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    Send in the Marines!

    And don’t forget that while Trump was associating with some rather undesirable people, he was running casinos, Now in the USA there are strict rules governing the running and ownership of casinos. Associating with such people should have barred him from running casinos. In addition, he often...
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    Send in the Marines!

    When he built Trump Tower, he first knocked down an existing building with a culturally important Art Deco facade. He promised to preserve the facade. In practice he had it destroyed with sledgehammers. He hired Kaszycki & Sons Contractors, a window washing business to do the work. The non union...
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    Send in the Marines!

    The clue is in the name. They’re peace keepers, a mix of military, police and civilian workers. The leaders can choose staff according to need.
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    Send in the Marines!

    It’s the same situation, sending in soldiers to keep order among civilians. They’re trained to shoot the enemy dead, they’re not trained to keep the peace. Sending them in makes the situation worse. Of course one advantage is that once rioters are dead, you can remove the illegals and bury only...
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    Send in the Marines!

    I’ve just finished a book about Trump. He’s far worse than I ever imagined. He has a habit of licencing his name out to property developers. He helps them advertise new luxury flats, then when it all goes belly up, he claims to have had nothing to do with it. All while pocketing huge sums of...
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    Send in the Marines!

    We did the same in Northern Ireland, when we sent in troops to protect the Catholics. That didn’t quite work out as well as expected did it! Troops are trained to fight armed opponants, not keep order in civilian areas.
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    Fence height regs enforcement

    Deleted. Oh yes, definitely deleted.
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    Fence height regs enforcement

    Do you get on with your neighbours? If no, then I’d be careful and stick to the regs. But as said earlier, just get five foot panels, sorted.
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    Fence post advice

    The adult sticks are about 60”, I use intermediate which are a bit shorter. They are much longer than field hockey sticks, because a player flexes the stick when shooting to get power, over 100 mph from a top player. Yes that’s a four foot fence, 3” by 3” posts. I’ll have six 6 by 6 foot...
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    Fence post advice

    Ice hockey sticks.
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    Fence post advice

    :LOL: Sorted. I’ll send you my address. :) A female friend grew up on a dairy farm in west Wales, and I’m sure she could carry a cow under each arm.
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    Fence post advice

    You don’t have to mess around with a post in wet concrete, just do it properly. The clamps and supports ensure that the post is perfectly aligned and at the perfect height: Notice the gutter round the workshop, and the missing downpipe! I reckon that water flowed down onto the base of the...
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    Some fence posts rotten, others fine

    Indeed. The top of the concrete was pretty much flat and covered with a few inches of soil. Also I noticed my neighour has a gutter with a downpipe hole, but no downpipe. That hole is approximately above the first postpost, and the garden slopes downward. So it it is possible that there is an...
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    Some fence posts rotten, others fine

    You’ve lost me. The new posts are set in fresh concrete which ends above ground level and slopes downwards away from the posts. So basically the post emerges from the top of a small mountain. I discovered Durapost recently, basically metal equivalents of concrete posts. But they are easier...
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    Some fence posts rotten, others fine

    Are you saying the concrete absorbs water, or the water lies on top of the concrete? I assume the latter. The fence is nearly done now, six panels in, four to go, woodennposts in concrete, with the top of concrete exposed to the air, and domed to shed water.
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    Some fence posts rotten, others fine

    They are manageable, but expensive and ugly.
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    Fence post advice

    How do you lift and adjust 45 kg?
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    Fence post advice

    I can’t lift the posts. 100mm by 100mm 2.4m long wooden posts are a struggle.
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    Fence post advice

    Turns out the rear panels were 5 foot high, hence 3 by 3 inch posts were okay. Over the last two weeks, I’ve put up five 6 by 6 foot panels with 4 by 4 inch posts, an easy job, one more 6 by 6 foot panel with a 4 by 4 inch post, and five 5 by 5 foot panels with 3 by 3 inch posts to go. I don’t...
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    Some fence posts rotten, others fine

    The question was about why one set of posts set in heavy clay soil are still solid, whereas those partially in concrete are rotten. Concrete is out because I cannot lift 8 foot concrete posts, and I cannot lift into place 6 by 6 foot panels. Wood posts set in concrete are easy to set, look...
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