5thelement
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I have more than once asked them to produce some Special 6 smocks for us in any Hi-Viz colour, but preferably orange. They eventually came back with “ if you send us your garments we can stitch reflective strips onto them for you”, completely missing the point, even though I had told them we worked in Forestry not highways. Considering the amount of garments they supply to search and rescue teams, you would think that HI-viz would be a standard option by now.
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The last decent sized job I planted was about 30,000 mixed hardwood, 14,000 of them an experimental Sessile Oak block, with a mix of UK and German provenance, FC site over at Abbots Wood near Polegate, East Sussex. All trees had to be staked and tubed at the end of every day due to excessive browsing by the exploding deer population., then had to replant and re stake hundreds of them every Monday due to the weekend vandalism. I had planted a similar amount every Winter for the best part of 25 years, but this was the end of the line for me, stood there at 5am digging in the dark with a head torch on to get the numbers in and make it pay, only to have the whole lot ravaged within 5 years by grey squirrels, no thanks.
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She is milking it for all it’s worth, coining it in playing the victim card, she will probably be standing as a Reform candidate in the next election, maybe she stand in the Anglesey seat. Anyway, Im off out for a beer or two, some of us are still capable of going out after dark in our own Country without shitting ourselves. 👍
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Yet more whataboutery. She was found guilty of a hate crime, encouraging racial hatred on social media, after reacting to right wing populist bullshit that turned out to be incorrect, all this on the day that the children where killed in Southport, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I have zero sympathy for her. She is being held up as the darling victim for the right wing populist press, and you have clearly also got her in your wank bank.
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You assume wrong, and your whataboutery doesn’t make her any less guilty either.
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She was a victim if her own effing stupidity and was convicted for breaking the law, inciting racial hatred by encouraging people to burn down hotels housing migrants, she is not the victim, although she is playing the victim card now all right, and she did 10 months in total.
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He will be playing the victim card like Lucy Connolly when he gets out, seeking ‘asylum’ in the USA, the irony, you could make this shit up with a straight face.
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Makes the truck look good though. 👍
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A light dusting of snow in the village, smoke rising from the chimneys making a very pretty scene that probably hasn’t changed much in a 100 years. Finished work for this week so I am out pricing in the morning then pottering on with a bit of maintenance this afternoon, remember It’s poets day guys. 👍
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I had the same incredible service from Clark Forest, and it’s long way all the way to Hastings with 50l of Supatack. Chainsawbars are always spot on, Gustarts supplied my AUS pole set in good time, never used Skylands but only heard good things about them. We do tend to just hear about bad service and gripes these days so it’s good to give the good ones a pat on the back. 👍
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
5thelement replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Ganoderma Lucidum, a pretty rare find and the first time that I have encountered it in 30 years on the job. Growing around 3m up on the stub of an old wound, host was Oak, Haute-Vienne region.
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Nah, had my Dutch Soldier on the ropes and busting out the timber.
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Straight forward Oak dismantle with a bit if rigging to swing the branches in and avoid the vintage car on the other side of the hedge. Felled it at waist height due to metal and a cavity full of broken roof tiles. Centre was hollow and full of acorns, no doubt squirrelled away for winter, and the first time that I have come across Ganoderma Lucidum, a really rather rare fungi.
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Looks like a dry day ahead, the temperatures are due to plummet this week. A straight forward Oak dismantle with a bit of rigging out before felling. All log and chip staying on site. 👍
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My 90cc comes out of the workshop about twice a year. I use the smallest, lightest saw that will effectively do the job, 80% of what I do on the ground is done with a 550xpg (50cc) the rest 572xpg (70cc), you clearly don’t do this job for a living.
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Not that I am aware of, but the CS100 has a dedicated trailer you can buy as an add on. You can leave it on the trailer and chip into a transit, the shute is quite high when loading set up like this though.
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I would hold out for a good used CS100 or a Jobeau, both will walk all over that Chinese job, and still have a resale value if needed. There was a mint CS100 on arbtrader a couple of weeks ago for £1700 ish, I would have bought it myself if I was in the Uk at the time.
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The Guardian, sometimes critical of, but enemy of Israel, after the bullshit they printed after the October 7th attack, don’t make me laugh. There is a a very well put together film/documentary surrounding the October 7th attacks, made by a well known and respected journalist called Richard Sanders. I suggest you take a look, it’s probably on YouTube, although you probably won’t find the time, or will simply dismiss it as left wing twaddle, and you wouldn’t want anything to upset your Israeli love in now would you.
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We want to see your #ArbInAction pictures!
5thelement replied to Pro Arb Magazine's topic in General chat
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Have you ever even been to Gaza. 😂
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No, just plain fact, easily fact checked if you want to?
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It is a US funded pro-Isreal think tank. 😂
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Oh yeah, that really credible source. 😂
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The death toll figures are compiled by the Gaza Health Ministry, ID cards and names cross referenced, they have been externally scrutinised by several UK,EU and US Aid agencies and found to be very accurate.
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Maybe that’s why Arbortech are based there.
