MattyF

10 mm English braids was my go too light rigging rope for years, I’ve gone back to 12mm as it’s bright orange .. it’s a bit heavier for negative rigging and isn’t like cheese wire.. although I do miss the 10 at times it wasn’t visible enough for special needs groundys.

Good old labour had promised to make it £400 if elected as apparently that’s what police say it’s costing them to process each licence.. so it’s a better result than I thought would happen, although no one else seems to agree 😂

And your point ?

I’ll agree to disagree then mate, I get you but … I’ve more of a problem being charged £90 a year for my salmon and sea trout rod licence when I can go to Scotland and do it for free ..when there’s poachers walking about doing wtf they want all over the rivers I fish and the EA who we pay are dumping millions of tons of sewage in the river.. any way F all to do with shooting but I know it costs them more than £50 to process a licence.. especially if they have to do a home visit… let’s face it if they can’t do a proper job then we are going to get more freaks like the idiot from Plymouth and that won’t benefit any one.

No they probably won’t but the way the world is going and every thing being anti hunting , fishing and anti every thing else I enjoy in life, do we need to give antis more reason and justification to just all pack up ? if the police are saying it’s costing them £400 per application and there are huge back logs , people are loosing their guns , people are having to get there guns in storage as things are not being processed fast enough , people are not even getting first time certs , can we complain if we are not contributing to the system that we rely on that is a shambles and under funded ? Yes I get the current government are a bunch of wankers , but in all honesty so was the last lot , it has not gone up £400 as predicted and I’m glad of that, if things don’t improve then I see we have a point to complain , if it goes up to £400 without any further improvement then definitely but I don’t see half that as too bad.

Aye but it’s still half of what was predicted .. it’s not £400 !! I have fac and shot gun certs , I don’t think it’s unfair that we pay the cost or some where near what it actually costs to process them , and if actually means we get shorter processing times I’m all up for it.

Where has the £400 figure come from? Don’t think the new prices are unreasonable myself.

Poly tunnel blew away after the last big clear fell mate, it did 12 years which isn’t bad for being on the Pennines I guess, they pretty much opened up the Wygate to us which you can imagine is pretty brutal…any large trees left have blown usually still eating leeks in march , never bother covering them. Guy in the village gives me my comp leeks after the frosts have gone.

I would not use 1000rpm ! Only ever used 540 on any winch and one of the smaller igland winches I have I’m pretty sure says 540 only on it. If you want faster recovery of cable on the drum up the revs but that can have its drawbacks to accidents happening a lot quicker , last thing you want is timber coming in to a landing at 20mph and going through the tractor cab or axles

I think with woods you have to set out with a plan of what you actually want to achieve , if you want timber trees they want thinning, there’s looks to be some fairly decent oak among them that will need more room and high pruning if to ever make good grade timber … if you want nature leave areas and dead trees alone.. or combine the two and have areas of both but try but try and plan it out with what you want where , there’s no point going flying in with a saw and cutting stuff you will regret later or leaving stuff until it goes to far the other.

Started of Christmas Eve with a few drinks with a neighbour in the afternoon , took the dogs out in side ways wind and rain at dusk in hope of a brace of woodcock but they where flying at insane speeds off the wind but was great to see. back in for more drinks and a film. Christmas day is opening presents with the kids then too the in-laws for dinner and drinks. Boxing Day is taking the misses to the local hunt meet and looking after the kids before sorting out yesterdays mayhem , bubble and sqeek for supper and about 4 pints of home spring water to get refreshed from the last 38 hours of drinking. Now back to reality and sorting a puncture in the transit and this weeks firewood.

It’s been like this for years so it’s hardly a new thing that the police won’t or can’t do anything about it , I’ve been cleaned out and had chippers stolen and trackers activated within an hour and still never seen any of it come back… they either knew where it went and where too scared or not bothered, personally I think it’s more the first.

Gotta be honest it’s not a bit of kit I’m not comfortable with, used it a few times and it’s just sat in the bag in favour of the pinto biner option.

My problem with crown thinning is it mimics nothing in nature but a dying tree, I’d rather reduce a crown by 5-10% than thin it.

Mick I’ve dead wooded big cedars and they have literally shat off large limbs within days to months after..not all but quite a few especially outside exposed trees. I’m convinced after deadwood a number of large conifers species that it opens up wind tunnels and creates a lions tail effect resulting in wind throw..whilst it looks great it’s made me think when quoting, we where asked to dead wood about 60 pines in a church yard a few years back but I talked them out of it but they insisted on some over the roadside and a few over a car park , guess which ones failed the next storm and I think I even tip reduced a few limbs as I knew it was going to happen.