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Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles
csservices replied to TRADITIONAL LOGGERS's topic in The Lounge
People did'nt starve then due to rationing! Hedgerow and woodland were ripped up to increase the available productive land and people were encouraged to dig up their gardens and grow there own vegetables, the UK is currently only 60% self sufficent in food, meaning that if we had no imports the country would only have enough food for 219 days. The problem is that back during the second world war people still spent around 40% of their income on food whereas today it is something like 15% as they want it cheap as possible so they can spend thier money on other things. -
Did mine the other week, basic green card, just been given copy of my pass certificate to carry so far, boss has said I've got to go do the ROLO one at some point, some firms are uber strict on paperwork and others not so much, one building firm made me fill out a breaking ground ticket, a puwer inspection ticket and god knows what else before I could do some stump grinding
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Bought one earlier in the year manged 6 weeks on it without any baccy, then slowly started scrounging of the other lads and then was back on the rollies full time again, still use the e cig now and again, think I need to find a liquid I like more, have given up loads of times over the years but seems alot harder this time working with 5 other smokers
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Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles
csservices replied to TRADITIONAL LOGGERS's topic in The Lounge
As I understand it this is what the reform of the CAP is trying to reduce although I don't think it goes far enough, as a farmer I have never claimed any subsidies, the confusion comes between landowners and farmers, I rent all the land I farm, under the current rules the landowner can claim all the subsidies without doing any work on or to the land, with the new reforms they will have to prove they are actively farming it which suddenly makes it less attractive to investors who have bought up and let land knowing they can get rent plus extra return from subsidies for doing nowt. Joe public tends to see the arable boys in big shiny tractors and it fuels the perception of rich farmers, they ignore the fact that uk food is produced under the highest welfare standards in the eu if not the world but the suppliers are screwed to down to prices at or below the cost of production by supermarkets who supply all the cheap food. -
Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles
csservices replied to TRADITIONAL LOGGERS's topic in The Lounge
Nice to see the usual bull still being spewed about us farmers, if its so profitable please feel free to explain to me why I'm subbing to a tree surgeon 5 days a week to make ends meet! You'd be damn sure to be jumping up and down if I stated all tree surgeons were pikies cos they drive transits, with regard to the original post if its the accident I think it is the tractor was hit by a car causing the tractor to overturn and kill the tractor driver. -
£7.00 - £12.00 per metre, usually average out at 20 yards a day big hedges are usually quicker especially if gappy as you can cover 2-3 yds laying one tree, biggest thing most people do with overstood hedges is to take too much out before they lay them, best to take out just enough to free it up and make it handleable and then gives you more choice of brush left to work in rather than ending up with a hedge which is mostly trunk
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At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
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Certainly was been a 3 coat day today
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Ay up = hello yer = your sen =self ow art = how are you as in "ow art thou or thee" thou and thee = you mate,bud,youth,kid,owd lad, young 'un =friend all used regardless of age and sometimes gender with the exception of owd lad owd =old snap,bait,scran =food usually your pack up for dinner can't think of any more at the minute
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There was a young cadet threatened here in Belper by some two hat last week for selling poppies and I think another one in Derby, obviously don't have the courage of thier convictions to try threatening an ex serviceman or any other adult Me and the other half went and saw the poppy seller in the coop this morning and got ours while we were down town least we can do for those who have given so much
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Had the same a couple of months back comments from the boss and the other half about me looking scruffy, mind had'nt had time for a haircut since spring either which did'nt help, other half has now decided she likes the beard so I'm cultivating it but I'm beginning to think it ws reverse psychology as trimming it every day seems to take longer than having a shave
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Don't need to haggle with my local machinery dealer now, if I show an interest in something he just says "so I suppose you want to know how cheap you can have it now?" As for customers the ones I know will or suspect will I stick a bit more on the price first so I still get the price I need and they think they've got a deal
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Usually chocolate weetabix or similar for breakfast, mini pork pie or chocolate bar for second breakfast, scotch egg for morning break, couple of slices of home made chorizo quiche or a sarnie for dinner with a yoghurt, don't tend to have anything at afternoon break now, always take a flask and a thermal mug of coffee, plus a bottle of isotonic and if its hot another litre of squash too, unless I'm driving tractor all day in which case I have a tendency not to stop to eat dinner even if I've got it and survive all day on coffee and roll ups
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Not bad really seem to self clean pretty well, been mulching on a pretty muddy site for the last fortnight and not had any problems
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Boss had these put on the back of the fastrac recently done a fortnight with them on the mulcher so far alot better ride on road than ag pattern toothttp://www.atgtire.com/images/brochures/ALLIANCE-550-MULTIUSE-6-06-2011.pdfhe
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RSPCA on spital lane might take some chip for thier outside exercise pen, if they've used the mountain we tipped there last year when clearing the site across the road
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Apple?
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Funny lines that customers come out with!
csservices replied to danroker1987's topic in General chat
I did put the xmas tree in and got my brother to do the outside light, as she did always go to Birds and fetch an apple pie when she knew we were going -
Exactly my thoughts tickets are no proof of competency all they prove is you attended a 5 day course and on the day of the test managed to prove to a suitable level that you were competent on that day, the number of people I have seen in the last 18 months since being in this business full time who range from careless to down right dangerous is astounding and all have tickets and rant about those who don't at the end of the day all tickets are from cs30/31 etc to cscs and so on are all an @rse covering exercise to satisfy the increasing blame culture in this country.
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Funny lines that customers come out with!
csservices replied to danroker1987's topic in General chat
Once got a job son lives in london and arranges me to do bits of garden work for his mum who lives in derby, when there one day he rings up and says whiles your there could you take the xmas tree inside for her and also she's got a new outside light needs fitting and oh are you able to hang some interior doors too? -
Funny lines that customers come out with!
csservices replied to danroker1987's topic in General chat
Talking to an old farmer on a job one day, as he was watching my mate doing something he turned to me an said "is he edumucated?" Funny one tonight nothing spoken, on way back to the yard was a tree down across the road so following the other cars across the verge to scout round it an old boy with a group of locals watching the situation got very excited at seeing us in the van with tree surgeons on it and started pointing and gesticulating at the tree, I just shook my head at him mouthed "NO!" laughrd and kept going -
£90 per day as subby groundie no tickets but 25 years experience on the saws and also able to drive tractors etc. hopefully going to make another attempt to get my tickets soon the 3 times I've booked on the course in the past its been cancelled for one reason or another.
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we used to lamp them with a .410 and maglite great sport, remeber one of the funniest things was at college after we'd been shown how to set whip snares for rats some of the lads decided to try them on an old established rat set on the college farm, overnight me and my mate went and found some potatoes with suitably long sprouts on them to make it look like a tail, drew eyes and whiskers on them and put them in the snares, they never did catch any rats with them but the air was a bit blue when they found the taters
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nobody is above any job, regardless of what thier job title is, you also need the patience of a saint, negotiation skills of the finest mediator, listen to things in confidence like a priest, give advice like a father, listen to their moans like a mother and on top of all that keep them pointed in the right direction to make sure the job gets done and every one goes home safe
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Tesco going down what do you all think thanks
csservices replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Bout time Tesco's got some karma the amount of small suppliers they have screwed over the years tieing farmers and growers into contracts to supply which are riddled with penalties and get out clauses weighted in favour of Tesco, not to mention thier habit of riding rough shod over communities by slapping up there stores where there is no want or need for them
