Dean Lofthouse

It comes to us all, errm, or does it?

Another 3 years Lee and you'll be the same age as me!! Oh, errmm, yeh, errm, no you won't, I'll still be three years older??

Why don't you just go into the living room and tell her Buzz? :wave:

The point being here (parden the pun) is that the Owl was needlessly killed. There is no need for the barbed wire. The wire is at the top of a shear mud slope, unless the cows have ropes and harness. Owls are protected here, if the wire had been none barbed as Anna says, it would not have become hung up. It looks as though the Owl had landed to get a mouse and has become hung up on take off. The bloke who put the fence up is a zillionaire, he has a resturaunt and as a gimmick had some cows to say he uses his own beef, he has no exprience of animal husbandry. I have had to round his cows up twice after they escaped, once onto my fathers front lawn and the second across the main road into a 50 acre woodland. That time it took me an hour just to find them and I was on an off road bike. Farming is not just about fattening animals, it's a bit more complex than that.

I was walking the dogs in the wood I have today. Along one boundary the (plastic) so called farmer has installed a barbed wired fence. I have told him before that he has gone overboard and only needs two strands if he is only keeping cows. He has strands every six inches in some places!! I thinks sometimes he is trying to keep the rabbits in. He has the barbed wire on my side of the boundary stream for access to the water. I don't want to fall out with neighbours, I believe in trying to get on with them, but I came across this owl today which has obviously got hung up in the last two days and died. I'm going to have to have a word again. Such a shame.

How do you know you have been knocked?? Is it a deffo? I have had to wait 2 months sometimes for money from companies.

Good idea Marc, but with an empty shotgun cartridge at the side. Only thing is, the chains are a set of 4 leg hook and eye, worth about £60 . I will let him know I know and in no uncertain terms let him know he won't be doing it again.

I think pre traction control, defenders should have come with rear diff lock as standard. That said, my amazon is permanent 4 wheel drive, it then has centre diff lock and a rear diff lock. I was the same, on wet grass, slight uphill with road tyres. It started slipping, so I engaged centre diff, no change. I then engaged rear diff aswell, still no change. Wet muddy grass calls for mud terrains but if you do slip with MT's then they do make a proper mess

When my containers got broken into I started a thread called, "Can you believe it, bloody Pikies". I have since found out through the grapevine who broke into my containers and it wasn't Pikies, Pikies being a term used to refer to Travellers. I therefore wish to publicly apologise for the suggesting that my containers were damaged by members of the travelling community. Fair is fair in my opinion and apologies where they are due. I have been asked what I intend to do now I know who it is. I have always gone by the rules of don't get mad get even. The lad who broke into the containers didn't know whos container they were. Now he know who's container they are, if he attempts another breakin will be issuing a direct challenge to me iMO and therefore will have to accept that there are concequences to his actions. In the mean time, he put chains on my container door and caused £400 worth of damage, he left his chains behind. I was thinking of taking the chains and attaching them to his van rear doors and bending them out the same as he had done to mine, then leaving his chains so he realises exactly who and why it had be done. That would probably start off a tit for tat senario, so I think a covert approach may be more applicable in this case Back to the main point, I apologise for jumping the gun making suggestions it was traveller, when it was some scum bucket closer to home.

I have never heard of this problem. I would imagine that since you have had so many do it, it is something you are doing wrong and not the fault of the saw. Putting thin engine oil in will cause the pump to pump it through very quickly and will most likely be causing a vacuum as you say. The oil viscocity is very important.

Knew they'd see sense and give in to the landys versatility and superiority as an Arb truck. :wave:

I've done his mum-in-laws trees, and she is a right card, independant as hell, elderly and runs a farm on her own in all weathers. I found gary helpful and not grumpy at all. Perhaps it is just southerners that find him grumpy :wave:

I do think whatever job we do whether it be line clearance or Tree surgery, we should take time out to learn Tree Biology. It's no good us knowing how to do a pruning cut to BS3998 if we don't know why it is done. A lot of Tree owners are very knowledgable and have taken time out to read up on their trees. When they call us in to tend to their trees, the least we can do is understand what it is we are doing to their tree. There would be nothing worse IMO than the customer knowing more than me.

I'd say there's some good PR there and some good advertising. Invite the local rag round for a story. I can see the headline, "owl work stops for a while"

Cheers Jonsie Done

Thats it, send your mate up the tree when roots have been cut. Remind me never to work with you Matt :wave:

Oh, it took her over a year to decide to have the tree taken down and only because the insurance gave her little choice. She went out for the actual fell, couldn't watch, I thought she was scared I would fell it on the house!

Oh I had a client that wouldn't let me do a cut until she had moved all the woodlice out the way!! Seriously... I would have walked away from the job there and then but i had felled the tree and was taking the stump down a bit more. She was one of these "any living thing is equal to us" weirdos

I take wraps around the chipper or landy towbar occasionally, the bandits have a nice round tube welded on the rear of the chassis, I'm sure it was put there as a lowering aid.

Yeh, it's just a little bit bigger than your average weed. :wave:

No harm in it I suppose, as long as it is not technical misinformation that a life could depend on

Yeh, that would be good to see the setup and I,m sure we can find a limb or two to lower.

Honest Huck, my 660 has got a 34ft bar.

Cutting holes in it doesn't move enough air around. I put the tractor in one when I go home and because of the warm tractor and cold air in winter the inside really does get wet. I have a second hand solar powered fan which goes in a caravan ceiling, I was thinking of putting that in the roof and seeing how it does. It's only 6" dia and runs all the time there is day light. Would imagine it would be spot on for shifting out warm air from the top of the container