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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."

To be honest, I'd rather not talk about it at all, as it's vile. But some things need to be said.

Over time I have come to the conclusion that the crime is irrelevant, it the religion or race of the perpetrators that is important to JohsonD. The actual crime is irrelevant to him. So while the subject has been posted repeatedly reading behind the postings is a consistant message from him: Muslims = bad, anyone one darker skin than him = bad. It is a consistent message. - 85% of Grooming gang cases have no race or religion attributed to them in the statistics - 100% of the grooming gang cases highlighted here are all attributed to Muslims or non-white (100% apart from Epsteins grooming gang). Guess who posts them all. - JohnsoD has never posted about a crime commited by a white person, but plenty of crimes by others - In the POTUS thread when GarethM was giving his defence of the late pedo, Epstein and his grooming gang, guess who had his back giving him 'likes' for his opinions? - probably have to go back to August. Didn't find these crimes abhorant. Epstein was of course white.

Have you seen that video of the poor girl dragged off because she wasnt groomed by the wrong people?

Put your soapbox away Mark No different to what you do with Trump and did for years with the Tories. At least the latter is a UK issue as is the rape gang problem and disproportionate amount of sexual assaults by illegal immigrants.

For anyone who might enjoy the original.

That guy's the new peds!

It's a basic Box ticking certificate with some good information. (Not actually done it mind but have read the syllabus, spoke to people that have) Being mentored and time to practice is the only way to becoming good at rigging

Get your groundy to put the phone down and work the lines..