oldwoodcutter
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What site did you go on to get that picture up Al, I googled 'check my broadband speed' but the sites mine threw up all wanted me to change my provider and to give them a lot of info I don't like doing . Tim
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Rates for Self Employed Handcutters
oldwoodcutter replied to MattyBuist's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Well Matty I personally wouldn't recommend standing behind a saw doing forestry 7 days a week, the job is blinking hard enough 6 days a week. Yes I've known some fellows get their heads down and arse up week in and week out like that , until they have a close call or two through tiredness and lack of concentration and then they steady up a bit. I also know cutters at the end of their working life, and they havnt got a lot to show for it apart from rheumatics, a bad back, and white fingers. -
Hi lift .
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Sky tv so poor over christmas, best alternative?
oldwoodcutter replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
We've got freesat, seems ok , don't have it on much. -
Havnt opened one yet, been drinking tea. Christmas here is mainly spent keeping out from under Mrs oldwoodcutters feet.
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My one and only present was a pack of beer bottles - does that count?
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Used to use a large grease gun that was part of the tool kit out of a Ww2 American Pershing tank. One pump would release about a pound of grease on a hot day. I think I've still got it somewhere, can dig it out for you if that's any help.
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At least the advertiser is suggesting a chain saw is required to fell these trees, I expect he thought that if he didn't mention that, most professional tree guys would show up with a bow saw and an axe. What a numpty.
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Bit too flat hereabouts for snow boarding, now water boarding - well that's a different matter.
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I've hesitated to put a dash cam in Mrs oldwoodcutters runabout, as I'd be hard pressed to get insurance cover off any company.
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Yes the menacing 'genial' Harry Grout, told the other prisoners he was 'noted for his sense of humour ' didn't he?
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It has become customary for youngsters in modern times to spit all over the shop. What a filthy disgusting habit that is, and I tell them so too. And anybody gobbling out in view of a customer is told to consider his future working for me.
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Anyone under the age of 25 who always reply to my instructions with the one word 'awesome ' , whether they've understood it or not.
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That happened twice to me today whilst we were chipping. The second time I motioned for the culprit to pick up his armful of brash and put it thru himself. Even then he loaded it in back to front. . (Sigh)
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Leaving the chipper revving its guts out for yonks when there's plainly nothing left to chip. Have I told them about it ? Only about 100 times.
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In a lot of years cutting I've only had a topper come back at me once, and at the time I posted the experience on here. Yes, I still cut one handed a lot, but having that chain come to a stop a few inches from my throat with the bar flat on my chest will always be in my memory. Most of us regard ourselves as being fit and with good reflexes, but it was too quick and powerful for me to have any effect on, but I'm still cutting one handed. Well said Reg.
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If anyone lit up in my truck, they would be out the door with my old boot behind them.
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Advice Please - Timberwolf or Green Mech
oldwoodcutter replied to NCSTrees's topic in Large equipment
I've had q.chip, now got a tw230, which outperforms and is easier to maintain than qc or forst. -
I'm often tempted to pull over to that bunch of hi vis clad do-gooders and say "if I weren't completely bladdered I'd have an argument with you but I gotta go cos I'm bursting for a leak" That should wind things up a bit.
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Two lorry firms I know of want a down payment from new drivers of £500 and £1000 before they start their employment. Their lorry is inspected upon return to yard and any broken mirrors, lamp clusters, dents and grazes are taken out of that, no questions, no excuses. If they don't stump up the down payment they don't start driving, go and drive for someone else if you don't like it. The owners like this scheme, the drivers don't.
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I wouldn't want to be within 10 feet of that, knowing what can happen.
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I spend a good deal of my time up in north Norfolk and yes, it is soaked with tree firms from quite big players to many many sole traders all following each other round pricing up the same jobs and cutting each other up. In my humble, you may be better off specialising in aspects of tree work other than cutting and climbing.
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Drinking tea in front of logburner,gonna move back a bit in a minute.
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One tool worthy of a mention is a sledge hammer handle I keep in a handy spot up at my main yard, I expect it will come into full use when I catch the weasels red handed that like to help themselves to a few ton of my best cord from time to time.
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Yes, too big for your trouser pocket unless you're just walking around. Anything to do with work and I leave it in the truck.
