Stephen Blair

Morning, think we’re in for a rough 1 today, but it’s a cool location so you just get the big clothes on and enjoy it. Dropping mog off at fabricators first then heading up to site. Dogo had the best day yesterday, wouldn’t get back in the jeep at 3pm to head home, he’s having a day off today.

Morning, off to physio just after 8am then we start on a Robo job for Capper habitat at the foot of the cairngorms. Dogo is going to love it, he doesn’t know it yet. His jobs to make sure nothings hiding in the Heather, when he sees his visi vest comeing out he’s going to explode 😂

Morning Doug, tomorrow sounds like a day to utilise the youngsters back strength and energy! I was up at 4am for changeover, wee one in sleeping much better through the night, she’s actually sleeping!🤔😂 going to take the chipper off the front of the mog as it’s off to fabricators to get barn doors made for the back, she isnt getting used as a chip wagon these days so going to utilise her a bit more for shifting logs.

Morning, I’m on my weekend night shift. A smooth change over at 3.15am, fed and changed and in her bed smoothly. Now I’m wide awake!😂.

Morning, it’s been dry here. Yesterday we got the sketchy trees done in roaring winds. A day of a pit in my stomach watching Big Davie climb. He’s 6’4’’ for scale. First time in 2 years I’ve ever seen him nervous. Old sweet chestnuts, just by their best and beside a 300 year old barn church. The last 1 was the biggest we’d both ever worked on. Easier day today, 1 beech and a tidy up with machines, habitat piles, no chipping. Have a good 1.

The round cabs are amazing, forget all the bla bla bla about spares and costs, who cares. I can close my eyes and take myself right back to sitting in my little U900, the engine noise, the feel of the engine right beside me, I can do this with every machine I’ve ever owned, I’d easily have half a million quid in the bank by now if I just cut trees and didn’t have a love for machinery but where’s the passion in that. It’s the whole story of vehicles. It’s like watching a Top Gear adventure. The drive to get it, the meeting of others, the excitement of paying, funding, scraping together what you need to buy it, selling of stuff you don’t need, the breaking down, the bits you hate about them when you first start driving them but by the end up, you know every quirk to start, to open a door, the gear that’s not happy changing down into but it’s all part of it. If you love that kind of life, buy a mog and Landy and have this job of cutting trees to pay for it. Cook bacon once on the silencer of a mog in a field or wood with your mate at work and a dog running about , that’s heaven right there guys!

What he said!😂

Morning, I had haggis last night too! 5 degrees here, most of the ice has shifted overnight which is great as my driveway was lethal. Reducing some sweet chestnuts for the rest of the week. Enjoy

Morning, we got given cake yesterday too! Still in the minus here but around 4 degrees in Inverness where we are working so that’s much better. Week 3 of the council job, extracting the smaller stuff with a hired in little Loader, really impressed with the comfort of this 1. Collected my new to me trailer too for the tractor so that’ll be getting filled up. The wee 1 is fare growing and certainly gets her hanger from me! Man she was raging last night, 5 bottles in 4 hours 🤔😂

I work in towns, never had a spotter. Not much different than driving a 6 cylinder tractor with that long bonnet, then add a roof mount and grab on grab bar, that’s a front end. Some people look for problems so you’ll find them. Make it work is my way of doing things.

afternoon, ive been on the weekend baby night shifts. out a pram walk earlier but roads are lethal with black ice but we got about 3k in so always something, more the fresh air for her.

There was a reason I had it briefly,it didn’t do what a mog does. mogs have Ptos, pto chippers were always a 3rd the price of rd tow, run it on cherry, free rd tax no Mot or tacho hassle. If by looking at 1 you can’t see the benefits then don’t bother buying 1, it’s not for you.

I’d love that little 4x4 rascal looking truck!

Morning guys, I’ve been slack on register again, I’m up and out for work just after 7am honestly. Council job is going well, I spend my day chatting to the dog walkers and passers by about why the trees are being felled and what’s happening with the wood. Let’s the boys get on with the job without me over looking them and keeps the council guys email box getting filled with questions, plus it’s easy on my back. Gave a wee lad a go of the digger, reckon he was about 3 years old so that’s a future operator sorted and an old boy was watching the robo scoot about the woods with the winch on so he got a go as well and was delighted. Have a god day!

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