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Had a great vat of curry for old folk and sister last night, good catch up and question old folk on things of the past but Mum's dementia mean she can be pretty rude about stuff from the past - "his father was a dirty old groper, always grabbing girls arses and he was a noise in the Weslean Chapel too!"....... Going to aTaunton for something to do and possibly another walk along Charmouth later. Found a huge seam of Copralites along the beach - 95 million year old Dino pooh! Be good at work and get ready for the storm! Art, Hitch, Oak.

Dozens of Bala sheep deaths trigger toxic acorn warning WWW.BBC.CO.UK Thirty four sheep, worth £5,000, have died on Geraint Davies' farm - after a bumper year for acorns.

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Morning all, Domestic chores today, and getting ready to head north. Going to daughter in Glasgow for the weekend, she and my wife will run the 10k. Then further north to stay with daughter’s in laws, doing some pruning for them.

? Public sector office workers or self employed 🤷‍♂️my money is very much on the latter

Morning, dry here. Heading to physio for the first time in about 3 months, I’m proper seized up and then going to try take it easy till Monday, walking is the best medicine for me and the dog has been feeling neglected. Unless storm Amy brings in work.😂

Took the words right from my keyboard. Kram, on a serious note. The course will teach you something but it is of course a paper exercise for the employers etc. You will get as much out of it as you can if you go in there open minded and don’t try and tell the instructor he is doing it wrong or you know a better way to do it. There are many ways to skin a cat as the saying goes. But if your on a cat skinning course then listen to what the instructor is trying to tell you.

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And don’t go down your usual route of getting training/tickets from Mickey Mouse drunken Irishmen, get a proper Instructor who knows stuff.

Any advice given and you will go and do the exact opposite … so I’m out.

The boys school is on strike today so he joining me in the woods to collect some firewood. It’s about time I taught him how to cleave Sweetchestnut, so we will knock up a bit of post and rail whilst we are there, a lovely sunny morning.

This is my story with the Avant 860i & dealing with Avant as a a company. I Purchased a new Avant 860i machine from ASCO in Tyler Tx 1.5 months ago. Soon as I took delivery of the machine I took it to a job & it immediately started chewing up hydraulic hoses near their proprietary grapple. So I loaded it up & took it back to the dealership to find that the edges on the grapple were so sharp they were cutting anything in site. I get the machine back from the shop grinding them down & take it to a job & the machine immediately starts shears off the bolts that hold the bracket for the other hydraulic hoses, which causes the bracket to gouge the tire & a whole myriad of other issues once that bracket is displaced. So I take it back into the shop where they replace the bolts. Back to the job I go & it immediately shears off the even harder bolts twice more. So back to the shop I go.. Then the same process repeats itself. So I get ahold of Bill at Avant in Illinois at the behest of the local tech that wants to weld the bracket to the back of the boom head. Then the shop calls me & says they done it but it doesn’t fix the issue as it needs to be redesigned by Avant to move the entire hydraulic coupler system to a new location otherwise further destruction will occur. So I reach back out to Bill who then admits there is a known design flaw in existing machines that’s being fixed in the new machines by moving the whole hydraulic system to a new location & so forth.. At this juncture I ask them to stop work on the unit & request a sit down & with ASCO & Avant. Since the machine has spent its entire lifetime up until this point in the shop I simply asked that Avant stand behind their product & take it back & cancel the contract between us. To which the sales manager refuses & says I’m sorry we don’t do that & simply offers a longer warranty, as if I want even longer to be plagued by their brand new machine that has oddles of issues. The meeting was short & I plan on litigating at this juncture because that’s my only option it would seem is to now have to prove what a joke the machine is I guess once that occurs I’ll have that information to share on what a complete lemon of unfinished poorly designed junk they produce is but also the company Avant itself does not stand behind the product in any way shape or form. I would never do business with them going forward & would suggest anyone looking at a piece of Avant equipment look elsewhere to a company that has worked out their design properly. I’ve been in business many years & bought used & sold tons of equipment & I’ve never seen anything like what I’ve seen with Avant. Buyer Beware!

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It’s a neglected paddock, over the years the trees around the edge have leant further and further in to get the light, then…. They are not massive mind, I’ll take a few pics to illustrate. edit, new truck itching to start the day.

Good Morning Misty, Aye. Hoping there will be less accidents and diversions, Unlikely. Drive safely, arrive alive.

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Seen a few Big Oaks fall over and one split out a big limb around here lately .

More good weather today, some fallen oaks to clear up, plus a bit of flailing, machine work mostly. Should be a good day.

If you are lowering that yourself, taking wraps as friction up the tree (as it appears) then I think you’re getting a décent handle on it on your own. Running it yourself is laden with risk, best to keep it small and ‘snub’ it. Dunno about the course, I did mine 30 years ago, but it seems like you’re ready. I shouldn’t worry about practicing beforehand, that’s what the instructors are there for, to teach/show you.

Morning peeps . Very misty out there . Happy Thursday . 🙂

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When it comes to Muslim rape gangs here in the UK your silence compared to the obsessed ranting regarding Trump/Epstein in the USA would absolutely indicate you find it irrelevant. A post entirely about “ what “ 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️you sick obsessed anonymous little man. Desperate to try and get one over on me to such an extent you’ve been humiliated on numerous occasions. For you and Mark “ it was a news headline yesterday” 🤷‍♂️reported on several major outlets. Get a bucket of sand between you. @Oldfeller 🤷‍♂️you don’t even need to go fishing when you have minnows that desperate.

A proctologist was angry at his career choice. High malpractice insurance cost, equipement fees, overhead of operating a clinic and still having to pay to operate at the hospital. So when his fifth malpractice lawsuit was filed against him, he'd had enough. "I'm going to quit doing this and follow my passion, motorcycles. So he said what the hell, he signed up for a motorcycle mechanics course at UTI, Universal Techinical Institute. "I'm good with my hands" he thought. So after 18 weeks of training it was final exam day. The class instructor wheels in an old motorcycle for each student, and the final exam it to make the bike run perfect, like new again. "You'll get the results in the mail", said the instructor. So when he gets the results in the mail, he cant believe that he scored 125% on the final exam. He calls up the instructor and asks " How can I have scored 125% out of a possible 100% on this exam? " "Well" says the instructor, "Here is how I scored the test." "You got 25% for correctly diagnosing the problem with the blown engine, 25% for removing the engine, 25% for rebuilding the engine, and another 25% for having the engine run perfectly after re-installation into the motorcycle." The proctologist student says, " But that only adds up to 100% percent and you scored me 125%." "Well" says the instructor, "You got an extra 25% because I've never seen anyone rebuild an engine through the tailpipe."

A man died and went to The Judgment, they told him , “Before you meet with God, I should tell you — we’ve looked over your life, and to be honest you really didn’t do anything particularly good or bad. We’re not really sure what to do with you. Can you tell us anything you did that can help us make a decision?” The newly arrived soul thought for a moment and replied, “Yeah, once I was driving along and came upon a person who was being harassed by a group of thugs. So I pulled over, got out a bat, and went up to the leader of the thugs. He was a big, muscular guy with a ring pierced through his lip. Well, I tore the ring out of his lip, and told him he and his gang had better stop bothering this guy or they would have to deal with me!” “Wow that’s impressive, “When did this happen?” “About three minutes ago,” came the reply

A husband and wife are trying to set up a new password for their computer. The husband puts, "Mypenis," and the wife falls on the ground laughing because on the screen it says, "Error. Not long enough."