Steven P

Yes, Southport did that when they got around to it.

Ahh, one of those hairy horny beasts?

Slit as soon as you get it, leylandii for me are usually good to in a year. Mind same for all woods... split as soon as you get it. I can't comment on 3 year old logs, never kept any that long but never really had a soot problem off them

She should have the decency to clap along in time I reckon. However guilty as charged... I wasn't in Shropshire but guess what I was doing this morning? Got to encourage them to run faster so I can find whoever has the flask of luke walk tea. (I was in the woods this morning, bottom of a slippery slope watching them style it out as they slid, less clapping but more piss taking really)

I can't ever remember expressing an opinion of her on this forum, though Mick has seriously disturbed my evening now. Watching her thatch and whilst gently mooing. Makes me shiver. I might have mis-quoted him.

A rare chance to agree with you there! There are very few politicians who are engineers or project mangers who can understand how to deliver a project on time (these ferries, the trains to Birmingham, Hinkley power station....), but they understand that throw enough money at something it will all go OK However... Scottish Daily Express.... you need to change your morning papers, but at least there is a headline there that isn't reminiscing that the world went wrong in 1997.

Bigger problem that Asda doesn't have a runway yet..... (a lot by the way)

True, but I don't think you could cover all aspects all at once. Could add in a portion onto new tyres and brakes but then people might leave them longer before replacing them. EVs arn't quite as bad as reported with regenerative braking not using brake pads, however I get the point on them focussing on the wrong pollution for now. Certainly a problem for those that create taxes to replace fuel taxes and not penalise those who don't have cars with taxes on domestic electric bills, same with car tax, what to do. I am just thinking that 5 to 10 years time the charging system will be different to what we have today - what to do to keep it reasonable, and unbiased.

I'd tend to agree with that, it covers miles = more fuel but also environmental, more efficient = less fuel. I would have gone for a basic charge, £30 or £50 or something to cover the admin side of things registering the vehicles, up to date MOT check, the websites and so on and the rest on fuel. However electric vehicles complicate that model. It is possible to read the milometer annually and charge for that (after the car is old enough for an MOT), but sure if you can do this with modern cars but disconnect the cable and no speedo or milometer. Likewise a GPS thing in the car, a simple faradays cage over that will block the signal. So if they want to go pay per mile then guess it is cameras and split the roads into some sort of cell system... the size of the cell can alter depending on the congestion, in the extremes of the country larger cells, travel further before triggering a camera, in the cities, smaller cells so you might only drive a couple of miles.

Didn't know that, thanks.

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.

Exactly, how can he do it and not us?

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.

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.

how 'free' is free, for example is contributing to petrol money for delivery acceptable to you?

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

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

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?

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?

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.

Awww, special branch at least?

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.

thought that was a Blue Suede shoes reference

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

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.