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Not necessarily related to forestry, but chartered status is normally achieved by having degrees and relevant experience or lots of experience. Either way the person needs to thoroughly prove their understanding of the subject. Personally, I've known a lot of people who are chartered and are useless, and a lot of people who aren't chartered and are good. Lots of people with degrees who are terrible, and plenty without degrees who are more than competent. Just comes down to the person involved.
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What else is in the contract? I assume this is just a little part of it. Might be trying to game the total contract price. We had a contractor charge £0 for all TM items before and make the money up on service activity items.
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The sportsman who lied on his visa application form? Australia have always been fairly harsh with their immigration policy, I think a lot of normal people would have had the same treatment.
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Might be 450mm. I'll see if I can remember where to look.
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I'm not sure that hunting or not is responsible for the overall health of foxes, I don't think the hunts are that effective and for us we've suffered from having urban fox 'rescues' deposited near to us. I can understand people trying to protect activities they like, or which are related to things they like buy I struggle with people arguing that something is ok because it; Only kills sick or old animals - doesn't sound much like sport. Doesn't kill many animals - then what's the point? Is clearly divisive and causes a disproportionate amount of negative reaction - difficult to be subtle while dressed in red on a horse. I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if fox hunting caused more people to have negative views of the countryside than any other activity. As I've said before. I'm fine with many other activities such as reasonable organised game shoots, vermin control etc, I just think hunting doesn't make anyone look good.
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I think this is a great way to shoot, it's enjoyable for everyone for multiple reasons, you get a decent bit of exercise and get to know the land and the animals and really observe nature. What I really can't stand is the chicken farming type shoots, 600 bird days a couple of times a week are common on one shoot around here. How can anyone actually justify that? I'd love to protect shooting, fishing etc, but all the time that ridiculous setups such as those exist the whole industry is going to look bad and the decent arrangements like yours will ultimately suffer. Its the same with fox hunting for me. It looks bad, everyone knows they aren't really following 'trails' and all the time there is a massive show of people actively going out to break the law on what they know is a controversial, divisive subject then everyone involved in reasonable country sports actually suffers.
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An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Toad replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Good point. I changed the focus from Muslim to skin tone. I should have said most terrorists aren't Muslim. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the IRA's bag anyway.
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Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 | US news | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Since the 9/11 attack, far-right extremists killed more people in... List of terrorist incidents in Great Britain - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Since 1970, there have been at least 3,395 terrorist-related deaths in the UK, the highest in western Europe.[2] The vast majority of the deaths were linked to the Northern Ireland conflict and happened in Northern Ireland.[2] Between 1971 and 2001, there were 430 terrorist-related deaths in Great Britain. Of these, 125 deaths were linked to the Northern Ireland conflict,[3] and 305 deaths were linked to other causes[4] – most of the latter deaths occurred in the Lockerbie bombing.[4]
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Actually most terrorists are white. There have been more terrorist attacks carried out in America by white people, and the IRA were pretty prolific over here in recent memory.
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Except that many of us realise that people who use racist, homophobic and sexist language and who set policies that discriminate against the poorest and most vulnerable while giving their mates piles of cash and taking no responsibility for their failures are in fact scum. Bojo's comments about single mothers for example are derogatory towards most of the mothers of his children. (Not sure if it's potentially 5,6 or 34 women). Imagine how you'd feel about the most powerful man in the country deciding your own mother, when he is your dad. Scum is a very polite term for people of his character.
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Got stuck in traffic on my way to site yesterday because of people queuing at petrol stations, managed to head home missing them with a bit of route planning. Drove to Dorset for a weekend in the camper and every fuel station had cars queuing back onto the road, one was out of fuel entirely. People are bonkers.
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what tree to choose as grow-your-own Armco?
Toad replied to noco's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Armco/vrs/crash barrier is about reducing the energy and redirecting vehicles, not bringing them to a sudden, solid stop, its also supposed to move a bit to do this, so some of the suggestions of multistemmed thinner plants might be more fitting than massive fatties that cause the car to disintegrate on impact. -
I've put tigermulch down on footways with tree root damage. It's all temporary tbh. It looks pretty terrible from the photos. You'll need to raise a significant length of footway or carriageway to clear them, and then it might make the road non-compliant with standards, although this might not be so bad if it is private.
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Good luck with the oem parts. I've barely used mine since rebuilding it.
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Chainsaw milling novice- cut not running straight, chain sharpening issue?
Toad replied to Layne's topic in Milling Forum
I've had issues with my granberg sharpener in the past, set it up in the bar and check it sits at 90 degrees. Mine doesn't so I have to adjust it from one side to the other along with the depth and height settings Make sure your grinding stones are fully engaged and not wobbling about when spinning. -
2 inguinal hernias?
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Thats good advice. I got a big bottle of lactolose and dosed myself up until stuff started moving and kept myself on a regular dose until I was done with the painkillers.
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I do wonder if some of Yaxley-Lennon's supporters will be less pleased that they aren't funding an ideological fight that they subscribe to, but have been paying for him to enjoy large volumes of cocaine and hookers?
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I had an umbilical hernia and two small inguinal hernias. Only really knew about the umbilical one as it looked at me until I had horrendous pain in my bollocks, turned out one of the inguinal hernias which was about 2 inches above my cock was pressing on a nerve. Had an appointment with the surgeon Jan 2020, 4 month wait at that point, then covid, had all three repaired in April this year. Went quite badly, couldn't piss so ended up with a catheter, eventually got out of hospital but struggled with a lot of pain for over a month. Speaking to people afterwards it's unusual to get so much done at once. Most people don't have the problems that I did and it is better to get it done. Need to be really careful that it all heals before doing any lifting as it's hard to do more repairs once the mesh is in.
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Also, dealing with someone who had just been turned into jam by a falling tree would be horrific, ignoring whose fault it was. Too many people are assholes who don't consider what their actions could do to other people.
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I've been out at a tree across the road and Ford fiesta upside down after trying to avoid it during a storm when some pissed up entitled cockwomble turns up and demands we let him through cos he doesn't think we should be there and his wife works in health and safety. They ended up driving up the verge and squeezing past while giving us shit. Had plenty of abuse for closing roads for fatal crashes too.
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Is that not a water leak running out the middle of the lights? Annoying when people aren't there but it might be the to company set the lights up and the gang to do the works haven't got there yet? Sorry for seeming to continually bother you in this thread.
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You mean the bit saying wait here till the green light shows? If so, that's the standard sign and wording for temporary traffic lights with more than 2 heads. If its got 2 heads the sign says 'when red light shows wait here' They've been law for decades I'm afraid.
