How many things can go wrong with one job.

[slack ma girdle]

Where to start

Leave the house 6.30 to get trailer. The pin for the ring hitch has become bent with use, and now can not get the high enough to get the trailer on. Return home hit said pin with large hammer. 45 minutes later trailer and landrover become one.

8.30 arrive to hire tracked chipper. Tracked chipper is at the back of the shed behind every thing else. 1 hour later having played wacky races with various machines and tractors, chipper is on trailer.

10.30 arrive on site, chipper slides off trailer whilst onloading and gets stuck. Use winch to unstuck chipper.

11.00 Finally get chipper to edge of site. Due to steep nature of site, use of winch is require to support chipper. Chipper slides into ditch when we are moving winch. Chippers hydraulic drive no longer works due to the chippers angle and the hydraulic fluid is out of reach of the pump.

12.30 Chipper now extracted. Get almost to chipping site, only to find out that the local youth have in their wisdom during the night thrown the branches all over the site, and pushed over an old wall blocking the only way in.

2.00 had enough. Winch chipper straight up steep slope to avoid ditch and now a very muddy slope.

Next Day

Tidy up branches and start plant 45 apple trees. Get about 20 trees planted when irate local starts shouting from the top that if any of the trees are planted in front of his house then he will pull then up and throw done the hill. Try to ring man at council but he is in a meeting and his boss is on holiday.

Stop work, drink tea, enjoy sunshine, listen to birds singing, and locals becomming increasingly irate with each other.

Council man turn up and trys to resolve planting problem. After an hour he admits defeat and the remaining apple trees are to be planted elsewhere.

 

We go home

[nepia]

So that's the book; when's the film out?!

[Andy Collins]

Dont you just love a good days tree work? It really makes you appreciate when things run smoothly:001_smile:

[testcricket01]

sounds like a great day out lol

[geoff]

Just hate days when it all falls apart,still you made progress!

[Justme]

Hope your on day rate

[Mozza]

Gutted mate, I hate days like that, Thankfully though they dont come up too often!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

**Goes and finds some wood to touch **

[Highland Forestry]

Dont you just love this job...

[Ian Flatters]

That sucks! i would say bad things happen in three's but clearly not in this case.

[jonathan hall]

Dont you just love this job...

 

you do wonder sometimes.

ive had a terrible week of such stuff, then got wagon broke into last night and i dont seem to be as bothered as i possibly should be,

sod it, eh?!