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And the others? Not the only one I've seen. I don't know, perhaps I'm just being optimistic, and there are definitely thousands of skeleton trees visible all over the place right now, but maybe the projected 95% fatality rate will end up a bit lower. 80? 75? Every little helps.

Changing species would be a very effective way of avoiding dieback, maybe more trees should try it. As far as I can tell, and I'm happy to be corrected on this, it is a self-seeded native Irish ash. Its location renders anything else improbable.

I don't live in your country buddy. Edit: anyway, that's bollocks. You aren't allowed to share any opinions on anything outside your small corner of the UK. Best not share any of your thoughts on the current debacle stateside. It's not allowed!

All politicians should have 2 hours in a pillory towards the end of each election cycle to allow the public the opportunity to gauge how successful they've been at delivering their promises.

No, but if they are happy chucking things at Farage, he's more than welcome to stay there.

He should spend more time there then, try and win them over!

Breaking news: Brexit celebrity and failed politician gets pelted with milkshake for the second time

Prove it!

I've got a photo here of a tree that was 95% bollocksed last year. It had a handful of greenery right at the very core of the crown, and nothing out on the boughs. Honestly, if you'd seen it over a footpath or next to someone's driveway it'd be gone 2 years ago, no question. But because it's out in the middle of nowhere on my regular dogwalk route, it got ignored, and it seems to be doing brilliantly. This doesn't look like a panic display, a last gasp attempt at using its final energy reserves, it looks like healthy new growth. There's still a good few dead sticks out at the ends, but pretty much every bough has a decent amount of growth on it. This isn't an isolated case: I've seen loads of new growth on trees that I'd written off as screwed before. Just yesterday I was chatting to a previous client about a heavily leaning ash over his front garden. He likes the tree and wants to keep it if he can. It's got the dieback, but again, it looks much healthier this year than it did last year, so I advised we just wait and see, the worst damage to clear up if it does go would be a few holes in the lawn. Am I imagining things, or has anyone else observed this kind of thing too?

I was on a tiny little island off Nicaragua a while back, the smaller of the two Corn Islands. I was given two lobster tails by a fisherman, I needed some coconuts to cook them with. Another fella shimmied up a tree and hacked one down. Cooked the flesh of both lobster and coconut with chilli, herbs, and lime. Made grog with rum and the coconut water. It rained. Edit: on this beach right here, Cocal Beach, Little Corn Island. I resolved there and then that I was going to get a machete when I found the right one, but the only ones I found for sale were thin, floppy, flimsy, things. I decided that you'd probably have to make one. That was in 2009. I still don't have my machete. What could you make a decent machete from, I wonder?

You can’t argue with results.

Who do you think would make a worse president, Trump or Biden? Try not to mention Trump in your answer.

I was chatting to the client just now, his plumber thinks it's a tank and ballcock issue, so looks like I'm in the clear. I called an electrician friend of mine last night too to outline the problem, he also thinks it would only really be me and the splitter if the house wiring was dodgy as. Thanks for the chatter everyone, I had assumed I was blameless but I thought I'd get some fresh opinions on it.

For future reference, the correct PPE for chainsaw use isn't a motorcycle helmet, it's motorcycle leathers. Other than that, well done 👏

Mental.

Skillsaw makes quick work of pallets too, and is arguably more useful... depending on what else you like to cut.

Yeah absolutely, hungry enough. But not the sort of thing that can mess around with an entirely different circuit, which the power showers are on, having gone through two different switches on the fuse board? Could it cause some kind of surge that could damage them? I'm no sparky, granted, but I didn't think houses were wired that way...

Interesting. I was splitting for a client earlier, and they seemed to start having problems with their electric showers... but I don't see how that could have anything to do with an extra 3kw from me. It's just like a kettle or an oven, hungry enough but nothing silly. No switches tripped or fuses blown... can't have been me, could it?

Old thread bump. Anyone ever had issues using a 3kw splitter on a domestic circuit? Cheers Edit: lol, look at this dopey little bell-end down there... ↘️

There's a hell of a lot of evidence for this already in your post history, but if you think there's a greater chance for either of those things with Trump at the helm than Biden - and let me be clear, I am under no illusions that Biden is perfect, but sometimes you really do have to choose the lesser of two weevils - then you really have got absolutely no idea about what's going on, and it reflects terribly on you as a person. There is no hope for you.

Well it's about bloody time, and a real shame that he'll still never see the inside of a prison cell.

Yeah, he's just got no proof! He's a LIAR!

He used to be an "anti-capitalist" but moved over to "COVID skepticism", presumably because it's a more lucrative and gullible audience. But also perhaps he knew that the sex abuse allegations were going to come out, and suspected that the anti vaccine and COVID conspiracy types would still support him. "These allegations are lies that are being used to bring him down for speaking the truth!" He wouldn't be the first con man to try to rehabilitate his image by finding Jesus. Russel on his recent conversion to Christianity... https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1795105034566287429?t=PtYm0Xd0SjYtRtLaHkRrjg&s=19