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slack ma girdle

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  1. The force is strong with this young tree feller my son now wants one, and i will never be able to to anything that good. Thanks alot
  2. Where to start Leave the house 6.30 to get trailer. The pin for the ring hitch has become bent with use, and now can not get the high enough to get the trailer on. Return home hit said pin with large hammer. 45 minutes later trailer and landrover become one. 8.30 arrive to hire tracked chipper. Tracked chipper is at the back of the shed behind every thing else. 1 hour later having played wacky races with various machines and tractors, chipper is on trailer. 10.30 arrive on site, chipper slides off trailer whilst onloading and gets stuck. Use winch to unstuck chipper. 11.00 Finally get chipper to edge of site. Due to steep nature of site, use of winch is require to support chipper. Chipper slides into ditch when we are moving winch. Chippers hydraulic drive no longer works due to the chippers angle and the hydraulic fluid is out of reach of the pump. 12.30 Chipper now extracted. Get almost to chipping site, only to find out that the local youth have in their wisdom during the night thrown the branches all over the site, and pushed over an old wall blocking the only way in. 2.00 had enough. Winch chipper straight up steep slope to avoid ditch and now a very muddy slope. Next Day Tidy up branches and start plant 45 apple trees. Get about 20 trees planted when irate local starts shouting from the top that if any of the trees are planted in front of his house then he will pull then up and throw done the hill. Try to ring man at council but he is in a meeting and his boss is on holiday. Stop work, drink tea, enjoy sunshine, listen to birds singing, and locals becomming increasingly irate with each other. Council man turn up and trys to resolve planting problem. After an hour he admits defeat and the remaining apple trees are to be planted elsewhere. We go home
  3. Try climbing a decent sized hardwood, by the time you have got to the top and come down most if not all of the resin will be gone. And you will have had some fun to boot. Dairy products are for your toast and/or sandwitches and/or cooking.
  4. Here's mine. Site risk assessment.doc
  5. Try the army with some large caliber guns/cannons ? Will be able to a large amount of damage very quickly
  6. Good inventive stuff. A couple of questions: 1 what are you doing in photo two ? 2 What are you using to retrive the system from the tree when you are one the ground ?
  7. Probably 10 % of your insurance. That was the only advantage that i could find for joining.
  8. I can feel the vibrations from here. Nothing like the feel of vibrating metal in your hand !!!
  9. I went there 20 years ago, magical place. I wont recomend anywhere as i expect it has changed beyound all recognation. You will have a bast and a culture shock where ever you end up.
  10. Granny's soap flakes (pure soap), from the supermarkets. Less than a pound per box, and it will last many years. A small handfull in the washing machine with the rope on a 30 degree wash. Come out like new.
  11. I can not stand them, they scare me with their nasty bendy wobbly ways. I do however use a small step ladder when trimming hedges in gardens. :scared:
  12. Still waiting to get my final assessment whilst assessing, so that i qualify. So far it has been a white elephant as i have been waiting eighteen months, and i am not qualified yet !!
  13. We are haveing the same problem with the mighty Nuffield 10/60. I have taken off the starter moter, and taken to my local auto electrcal shop. Tested it for £3, and it is fine. Now faced with trying to find the electrical Fault. Thankfully the nuffield's electrics are simple, like me.
  14. Hi Paul you didn't used to live in Pembrokeshire and work for Tilhill cutting trees around powerlines
  15. So long your discription matchs what was sold, then e-bay should back you. I have had a couple of problems with people trying it on. Both times e-bay back me as it was as discribed.
  16. I think of better things to spend £1000 on !!
  17. what ever floats your boat !!
  18. because all timbers hard or soft have different charateristics, and therefore different uses. You will have to pad this out a bit for your assignemt. Cut and paste is always usfull for this.
  19. Doh doh doh, there is a homer in all of us. this is supposed to be a related link LiveLeak.com - Monster ACNE on ear, blah! ENJOY
  20. The straighter the flue the better the draw. The 135 degree needed to go from the back of the stove and out through the wall is the most expensive piece, over £200 in twin wall. Jewson do a lead and rubber seal for flues going through roofs. If its only in your shed try flexible chimeny liner for the flue, but make sure that is is the one for wood burner as the other liners rot with the lignit in wood smoke. You can probably get it off flea bay quite cheaply. Just make sure that there is enough of a gap between the roof/ wall and the chimeny to reduce the chances of ignition. Don't forget when all else fails hit it with a hammer !!
  21. looks an intriguing knot. Not sure through about its practicability
  22. ummmm big shiney toys. At £40,000 i would be scared to take it any where

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