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Thats what I'm hoping

I'd like to wish everyone Merry Christmas, especially the Cornish boys

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I've bought my wife a new logsplitter, I'm sure she'll like it

If that's all you said, you're a better man than me I would have told them exactly what to do with their big load of logs.

bloody brilliant!

Saw Sick Steve says, "I'd like to think that with a quality, home produced, eco-friendly product people would be prepared to pay a bit extra, like with logs - but we all know how fickle the Great British Public can be. You bin drinking ?

There was a tranny pick up in a layby on the A53 near Market Drayton today, trying to sell nets at £4.50. I went by him four times, I don't think he'd shifted much, I hope not as he was a mile from my back door

:001_smile:I'll see what I can do,

Is this a lunge pose? Did my leg ought to be nearer the horizontal? Advice please, so I can get it right.

All hardwood Bri, they keep talking about snow, it's supposed to turn really cold Thursday according to the forecast, Easterly winds from Siberia, good times

Things have definately picked up here, phone pretty busy yesterday, and plenty to get out this week.

I got cut off in mid stride there, this story has'nt finished, Me; I don't sell by weight, I sell by volume Cust; Oh whats that? M; Basically, it's how much space it will take up, you will get approx. a cubic metre. C; What's that? M; Well, when it's stacked you should have, roughly, a stack one metre high, one metre wide and one metre deep. C; Oh I see, (but I could tell from the tone of her voice that she did'nt see). So is that the same as half a load then? M; Yes C; I'll just go and have a word with my husband. After what seemed like five minutes she came back on, ok we'll have a cubic metre of logs then. For the hell of it I almost asked if she was sure she did'nt want half a load but my patience and Mr Smooth voice was wearing thin

Or do they? Phone rings this morning, Customer; I'd like a half load of logs please Me; Certainly C; Could you deliver tomorrow please, before noon M; I think I could manage that C; How much will it be M; £70 C; And how much will we get M; Half a load C; But how much wood will we get, in weight.

Try North Walford college in Shropshire, they are currently subsidising courses, I will try to get a direct contact for you, as I know the office is not always open.

If he takes that lot in one bash, I thinked he's doomed anyhow

Before you go to bed at night, try good old Vick, a dollop in a mixing bowl, add boiling water, head under a towel and spend 15 minutes breathing in the vapour, works wonders,

Dead right, too many people out there selling crap at silly prices, give them good seasoned stuff and don't fleece them, and they'll come back.

The second video is what most people see, and they think its quaint and lovely, and totally non-commercial, which "that" is. It makes my teeth itch when he says, "horse logging is slow, VERY slow", I always find myself shouting at the pc then, talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Any forester seeing that, pulling one 8ft log at a time will just shake his head and walk away. I have mentioned Simon Lenihan before, he told me about a job he was called in to do, Ashpole Wood,in Yorkshire. A group of "horse loggers" had got a contract to extract ash trees from a steep place, they felled the trees, (80-100ft), straight as a die, and then started to cross cut them:ohmy: at 8ft lengths, to parbuckle them onto a small 8-wheeler, after 3 days they had extracted approx. 10 ton. This was too much for the head forester, who had them out.Horse logging was now a dirty word. The land agent knew of Simon and he was called in to finish the job. He felled the trees on to a bearer, this gave the horses the help they needed to start the load, one horse, tree length, straight down the bank into the field below. When the head forester turned up at lunch time, there was 30 ton in the field, he wanted to know "who" had got them there, he could not believe it at first, untill he saw it with his own eyes. But, had he not seen a good man, (and horse) at work, he would forever have damned horse logging, based on his experience with the first gang. They just did not have the know how to deal with it, yet they all advertise themselves as professional horse loggers, tarring us all with the same brush

Yes, I've got that one. I have got one on it's way from Greg Caudell now. I've also got a great Scandanavian one, which takes you through from a single horse and sled, through to a pair and powered grapple loader. It is amazing what muscle power, pulleys and leverage can achieve, unfortunately a lot of knowledge is being lost each passing year and it needs to be redressed now, I know from my own experience just how much you can learn from a knowledgeable man, I learnt more in two weeks from one chap, than I would have learnt in two years on my own.

LOL, I should have known

I'm glad that people enjoy seeing it, done well it is impressive stuff, unfortunately there are some people who play at it, call themselves horse loggers and then pull out a twig at a time, and wonder why no-one takes them seriously. This is what I mean [ame] [/ame]

This is a chap called Greg Caudell, lives and works in Washington state, just watch this through to the end and then tell me theres no place for horse logging in this day and age [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAA7XZSGQs&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Belgian draft horses logging 3 abreast[/ame]

All split and under cover in a dutch barn now, had 3 repeat orders today,