Steven P
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Didn't know that, thanks.
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Beech will coppice so if it is cut low should regrow? Not sure the best time of year for that though - might be leaving it a bit late this year.
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Exactly, how can he do it and not us?
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Not sure if this should go in UK politics or world news: He can build a 450 mile railway, and fight a war, in only a couple of years. We can half build a railway nearly all the way to Birmingham from nearly London and not have it finished in 15. By comparison, 450 miles is central Scotland all the way to Dover Putin’s railway through occupied Ukraine ‘almost complete’, says Kyiv’s spy chief UK.YAHOO.COM A 450-mile railway line Russia is building through occupied Ukraine is almost complete, Kyiv’s military intelligence chief has warned.
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If you are driving by the chances are you forget the phone number by the time you pull over somewhere safe to call.... if you are in the market to buy that day of course, otherwise all you will remember is maybe the name. Can you remember any number from "wasps destroyed" boards you see all the time (I'll help, start 07 ) Board outside the job site and maybe leave a card or leaflet with the customer ("Someone is bound to ask who did this, do you mind if I leave a couple of fliers for them"). Park up your van for a morning brew somewhere leafy for the School runs maybe.
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how 'free' is free, for example is contributing to petrol money for delivery acceptable to you?
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10' is 10 log lengths? Not excessive but not sure it is worth a whole new saw just for that.. but of course, the n+1 rule applies (n = how many you need / how many your partner thinks you have). I'd be tempted to cut 1' wide slot in the top, as far down as you can (10"?). take it out with the saw or axe, should give you enough to go all the way after that from the centre of that slot, might put a notch in the base? Depends who the log is lying and where the pressures are that will catch the chain depends to cut from the top or bottom
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Best deterrent I ever found as a grown up was to grab 3 or 4 mates, a few beers and join them. They don't come back after a couple of social visits
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A bit disturbing if anyone takes the bury barbed wire where people can't see it / more powerful electrify fences comments seriously, got to also keep within the law. If you set out to harm someone trying to enter your land chances are you will be in court and will be paying them compensation from your pocket or insurance. Make it a deterrent that is visible from the other side of the river, so they don't start to cross in the first place. Is there space for a thick hedge of something spiky, visible before people start to swim over?
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That is wrong on many levels. The gym thing is easy, if members of the public are on school grounds in school time unescorted and presumably sharing the same space as the pupils then they need to have full disclosure and background checks (some of these checks go back to the happenings in Dunblane among other things). I will assume that the gym changing rooms are separate and the children are unable to access them, if not there is a safe guarding issue right there (not to be blunt, naked adults in School with pupils wandering in.....). For the assault (Which is what it was), got to guess from the story that no staff witnessed it for it to have got to a stage of one kicking the other prone one in the head several times.... else I can see a law suit happening for the HT to allow a culture among the staff to be complicit in that. Did the pupil get not punishment?
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From what I understand any company that does work with that kind of security are power pointed to death about what personal information they post online. Sorry to say it wouldn't take much to work out who you worked for, click on your profile here to get some personal details, pervious posts and you are seriously compromised. Couple of PMs "I see you are an expert at (flattery), can you help me out" grabs more info.
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Awww, special branch at least?
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Rental - from previous posts I think you can get them but have to buy a new bar and chain with them - if my memory serves me right? How many is a few big logs? 2 or 3 and though a pain to do you can cut a notch in them wide enough for the saw to go in and complete the cut.
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thought that was a Blue Suede shoes reference
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No, bored is posting a political commentry in a forum in the hope of some human interaction, not a 7 word quip to that posting
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Been a while since I did any sign language, I might have missed this part, but what do you do if you want to get someone attention urgently with signs? Or do you fall back to voice communications and shout? Cannot for example using a chainsaw up a tree and watching someone on the ground just in case they want tell you something with sign language. Eyes on the job but your ears can still listen.
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That's the one, the garden in question was particularly bad because she attracted them all
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Your only option is the SNP then
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reminds me of a story I was told - one of our Nuclear facilities had to put covers on a water tank... local woman feeds the birds every morning, birds fly off to pond for a swim and a drink, next morning go back for food and a poo, her garden was glowing. Cannot tag the wild birds.
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My battery one is certainly domestic, probably not as well sealed as a pro saw but.. no problems 5 years later and had convinced me that is the way to go for me. However.... if you are using the saw all day then you need the convenience of petrol or 500 batteries
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Forgive me for what might follow.... Wasn't that the point of Covid, Bill Gates microchipping the vaccines so that Elon musk can join up with the illuminati and we are all to be controlled by (and this is where It's getting a bit vague) the Chinese / Bush / Clintons / Putin / Zuckerberg
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all to do with the amount of 'wood' in the log. Get similarly sized pieces or ash, sycamore and leylandii at a similar moisture content and weigh them, the leylandii will be lighter - less wood in it - less fuel - so less heat out. If there is less wood there will be less ash. I haven't noticed the ash thing and tend to burn a mix of woods, but it certainly burns quicker - needs fuelling more often. With softwoods I have also found the heat out is quicker - a more intense fire for a short while then dies away where something like beech or oak is a lot slower (not so good first thing on a winter morning when the house has cooled - the soft woods are better then)
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This is true, I made a post the other day saying pretty much the same thing - there is a sliding scale between killing yourself to work doing something you don't enjoy for loads of money, down to no money but enjoying everything you do. Somewhere in the middle is where we are all happy with the balance of wages, job satisfaction and family / private life.
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That sounds a little on the low side with all the tools - however sometimes the small low profit jobs lead onto something more profitable like the maintenance rounds and can be worth it. Would raising the price lose work? and then there is another fine line between the hourly rate and not working and earning nothing at all or working full time every day.
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Come to think of it, I had neighbours once too. Really should dig them up, find out what happened to them.
