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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Thanks for that Dave,i hadn't realised there were different types,ive just ordered some P3 best masks from screwfix, to keep all that nasty dust out.
  2. oldwoodcutter
    I started coughing around a year ago,been to gp 3 times,had 2 x rays and 1 blood test, when my gp did speak he said your lungs are clear but i know they aren't. Started wearing masks when cutting and splitting and coughing a bit less now, i use the ones for car body filler dust.
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    Personally cant stand listening or watching him for a minute,out of all the people they could have given the job to,they give it to him.
  4. oldwoodcutter
    On council tendered work here,one of the conditions is not to engage in conversation about the works with members of the public. Ive been in that situation with domestic work and always tell the mouth to jog on.
  5. oldwoodcutter
    One scruffy herbert crossed my path recently,i told him to his face he was a scrounging git, mrs oldwoodcutter was not impressed,but i cant stand that sort.
  6. oldwoodcutter
    Goodbye Mike. R.I.P.
  7. oldwoodcutter
    Thats certainly a rough load they've brought you there my friend,but perhaps you didnt pay a lot for it,and that was what you wanted. Good luck.
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    I am very wary nowadays when using a topper on the ground,2 or 3 years ago my 200t launched itself back at me and stopped just under my throat while i was using it,lone working, 1 handed on the ground. I can guarantee that an experience like that will make anyone slow down and contemplate their own mortality.
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    Was out pricing after tea tonight,ime in a half acre woodland area at the bottom of a big manicured garden,trees very close and wants windblown firs dismantled some have tops torn out and hanging,some just leaning on others.Ime thinking 3 days work at least here. They want trunk and topwood saved for logs,but what to do with the brash,i suggest bonfire but i cant see where to have one safely,cant get a chipper within 200 yards of it,ime trying to get the old brain cells working when the lady says in all seriousness "why dont you use that" and points to a small metal dustbin size incinerator in the edge of the wood that has half burnt bank statements stuck around its base. That lightened up the journey home for me.
  10. oldwoodcutter
    The generousity of some customers knows no bounds.
  11. oldwoodcutter
    There are a few favourite things in the day to day trials of tree and hedge world,but on balance my favourite one has always been taking the cheque off the customer on their doorstep,folding it in half and putting it in my wallet.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    Just for knocking about i wear the itex glasses,and when the chips are flying i slip on the clarks safe eyes. I found that even with the husky visor down and itex on, bits of chip would still somehow get in my eyes, something that the specsavers eye test experts told me to avoid now. And of course the safe-eyes dont mist up.
  13. oldwoodcutter
    Looking good,i threw my moody husky away couple of months ago and got another dolmar, hasnt missed a beat in that time.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    Ime no exception in having a dodgy back. There was talk a few pages ago about overstretching - this i always avoid because everytime my back goes its because ive overstretched. If ime short handed and have to help on the job with some heavy humping i put on my weightlifters belt to keep my spine in place.
  15. oldwoodcutter
    Yes Reg, we'd be lost without it some days, always liked it.
  16. oldwoodcutter
    I dont know Jon,but i had to laugh last year - I was helping out at a big pheasant shoot, and an upper class toff lord somebody was a guest there shooting, and he got in a new ssangyong and it wouldnt start no matter how long he hung on the key. One of the local farm boys walking past it with me said to him "What do you expect if you buy sh*te " and carried on walking. Should of seen the look on lords face.
  17. oldwoodcutter
    Guilty as charged.
  18. oldwoodcutter
    With a pal of mine in his defender this morning and apparantly the new euro compliant defender is going to be made in a new purpose built factory in wolverhampton as fro 1 jan 16 according to what he read in land rover mag. Whether thats true i dont know,all i can tell you for certain is after a 5 mile journey in the passenger seat i literally fall out feeling like ime 101 and it takes me 10 minutes to stand up straight and walk normally again.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    I was showing a young fellow how to do it the other day,but i can only do it quickly,when i slowed it down i couldnt get it right no matter how many times i did it,only at normal speed which of course was too quick for him to follow easily.
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    I priced up some treework for the new owner of a property while the sale was going through,although his wife didnt want them touched until the rooks had left their nests.The lawns up to that time had been mown by the seller. When we turned up couple of months later the grass was now hay,which was alright,but absolutely plastered in heaps of rottweiler muck,from 3 or 4 of their mutts. I renegotiated the price in a upwards direction.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Thought i recognised it,I have one as well, it is well built and very reliable.
  22. oldwoodcutter
    Is that a jonsered 2045 Metsa?
  23. oldwoodcutter
    Yes that was what i thought at first glance,but often with connies someone will crawl out of the cord heap and do it for £150.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    Yes ime watching it Tom, another true hero who helped us win the war.
  25. oldwoodcutter

    Dolmar

    oldwoodcutter replied to luap's topic in Chainsaws

    You're right there my friend, but none the less i still take my 111 out as a back-up saw,it has never let me down and has taken over when husky or stihl have spluttered to a standstill many times over the years.

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