Retired Climber

4 minutes ago, FRJ Charlie said:

Sounds like an ideal location then Stubby! If you know of a good location that would be ideal - please let me know and I shall have a look to start planning for that site.

Whoosh

11 minutes ago, agg221 said:

 

As it's bullpup it looks more SA80 than sub machine gun. 

Seems a bit unnecessary to reply to this now. Agree with above, and above, and above. 

1 minute ago, Stubby said:

De activated even ?

If he found it in a river I wouldn't have thought he'd have a certificate of deactivation, or the knowledge to know if it had been properly deactivated. For all we know, he knows nothing about guns and it's a toy. Equally, it may be real, loaded, and an accident waiting to happen. 

Anyway, this is way off topic and we are simply speculating on a situation we know nothing about. If it were me, I wouldn't admit to having it unless I was 100% sure of my facts. Nothing more, nothing less. 

28 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Still got it ? If so pics please 🙂

I wouldn't be putting proof of ownership of a section 5 firearm on the forum if I had one. 

2 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

 

Thats his own website?

 

Seems a very lame  marketing attempt for a rubbish site don't get it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's my guess. Reads like a link drop by a very cheap copywriter to me. 

10 minutes ago, Xenogenesis said:

I was searching for a long time for the best swing for my kids. First I wanted to buy an already built one. But they were too expensive for me. So, I tried to make one by myself. It was very hard. I was searching a lot for the necessary materials. In the end, I decided to opt for a tree swing, and I found the best offer on https://www.growgardener.com/best-rope-for-tree-swing/. I ordered it from there, and they delivered it in around 48 hours. I am delighted with it because I installed it in approximately 40 minutes. My kids are happy.

Haha, you need a better copywriter. 

8 hours ago, gobbypunk said:

Its the principal not the amount did we all agree to this No we didnt ,we dont get anything for our 40 quid its taking the Piss you can look up all sorts of my personal data at companies house no not happy we need a revolution a new way of doing things the one we have at the just aint that good

Are you not over - reacting a bit? You live in a country in which pretty much anyone can start their own business, regardless of class, education or ability, and can try to make a go of it, largely unimpeded. There are very few hoops to jump through, and you are pretty much left to get on with it.

Anyone who is prepared to graft a bit can easily go out with a few basic tools and earn more than their accountant or bank manager. I don't see that as a bad system. 

3 minutes ago, gobbypunk said:

No on the website it says if you are using cctv to deter crime you must pay even if you have dash cam in work truck  ,but there is a simple questionaire one thing I think it said was do you use peoples data but that could be anything a delivery address or where to take that tree down it all could be called data ,its a bloody Piss Take if you ask me 

If you hold information about people, you are a data controller. As such, you need to register and have systems in place to make sure the data is secure and only used for lawful purposes. The alternative is to let businesses do whatever they like with our data, with no regulation. 

Yep, pretty much all businesses should be registered with the ICO. 

I think there might be a questionnaire on their website to see if you need to register 

On 25/06/2021 at 05:27, Khriss said:

I grew up with Leaded, its fine, also London air still contaminated with 4 star, even now. K

Brings to mind the scene in Only Fools and Horses in which Trigger declares "I've been eating British beef all my life. Never done me any harm." 

On 21/06/2021 at 19:15, redgazbo said:

never been gbt dont now the pay there wot would you offer me with 20+yrs exp for a very good tree surgeon i would be interested for the wright pay   

Haha. A man of few words, most of them wrong. 

An SEO who thinks dropping a link on a forum is going to help, may not have done much research in the last 10 years. 

I love a bit of hedge cutting, but you have to do it for the right type of clients. Sod having to tame 100m of conifer hedge. Give me a nice formal garden in which I can spend the day tidying everything up and 'rounding over' some nice tight yews, privets, box and viburnum and I'm happy as Larry. 40 or 50 quid an hour and all you need is an HS 82 and a step ladder. I still do some of this type of stuff now, just because it's nice to get out doing something. 

This is the arbtalk we all know and love. 

I had throwing knives when I was younger. Never got the hang of it. I could hit a target pretty reliably after a few tries, but only ever at that range and angle. 

In my defence, when I was young there was no internet, so I couldn't watch YouTube to see how it's done. Trial and error is a slow process when you had 3 knives, and your mate accidentally chucked one of them in the river. 

9 hours ago, roys said:

Every day a school day, I had to look up litotes meaning, suppose it’s because I was only a sparky in a past life.😀

Don't feel too bad; I'm a professional writer and I had to look it up. 

Everything about that is wrong. Stop trying to convince yourself it might be ok; it's not ok. 

The load has a massive advantage over the ram, it should be the other way round. The problem is magnified by the fact you are asking the ram to do a massive amount of work really quickly due to the small ram travel compared to the arc or the load. They couldn't have made that a less efficient setup if they tried. 

4 minutes ago, Con said:

Like Steve said, new chain. It might not be you, if the chain isn't accurately sharpened and the bar is only slightly mishaped I would think it would make quite a difference on a big piece

Thanks, I do plan to use a new chain, even though sticking a new chain on to cut a stump close to the ground doesn't quite feel right. 

I'll pray for no stones or random bits of metal. 

Thanks guys. I used to be pretty good at it but I seem to have lost the knack. 

I don't think I need to draw a chalk line or anything like that as I can go all the way round and the cuts meet on the outside. It's in the middle it goes a bit off. I must be tipping the nose up or down I suppose. 

I remember when I did one of my NPTC units there was a guy who couldn't make a horizontal back cut to save his life. He had this tiny little spirit level he used to put on the bar which seemed to help him start off straight. Seems like a good idea but I can't help thinking that if I need a level to cut level, it might be time to hang up the saws for good. 

Any tips or tricks for cutting a stump off dead level? I want to make a small table top for the garden by taking a slice from the top of a stump. Whenever I do it I always seem to cut a bit wonky, or the cuts don't line up by the time I've been round the stump. 

Obviously a long bar to go straight through in one go would be ideal, but the stump is too big for that. It's very close to twice the size of my longest bar. 

This has got to be a joke. There is nobody on the planet who wouldn't just tip the mower back a bit to get it in and out ( with the possible exception of my wife). 

That bit is obviously cut out for another reason. 

I can see the picture. I don't know anything about carving but I think what you've been told is right; you do seem to have a natural ability for it. I'd say that is very good for one of your first goes. If I tried to do it, it certainly wouldn't look like that. In fact, you'd be hard pushed to even know what it was supposed to be. 

35 minutes ago, Billhook said:

We do have a no kill policy around the home and garden so with a rescue there is a bit of planning.  Need to find a pair of thick leather gloves.  This squirrel could whip round and bite quicker than I can react.  Where to grab takes a bit of luck so that I am not bitten or scratched and then to gently ease the thing through the bars was not easy but I am happy to say it did not appear to suffer any harm.  It has happened before with another squirrel and the culprit returned the same day.

Banging on the head in is not acceptable when you have not a stable object to hit and of course you have to go and look for something suitable to hit it with if you are going to dispatch it humanely

The thing had probably been stuck there for over an hour, forty seconds of film was not going to make a lot of difference and five minutes of finding gloves .

I assume that you would have been a real man and just have grabbed it with your bare hands and strangled it  You amaze me.

You make a lot of assumptions whilst scratching around trying to build a coherent argument. I don't think you've even persuaded yourself with the above.

FYI, I'd have either shot it, or snipped one of the bars that was stopping it with some side cutters (with my hand safely inside a welding gauntlet obviously). 

People amaze me; either help it, or bang it on the head (either is acceptable). What you don't do, is stand their filming it whilst it's scared half to death. 

This was from HSE in 2001.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/crr_pdf/2001/crr01402.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiNur6c_5fxAhWQmxQKHX5eDEAQFnoECC0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2LfCn5O_5HsSBYbymsqodW