Steven P

That's better, the Daily Starmer Report.

Not really BS, the climate is constantly changing, though human activity has increased the rate of change over the last century. However yes, El Nino but more La Nina (?) - the cold spell of El Nino has had an affect more than climate change over the last couple of years than humans. Not sure about Poland but flooding in the UK often is affected by our activities - housebuilding so nowhere for rain water to go apart from flooding rivers - but if we want people to come here and work they want houses and so the flooding will get worse - and to link to Tree-Fancier - they also need to drink in these new houses. How was that - linked 2 'making the news today' stories that don't appear to be linked? (ignoring the other story until a dubious link "CPS not prosecuting yet is all Kier Starmers fault for not working there any more" is made... the Daily Starmer report)

Are there branches overhanging the house? Photo could be from a street view type thing perhaps?

A little more information here might help as well - sell yourself. I can't comment much on what you have e-mailed the local arborists but a few details such as your location, the type of work you want on your placement, ability to get to site (driving), if you have any tickets so far or when you are expected to get some qualifications (makes you more useful the more you have), is your placement a day a week (any restrictions) or can you do two 5 week blocks of work and so on.... remember that on a forum like this consider your posts as a part of your application process to get a placement

'Daily Starmer' I was missing that.

Does it run OK when it does start? If you suspect the fuel supply (cleaning the carb etc) what about the fuel and air filters? A lot cheaper to check than replacing the carb and you'd probably need to do that anyway once it it working OK. After that a carb kit and rebuild it maybe.. but there will be better minds than mine along shortly. Edit: Seeing openspacemans reply, exhaust bunged up can be a problem too. How much use has the saw had?

I think the only member of the forums commenting on Starmer is you. I haven't expressed an opinion here.

subtle.....

errrr.... who jumped from "look at Al Fayed" straight to politics and the Labour party on the take?

So why bother with the Al Fayad story if all you want to do is rant about Starmer and Raynor?

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