PeteB

I had a Greek breakfast everyday until the other year. Greek breakfast = 4 Marlboro and two cups of coffee! I packed in the fags September 2010......

QuadChip:sneaky2: Sorry, wouldn't be doing my job otherwise:blushing:

If you get any unwanted text messages about mis-sold policies, insurance or accident claims, delete them, do not answer to anything..... I had a bump in Stoke last September and since not long after, I've been mythered by txt messages advising me that I due a chunk of money etc. Reply "yes" to claim and "stop" if received in error. I replied "stop" because there was nothing wrong with me and I truly detest the "ambulance chase" culture that the nation is sliding into. I have been receiving phone calls from unknown numbers since then, a rate of 4 x daily at times. I eventually bust a gut and have a lovely conversation with one adviser that hates her job, but it pays the bills. She tells me that by replying, I set the ball in motion, the trick is to delete the message and move on....Non of the advisers would give me any contact details so I could complain an many of them could not delete me from the database!

Years ago, an Uncle and his family were tennant farmers at Bronsil Castle in the Malvern Hills, part of the Eastnor Estate. It was a magical place with the ruins of this castle and moat in front of the big house. They grew soft fruit on the farm and when there was a chance of frost, the temperature had to be taken at regular intervals out in the fields. This involved a long walk from the house up the hill to the top of a rise then around the moat bank which was heavily wooded. Along the length of the moat and through some more fields and to a weather station. If it was too cold, then pumps had to be switched on and water sprayed over the crop. There was always a rota to do this an visitors got the short straw to enable the family to get a night off. I did this on several occasions and there had been story's of doors being opened in the night and so on. But, whenever I walked around the moat, it got cold and I could swear that we were being shadowed by a big dog, a Wolf Hound or Great Dane. The farm had Labradors.....At breakfast, one guest refused to do the job as she said that she was sure that a dog had been on the moat bank! Four other people then confessed to having felt that a big dog was with them along the moat bank! One of whom admitted that they take a longer route to avoid the moat bank too.

If it is away across the water then we would Michael Large have his truck collect it next time he would be over. Simplest!

What a pillock!, another set of wrong dates! Twas the Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th March 2012. Be good to see you there Andy....

Bartram Mowers, the GreenMech dealer for Norfolk and Suffolk are having and open day at there facility in Norwich (bluebell Road) on Mar 6th and then on March 9th at the Suffolk show ground. I'll be there with Martin Lucas, our sales director with a lorry load of kit.

Thainstone Agricultural Centre Inverurie Aberdeenshire AB51UK GreenMech are there on the Gammie stand, that IS where Big Al is tomorrow with the Quad Trak!

Urm, well spotted there... it is urm, as advertised 28th March 2012!!! Yes, there will be some rough cutting equipment there on that day too...

Morning, where are you from? I have a couple in stock of the Mark 1 version. they work well enough but it helps if you have eaten a few pies!

book it in your diary, it is the day after tomorrow! Big Al tells me that there will be some decent kit there too...

I think a retired English teacher was bored. 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish built furniture.. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.. 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ? You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.' It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. But when the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP! Now it's UP to you what you do with this document.

Al tells me that there will be a QuadChip/Track, 1323, and a 1928 SafeTrac there plus some other kit! Go have a look for yusself!

Bump! Who is going?

BTrac died the death some years ago when there was a change in ownership. It is now called Vermeer UK Ltd.

One cannot possibly comment on any of the projects that GreenMech may or maybe not be working on.

What kind of budget has he? GreenMech do a 6" tractor powered and the CS100 can go on a tractor too. It just depends on budget and how much HP it has. Have a look at our web site.

Class, pure class! Could watch that for hours, at least I understand what my 1st ex wife was going through when she ran with DD knockers!

MST, the GreenMech and Kubota dealer for Devon ,South Somerset and West Dorset are having some more open days. 20th March, Hestercombe House near to Taunton, 21st March - West Point Show Ground at Exeter and 22nd at the River Dart Country Park within Dartmoor, close to Ashburton. I reckon Fern is doing the catering again so it is well worth the visit for that and seeing the GreenMech range of woodchippers with Julian Cullis in attendance. We will have a good range of gear for you to see and try as well as the other stuff that MST do!

Henderson Grass Machinery, the GreenMech Dealer for Eastern Scotland are to hold an open day to showcase GreenMech woodchippers and rough terrain or bank mowers and scrub clearance kit at the Bonaly Outdoor Centre, 71 Bonaly Road, Edinburgh, EH13 0PB on Wednesday 28th March. Refreshments will be available on site. Contact Alastair from GreenMech on 07595 206036 or Alan White from Hendersons on 07793 589665 to let them now how much cooking is required!

My Isuzu Rodeo was a GreenMech reps express for 264,000 miles with nowt worth moaning about in five years! I sold it for £3,250 + vat and it was off to Cyprus! What is the general concensus about the 4x4 CrewCabs to come from that manufacturing giant "The Great Wall", soon to be here from China. I had a look at there brochure and it looks like a copy of the Rodeo and Volkswagen but for 14k for the base spec and £16k for the SE spec. The rest of the cars from The Great Wall showed "styling clues" from a variety of makes and models currently available elsewhere!

I gave mine a new bag and belt. At least the Hoover works better now!

Sorry, but for a grand, you'd be better off burning. Hedge clippings and leaves etc, ain't good in a chipper unless you are 100% sure that the stuff is clean, otherwise your cutters will get blunted too quick.

What is the spec/cost of a 75?

Do not listen to them! Most blokes are follicaly challenged so they have not experienced long hair! What is it with the yoof of today anyway, I see many blokes who could have a full head of hair and the have their nut shaved! The tide is on the way out on my head now, so I cannot speak knowledgeably on long hair, it go to a supplier or helmets and get their advice. Dreads. How do they grow anyhow? Do they smell? Does it hurt your bonce sleeping on them, what does your Mom think to them?