cousin jack
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Lit ours last night, and picked me first mushrooms this morning, so Autumn is here.
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They don't have to be heavys, but weight pulls weight. Also, the training of a logging horse takes considerable time to achieve, it is not simply a case of hitching a log and getting on with it. I personally would think long and hard about what to do, I once sold a horse to a dealer, saw him again three months later and cried like a baby for an hour, I bought the horse back just to put him down, never again will I do that. Very often, horses that do not have a specific role/use in life just get passed from dealer to sale/dealer and end up having a pretty miserable existance. I would have a horse put down, rather than just passing it on to absolve my guilt, (not saying that you are doing that), it's a hard decision but better than what could happen.
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Don't think it was that they tried to control everything to soon, but more down to the point that they got no help when it was needed, 8 men could have caught the lead group, but not 4. As it was, Germany cut off their nose to spite their face.
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Highlights of The Tour for me, Thomas Voekler, the speed as Wiggins launched Edvald Boassen Hagen off the final bend earlier in the week and that finish today, Mark Cavendish came from so far back, just amazing!
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He came down to Shropshire to help out with a job I was involved with, seemed like a good chap. Click on link to learn a little more about him. http://www.britishhorseloggerscharitabletrust.org/pages/ds.htm
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The chap I'm thinking of is called Dan Sumner. Why, is there something he should know about the horse?
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Currently working in The Emerald Isle by the side of The River Liffey, Wednesday nights rain saw the river rise a metre, local farmers all moved sheep from the adjoining fields, river did'nt burst it's banks but was touch and go.
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Bang tidy
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Good stuff Ace, you get the job done!
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Watched it on tv, GREAT. Pageantry and tradition is something we are good at. And is'nt our Queen some lady, 86, and stood all the way through. Harry looked like he was gasping for a fag about half time though.
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Went to "a farm" yesterday where there 1.5 million chickens apparently. Never saw a single chicken but saw a lot of eggs, drove under an overhead gantry, looked up saw a moving line about a metre wide, and it was taking eggs, thousands of them, from the sheds to the packing plant, impressive in it's scale and design, but not where I would want my eggs to come from.
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I would say cymag was a better product because it could actually be blown into burrows, via a pipe, you could do all your sealing up before you started, there was also an antidote in the form of amyl nitrate, no such antidote for phosphine as far as I am aware, either way gassing is not very nice for man or beast, and is not something I would contemplate these days.
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No doubt about it, I had a very lucky escape. As I said, I will never use it again. Cymag was a far better product to use, IMO
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A few years back, I did a rabbit gassing job under some Rhodies, lots of crawling about on hands and knees, should of been wearing a full face mask, (which I had), but was'nt wearing. Took me all afternoon, finished went home, could'nt eat my tea, felt extremely nauseous, headache, went to bed at 7pm and slept the sleep of the dead. When telling this to someone else a few weeks later he told me a story of someone who had done exactly the same sort of thing, but he never woke up. I have never used phostoxin since and never will. Your call, but you cannot be to careful with the stuff.
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Yep, very good, thanks for posting.
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Yes please,
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[ame] [/ame]
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Yep, drove one for years, that's why I turned to horses.
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Had to call the fire service this evening...
cousin jack replied to Rebel_Commando's topic in General chat
Some people really have their brains up their backside, hope the people responsible are hauled over the coals, the people who gave them the contract should be held to account as well. -
Yep, stove still burning here. Burning all that wood that's no good apparently, pop = toasty.
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Opinels are a great little knife for the money, but the serious flaw with them is, when it gets soaking wet, the wood swells, jams the blade, and you can't bleddy open it when you need it.
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Benbow Bros would do it.
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Arran, just do a google and you tube search for horse logging and/or logging with horses, should give you a good start. Far more extensive in North America and Europe than over here.
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Glad to hear it!
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"She", is the great British public, they always know best.
