How far is it from the nearest road? You dont see many 16 year olds walking about with petrol chain saws.they've arrested a 16yo kid for felling the tree !
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not exactly a well populated area at all, at least a good 30 minutes walk from nearest road i think, esp at night carrying a decent load ?
That could be done if it was anywhere else. Hadrians Wall is 1,900 years old and just a few feet away. In any case, it will grow back, it will be different and it will take time, in its history Hadrians Wall has seen worse. Photo from another angle showing how close it is to the wall.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Given he has access to a big chainsaw it is most likely that he also access to a motor bike or all terrain vehicle of some sort.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Second person arrested - a man in his sixties. Grandfather?
www.abc.net.au
Pub offers bar tab reward for information over Robin Hood tree loss
A man in his sixties has become the second person arrested in the investigation of the deliberate felling of a tree beside Hadrian's Wall in northern England.
www.abc.net.au
special ed
1st Sergeant
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Fund raising could be helped by selling a slice of the fallen tree. Also, by spring, new growth from the roots might happen. Of course, any such new growth must be guarded for the next 200 years.
Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
It would be interesting to hear their justification for their actions.Second person arrested - a man in his sixties. Grandfather?
Pub offers bar tab reward for information over Robin Hood tree loss
A man in his sixties has become the second person arrested in the investigation of the deliberate felling of a tree beside Hadrian's Wall in northern England.
The fact that they left the tree where it fell precludes any argument that they were just collecting firewood.
Shortround6
Major General
sure they were, they just had to go home, fire up the steam traction engine and drive it back at 1 1/2 miles an hour, hook up the chains and drag the tree home at even slower speed.
They just didn't count on anybody passing by in under 3-5 days
Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
The PLC on my main production machine packed in on thursday. Called the manufacturer on friday. That part is obsolete. (The machine was upgraded with all new electronics four years ago.)
It will be a week to configure and program a replacement. $3000) In the meantime I have to use workarounds that triple the production time.
Grrrrrr.
It will be a week to configure and program a replacement. $3000) In the meantime I have to use workarounds that triple the production time.
Grrrrrr.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
A friend of mine bought a number of aviation GPS units at a government auction a while back and asked me to help him sell them. So I examined them, tested them, noted any deficiencies, and listed two of them on ebay. They both sold last week for a satisfactory price. I was careful to point out that while they worked Okay, they lacked antennas or batteries. But I just got a request from one buyer to return one because it was defective. I responded that he could do that, but then looked at the pictures he sent and it turns out that the flaming idiot tried to charge the unit without first installing a rechargable battery! Worse yet, this is an aviation GPS unit, so the idiot may actually try to fly an airplane at some point.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
When the battery in my truck died, I looked at recommended replacements on-line, and, finding the results all but incoherent, ended up measuring the space allowed for it and then going up to the Walmart, borrowing a tape measure from them and studying all of the batteries they had before selecting one. Ironically, it turned out to be exact same type I had in the truck before the one that failed most recently; I have no idea why I still had the old one in the garage.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Reminds me of an incident described by an insurance company some decades ago. There was a lone palm tree at an oasis in the Sahara Desert. A truck driver managed to hit it.
I had a colleague who managed to hit a goods train going from Dammam to Riyadh, not only are they huge they only ran once a day.
Shortround6
Major General
Trying to park in the shade?
Vic Balshaw
Major General
And it was the only rail crossing.
Well there arent many because there arent many roads, stuff that happens out there is beyond belief and reason. People getting killed hitting camels is quite common, in the two years I was there 3 guys died in car accidents from my company.And it was the only rail crossing.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Oh I believe you, I spent a total of 7 years in the country in the late 70s, early 80s, 2 at Dhahran and the rest at Tabuk and in both places I could tell a number of tails.
Ah so you know, it is beyond description.Oh I believe you, I spent a total of 7 years in the country in the late 70s, early 80s, 2 at Dhahran and the rest at Tabuk and in both places I could tell a number of tails.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
There is a story about a pilot who was advised that in the event of a forced landing to aim between two trees so the wings would get ripped off and slow the speed of the fuselage. One day his engine started failing and he had a tough time keeping the airplane in the air until he could find two trees with suitable spacing in the open fields he was flying over.
