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  1. ward

    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I just wanted to admit the core of common sense that runs through TC and Jem's threads. We liberals are not used to hearing such harsh condemnation of other peoples. The last 40 years (the era of Civil Rights and Multiculturalism) have drilled this possibility out of us. I wanted to concede...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    TC, I haven't read the rest of your quotes and I don't know the depth of your commitment to staunching the flow of immigrants. I completely sympathize with the resentment felt on behalf of the host nations who are watching the social safety nets get stretched to the breaking point by the influx...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Just a general comment on two things which I have observed (not directly related to anything others have said above). When George Bush II was in power and they restarted the war with Iraq, they made 2 things crystal clear in their public communications and actions: 1. Respect for Islam, but not...
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    Climber Available

    What about Good Tree Care out in Hartland? No better guy to work for than Greg.
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    Food Thread

    Venison steaks and yukon gold potatoes.
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    Customer financing options?

    I agree that offering a payment plan is sometimes necessary and desirable--from both perspectives (client and tree service provider). The fact of inflation cannot be underestimated. Your $1 today owed may be worth less in a year ($.98). I tried explaining this to a customer who wanted to spread...
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    Angry, let off some steam... Yo its Friday!

  8. ward

    Your future in arboriculture?

    If you are lucky enough to be in your twenties or thirties and you don't have kids, I'd encourage you to hone your skills and find a good employer. When the winter begins, you take your month off and do your thing. Maybe you go to Europe and climb with the pros over there. Its tough out there...
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    Dying fir

    Nice work, Reg! Ditto everything has said above. Not to start sh*t or anything, but is that a Stihl MS 201? I thought you ran it over in disgust.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    This is a great contribute, if only because I think we can see where the source of your problem is. Its funny, a line of my ancestors came over in the 1700's too and fought in the Revolutionary War. A lot of people on this forum have that deep connection to this country too. Even if they don't...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I can't defend any of this bullshit either. I just look at the long arc here. I think the wrecking ball is not the solution to the construction of a good society. With Trump you have an unqualified person for this job--placed in a position of real power--whose pasty ham hands are seriously going...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Jem your contributions are equally accepted and cherished in a thread of this sort alongside mine. I was amazed that you could say that you "agree with just about all his policy ideas". That is remarkable to me because I don't know what these are. There are some trade protectionism concepts...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I don't know how you can consider Trump 'honest'. I think his mind is full of shit and bullshit flows out of his mouth routinely. He's an entertainer who has tricked working class people into thinking that he understands their economic situation and knows how to improve it. That is the tallest...
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    The varieties of plastic and their costs

    Nice, Levi. It looks like Paypal offers "flat rate" pricing--that is, they do not add interchange fees. I don't know quite how they do this (because the interchange is coming from the cardholders rewards plan, not the merchant services of the merchant), but they appear to. I think I'm going to...
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    The varieties of plastic and their costs

    Good article, Carol. You will see on their tree diagram of charges that interchange fees vary from one card issuing agency to another. I haven't had an easy time finding out this information for cards and I think the average businessperson is not capable of knowing easily what these rates are...
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    The varieties of plastic and their costs

    Nice. I think that would work. :) Only thing is that the "interchange fees" I was talking about--they are something separate from your standard Visa or Mastercard charge. Since there are literally hundreds of these rewards cards (2x points, e.g.), you never really know what the charge will be...
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    The varieties of plastic and their costs

    Taking credit card payments is standard business practice. Those cards, however, differ widely in the amount that they will charge. I just learned (forensically, retroactively) about "interchange" fees--these are extra fees which will be taken out of your account to pay for the Rewards card that...
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    New article up ....

    The concept of 'managed exceptions' is already implicit in the ANSI standard, I think. That point about climbers (when cutting) shall be tied in at two attachment points unless it is proven less safe than one attachment. There seems to be something of an implicit law's reasonable person to be...
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    New article up ....

    Not sure if I'm the only one sensing that there is more than a mere linguistic difference between 'one handing' a saw and 'one handling' a saw. Think of the linguistic difference. Its embedded in the language " Things got out of hand" , "I've got one hand tied behind my back", etc., whereas...
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    New article up ....

    Occassional one handed use is a necessity. My feeling is that the argument against one handed saw cutting is really an argument against an entire style of tree removal, that is to say, the sort of style where the cutter is one handing and cutting and chucking all the way through the canopy. That...

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