Ty Korrigan

The French journalists are very much closer to the action. The BBC reporters do so at a distance. I've French t.v and watch the BBC live reports via internet.

Is this still a thread about Ukraine? If so, the French media coverage puts the BBC to shame. That is all.

And Algeria moving on the Western Sahara. It's been goading Morocco for some time. Russia might just trigger a host of other land grabs world wide.

You got me too on that count...

Double sciatica, hernia, thundering bad temper, massive urge to chip each client, debt, fear of a major tax investigation...

No-one is attacking you Eggs, you created a thought provoking thread.

Oh my, 106 stumps done in under 4 hours with a coffee break. As a comparison, it would have taken me 20 hours with the FSIB20 and I'd be +4 times more expensive. After lunch we did a couple of others which I filmed or timed for reference. Now I have a measure of just what it can do. I'm in awe of the machine and very happy to have found a motivated grinderman for my larger stumps.

Prepping my own future stock for 2024/25. I normally loan the splitter out to clients as a sweetener but this time it is I putting in the hours with this leylandii. The machine cost me around €1300 plus vat with a Briggs engine.

I started with a Kangoo, wee chippette and trailer. If he is hungry for work, he'll be moving his kit on before long and asking on here about tippers and road tows.

Gypsies of all creeds are themselves vile racists and carry more prejudices than a hardened Arbtalk member posting about a stolen Transit.

I find the blade life at around 15-30 hours for our Chinesium whilst the GM CS100 was up to 40. Blades though are less than half the price of GM's

Here, in France, every commune of 5000 residents must build a travellers site. Here in Liffré the site is close to a bus route, easy walk to commerces and adjacent to regular housing. It is spacious and well cared for. Not sandwiched between a rail line, sewage works and auto-route. The caravans of those 'registered' for an itinerant lifestyle, are financed by the government. Seriously, financed with zero interest loans and grants up to 100% I always know when a kid from the travelling community is placed in my sons class as he brings words and phrases home. The last one was bizzare, a belief that eating soup would turn him Arabic. Something the Manouche particularly detest is homosexuality. I'm not sure if this was the reason for appointing an obviously gay guy to the post of site guardian. He was our boss when we had the grounds care contract. He was a tall, imposing chap who told us to never take our eyes off our kit, keep the vehicules locked and don't take any shit from the residents. Even so, the police municipal would often drive slowly past just to keep an eye on matters when we were working there. One day, the site was empty. There had been a serious interfamily fracas and the Gendarmes had cleared the site the night before. Glass everywhere...

Read this: Gypsies all over are devote Catholics...

Once upon a time, my business partner won the council groundscare contract for the local gypsy camp just outside of town. Every visit resulted in anecdote material. It seemed totally surreal at times. These people were so very foreign to me. Once, I was strimming the ditch which surrounded the sites hardstanding as an obstacle to prevent them occupying the grassed areas. Disgusting, not a metre or two from their caravans, this was their toilet. We had to wait until the Summer when the camp was empty before trying to strim again. They would also shit in the grassed areas screened by bushes, then place obstacles on the shit that we had to remove before mowing or strimming.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhYjB7n5B4

I'm waiting for the Jimmy Carr bill to be put to the Lords...

Here, in this part of Frenchland, oak lop and top processed and evacuated by the buyer in the forest is sold by the ONF (office national des forets) at around €25m3 To my client with the massive oak stem at the bottom of his garden, unless you extract it, process it, mill it gold plate the it is only worth €10m3 as firewood because this immovable lump needs ringing up, splitting, transporting, stacking and drying before it reaches the €90 per stere you think it is worth.

In the early 90's I lived in a touring caravan on a farm near Chichester. I woke one night, disturbed by noise and lights from the farm entrance. I roused the farmer who called the police. The gates had been stolen! A few years later having moved away, I called in to see my old landlord and he told me the gates were found at a travellers site near Petworth, alone with Quadbikes, saws, generators, the usual pikey fair. Then, THEN... The thieves came back and in an act of vengance, took an angle grinder to the hinges left in the stone posts!

You ought to use the 24 cooling off period from one of your flyers to wind your head back out of your arse and get a grip of reality.

A mate Tom Jenkins put a larger engine on his 252, 30hp I think. Made a difference

I've a pair to be sent to a mountain boot repair specialist near Lyon I had my Scafell lites done recently and they seem to have done a good job for €115 inc. postage both ways. They changed the entire sole unit.

Whilst I'm here, a question for the wise and experienced of this parish. How long would these leylandii stumps, large medium and small take for a 74hp grinder? I'm prepping them all, or rather my new fat groundy is, quick scratch around to make sure there are no stones, all cut low.

There is a gender fluid person on FB somewhere who would call you an incel for using a 'racist' term but here mate, you are safe amongst friends... Hairy Mary quite contrary Where does your gender flow? Have you got balls? Or dry snatch walls? With piercings all in a row...