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  1. dan blocker
    Just like a mild winters day here. Wood burners on for the evenings.
  2. dan blocker
    Being paid for the hours on site and not starting and finishing in yard is complete row locks. If your travelling from home straight to site because it’s closer and easier for you then it’s site hours. Same for subbies, if they travel to yard and travel with the rest they’re paid as well as far as I’m concerned. Thought there was a shortage of decent workers - vote with your feet.
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    Russian warships including nuclear submarine and frigate capable of carrying hypersonic missiles arrives in Cuba. Cancel your Florida hols. Is that good enough Mike🤔
  4. dan blocker
    Very very unlikely to be the same job or career path?
  5. dan blocker
    Why not? Won’t it go to his email account if still the same?
  6. dan blocker
    Spain was neutral. There were no German offensive forces in Spain, only intelligence and covert operations such as U boat refuelling etc. they could not of invaded Gibraltar from a so- called Neutral country without dragging Spain into the conflict.
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    The German advance didn’t stop at the British border, it stopped at the moat called The English Channel. If there was no channel and a land border they would have rolled up the UK pretty fast. The German advance also didn’t stop at the Russian border - it got to within 6 miles of Leningrad and 20 odd miles of Moscow. If the front line hadn’t moved faster and further from being re supplied they probably would have defeated the Russians. If they hadn’t of attacked Russia and concentrated on the UK we’d probably be reading this in German?
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    Does that include food and accommodation? The going rate for both seems to be about £500. As others have said try further south Edinburgh/ Glasgow?
  9. dan blocker
    Spurside Sawworks Ross on Wye do an excellent job on circular and bandsaw blades if your in that region🤔
  10. dan blocker
    Yes you could. And then go on to be the deputy leader of the Labour Party🤔
  11. dan blocker
    He was right. Jack Russel, loyal, smart, small?
  12. dan blocker
    When you go and see them ask the thieving scum if they’ve sold my mates two terriers they nicked from his garden. Wouldn’t buy anything from a pikey - just encourages them to steal more!
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    Beat me to it when I was typing👍
  14. dan blocker
    As you’ve got to get parental consent to join military if under 18 will they have to ask their parents who they can vote for. Have to be over 18 to serve on the front line? A lot of under 18s are in full time education so arnt tax payers? - that was Labours idea to artificially lower employed no’s. So they’ve got that wrong haven’t they🤔
  15. dan blocker
    Such a pity, got all my TW spares from them, excellent service, good staff to deal with. They stopped doing TW recently so perhaps the writing was on the wall🤔. Hope the staff get snapped up by someone?
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    Non of us know the exact details? subsidence is thought to be because of the oak tree? Who says? Just because branches overhang the boundary doesn’t mean the oak is close to the house does it. What is the distance of house from oak tree. No mention of any pro survey, no trial pits to find roots? Nothing, nada? A letter on its own is not enough to make the owner of tree remove it? It would require a full inspection, survey and report, plus owner of said tree could question quality/ standard of build of house in the first place. We don’t have enough facts and the op’s gone walkabout looking for the trees owner🤔
  17. dan blocker
    It’s easy to let your heart rule your head over house purchases but I’m surprised you’re carrying on with the purchase to be honest? If you find the owner don’t expect any issue you have with the property to be sorted? Could take years - if ever to reach a solution and potentially £1000s in costs🤔
  18. dan blocker
    Like most things a few phots might help? A piece 600mm diameter depending on length is going to be quite heavy. It will also deteriorate quickly so will have to be wrapped in netting wire to prevent anything dropping? Apologies for having an inquisitive mind. But repositioning decaying poplar into another tree as habitat is bordering on complete bollocks. Go and source some oak with a hollow and it’ll last for years. What’s going to use a hollow in 600mm diameter lump of wood as habitat? A black bear?
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    Am I understanding this right or not? Your removing a hollow section of a stem from one tree and fixing it to a tree near by as habitat🤔. Why! It’s better left where it is surely? It’s perfectly formed and fixed? Just reduce the weight to make it safe and revisit in couple of years!
  20. dan blocker
    A bump from way back 🤔. Quickest way to zero a full bore rifle is to put your rifle on a bench or mound and hold firm with some shot bags or sand bags. Take bolt out and look down the barrel and adjust rifle onto the top of a stake or picket 100 - 150 metres away. When top of stake/ picket is centre of barrel adjust scope onto same point. You’ll then be able to send down a 3 shot group at 100 mts and adjust from that. I use 3 shots not 5 to adjust to save ammo then fire a 5 round group to confirm. If the Zulu’s are coming the first stage is enough to keep their heads down😳
  21. dan blocker
    Can’t argue against the French copper who shot the synagogue arsonist? Good on him👍
  22. dan blocker
    If everyone who’s getting older, having aches and pains in their joints etc gave up the tools and became consultants there wouldn’t be enough consultant jobs to go around? Mind you perhaps there’d be more tree work for those who stuck it out to the bitter painful end🤔. Not everyone wants to walk around with a clipboard like Blakey from “On the Buses”, there’s me showing my age😳. Of course we do need consultants, but I can get one fairly easily if needed, try finding a decent climber or groundy that’s not already gainfully employed?
  23. dan blocker
    I’d be more than happy with that cost and probably tell you it’s too cheap and offer more. If you still have them? Strip them down, put in a couple of boxes and give them back to him? Tell him that apparently the repair costs would be to much🤔
  24. dan blocker
    Many years ago when I reloaded rifle bullets for stalking I used crushed walnuts in a small tumbler to clean and polish the empty cases first.
  25. dan blocker
    I never have hired in a chipper but I think there’s a good call to open up and inspect blades when taking delivery. I can see the hire company blaming the hirer in this case? “ it was all checked before you hired it”, what does it say on the hire agreement?

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