cousin jack

Finding it hard to write this without getting myself in trouble from the mods

 

The amount of training these guys put themselves through and the ruthless selection processes, the seat races, the ergo tests, the 4.30am winter morning rows. What a brilliant race until that ... "plonker" ... got involved.

 

As much as I support Cambridge and have raced many times on their waters, its a truely ugly way to win

 

Best wishes to Alex Woods for a speedy recovery

 

BBC Sport - Boat Race: Swimmer halts contest, bowman collapses at finish line

Agreed

All that felling and cross-cutting by hand...just shows what an innovation the petrol chainsaw was! and the timber hauler looks like a model T Ford on skis..

Yep, the chainsaw was a great invention, but, those guys still got the job done!

Not to many obesity problems neither despite having 4 cooked meals a day,

Now on you-tube

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKCjQdxtO0&feature=g-hist&context=G2bc55ecAHT36ujQAAAA]From stump to ship: A 1930 logging film - YouTube[/ame]

Me too, nice to see the police taking a sensible approach as well.

Fantastic, nice to know there still out there.

Tidy

RIP. The second young man I've heard of this week, my accountant's son was killed in a car crash on Tuesday night. I can only imagine the pain of the parents and friends of these young people.

haha! brilliant

love the 'We're fundamentally shiite'

I thought that was good too!

Brilliant, was that actually on a truck?

Yep, outside the local farmers store, not seen it around before but I laughed my socks off when I saw it.

Saw this today, had to take a pic

Best of luck, chap!

Update Derek the lamb has had his rubber rings put must admit he did wriggle abit but he;s happy as Larry out on the grass with his sister Doreen & his mother Dolly!!!

Derek aka Rovers 90 popped over yesterday to see me.Were busy lambing 600 ewes at the moment.As were stood talking a ewe decided to lamb so i went over to see if it was ok it was.So i had a look at what sex it was its a male so i named it after Derek.We'll see how Derek manages through life!!!Was good to see him anyway & im sure he went home like a proud father!!

Ahh, but what will Derek think when he has one of them rubber bands popped round his knackers, and he gets covered in mint sauce in a few months time.

He only does the reclaimed stuff, I need new, cheers

Farther away, but Venables Bros, Chipnall, Market Drayton, Shropshire, will have you want.

It won't be English Oak though, all imported from Europe.

Nothing to do with trees or arb, but just see how they moved wheat off a high plateau, fantastic.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCnCVmzugZ8&feature=player_embedded]Mayview Tram, Snake River, ca. 1935 - YouTube[/ame]

Picked first wild food of the season yesterday.

 

Got the wood fired pizza oven going and had wild garlic and oyster (branched mi thinks) mushroom pizza. Just base, olive oil and the above.

 

W O N D E R F U L L

 

Anyone else foraging?

My horses are, they are going mad for the wild garlic at the moment, field runs alongside a river and every morning they have a heavy garlic breath.

Ha ha quality !! dont you just love em..........

She said, "she felt the earth move", first time in 25yrs apparently!

Hey what saw did you use there,sounded like an old classic growler.

Oh yes, 076, built for power not speed

Blink and you'll miss the action part, the missus did'nt realise that when I walk away the action is about to start. She had missed the first one, hence my comment.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G512SBYvEcM&context=C4a66b7aADvjVQa1PpcFNsxyw2IC3TBgP6dIgu0ZmRQH0XocBtJLw=]Poplar fell - YouTube[/ame]

Best of luck, nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Managed it at last.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd1OwFq45p0&feature=g-upl&context=G22a43b2AUAAAAAAAAAA]Hermes, Leonne, Horse Drawn Forwarder.mp4 - YouTube[/ame]

Is that the Swedish one that Marcus Vanstone and that John Bunce used to use?

SJM, not sure if thats the same as theirs. Someone did tell me, that Marcus Vanstones weighed far too much unladen. Mine can be pushed around on the level no problem. Mine has they advantage of being able to connect to a 50mm tow hitch so can be pulled by anything suitable.

There are some new laws or possibly guidelines coming in soon, I am not sure which but I do know things are altering.

 

We have an operators license for our HGV's and I know haulage firms have to have CPC as well. We have got around this in the past because I do not employ anyone as a driver although driving is part of their daily routine, I emply arborist's. However, the guy who does our training is telling me that is no longer the case, if you drive a HGV or employ people who do then you have got have CPC Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) | Driver Training | RoSPA

 

Thoughts?.

I'm told anyone who has a vocational licence must do 35hrs of training every five yrs, if you don't do it, license will be revoked. It's rubbish really, because there is nothing to say you have to do the various modules, you could attend the drivers hours module five times and there's your 35hrs, ridiculous.

you have to upload videos to youtube or other hosting sites then post the link, as I dont think you can upload them straight to arbtalk as a video

Thanks, never uploaded one of me own, they take forever on you tube though, might have to do it tomorrow.

Ok, can anyone tell me why video is not appearing? I am uploading and when completed press submit reply, but no vid. only text.