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5 hours ago, Dave110 said:

I have a question for those of you who are in a role that will involve recruitment in the forestry sector. For example the role could be for an assistant forester, head forester or even to aid selecting a consultant.

 

Lets say you have 2 applicants who both have extensive practical - 'on the tools'- forestry experiance and can also do tasks such as management plans and survey work. One of them has a BSc or Msc (degree) and the other is a chartered forester with no degree; who do you go for?

 

In short; what will make you more employable, academically, a degree or chartered status?

 

I would appreciate your thoughts.

 

For the record this is purely out of interest after a recent discussion at work, i dont have 2 applicants waiting on your responses!!

 

Cheers,

Dave

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.

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.

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.

Might be 450mm. I'll see if I can remember where to look.

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.

5 minutes ago, John Shutler said:

so your better informed to comment on subjects that you know very little about il let you know about game shooting for the common man.

Ours is a working syndicate so 10 guns all pay the same amount of money (£1400 a year for 10 shoot days plus one tenants day) we rent a few hundred acres from a larger estate comprising of several thousand acres for about 3k a year. the greater majority of that land is mixed woodland surrounded by arable land with a small barn in the middle that is the base for the shoot. we have 4 release pens that we built and maintain annually that  eventually feed 8 drives. we release 1600 poults into the 4 pens around july time then try to keep them alive till when mid october when we start shooting ( pheasants are like sheep in the sense that all they want to do is die) we buy growers pellets for the birds then as time goes on corn from the adjacent farm. we all share the workload so i’m usually up there a couple of times a week as a minimum all year round. non of us are gentry, infact ones a teacher, another a welder, i’m a tree contractor and my mates a butcher. one of the guys does admin type work and another is a boat day skipper. gardener, retired cnc machine operator, building site manager and school caretaker make up the rest. we all chip in for the food on a shoot day and my mate who’s the butcher and runs a small farm shop provides the grub. it’s a stand one/beat one type affair so there’s two teams of 5 and on each drive 5 are shooting and 5 are beating. we also have about 20 people who turn up to beat. no ones paid anything but all the additional beaters are fed and take a brace of birds at the end of the day. the beaters are mostly fiends and family who come for the day out and enjoy the day and the exercise plus they enjoy working their dogs if they have one. most of the beaters have been going for as long as i can remember. one of the guns of one of the 5 man teams couldn’t make it today so two of the beaters got to shot two drives each for the day, it’s pretty relaxed. we have a beaters day mid season. the shoots been going about 30 years and generally we will shoot around 40-60 birds on a shoot day. any birds that  are left at the end of the day go to my mates shop. the shoot doesn’t usually have much money left at the end of the season, it just about covers all the costs. myself and another guy usually shoot 30 foxes a year off the ground, most of those are town foxes that come across looking for an easy feed. we also manage the deer on this section of the estate. 

its a lot of work and no ones there for anything apart from the enjoyment of it, guns and beaters alike 

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.

Is this part of your regular plan for clearing the edges of rides?

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Says the Guardian 😂

 

Whats interesting is that definition by skin colour is pretty much exclusively frowned upon by propagandists like the Guardian when it might show certain ‘tendencies’ are associated with notable demographics. (Unless they happen to be ‘white’ of course)
 

Wouldn’t want to ‘unfairly’ generalise and fuel the segregation would they.... Unless....

 

I’d suggest rather than ‘white’ or ‘other’ they’d be better focussing on ‘internal’ and ‘external’ classifications when referencing terrorist tendencies. 
 

After all, who decides what constitutes ‘far’ right and what happens to that definition when the presumed qualifying criteria apply more accurately to groups or individuals that are non ‘white?’

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.

36 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

 

Nonsense

 

Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 | US news | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Since the 9/11 attack, far-right extremists killed more people in...

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]

2 hours ago, doobin said:

Enough already with your disengenous woke whataboutery.

 

Not all Muslims are terrorists. But nearly all terrorists are Muslim.

 

Same logic applies here, and will do until either party cleans up their act.

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.

Measure the outside diameter of the bearing and the inside diameter of the casing. I suspect the casing has gone wrong, being the softer material and you need a new crankcase.

2 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

And that is (just 1 reason) why Labour are unelectable. 
 

That sort of language / belief ‘might’ be understandable in the student Union bar or the working man’s club, but it is not for a supposedly grown up politician and it simply shows that Corbynism is alive and well in Labour. 

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.

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.

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.

6 hours ago, johnw_123 said:

just an update on the aftermarket pot and piston..it lost all compression. tried a new piston but no luck. no damage just worn out, not to bad after 4 years.

just received an oem kit from the states £126.00  delivered incl customs.....not sure if i can post a link

Good luck with the oem parts. I've barely used mine since rebuilding it.

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?

17 hours ago, david wood said:

had two inguinal hernias, 14 months apart the first repair failed.  one open surgery one keyhole.

in terms of recovery zero difference surgeon wouldnt clear me for work until 12 weeks after each

 

watch pain meds post surgery, and watch how soon you go poo after surgery or its entirely no fun if stuff stops moving!

 

both were private within 6 weeks, nhs was over 2 years wait so sod that

 

do follow advice, dont push recovery and just see how pain is some days will hurt more than others.

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.

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?

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.

3 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Ok . You can see my point though ?

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.

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. 

1 hour ago, Billhook said:

Another one this morning, held me and several cars up for ages with nothing happening, no potholes, no workforce, just people too lazy to move the cones for the night and turn the lights off.

Straight bit of road too.  I imagine this is the case all around the country with thousands of vehicles needlessly held up with their engines idling.  Makes a mockery of trying to keep emissions down.

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.

2 minutes ago, Billhook said:

Could not believe anyone would put this sign up under a traffic light!

‘Elf and safety gawn mad?

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.