Steven P

I haven't seen anything ever where species of charcoal is a thing - might be worth having some experiments and seeing what works well. Supply issues though, if you are in a beech woodland than make charcoal out of beech, if your wood is willow then use willow. I had a go a few years ago when The Smaller Boy was into charcoal drawing, there is a difference in wood types and the end product - apple did OK, pines not so good (as pencils). (golden syrup tin, in the log burner type of quantity not large amounts for example for BBQs) For burning though, not sure it matters too much apart from perhaps pricing, sell a sack of more dense wood or the same volume of less dense wood... though back to my 2nd paragraph, all to do with what you have and pricing of that.

State of Trumpys economy: His 'lower the price of eggs from day 1' not doing so well - another election promise he isn't fulfilling Please, Please, Please Don't Show This Post About Trump's Economy To Your MAGA-Supporting Family (Unless You Want To Start A Fight) UK.YAHOO.COM I'm keeping track of Trump's economy right here. Every month. Enjoy!

Yes, drones and cyber tactics to take out the drones. Can get a lot of drones for the cost of a missile (thousands more) and the drone operators only have to be lucky once, the anti-drone systems have to be lucky every time for each of them. Ukraine showed before you only need 1 drone to take out a multi-million pound aircraft sitting a thousand miles from the front line.

Mark, you'll make me paranoid soon! However war has changed, how countries screw each other - gone are the days of massive weapons, drones and cyber attacks are the way forward I think.

Though 85 million or 4 billion, I reckon the tax payer does OK from the 'land they stole'

Speaking to the current audience - though I did consider that - this forum (or the current active members) don't come into the mum, aunt or grandma category... apologies of course if I have upset anyone with a generalisation!

Yup, you're not wrong.

Just been chatting to family... one more comment - it is Duke of Edinburgh Award expidition season... might be time to play the fussing dad / uncle / granddad card and insist they take a tick removal tool with them too if you have family doing that.

The children are innocent in this, as are most of their parents, neither asked or understood that the Hamas attack would happen. Actions have consequences, just waiting for you all to whinge about the influx of Palestinian refugees into the UK... consequences.

Slight off topic, the BP refinery in Grangemouth used to supply nearly all petrol in Scotland - from Asda to BP and everything in between. Came out the same nozzle at the pump there... but each company had their own proprietary additives and blend (blended as it was filling the tanker). Castrol might be the same with Stihl, out the same machine with the option to specify the exact blend and additives.

1200 deaths - killing just over 56,000 in revenge is well justified. Probably need to double that, 10:1 I reckon sounds about right? Even better than all the children who have lost parents are orphaned, and traumatised to hating Israel for ever - what a brilliant way to create a never ending war than creating the next generation of recruits to fight against.

Many criminal rape cases, in the UK, and worldwide, fail due to a lack of evidence - often the process of having evidence 'collected' is a trauma that at the time the victim just cannot handle (and it is a trauma to the victims). It is not like a burglary where the victim can be someplace else, they have to be there and relive every moment of it again. This is not a fault of the victim, it is a fault that there is no other way to collect evidence. Often the victim does not want to go to court to relive the attack again, again, not their fault to want to avoid meeting their attacker face to face again and relive the attack in minute detail twice (prosecution and defence, and defence lawyers can be brutal). So something like 1/3 (a very small proportion of cases) get enough of a case to go to court. Most rape cases do not reach court. No criminal conviction does not mean innocence. In the case of Trump / Carrol - like many rape cases the victim is only strong enough to go to court many years later when a criminal conviction is unlikely. Trump was defaming Carrol, gave her the strength to bring a civil prosecution, for which the judge summed up as noted above. Many years later - look at the celebrity cases where one person steps forward and suddenly a lot of victims step forward (Epsteins case is an example here). 'I am not alone in this' can give a strength that the victim needs to seek justice. So when you say 'Criminal conviction', I assume you write that from a position of ignorance. You sure go out your way to defend him and all his actions though, and are blinded to all his crimes. If you don't care for him, why is that then?

Static loading will probably be OK, but dynamic, swinging on adds different stresses I'd imagine?

A good thread to read, one comment - for the brands, it would be more handy perhaps which to avoid - the names all do the job well enough, some better than others but none are machine killers. Personally, as above, my saws, trimmers, blowers, etc, my fuel, I am responsible for them, I mess up I foot the bill, and if I borrow anything it is always on the understanding that if I damage them I replace - and the same goes the other way. I don't get through as much as some, working on a basis of 2 fuel cans (1 usually empty ready to fill as necessary), and oil added when they are filled.

The judge in the civil trial said that while technically she wasn't raped (in the narrow New York legal definition), to the man on the street (you and me), what Trump did was rape. This was from a judge who had sat through all the evidence - more than you or I, or anyone on this forum - and that was his ruling. Damages were awarded accordingly.

The news reports said they were climbing on the tree - nothing wrong with that in itself. Kids have probably climbed on it for years.

See what I mean?

The car would still have fallen. If the man had been working under the car at the time it would have fallen onto him equally. Praying did not cause the car to fall. Like most workplace accidents it was down to human error - bad maintenance, poor operation, something similar. Praying has never factored into any accident cause.

See you still DO NOT UNDERSTAND.... The ONLY news stories you report here - out of all the thousands of stories every day and millions of social media posts are negative of Muslims. It is for this reason that we are calling you a racist. - You have NEVER posted a positive news story about any other race - You ONLY post negative news stories about other races - Where there are comparable news stories, a white victim / perpetrator and a Muslim victim / perpetrator, you will post about the Muslim one while ignoring all comparable stories and to the extend that you will either rubbish any other poster who mentions them or swiftly change the topic of conversation. - So making the news today, there are stories in the news every day about HSE enforcement actions, however I feel that the only reason this one appeared on your news feeds is that the algorithms that feed your news have adapted to only show negative news stories about Muslims... usually because these are the stories you are most likely to click on.

I think I mentioned this above. If the praying caused the accident then the HSE would have labelled 'Act of a god'. They didn't. They fined the workplace - it was a work place accident. End of. I really cannot see how you cannot understand workplace accidents. If the man had dropped a spanner and lent over to pick it up and car fell - same body position, same result Would you now be saying that being 58 impaired his ability to react? I suspect there are many 58 year olds... and over... right up to lets say 77... who are active and would dispute that his age has any bearing on his reaction times either. I might permit myself to ask a question, that will never be answered, what was your reasoning to bring this news story to the forum as opposed to say a similar work place accident of Endaf Jones? what makes the difference? All you are doing is confirming your racial bias against foreign Muslims and your Islamaphobia in general. I will add for the casual observer that JohnsonDs view here is not representative of the Arbtalk membership but only 0.00125% of them, who is sadly very vocal in his views.

I could see drones working - can add different 'cameras' (radar, whatever it is) as it comes along, but Satellites is something else, impressive.

I'd seen that a couple of months ago, not sure if it was one of our Arborists or on here - clever use of tech!

The workplace equipment failed. Accident happened. That is all the story there needs to be. It was posted here, not because it is relevant to someone climbing trees for example. There are plenty of accidents there you could refer to. It was noted here because of the victim - who has suffered massive injuries - it was noted here ONLY because the victim was a Muslim. If he wasn't you would have passed the story by and said nothing. Noting here that the HSE fatalities listings show similar accidents of "British" sounding employees... and yet you say nothing about them. Why is that?

and what has he actually done this time around that he promised he would do? Anything for his voter base> A massive tax in imports?