coppice cutter
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It really doesn't lay well with me to defend a politician but I can't say I blame them. Such was the hype at the time that anyone in any sort of prominent position going against the flow would have been committing political hari kari. Nor would it have made one jot of difference to the path we were being taken along. I know plenty that were proper hard-line anti vax, and would have castigated others for taking it, yet when it was their own job on the line, or something to do with a family member, they took it. So I don't think it's right to blame anyone anywhere for doing the same. Mrs CC got vaxxed I didn't. I understand why she did, she understands why I didn't. That's the way it should be.
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I've had the original X3 for a good number of years now and it's still going strong. It's cut and cleaned many tons of coppice wood and all it needs is a quick rub with a sharpening stone every now and again to keep a razor sharp edge. The original grind is still on the blade as it's never needed anything more severe to keep it right. Earlier this year I bought an XA23, which is the long handled version of yours. It was too near the end of cutting for it to get a lot of work but what I've done with it so far suggests that it's going to be a regular member of the cutting team from now on. Don't know if I'll buy an XA3 or not, I really don't need it, but if anything happened old faithful that's definitely what would replace it.
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I've the straight Natanoko, a 300mm Gomtaro, and a Zubat Arborist. I use them all over the course of a winter as I now cut pretty much everything by hand, but the Natanoko is my most used out of the three and would be what I'd recommend for your job. It's also sharpenable. A good brush hook will also do a lot of work for you as well, I strongly recommend either of the two Fiskars offerings.
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More likely he's been paid off to keep his nose out, publicly at least. Bet he didn't sell himself cheaply either
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Divide one side in to calculable areas, work them out individually, add them together, and then multiply by the length.
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In fact, just thinking further (I really shouldn't!), it was even odd when he got the chancellor job in the first place. Javid just upped and left, no particular reason, no particular explanation, and boom, this guy Sunak was in the second most powerful job in government. The commentariat ranted and raved on about how this was no shock as he been waiting in the wings for years and had been groomed for this position, was "supremely qualified", blah, blah,blah. Well I'd never feckin heard of him and I keep reasonably abreast of political goings on. To quote from the film "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "Charles, get the rifle out, we're being f**ked!"
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Well whatever he may or may not be, it seems increasingly like he's going to be a shoe-in this time. Maybe it's just my old cynical head, but the whole thing is starting to strike me as being a bit whiffy. A procedure which took months before is going to be wrapped up in a week. Remember the "Boaty McBoatface" carry on? "The public paid for this vessel so it's only right and fair that they should get to name it", ...................that was until "the public" picked a name that the establishment didn't like, then it was "f**k the public, who do they think they are, we'll name it ourselves". Oh well, onwards!
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So do you think Truss had a hit job done on her by her own party because it was the membership that put her there over the heads of the parliamentarians? And now they're back on plan?
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I mistakenly assumed the worst from your first post. I've edited my own accordingly.
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Will a lot of small domestic tree firms go bust?
coppice cutter replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
There's a big international haulage company not far from me, been going thirty odd years. Two brothers raised on a farm, started driving lorries, set up on their own, one brother hit the drink, other brother bought him out and kept building the company to the scale it is now. Still operates as a sole trader. I take it that you should understand how both work and choose the one that you think suits you best, I don't think there's any hard and fast "one is better than the other". -
No it's grand, and much better than staying silent and bottling up, there's nothing worse than bottling up. A few years ago I fractured my skull, clean break from the corner of the eye socket down to my top jaw. I had to learn how to sneeze by keeping my mouth wide open and just letting it out, pretty gross but otherwise there was a danger that I'd displace the fracture and my eye would fall out, even more gross. Conversely, if you ever need to sneeze and have to stifle it, it'll feel like your head is gonna explode. Anything building up isn't good, and if the exchanges here provide some sort of relief valve for anyone at all, providing they remain essentially civil, then don't under-estimate the good that may be doing. As the Americans would say, "we're just chewing the fat".
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Seems that even the modern day 'radical' is as soft as shite. Presumably "refreshments" would need to be along the lines of soya milk and tofu bites.
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I think that's for the best. Of-course now that you're not doing it, you'll not actually find out for certain what a pain in the ass your flat roof would have been ultimately. But knowing a fair few builders, joiners, roofers, and such like, it seems generally accepted that they are problematic, high maintenance, and best avoided if at all possible.
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Sooner the better, it's not working and it's not going to. NEXT!
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I don't think she's an idiot. She is however cowardly, untrustworthy, spineless, devious, dishonest, unprincipled, etc, etc, throw in as many similarly veined terms as you wish. Indeed she possess all the qualities which will get you to the top of the tree politically, yet conversely, we want and expect the person running the country to be the opposite.
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And some people thought we couldn't have a worse pm than Boris! Never a good idea wanting rid of something just because you think that that what'll replace it just has to be better. If Labour weren't such a complete political sh!t show themselves, the tories wouldn't be getting away with being this dreadful.
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But the point is, the Labour party are every bit as disjointed and dysfunctional as the tories, indeed possibly even more so, with him as leader epitomising that situation. If they had a sniff of power they'd rip themselves to shreds due to infighting and disagreement about policy and political direction just the same as the tories are doing.
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Starmer is a better tory than most of the tories. I can't see that ultimately working out any better either if they were in power.
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Definately. I got gifted a very old but hardly used laptop a couple of years ago which I eventually got going and then upgraded to Win 10, only to find out that the operating system itself placed such a demand on it that it was scarcely useable. So with nothing to loose, and not really sure what I was doing anyway, I formatted the hard drive and replaced it with Linux Mint. It has given the computer a whole new lease of life, and apart from that, despite having a newer laptop still running 10, and a Macbook, I much prefer using the Linux. I intend to change the newer laptop to Linux this winter during a quieter time as well and consider the Macbook was wasted money as I bought it to get me away from Windows but didn't realise there was a better and cheaper way to achieve that.
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I wasn't having a go. Just indicating that being a buy-to-let landlord isn't only for the mega-rich elite, so they can't be solely blamed for any problems which may or may not be attributable to it.
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Ironically, a lot of 9-5ers are now also buy to let landlords, ............and they have a vote!
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Mrs CC was in our local "Home Bargains" or some such similar emporium yesterday and one of the shelf stackers was telling her that all their combustible type products were going out the door as quick as they could get it set out in the shop. The thing is, people will be buying up all those ridiculously over-priced "easy carry" type products, frequently putting them in an open fire, and the majority of the heat will be going up the chimney without even heating the house. In such cases it's doubtful if they'll be saving anything.
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The rain that weekend also gave us one of the most remarkable opening laps in F1 history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktF3wJKfxo
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Prefer to remember him for his "planes, trains, and automobiles" series. Fantastic series of shows.
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Personally I was going to suggest giving Anarchy a go. But then I realised that it's crept in by the back door and is effectively here already.
