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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Gladwins spent £7k in parts and labour, and off the road for 7 weeks, after the front of my transit tipper was ripped off last year after a 40 ton beet lorry decided to try and kill me.
  2. oldwoodcutter
    Ide say something like - do you mind keeping it down a bit, and if that didnt work, i would say it in stronger terms.
  3. oldwoodcutter
    Clay shooting, and being thankful my eyes have opened again after a nights sleep.
  4. oldwoodcutter
    Happy birthday my friend
  5. oldwoodcutter
    Day off today, but yesterday was really good, connies topped, hedges all clipped, shrubs all pruned back, 4 of us finished in the pelting rain at 6:00. Customer paid on the doorstep and gave me an extra ton as thanks for slogging on. The evening was rounded off with a nice glass of beer - mrs oldwoodcutters headaches started in 1984 as i recollect.
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    I am good friends with 4 lifelong climbers in my area, they all run their own domestic and commercial tree companies and they all also climb as subbies too. They are in their forties and fifties and all prefer to only use a prussik. I have occasionally asked why they like to stay old school and there answer is the same - 'safe and simple'
  7. oldwoodcutter
    Some days its endless conifer,trimming,topping,removing or chipping. Yes they can be soaking wet,or dirty, dusty,sappy,and spikey. But we'd all be poorer without them.
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    Dolmar

    oldwoodcutter replied to luap's topic in Chainsaws

    I looked under my bench Shavey, but all i picked up was a dead rat
  9. oldwoodcutter
    Thats true Johny,but the vibes are picked up off the towball,through the chassis, and upwards.Thats my humble opinion rightly or wrongly.
  10. oldwoodcutter
    I ask that the chipper is detached before work commences, my transit is temperamental enough without vibrating all the electric connectors and half the other stuff on it for hours on end.
  11. oldwoodcutter
    This is the sort of post that i like to read on a/t, i would think it very unlikely the little git will try to nick anything out of white noise's yard any time soon. Some years ago i was in the same situation, and even now if i got wind that someone was going to visit my yard i would do it again. I think i can just about remember how to dish out a few internal injuries.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    If he had 1000 customers,he would be one of the biggest firewood retailers in the country.Just carry on as normal my friend.
  13. oldwoodcutter
    You make me laugh Eggs
  14. oldwoodcutter
    I havn't posted lately for the simple reason my laptop bust,but a young i.t. fellow got it going again. He did tell me what was up with it,but i cannot say because i didnt understand a word he said.
  15. oldwoodcutter
    No holidays here ime afraid, the thought of driving to Gatwick for 4 in the morning and then waiting 3 hours in a big shed before flying to some crumby hotel,or forking out £400 for the priviledge of dossing in a damp 'holiday cottage' for a week here in the uk is stress i can do without.
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    Well he's keen and getting stuck into it leastways. If anyones got his number i will give him a days trial. PPE all supplied of course.
  17. oldwoodcutter
    Sorry to hear that ,hope your insurance pays up quickly.
  18. oldwoodcutter
    And for the avoidance of doubt, i have never claimed dole,pay my taxes in full,am insured to the hilt for everything and everyone,and would open my books to anybody.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    That's a little strong my friend.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    Thats one reason my trucks are not sign written. Its bad enough them following my chipper home,its another showing the address and inviting them where to find everything.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    A nice burger with onions and relish washed down with a cuppa off the roach coach at the clay shoot. Very tasty.
  22. oldwoodcutter
    Ive been caught twice in the past year or so, in a front garden with lots of tall shrubs and bushes,the old dear had come out with biscuits and gone in again,i took the opportunity,only to hear her ask me something behind my back half way through. More recently we are treeing in a young couples garden,who are out at work, with the mother who lives next door coming out to see how we are progressing. She goes back in her front door,so i have a drain off in a hedge round the back beside daughters house,next thing i know,the mother is standing right by my side,i mean standing watching me like one foot away.i later see theres a hidden door in the fence panels between there back gardens,and she'd come through that. I just apologised but that didnt cut much ice with her,and later in the day she told us not to bother to come the next day to do her trees,as had been arranged.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    Since one has been invaded one talks differently now, what what what.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    That hurt my eyes.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    Ime with lloyds too,always found them ok.

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