Steven P

He'd have to factor in demolishing the house though....

My mortgage is 400 a month, bills less than 100, tax about 100...

One of those great firewood measures, loose stacked while not grammatically correct is used, same as a 'load', 'Tonne Bag', 'Builders bag', if you are selling it and the customers don't come back then the measure / price is all wrong. However on the drive with fresh cut logs it is tightly tacked together, very little movement, when it is ready to burn the stack has a lot more movement, the logs are more loose... loosely stacked

looks right

Got to agree with that. They know their stuff and asked nicely can often get special orders in. I know I am being anal about this..... but how shiny are your work boots in the top pic!! (assume in the workshop you have your boots on)

Defer to the expert here, isn't forced rhubarb grown outside for a year or so and then moved into the forcing sheds to produce the crop? Supermarket rhubarb always looks a bit disappointing to what I can get out the garden.

I am a home user I guess - an occasional bigger tree or larger logs, and the 181 does me fine - still going well 10 years later - but as above and like all machines you need to keep on top of the routine stuff - cleaned (wiped down at least) every chain sharpen, decent oils (home user, for what it costs every so often, this one always gets Stihl stuff), spark plugs as and when and air filters, and it gets started at least once a month even if it has no use... I think where the ebay and similar stuff falls down is never had the routine stuff done (why would you if it is a few logs twice a year), petrol left in the tank evaporating or going stale in the petrol can and the carb left dry for a long time but it is expected to start 2nd pull. For what it is it is a good little saw. But got to appreciate what it is. Having said that, for a home user I think I would suggest a battery saw, a lot more pick up and play. Probably wouldn't recommend a cheap supermarket one though. For the OP I'd be checking the spark plug, is there a spark. If the piston is a little worn or scored it should still go but just be down on power? Are you using new fuel?

You might need a little more than that to sell yourself. For example, do you have any chainsaw tickets / qualifications? Or is it experience from around a farm or even just chopping up your dads firewood pile. Things like diggers, again any qualifications, drivers license (clean or otherwise). Carmarthenshire area... but can you travel freely in that area - car, bike, bus or whatever, or would you need picking up in the mornings. Are you happy to start at the bottom rung, dragging brash, labouring, and use the machinery as and when you get the relevant tickets to use them in a contracting profession? Essentially you are asking someone to give you a few hundred ££ a week on the basis of 26 words? Give them a hand and persuade them why. The folks on here are generally more than happy to help out, but they do need something to go on.

Loads of facebook pages "Scammers", it doesn't take much to ruin a good reputation with 5 minutes of 'revenge'.

I'll second AHPP - even a second hand 'needs a bit of work' forklift is going to be what £3k+ ? A fair investment in what may or may not be a business, so what else do you have that could be used or do you have other uses for new equipment that can also lift bags? Fair bit of garden? not sure of this one, but ride on mower with an attachment?

For the truckers hitch (I was told it was wagoneers hitch, same thing though), it is a pulley system without the pulleys - handy to know. Where the pulling rope doubles back on itself you can often hold that in place with the thumb while you tie it off with the other hand. Anyway point I was going to make, depending on the rope, daisy chaining them together I've found that the first /earlier hitches can double back too tightly and bind the rope if you add more anchored to the same point. If possible I'll have an anchor point for each hitch to so that the pulling end isn't doubled back too tightly. Remembering that the same force applies at each end, I've known a single anchor to pull out before what I to tension fails. Tended to think something like each additional hitch doesn't double the available force due to frictions, only adds something like half as much again. Dead handy though.

Garlic.... I broke one up from the supermarket years ago and planted that - the bulbs have never grown large but I am guessing I have about 50 of them growing just now from that single bulb. However Mrs P doesn't do garlic so it is destined to grow and grow, same with the horseradish, planted a piece from the supermarket and last year dug up a 1m long root - and again, Mrs P doesn't do horseradish (however, Garlic and Horseradish on a Sunday roast.. I can go with that)... same with the gooseberries... anything useful that she likes do nothing (carrots, beetroots, normal potatoes (the weird ones did well)...). I suspect the veggie patch just doesn't like her.

Though to be honest, saying "I did this as an extra subject" sets you ahead of the crowd regardless of where the ££ to pay for it came from, and if the boy is interested now then I think he should be encouraged. Certainly do more courses later in life, but I don't know his aspirations - might be a university or college course when that extra GCSE at 16 will be a bonus to get in.

OK - share might be the wrong word here, but you get what I mean (I'll add English in there too, considering our language has roots in French, German, the Nordic languages and of course Roman - all the people who have come here to live)

Going back to the beginning, I might be wrong but the option is history OR Computer Science / Latin, not take 4 GCSEs in total. The Boy likes all 3 of them. Remembering back to how it worked when I was at School the subjects were in blocks, A, B, C, D.. ..or whatever and you could pick 1 from each block. Not every subject was in every block, I suspect the same applies here.... so History is in the same block as Latin / Computer Science, cannot take all 3 together. So how to do a history course outside of School. Latin: which other languages you learn at school are not so important, French at 16 years old is fine but might be at 50 you work in Spain - however the ability to apply what learnt then is more important and help you learn in future life. Latin shares a lot of stuff with European languages, word structure, common words etc (Romans did that for us), so I would say probably as useful as any other language,

Sounds like the school is helpful and maybe might be able to enter him into the exam - saves you a job there?

Is there a local home ed. group near you? they should be able to help I reckon and let you know where he can take the exams as well

I don't have anywhere near space for 26t, but unless you need to bag them for storage / management that does sound like adding an extra process to drying them out. However if you are maybe going to get rid of them then it makes sense to bag them sometime - I would still wait till after they are dried a bit though

So a nice easy straight road then!!

I can see this going to "how many of us used to squeeze in the back of the ..... " - driver, passenger, 4 in the back was common, and on special occasions 2 in the boot with the parcel shelf removed so they could hear us shout "duck". Most in a police car... driver, passenger and 4 in the back.....

Lost out to MySpace and Colombia House and only got 2 from Micks list... hoping to get some points back - played a single at 78 speed up from 33, and 2 weeks ago found a bag of VHS dumped in a hedgerow (its been there at least 10 years), old school education, before 'educational' internet films (last 'find' before that was a DVD about 12 years ago). Oh, I also still do some of them - paper maps, cheques, film camera, cds (in the car),, but I have updated blockbuster to Netflix now.

You'd think they'd be queuing to get a nice job that didn't come from inside a human

I do. However are you crossing the threads again and referencing an opinion on another thread? Take it back there. Lets keep a focus on what we are talking about on this one, be a good chap.

... a bit rich again... how many posts this morning Johnson, D? but who lets a cheap dig get in the way of a decent thread, eh?

When most of the copy and paste headlines you post are written by people who are extremely biased, the pieces are poorly researched and in many case, incorrect then a lecture on credibility is a bit rich to be honest. Try to keep it pleasant. Try to avoid the default "Don't like criticism, fire off a cheap insult" reply of yours and perhaps explain why you think the author is a credible one, enlighten us, a nice discussion.