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Henry fails drug test and is chucked out of World Cup!
cousin jack replied to alex_m's topic in The Lounge
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Jesus, this brings back some memories, I took a girlfriend there for a meal in 1978, wine and everything, cost me a packet and all I got was a kiss
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I do firewood and I think tree surgeons are making nearly as much as I am.
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I'll second what Davetaz says, Thor is brilliant.
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Bugs, bees and beasties- Bio-diversity matters
cousin jack replied to White Noise's topic in Ecology
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'spose you went to Grammar School, and learnt to read and write, us Camborne boys did'n 'ave to, we was all goin work up Holmans.
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Some more of Hermes and I at Jacksons Bank, on the forwarder
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Marc, I have heard of him, but not met him, but would very much like to, as I know he is highly thought of by my mentor, Simon Lenihan. Now, I am told that horsepower was not a way of describing output by the strength of the horses but as follows; when steam engines were first introduced to farming operations for threshing etc, they were usually pulled from farm to farm by horses. The bigger the engine the more horses it took to pull it, so a farmer who wanted a engine to do his threshing could ascertain the size and output of the engine by how many horses he had to send to collect it from the farm where it was currently in use, 4,6,8 horsepower. So by that reckoning my horse is 1 HP
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The first pic of this sequence is now in it's second summer since laying, the others are of the hedge I did this winter, one shot of a stump, about 2" diameter and it is already regenerated 4 shoots, ai'nt nature brilliant.
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Naw, tid'n a 'edge 'tall, really, is a I'll take a pic this evening, heathered and greened up now.
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Plippy, if she could read you'd get a good kicking if she ever met you, she hates being called a shire She is an Ardennes. No, the noise dos'nt bother them at all, they are used to chainsaws anyway, in fact she anticipates by the note of the engine, if I lower the revs, she knows we are probably going to move on, and she will start to move forward, I will always check her as it is a bad habit to get into, (moving before you give the command). She will take a little bit of notice if I slew towards her to quickly, although the grab is blocked from going 360 degrees so it would not hit her, but if a log was in the grapple it could. Occasionally I forget to set the stabilisers, and the forwarder tips over 45 degrees or untill the boom hits the floor, she looks around at me as if to say, " you amateur"
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Hermes, on the forwarder
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Hermes and I, I'm at full stretch because I've managed to get both feet under some brash, and I know if I try to go another step, I'll be ass over tit, luckily made it without giving the camera man a good laugh.
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David Roycroft & Karen Kilshaw of Logs on Draught, at Jacksons Bank
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One I did this year, it was a barsteward, 15-18ft high, entangled with branches 4 trees along, I say trees because some of them where. Anyway, I made something of it,
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Why did he hold onto the sides of the ladder, not the rungs?
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I have great admiration for the man, I would have been cacking it 40ft off the floor.
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Thanks for the support Andy, it is fair to say that some of the horse loggers out there are playing at it, and that, unfortunately tarnishes us all with the same brush. We cannot compete with modern forestry extraction, that much is patently obvious, but neither should we, we are a niche market, better suited for some areas than others, and we can work alongside modern techniques. The other thing is some people are charging silly money to do a days work without any garantee of production, horse loggers should be able to work to a tonnage rate, or a fair day rate if timber is poor or in poorly managed woodland. A lot of people are put off for life by someone quoting £300 a day by someone who dos'nt want to do a hard, long contract in forestry, again those people are ruining it for those of us who are prepared to work hard.
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No tree surgery for me, one thing is all those knots confuse me, and if I can't fell something in three cuts I'm bolloxed, fortunately I have a friend who is an arb.
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Not sure if that is the one, but we were on the bank above the pond this week and loads of them there, really nice to see.
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Kat1e's early spotted orchid in flower,
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I realise this is taking the thread slightly off course, but want to show how horses can work with modern forestry. The wood we are working in is high profile, public access at all times, when thinning operations started Tilhill were getting complaints from the public daily, since bringing in horses, not one complaint, and the operation is now ongoing, we are skidding to rideside, secondary extraction with a Valmet, operated by Big Dave of Chase Timber.
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This is Bruno and David Roycroft of Logs on Draught, who I'm working with at the moment.
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He's just relaxed there, you should see it when he's really showing off !
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The Lenihan family, the best and most professional horse loggers in the UK, IMO http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members/cousin-jack-albums-horse-logging-picture1831-horselogging-march-2009-035.jpg
