PeteB
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Some years ago, I had to send a team to clear out a tower base in a housing estate that was used as a tip by the surrounding gardens. Got a 'phone call from our man in the REC who told me that whenever they go there, a woman in the nearest house parades in front of the patio doors naked! Did not tell the boys for fear of not getting the work done.
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Nick Rivett? Did he get involved with Chipstar in Australia. I seem to remember the couple that ended up in the UK (one with Midland Forestry) were identical to Bandit in many respects.
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Big Ditto.
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Thanks for the "Big Up" guys. I'll read on for a while. If you need one call me. Cheers.
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I brought one of Michael's creations in the early 90s. It chipped. Try a GreenMech, I had two of those and I'm biased because I work for them!
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Washing up liquid in toilet cistern. Apple pie beds. Rice crispy floor covering (tread on it and it follows you around the place). I got a text message from one of our service guys, "low battery, call this London number and ask Liz to get me to the phone. I need help urgently!" I ring it and this voice says "Good Morning, Buckingham Palace here". DOH!!!
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Your are very correct!. A practical joke to one is bullying to another. The giver and receiver need to be of a certain character for it to be fun. I like fun and the people I have fun with all accept I would never do anything with evil intent. However, someone else I work with thinks he is funny but on the whole everybody likens him to a pain in the arse because his jokes are malicious and are designed to belittle people rather than entertain.
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When your mate falls asleep, put some sh foul smelling stuff on the back of his hand then tickle his nose. One lad put an adult magazine in my snap bag, good job I looked in it before giving to my granny! At school we occasionally hollowed out a stick of chalk then filled it up with mashed up match heads and left it on the blackboard. Friction would ignite it eventually. When someone is reversing a big trailer to a halt, lie under the trailer when they get out and wriggle your legs as if you've been run over.
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We used to get a kipper and rest it on someones exhaust manifold for it to slowly cook!
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On getting the hump with a stroppy landlord, get a beer, cover it with a beer mat, invert it and put it on the table. Slide out the beer mat and go to the next pub! Tell you mate that your ride is making a bad engine noise, lift the bonnet asking him to listen, when his head is well in the bay - press the horn! When someone is playing with some electrical item, creep up behind them with a paper bag and boom! Drill a hole in your mates mug and plug it with wax, then make him a lid of tea and quickly pass it to him. Get your mates mobile, change the language in the menu to something he cannot understand. Withhold your number and ring them just when you judge they are mid stream or wipe.
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I did the speed thing as a callow youth. I got to 6 points for speeding and cut it out. As you all say, speed is for the track. I rarely drive faster than an indicated 70 which is actually 63. The original post was about adrenalin - and a rush is bought on by risk or a near miss. Fright or flight. That is what my post was about.
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Sat Nav. I'd be lost without it!
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Finding out my divorce cost me over 100k cash made the blood pump faster! Spinning Dad's new Volvo car on the A1 had the same effect. Steering column coming detached at 90+ in an RS2000 on the M1 made my passenger yell out! Doing 50 miles door to door in 30 minutes made a pint and a smoke welcome!
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My two are fine, although I have heard of the belly ache going around. Here's to speedy recover John. Best regards.
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Do that, buy one istead of wasting time and money trying to convert.
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"Dad, can I go on the play station for 10 minutes"? "Yeh, right"!
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Are we not sure about the integrity of those northern neighbours? Have you had a bad experiene that needs to be shared?
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I side with Mike, to be honest I cannot be bothered to respond as it would result in handbags at dawn. Nuff said. Sorry to all those who thought a scuffle was on the way. Suffice to say a Combi being demo'ed to a contractor did not get blocked up, did trimmings in both sides and the demo came to a halt only after to ate a scaffold clamp. Hardly any damage done bar some scuffed blades. That would not have happened in a chipper! Even if it had interlocking rollers.
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Have you seen the one with the Isreal F16(?) that flew with only one wing, and the pilot didn't know until he landed. It is possible using vectered power. A good pilot is one who has the same number of landings as take offs! and every landing is a controlled crash.
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help parking for 2 transits in surrey area
PeteB replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in Large equipment
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I agree, experience is great, I hope my 21 years involved in the Arb game and the variety of machines available doesn't come across as sour grapes. Having owned two GreenMechs and an Arboreater (as well as using most other machines), I can confirm that all handled hedge cuttings with aplomb. Non of them liked stones or mud as indeed no chipper does. However, my point stands - a Jensens interlocking rollers handle hedge clippings the same as any other chipper and when the rollers are apart namely when they have material between them, they are no longer interlocking. Am I correct?
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Ay Up love, can you sow a button on that and make it tighter?
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There was a young girl from Coleorton Who had one long leg and a shortun Together with that and a big fancy She could fart like a 750 Norton!
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The post about the interlocking (meshing) rollers is, in my opinion misleading. They are indeed intermeshing but only when there is nothing between them. Once open, they intermesh about the same as every other twin roller machine ie they don't. Don't try and mislead someone who is after straight advise.
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You're never alone with schizophrenia.
