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    Whilst sat having dinner on Friday, a tractor and trailer passed shortly followed by another tractor with front. They were clearly off to collect big bales. I commented too my groundie, that when I was a lad it was all done by hand and that bale leading was a very labour intensive job, requiring teams of lads to handball all the small bales onto the trailer and then stack them in the barn. And even silaging required lots of us to "tyre up" the clamp. Now two guys or even one can easily go collect and stack from the comfort of a tractor cab. Has our industry followed a similar path?? I have a timber/chip trailer with palfinger crane, which means minimal cutting and humping (where access allows), meaning we very rarely need more than two of us on any job. I wonder if this sort of mechanisation has lead to the need for fewer staff generally and may be one of the reasons why there are more people looking for work??
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    Thats great, should hopefully give some of our trees a chance, not to mention the songbirds eggs/chicks, may even get one or two conkers for the kids if I can get squirrel numbers down:thumbup: Many thanks
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    If you had a rat problem, would you eat all you caught??
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    Love the Boxer, is it as useful as it looks??
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    If this is still available I would be very interested, regards Dave
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    Yes I noted her desire to use violence too deal with Dawkins, instead of reasoned debate, but then thats gods preferred method of dealing with the none compliant so why should she be any different
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    The interview was being done by a Christian program I think, being called "Sunday", so they are bound to be more than a little biased:sneaky2:
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    skyhuck replied to Tom D's topic in General chat

    Yes and Magpies often use barbed wire too!!!
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    Yes, thats why I pooh at the front, I don't want to get pooh on my spikes:001_tt2:
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    True, but if I had bid it may well have climbed to 4or5 £k.
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    On the picture it looks to be over hanging (the top of the buck, not the rear lights etc)
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    This looked like a nice clean unmolested example VERMEER WOODCHIPPER SHREDDER on eBay (end time 26-Jul-10 17:34:25 BST)
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    The back is where you would go for a pee
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    Nature 1 Man 0

    skyhuck replied to Tom D's topic in General chat

    You need some better staff!!! Even normal nests have mud in them, so we don't chip them.
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    When I did line clearance, we spiked every thing, but I always went up the back of the tree
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    skyhuck replied to Tom D's topic in General chat

    Just thinking about it, is it Doves that make those really poor nests not Pigeons???
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    skyhuck replied to Tom D's topic in General chat

    LOL!!! That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO true!!!
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    :congrats:
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    Interesting, all seems like common sense to me, but as is often said common sense ain't that common. I like his point about selfishness, I have alway thought that depression and self loathing are very selfish, they are both so inward looking. If people are self obsessed they are going to find faults and those faults will grow in their own eyes. I almost never look in a mirror (I don't even shave) looking out there is a much better view than looking in, IMO.
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    I agree. When you think about the fly wheel whacking into lumps of wood and chip being battered by the paddles, a few grams of weld here or there won't make much difference. My schiesling front mount has a light weight flywheel, they a basically cut out two big scallops out of the fly wheel and fill the gap with some thiner plate, it has cracked several times where the plate is welded in, its been ground out and re-welded and has been fine, with no bearing problems.
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    Says who???
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    When working on trees that have been previously pruned 10 or more years ago, I very often find sealed over spike marks, 99% of them seem to have suffered no ill effects.
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    Will it not just grind out and weld???
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    Good thread Mark, its good to remember what can happen. Do you think some sticky gloves would have saved you? I know they offer very little protection, but may have helped?? Hope it heals real fast.
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    I took out a goat willow with similar looking sized holes and some had dead wood wasps still in the holes.

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