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  1. 5thelement
    So why don’t you do us all a favour and simply ignore all his posts, everyone else does. 👍
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    When I was a kid I had a whippet that would bite and simply crush hedgehogs in spite of the spines and the pain it would cause, I had to walk him in his racing muzzle on his nighty walk in the end. He had some serious wounds/scars on his chest over the years from chasing rabbit and hares through barbed wire fences.
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    Loads of the old mills and factories in Manchester where repurposed by the universities as lecture buildings or halls of residence/student digs, I’ve been inside some of them, decent places to live rather than the usual rental hovel. Im currently in Kent, staying in Deal and travelling up to Whitstable each day. The amount of new house developments currently underway is astonishing, all on farming land. These are 4-5 bedroom homes in an expensive part of the country, only one out of about a dozen developments have solar panels on the roofs.
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    It does have a look of Sweet chestnut, and the minimal sapwood is a good indicator. Did you notice any smell whilst milling it, I usually get a hint of vinegar and it smells nothing like Elm, nice boards. 👍
  5. 5thelement
    Foook that!!
  6. 5thelement
    A mixed bag to end week before heading over to Kent to do some training. Two reasonable sized Blue Atlas Cedars and a Small Leaved Lime to remove, a large lapsed Lime pollard to knock back to restart the cycle. Two small Ornamental Cherry Trees shading out the solar panel. All material suitable for firewood was cut and stacked in-situ, all branches chipped and left for future use as wood mulch. The property is going through extensive renovations, including a complete refurb of the patio and pool area. Final tree, just a stunning old Sweetchestnut I drive by a few times a week. IMG_5622.mov
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    What a trio. I lost my last Border a few months back, one day short of his 15th Birthday, a bit reluctant to dive in and get another dog just yet. You don’t see them around these parts but there are loads of other scruffy haired terrier types that need rescuing. Got a weekend away in Paris watching Nick Cave coming up, then I think I will get one when I return.
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    Go to the LANTRA website and you will find a massive list of providers, ring them up and see who has spaces, I am sure someone will have a slot, good luck. 👍
  9. 5thelement
    Have you got an EU passport?
  10. 5thelement
    Nice one Stuart, a new Arborist 150 was around €27,000 here last time I looked, f**king ridiculous.
  11. 5thelement
    Did you buy the new machine in France or the UK Stuart? Wouldn’t mind trading my Arb 150 in against a 165D.
  12. 5thelement
    Looks like Paxillus involutus , Brown roll rim, highly toxic/lethal, usually found in nutrient poor soil.
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    The Boxing .

    5thelement replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    AJ can’t handle fast hands/heavy hitters, forcing the action and dictating the pace, his recovery time after being wobbled is too slow, he got bounced all over the ring last night. I can’t see where he can go now or what he thinks he has left to prove. If he can’t get an immediate date set on a return fight with Dubois, and win it, his days are over and I think he will retire.
  14. 5thelement
    I don’t know James personally. I have asked around today and the consensus seems that he delivers bang up to date training and is very thorough.
  15. 5thelement
    Is that your own kit that you self LOLER? This all sounds like a total shitshow to be honest.
  16. 5thelement
    Looking over at another thread it seems like he has Micky Mouse tickets, from a Micky mouse instructor, and is now happy climbing on Micky Mouse Chinese gear. 😂
  17. 5thelement
    Cheap and not well organised, yeah, sounds great. 👍 Ive never experienced a course of four guys being assessed for aerial climbing and aerial cutting on the same day, the assessment duration times wouldn’t allow for it.
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    A decent instructor can pass on a great deal of information and knowledge, way outside the assessment schedule, if the candidate is responsive to it. I wouldn’t be paying any instructor who was described as ‘cheap and good enough’. 😂 Scott would be instructing so wouldn’t be answering his phone, as you would expect, there is an office phone and email address to deal with enquiries Chainsaw from a tree is a completely separate assessment.
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    Scott Fraser is an excellent Aerial Instructor, worth the travel time and extra money in my book, it’s only few days after all. I can’t say about Plumpton as I don’t know who the Instructor running the course would be ( it does matter). Tony Lucas is excellent and is a freelance Instructor who sometimes works there, if he is running it all would be good, give the College a call and ask about course dates and the Instructor.
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    I spent the entire day and into the early evening, in a darkroom hand printing the B & W photos I had taken at my friends wedding, I missed the entire event. I remember catching a bus to Wigan that evening to meet up for a few beers. I sat thumbing through the portfolio whilst listening to two old Lancashire women behind me talking about crashing planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, I thought it odd at the time for two gals off to bingo to be having such a subversive dialogue, it all made sense when I walked in the pub and saw the TV screens.
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    I tried all both Oregon TXL and EXL side by side with the Husqvarna X-Cut equivalents, matching saws/guidebars etc, although the Oregon looks pretty, the Husqvarna chains where far superior.
  22. 5thelement
    My first encounter with Rooting bolete (Caloboletus radicans), I’ve never come across this in the UK. Image three clearly showing the thread like roots associated with this fungi, found under Oak, SW France.
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    A whoppa of a Laetiporus sulphureus bracket on a street tree in SW France, host is an Ornamental Cherry.
  24. 5thelement
    Surely when you give them the registration details, model number etc you describe the vehicle you want to insure as a e.g transit tipper, you can’t really explain it any clearer to them?
  25. 5thelement
    Airports should run as normal, it’s the full checks at ports, imports/exports which may cause the delays. A hard Border was was Brexit promised so no one should moan about it when it happens. The current and previous governments never stopped handing out work visas for nurses/care workers or industry labour shortages, and I don’t think a handful of welding apprenticeships being created on Tyneside are going to be reopening the shipyards any time soon.

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