MattyF
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Morning bell ends, hope you all ain’t working this weekend.
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I’d say we average 60-80 miles every day, the price for living somewhere remote but would not change it.
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Igottacabstar ….?
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Sad news , especially when you consider the amount of support Justin Jones gave this site and some of the events he organised.
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Looks like lukashenko was the highest bidder !
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I dont know if it’s worrying or hilarious that Uganda have vowed and Iran want to put troops in Moscow to protect Putin… just seen 217th guards airborne have defected to Wagner.. how many more will follow?
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At the end of the day they are mercenaries and always throughout history have fought for the highest bidder, so I’m not buying prigozhins patriotic stance for the motherland.
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another worrying thought is they moved a load of Nukes in to Belarus and Lukashenko has apparently last night done a bunk to turkey after a phone call with putin and amid rising tensions in Belarus…
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Can’t help but think one scenario is that nato intelligence are now possibly paying him 😆
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Will be interesting as any gains they have made seem to have been spearheaded or achieved by Wagner, the Russian army on a whole appears to have been virtually useless… I don’t know what would be more worrying though a paramilitary group running Russia or putin staying in control.
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Forestry winch recommendations
MattyF replied to Martin du Preez's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Anything with merino in … possibly the most comfortable and coolest I’ve found for summer use , absorbs sweat, doesn’t stink like the original helly Hanson polyester base layers did and surprisingly cooler than most items as they are so thin. I did have a rab one I that I reduced to rags over two years as I wore it too much , expensive but comfortable. Failing that good old cotton farmers country shirts are a favourite for tractor work and forestry but a bit restrictive for climbing but great in emergencys for ripping off the sleeves to wipe your arse or clean up hydraulic oil that’s pissed every where.
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Spose in this game we should not be buying compost any ways as well rotted chip seems better.. I did get a bit carried away his year with about 3 tonne off the bottom of the pile and another 4 tonne of horse shit to find the rotavator would not start so had to improvise … last time I used the grinder as a rotavator it was mint for de stoning but messed up the soil structure… will see if the manure blend works in a few months !
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The whole theatre scene has always been full of those uncle Monty types … nothing new apart from some push from those trying to normalise such behaviour from high places , and they appear to be succeeding. What was interesting about schoefield was he almost got away with it when it all first came out… with every one congratulated him for coming out instead of asking questions then.
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The other side of that Alex is most folk my age grew up with watching him every day on children’s tv and was as much a part of our childhoods as watching saville, so I spose is why some of us have Interest in watching the nonces downfall.. I’ve never watched breakfast tv since the big breakfast ended.
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Keep an eye on the big dealers websites for trade ins , they will need a bit of work but I picked mine up from carsbilington, spent what it needed on brakes ect and don’t think I’ve lost anything in 8 years looking at current prices. Definitely get 4x4 for crawling out of forest ditch’s you’ll probably unintentionally find !
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At least FairPlay to the OP for asking the question here.. although I imagine if you where the contractor speaking to the association they would tell you they have had a call every day for the last two years three tree reports and a gas survey so please for the love of god just fell it🤣
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It’s a Norway maple (acer platanoides).
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I wonder what the conditions were for the incident if he was up the tree when it fell over and why the worker was in a tree that compromised. Thoughts to his friends and family.
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Who’s going to pay for the future management, you know as well as I do if you reduce that tree it will put on the growth and more to compensate within a few years if it’s reduced to any level to keep the residents happy. Having also re pollarded trees and received massive abuse for it in housing associations property’s you can be my guest… again they will have to fit the bill for continued management and listen to half the street complaining about butchering them whilst the rest complaining and petitioning to get them felled because they are scared of slipping on leaves …
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That’s no monster it’s barely semi mature !… it’s requests like this that made my last day contracting for local housing associations a happy one. no pruning, unless it’s raising the crown is going to benefit it , it will go absolutely crazy and be more of problem if you do so.
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I wasn’t there unfortunately and doubt I would ever go again to be honest…
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Best market I’ve found for it is chainsaw carvers.
