Doug Tait

It's a tough one but the best way to remember it is blades are for chopping, bars are for drinking.

Morning all. Friday already, been a quick week but a good one. Still doing storm work, got a small but busy windblown site today, should be interesting apart from the weather, heavy rain and 50mph gusting wind doesn't sound appealing. Have a good one folks.

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Sime he's logging pines mate, catch up! OP get the husqstihlecho combo option. That way you can easy chop small stuff with one hand, chop medium stuff with a mid blade cutter, and still knife up the biggies with the massive blade cutter. You won't need ppe either, the big pro saws have blades that specially don't cut you, that's why they cost a lot more than the small ones. Get a measuring stick and a coloured crayon so you can mark out the cuts accurately beforehand. Pine especially won't dry up enough to burn if the ends of the log aren't exactly straight, if you can sand them level all the better (a jig would help get a good finish). Final thing, get a loggers belt with the pouches on it, you don't want to put your crayon down amongst pine sawdust as they can become inaccurate due to the contamination, they say "a timber crayon should mark any timber, but never the other way round". Make of that what you will but it should always live on your loggers belt, along with your measure stick.

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They're temporary, borrowed off Tom, haven't replaced my stolen ones yet, quite like them nonetheless.

Morning all. Feeling good here this morning. Yesterday was fun, got to sort out a fairly young thing with a huge crack. Took the pic when I was about to go down on it, not even valentine's day! Have a good one folks.

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Or they actually know who I am and what I believe in. And we don't argue, we just discuss Interesting you made radios in Afghan, you can probably claim to have helped them convey the message of hearts and minds to the troops 👍. I'd best get on with something tree related, have a good one.

Again you missed the point. I don't need to explain myself on a point you've introduced, I never engaged in this to dictate how it should have been done. How presumptuous would I have to be to claim I knew a better way of conducting WW2! I simply wanted to voice my opinion that subjecting innocent civilians to fire bombing their cities out of existence is horrific, an horrific experience to subject these individuals that are not engaged fighting you to. I disagree I have a poor idea of war, I regularly talk with a few individuals who have actually commanded this countries armed forces in action, at war, and they don't ridicule my opinion. You embody what they would call the classic armchair general... kill them all, fire and brimstone, my weapons are bangier than theirs. I suspect one cousin who made these decisions in real life scenarios for both this country and NATO forces, would advise go softly with your big stick hidden, hearts and minds win over obliteration because the obliterated leave a distinct legacy.

Well while you've constructed an argument I didn't make around Hamas and how Gerry didn't deserve it, you seem to have missed the salient point that no civilian that is subjected to the actions of a regime deserves to be obliterated in the most horrific manner. As I said already. Please try not to assume what I believe or how my opinion is formed, you do it every time we engage and you are always mistaken.

For clarity, I'm not calling them war criminals, and I understand the military argument I'd say (not me personally but I talk to my family who have quite a military pedigree). Regardless, the experience of all kinds of people that had this inflicted on them was unimaginable.

You're inventing my thoughts and beliefs to suit your argument. What I do remember is the first hand accounts of people that were given no choice but to be subjected to hell. I'm not distinguishing between races or nationalities or religious beliefs.

The critical thing I think being missed is that the people of Dresden are comparable to the people in the camps and all the other victims of politically driven wars. They were not the 'third reich', they were victims. They didn't want their historic city, filled with beautiful architecture, or their homes, their community, levelled to a pile of rubble with the bodies of their friends and family obliterated along with it any more than they wanted the people of Liverpool or Coventry to suffer that fate. They wanted to work, go to the museum, take sunny peaceful walks in tree lined parks with dappled sun while their children played, much like the people of our cities