Graham
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Been with the NFU for years...£400ish on L200 and never questioned it. Now had a quote for £250 from one of the comparison sites. Just have to check out cover is the same.
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Exactly. My observation was from my experience.
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This isn't meant as a criticism but an observation. When I came into this industry I worked with some fallers who had started their careers in the 40s...axes and crosscuts etc then on to saws and powered winches. They felled some big leaners and I never once saw them put a backcut in first. The cable was tensioned, tree was faced and then backcut. If the backcut needed adjustment then the winchman was instructed by hand signal to do this until the faller was happy with the tension.
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I can teach you the basics in a day....the next 50 years is up to you:001_smile:
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I had a client a few years ago who was losing a privet hedge to Honey fungus. She used something called, I think, Bray's emulsion. I arrived one day to find that section of her garden smelling strongly of phenol/Jeye's fluid where she'd treated the soil. The infected section of the hedge never worsened and it seemed to halt the spread of A. mellea completely. I have a feeling Armillatox was based on similar petro-chemicals.
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All mine from over 20 years ago....when I was invincible:001_smile: Catches up with you later
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Not wanting to sound to morose but how many of you are living with injuries sustained in this industry? I'll start. Whitefinger caused by holding on to revvy 2 strokes since the age of 16. Smashed teeth from top coming out of dead elm when climbing...pre helmet days. Broken vertabrae from tractor winching accident. Crushed foot when lowering crotch broke and rope trapped foot with section of pop on the end. Now takes me at least an hour in the morning to stop aching but still climbing as fast as I always was..I think:001_smile:
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I wrote to Diedre in the strictest confidence...not to have my problems posted all over the internet:blushing:
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Don't think I've ever known a month when pigeons haven't been sitting eggs.
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I'd find out a contact name at Westonbirt and have an informal chat with them re: study, promotion prospects and future salary.
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I tried to sell some a while ago...good lengths about 4' dia and couldn't find anyone interested which seemed a shame. Still got some which I'm now carving. There's always firewood market which is desperately short at the moment. Probably spits a bit though.
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Here, here. Don't forget in these times many of us are a whisker away from 'the dole', repossesion etc.
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Someone had to do it. http://www.birdsnest.com/fart_file.htm
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Been thinking along same lines with my L200. Seems to be contrasting views on this so would be good to hear from anyone who's done this. Removal of the 'cat' and inserting straight pipe seems to be popular.
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Your potato, wife tomato...
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Which was nice:001_smile:
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This week I've been mostly eating..........................
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Windblow birch in LA park, soup and Cornish pasty, dead wood sycamore in churchyard and lastly another LA windblow.
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Definitely but on bikes not cars.
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I'll add another to this list. Your High St bank. After the debacle that has recently come to the fore then you'd think they'd be cutting back on their 'Champagne party binges'. Not a bit. I know someone....high flyer in business banking... that still attends these parties. It's ok though because now a charitable do and booked in a persons name rather than the Bank's.
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It'll end up like the organic meat trade. Unless you know it's parents names and can certify it enjoyed its existence prior to being caught (in a painless and stressless way) then it's off the menu. It's enough to turn me vegan:001_smile:
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First was Exile on Main Street...prob best Stones album ever and last was Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris...Long Road Running
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Forestry Commission looking for a trainee at Westonbirt.http://www.horticulturejobs.co.uk/job/303437/trainee-craft-arborist
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Get paid to lose weight? Thought that's what we did...called work:001_smile:
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Forme d'Ambert.....has to be the best you can get:001_tongue:
