oldwoodcutter
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So you want to be a freelance climber do you?
oldwoodcutter replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
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. -
Yes Reg, we'd be lost without it some days, always liked it.
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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.
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Guilty as charged.
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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.
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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.
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Thought i recognised it,I have one as well, it is well built and very reliable.
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Is that a jonsered 2045 Metsa?
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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.
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Yes ime watching it Tom, another true hero who helped us win the war.
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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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Thanks for posting Dean.
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A few pictures of the South Suffolk Show.
oldwoodcutter replied to eggsarascal's topic in General chat
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Last year we had 2 young pigeons on a lawn out of a connie. They were well feathered and nearly at the flying stage. From in the tree i saw one of the lads place these 2 birds on top of a panel fence. A minute later a sparrow hawk swooped in and grabbed one, i didnt see what happened to the other,he looked a bit vunerable on there, so i dont think he was around for very long either.
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The whole treework industry has been devalued for years.
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We all get undercut but its sometimes a bitter pill to swallow when you see someone working on a job you've priced,especially if you're a bit short of work.You know your rates,stick to them ,advertise,and more work will come. I price a raggedy old connie hedge few weeks ago,to which the customer laughed at and walked away from me. Last saturday morning i was down that neck of the woods,slowed down to see a fellow with an escort van and a trailer,he was standing on his trailer reaching to the top using a pair of shears.
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Same here, very scarce. When i was a young man a cuckoo settled into a tree that i was standing under and started to sing,a sight and sound that i will never forget.Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
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That one made me laugh.
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When the forst was new it was the muts nuts,but even with the best maintainence it has got worse and worse with one thing after another, to the point now that after an hours use,a gravity fed one would be quicker as it has the grip of a limp wristed estate agent.
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You make me laugh Stubby.
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Lancashire CC to charge for tipping Diy waste
oldwoodcutter replied to egnsean's topic in General chat
My local one is so bad that if i go i stuff everything in mrs oldwoodcutters hatchback, transit tippers are turned round straight back out of the gate with little or no reason given. Even when i go with the hatch the hi viz police talk to you like they would to an old yard dog. The last time i was there 1 chap about 60 rubbed me up the wrong way so i told him he was born about 30 years too late as he could have got a job with the gestapo. But my remark fell on deaf ears. -
Well thats a thousand posts with all my good friends on a/t, i feel my age every morning now,am semi retired,and i only do half the work i used to, but god willing, i hope to still be around to make 2000. Tim.
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I was driving it the day it bent and ime no boy racer. Its the fact that they dont say 'yes we've had a few problems with axles bending' so at the time you think you are the first to ever have one bend on you.
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Well it comes with all the hubs and brakes on,i was told the bare axle was not available.
