Stephen Blair
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things are great up here, changing kit about, doing all the stuff i have wanted to do for years but never managed to because i something always turned up, which is rubbish because there is only 1 person in charge of your actions. A business or life that isnt always changing and moving is just like a river that stops flowing, it becomes stagnent. i have been out for a run today and done some training for the first time in 2 years and rejoined my gym. i bought another chipper at the show which i am really excited about, even more so than my new truck. all in all things are good. just waiting for my wife and kids to arrive home safely after their weekend away. cant wait:thumbup:
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you should start a mobile bar ian, thank goodness i never had the merrydown:scared1:
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if so, get yourself to an arbtalk get together, this was my 3rd trip down south and well worth every mile sat behind the wheel. meeting up with like minded folk to share stories that no one in a pub would understand, sharing stresses of bad customers and breakdowns but having a great time talking about trucks, trees, chippers and firewood. i always leave with a feeling of 'cant wait to get back to work' which i sometimes struggle to find. i have learned new techniques, new ideas, things i have overlooked for years and never even thought to try out. oh and i also found out that turkey oaks accorns are the ones like gengis cans fury hat:lol:. cheers john for that one, i will definately remember that and laugh when i think about it.
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sorry to hear that mate, i am fed up with a sore back big time, i have had it since i was 14, i am nearly 34. if i work like a dog it isnt too bad, but the rest of my body suffers and the vibrsations on my hands are a killer. i have been seeing the ostio 1 or 2 tmes a month now for 13 years. it affect my life so much, cant wash the car, cant do the garden, i have to get others to move things for me. carrying the kids is almost a no goer. it is fine by the end of the night as i have loosened up, but the mornings are a nightmare. i am sitting on a bouncy ball just now and i have shooting pains up my back. my spine is fine, it is all muscular, and i have been told yoga and stretching will cure my problem, so i am fed up making excuses for not doing this and being in pain. so yoga it is and i am off to see if a mate of mine who runs the gym will give me some personal training. and the mini loader is getting dropped off this week for a demo aswell.
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mr bullman
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youch, is it an old lighting hit??
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sorry i never got over to your stand and introduce myself mate, i was so busy yapping to everyone around the climbing comp and bar area i never really got over to the other stands. and by the time you guys were going to look at the sweet chestnut i had started the magners, dave came over and asked us if we were coming along, i laughed and said sweet chestnuts are rubbish, or something along those lines. how silly to i feel now:crying:. it looks amazing and the mikes building is truely awesome:thumbup:
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we missed most of friday due to travelling, usually with shows after 4-5 hrs i have had enough, not this one, it is great now knowing so many folk and it is so easy to go and talk to others that are just milling about, we usually go to the apf, and everyone walks about with their heads down. not any more, if i never got to say hi to everyone i am sorry, not enough hrs in the day. ps, tommer go and get you r phone mate
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bad news mate, i hope yo get sorted out soon
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well running about a tree was even stranger than i imagined,7min 43 secs. i could make up loads of excuses but why bother, really glad i tried it, it isnt easy infront of a crowd and i was really out my comfort zone, but it was a great feeling honking the big horn and getting a round of applause and a few cheers. thanks again nick:001_cool:
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nice one tom
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just back in, awesome show, great bunch of guys as per usual:thumbup1:. thanks to justin and all the other guys who turned up to show us there stuff and obviously a huge thankyou to kingswood training for having it in such a great setting, a massive cheers to nick@arbjobs for the play in the tree, my time will be kept a secret:crying:. And thanks again to Matt for showing me the ropes and so patiently talking to me and john about the srt and letting me have a go. cheers everyone, oh and thanks Mr Leach for the 4 litres of magners, your mobile bar was awesome. Oh and cheers to the 2 wee boys who loaded the fire so well all night. night night i am knackered:thumbup:
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i see your chessies are dying off too. god job mate:cool1:, ashame about the tree though:sad:
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i see railway is starting to spend some monet again.
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i was keeping away from this as long as i could phenom, i knew i would lower the tone even if it was serious:w00t:
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you have those big cheeky chappy rosey cheeks though john, that will stop folk focussing on your ears dumbo boy:thumbup:
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28!!!!!!!!i thought you were about 50 mate:ohmy:. you need a holiday my friend:001_tt2:
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that can be arranged tomorrow night dean, ha ha sleep tight surf boy:scared1:
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john you need to get some pollarding into your life mate:lol:
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i have seen a mini digger with a donkey engine on the back of it, it was at the apf 5 years ago, it has all the forestery guarding, ias edd says it can go down as far as the arm will reach, it was a shortened re enforced one though..
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my old man was a firewood maniac so i grew up in the woods and on the back of tractors and operating splitters. left school did some gargening and greenkeeping but been doing it for a living now 12 years ish. i am 34 next month, but i class myself as retired now compared to how hard i used to work:001_cool:
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whats your address for the consultation invoice:ohmy:
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huck and dean are in the games room and they just shouted to me it was a jenz:lol:
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excellent idea for someone with a tractor working locally. if it has been made properly and the drawbar weight isnt too much then a very handy piece of kit
