fault, kill it' - I think the last one was a 150 year old Horse Chestnut? Generally the insurers want to remove all trees everywhere. Generally there is never any mention to compensate the home owner for lack of amenity with the tree going. I suspect a couple of hundred ££ plus full costs would clear up a lot of arguments, be cheaper than pursuing things legally and a lot cheaper than making a proper fit for purpose foundation. [I reckon my apple trees give me say 50 apples a year (and the cows about the same windfalls), organic apples at 40p a shot x 100 £40 a year in apples x 7 years missed harvest while another matures.. about £280 worth of apples lost!]... Might be useful to have a couple of photos to give those with more experience than me something to guess from... but 3m from the extension, and what 8m from the side that is cracking? I'd be wanting to push the insurers for more evidence before a 'much loved' tree is removed. * I mean has cracks developing, it isn't a brilliant extension....

Just a thought I had while I was out, they said 'no problem' but is that a 'no problem - it is all within the law' or 'no problem because we don't have the resources to do anything about it'? Now if you could be processing the wood to a product, different matter I think... charcoal anyone? (but a whole new can of worms I suspect)

Are Hezbollah bothered by taxes? Guess so, that's what they did Capone for.

So... a matter of scale I know... but I wonder how The Scouts and so on manage at their camp sites with cooking and camp fires? Assuming they are not desolate wastelands with every tree burnt up by now, and most of the wood is brought to site... Likewise bonfire nights at community bonfires, I'd assume the scale is similar to what you burn. Remembering from my younger days we used to burn logs and things brought to site specifically to cook on. Or is the difference commercial and not commercial. 2nd question because I don't know if the farmer brought waste from several fields to that one burning spot, is that still considered to be 'on site'? Perhaps to keep her sweeter you might need to burn smaller fires more frequently?

Not sure what they have left to blow up that won't panic the wold? Explode an iphone and everyone will wonder if theirs is safe. Yes, a shitty war, I guess though radios and pagers are more discriminate than firing rockets about?

Going back to a real 'making the news today'.... Exploding radios! They reckon that the radios that exploded yesterday were obsolete (many years old) or knock offs, some seriously twisted thinking and weirdly impressive forward planning going on in that part of the world

Does that mean we will be getting out "Daily Starmer Report" every day for the next 5+ years? I might have a snooze, wake me up when you're bored of it? [Self discipline... pot, kettle, black and all that... read back a good few pages and I reckon you'll struggle to find me starting a new topic that is Making the News Today, and go back even further before you'll find me repeating one I have already started. Discipline? How about you do the same, perhaps a weekly Starmer Report and not daily? Keep it fresh and interesting?)

😴 Thing is, same recurring story. Narcissist hasn't been the centre of the thread for a couple of days now, desperate to regain that, he posts an inaccurate story - where some of the figures from other politicians have helpfully been added in above. The story never even mentioned Boris Johnson... which might be a massive indication that it is missing a lot of information (on purpose?). You'll note that there is no discussion on the story itself, but the discussion is on inaccurate details and 'heard it all before'.. might be an indication that the story itself peaks no interest. Change? I am pretty sure I explained this a couple of days ago, no politician ever - and I mean ever - campaigns on the "doing more of he same" ticket, they all campaign for change, even Sunak did that. I think sime42 is onto something though, put a small dynamo in my mouse wheel, scrolling through JohnsonDs lengthy repeated screen shot posts will keep the mouse charged for years! Noting here that outside of the politics 'discussion' this thread brings, the 'exploding pagers' brought quite a good discussion and not at all toxic - why I love Arbtalk - from exploding pagers to 80's music in 2 simple steps. Quite refreshing.

The more of this story that comes to light, some serious thought put into this. Not sure how pagers work exactly but if these have been in circulation for a while, are they able to be tracked - 2000+ pagers giving location details and movements, plus the paranoia of not using them again.