When I were a lad

[Migmac]

When I were a lad.

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Decent size timber. Last felling job I was on the Sika spruce were averaging 5 ton. Great fun. Did you never bore into the middle of the gob to stop that thick bit of hinge?

 

[Ton-up]

Not when I were a lad but not really that long ago trees were cut down with hand saws. Took thirteen days to fell this monster. Does make you wonder what the hell they did with it once it was on the floor.

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I had that pic come up on Facebook too a couple of days ago!!
It was called the 'Mark Twain' tree and was something like1341 years old until they cut it down.
Think they cut it to prove to Europeans that trees that big existed.

 

[cheb]

Back in the day.
No high viz.
No hard hat.
No steel tip boots.
But plenty of common sense.

And plenty deaths and life changing injuries.
And little compensation

 

[Migmac]

And plenty deaths and life changing injuries.
And little compensation

Looks like you’ve been watching axe men !

 

[8ob]

And plenty deaths and life changing injuries.
And little compensation

In the extreme you are right, the trouble is we now have a few generations that have been so wrapped up in cotton wool they have lost the ability to think on their feet and need an ever increasing amount of cotton wool to survive.

Bob

 

[Bullet2012]

ever increasing amount of cotton wool to survive.

What’s going to happen when someone finds that cotton wool is toxic, or not green ?

 

[cheb]

The trouble is finding the right point. Whilst I detest the 'If it saves one life' argument, at what point do we decide the KSI level is acceptable?

 

[cheb]

What’s going to happen when someone finds that cotton wool is toxic, or not green ?

We'll literally have to find another metaphor.

 

[Bullet2012]

so according to the interweb, which is always 101% correct.

Cotton production also accounts for 18% of worldwide pesticide use and 25% of total insecticide use … Pesticides have been shown to not only harm the earth and its natural resources, but to also cause severe health problems like ADHD, weakened immune systems, and birth defects.”
— Amy Boone, This Tailored Life

• Cotton is the world’s dirtiest crop due to its heavy use of pesticides. Pesticides and waste from processing wind up in our water supply, while some residue remains on the cotton itself.
• The international non-governmental organization World Wide Fund for Nature lists inefficient and “dirty” agriculture as the world’s biggest environmental threat. Cotton tops their list of problem crops.
• Child labor is common in overseas cotton farming. Often, child laborers are directly involved in cotton pesticide application, usually with no protection at all.
• It takes 101 gallons of water to produce one pound of cotton.
• In the US, eight of the top 10 pesticides most commonly used in cotton production are classified as moderately to highly hazardous by the World Health Organization.
• The Aral Sea in Central Asia, once the fourth largest lake in the world, is now virtually gone, mainly due to cotton cultivation. Now 43 million tons of pesticide-laden dust is blown into the air each year, resulting in the highest rates of throat cancer in the world. It has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters by the UN.
• While organic cotton is less toxic to the environment, it takes over twice as much water to produce than conventional cotton.
• The class of pesticides used on cotton is one of the main suspects in the worldwide bee die-off. Pollinators such as bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops humans rely on for food.

The bottom line: Cotton may be a natural fiber, but it's rough on the planet. We shouldn't use it for disposables.

 

[redlig]

Back in the day.
No high viz.
No hard hat.
No steel tip boots.
But plenty of common sense.

Ability to cross the road without the assistance of a light on a stick. I have a nasty feeling you may have started something.

 

[Norsk]

Decent size timber. Last felling job I was on the Sika spruce were averaging 5 ton. Great fun. Did you never bore into the middle of the gob to stop that thick bit of hinge?

Only if the bar would have left a uncut bit in the middle. Most of the saws ran 36" bars. Some of the stuff was felled with a 48" bar on a 088.

I used to carry that mongrel thing around and I was only 11 stone at 18 years old.

 

[maroon]

Hmmn... 4 TV channels. Schools didn't look like prisons. Carburettors, hillman hunters, ford cortinas , vauxhall chevettes.
Having Sunday dinner watching to see who would win out of mansell or senna.
Quarter of midget gems.
Computers used a cassette tape!
The majority of window frames were made of wood.

Simpler but happier days.

 

[Onoff]

Back in the day.
No high viz.
No hard hat.
No steel tip boots.
But plenty of common sense.

No sunscreen either. How we laugh now when diagnosed with pre cancerous actinic keratoses.

 

[daleyd]

Hmmn... 4 TV channels. Schools didn't look like prisons. Carburettors, hillman hunters, ford cortinas , vauxhall chevettes.
Having Sunday dinner watching to see who would win out of mansell or senna.
Quarter of midget gems.
Computers used a cassette tape!
The majority of window frames were made of wood.

Simpler but happier days.

4 channels!! Don’t come in here with your new fancy ways!!

 

[maroon]

4 channels!! Don’t come in here with your new fancy ways!!

Had five of them around teenager time!
It was a big thing.

Night/early morning viewing was either open university or a kid with a chalk board.

 

[Dilkris]

Nobody experiences nostalgia like the current generation.

I wonder what, in 50 or so years, the reminiscing will be about? "I can remember when we had to carry our smartphones around with us instead of getting vital information streamed to our implants" ?

And I'm only half-joking on that, I firmly believe that at some point in the future all newborns will have a microchip implanted in them, which carries their details as are kept now. These will be in a software format which cannot be overwritten and will be visible/readable to scanners installed in public buildings, shopping malls.....in fact everywhere as we know commerce hates to be left out ]. It'll be sold to the public as "Public safety/anti-terror measures". Cue 'hidden' pregnancies etc, but the software will detect 'unregistered' citizens and there'll be no end of questioning......

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, just a 'visionary realist' - I have seen the future, and there are lumps of it you're nae going to like. [Don's flameproof overalls

I know this message is 5 years old - but I agree entirely and I'm on your team - furthermore I believe smart phones will become redundant as the "communication chip" will be implanted and wired to your brain at birth.

 

[badabec]

The good old days were sh*te.
We live longer. The calorie intake per person across the world's population has increased. We don't look and dress like our fathers or grandfathers.
The only retrograde step has been the loss of Concorde.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

 

[daleyd]

Had five of them around teenager time!
It was a big thing.

Night/early morning viewing was either open university or a kid with a chalk board.

I'm old enough to remember only having 3!!

 

[ajlelectronics]

The good old days were sh*te.
We live longer. The calorie intake per person across the world's population has increased. We don't look and dress like our fathers or grandfathers.
The only retrograde step has been the loss of Concorde.

The 70s and early 80s were the best time to be alive, bar none. It all started to go downhill in the late 80s. If I could turn back the clock, I would in an instant. We had freedom, opportunity and vibrancy, before we started allowing children to dictate to us.