Taupotreeman
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Everything posted by Taupotreeman
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Same here, hope everything works out good. I gave up the pot last year despite enjoying a smoke to chill after a long day. Just wasn't conducive to putting in a good day's work the following day. Unfortunately cigarettes replaced that but as you get older you realise that you're not bullet proof anymore so I finally gave that the flick too. I very rarily drink these days either. Strangely enough though the hardest thing to give up that I was addicted too was nasal decongestant.
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Hoping to get a few pictures of when it is in full bloom. From a distance I thought it was an Oak due to the sheer size of the thing. It's closing in on 50 to 60 feet tall. The biggest Rhodo? I topped one out a few years ao that was 25 to 30 feet high and had a spread of over 70 feet.
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Still remember shinning up the drain pipe on the front of the main hall/dorm to get in to the girls dorms after lights out and the midnight raids by the staff to find us where we shouldn't be. Also remember the swimming pool being over dosed with chlorine and depsite being closed, us going swimming and having our eyes burnt by the chlorine in the water. Couldn't open my eyes the next morning when I woke up. They were glued shut with gunk.
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Andy, Pete, 30 years and 40 a day habits that's pretty impressive will power. Kudos to the pair of you.
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I used zyban. worked wonders. Congrats on giving up though. They reckon you take two weeks to form a habit so if you can keep it up for two weeks you should form the habit of not smoking. Good luck.
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The answer to life the universe and everything?
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A previously uknown species of insect hiding in your belly button?
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What i want to kniow is how much you spent at the manicurists.
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Was feeding some stuff through mine the other day. Had a reasonable size rose in with some other stuff. One end of he rose got wrapped around my hand, the other end went in to the chipper. Somewhat painful to say the least and was picking bits of rose thorn out of my hand for days after.
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Working for the council has had an ageing effect on me. 40 years in 4 weeks
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SKY TV, Electric blanket etc?
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That's got to be worth seeing.
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Haha, you don't even want to go down THAT track.
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Sounds like you're well set up and sorted littletree. Personally I hate being away from the wife (yeah yeah soft sod I know) for even a night. Been there, done that and I prefer my home comforts these days. It was a good way to see the country when I was younger though but now I'm happy to travel up to about an hour and a half.
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The powers that be decided, after seeing something similar in the states, that they would bang some trees in big steel boxes and then park them in various spots about the town centre. After a few weeks in one spot they are uplifted with a Hiab and then shifted to a new location. People are divided between liking and loathing so I thought I'd stick the photos up on here to see what people thought. Personally I can't stand them but who am I to judge?
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Following on from the "large" Magnolia thread; came across this today and wondered what the biggest Cherry was that you had come across. I wiped one of the photos of this unfortunately which gave a better scale.
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Surely, despite what the trailer may legally carry, common sense would kick in here. I mean, you just have to look at the load to know it's wrong. Old bill would have a field day with his ticket book for something like that. I sure as heck wouldn't want to be towing that thing down hill because I reckon you wouldn't be stopping in a hurry if it all went kinda squirrely.
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Hahahahahahah emergency stop hahahahahah. Seriously though, I have one and they are a beast of a machine when you know how to use them. According to a few statistics I read, there's less accidents and fatalities with these old chuck and ducks than there are with the newer machines. It seems to be that operators generally have more respect for these than the machines with the emergency stop, feed rollers etc. They're cheap as chips to buy and maintain, they're built like a brick outhouse and very rarely go wrong. Mines a 94 model whisper and it just keeps going. Chips up to 9 inches and cost be around the equivalent of 3500 quid. You sure as hell don't have to wait around for it to self feed. Mine runs a 6 cylinder 4.2l ford petrol engine. The 352 V8's are a sight to behold. Don't knock em till you've tried em.
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Don't you just love climbing smooth bark Gums?
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Most I've done is two and half hours each way for about 3 months. Never again.
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You forgot Chrissy Spence.
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Do a Google or Youtube search for whisper chippers or drum chippers. There's heaps of vids with the old chick and ducks around.
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Drew, you're a nutter
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Bro, if there's a next time, and you want someone to lug gear, I'll swap for a trip down to the inferno.
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Farmer Ben, that third picture requires viewing while playing a little bit of Elgar.
