oldwoodcutter
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Got as far as the button switch identification,just a little too exciting for me ime afraid.
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Plaster of paris,or portland cement was used by old rat catchers, but not in the way mentioned above. As a boy i hung around with a rat catcher,and sometimes we were called to an infestation in a shed or house,where it was not obvious how the little devils were getting in or out,so he would lay what he called 'tracking powder'. As they walked on the powder they left their footprints on the floor,and this is exactly where the traps would be laid the next day with deadly results. I can see him now, when we got home, picking all the days dead rats up by their tails out the back of his van and casually tossing them into the tall nettles down the bottom of his little garden.
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Clients who line up their garden rubbish for your chipper.
oldwoodcutter replied to Mountain man's topic in General chat
If the piles clean and relatively straight forward, i usually say something like "if you put the kettle on and bring the biscuits out i should think so" But not sawn up fence panels,barbed wire,or turf for all the tea in china. -
Most unsuitable replacement for Jeremy Clarkson
oldwoodcutter replied to Mike Dempsey's topic in The Lounge
Either of those 2 prats on pointless,that would make top gear even more pointless,but would make tea time tv a little more bareable. -
However, I did got away with the new Browning 725 last year by simply keeping it in its predecessors gun slip.
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I cant do anything without her finding out,if i pop back when she's out to make a sandwich,she knows instinctively,whether ive been using butter or spread, selected white or brown bread,and how many cranberrys were in the wenslydale.
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And we wonder why the NHS is at breaking point!
oldwoodcutter replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in The Lounge
Those 2 birch need tidying up a bit, lets see, £100 each would just about cover it. -
Its not uncommom, i was once aquanted with a fellow who used to run a tri-axle down to spain and back regularly,he had a hidden red tank behind a false front of his trailer,would run on white to the ferry,then switch to red for europe,then back onto white when he hopped on the return ferry. I later disassociated myself from him when i found out more about him.
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Part of my agreement with a farmer is that i keep the grain stores rat free, i use bait boxes rather than traps, and find that i can keep the beggers in check to the point of seldom seeing one sniffing about.
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Almost always wear safety specs when working nowadays, a doctor once told me that out of all the organs in the body,the eye deteriorates quickest after injury. The last time i had a scare,a sprig of brushwood swished up and laced into my eye,which immediately filled with blood,and i realy thought i'd lost it,but it did heal eventually with lots of medication.
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Was there a bricklayer on stand-by,in case of damage?
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I tuned in to axe men for the first time in ages the other night,and what a load of old potatoes. Some of them should be nominated for an oscar.
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Yes he does looked quite chuffed, he's got her in a head lock.
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I dare say that all tree workers on a/t like to think that they are professional,or at least try to give that image to clients. But having said that most of us like a chuckle and post accordingly,and to my mind is part and parcel of a/t and is 1 of the reasons this forum so popular to like minded 'professionals'
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Tresspass, compensation, flippin heck you'd think a war crime had been commited, ive had fellows like him come out with steam coming from their ears complaining that we've parked 1 inch on 'their' verge. Ide have been tempted to wind him up even further.
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That oak tree may have been struck by lightning at some time, rendering it useless as firewood.
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Makes a change from all the 'tree falls wrong way' ones. They know what they're doing alright,thanks for posting Gary.
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Seems like i spoke too soon
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You want to make yourself known to Ken Hill at Heacham Bottom Farm,can normally tip there if you speak to them nicely,thats the nearest place to snettisham that ive found up there.
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Ime glad that's cleared up then.
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Where are you based friend?
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Mrs oldwoodcutter got one at 1/4 to 3 this morning on her phone, by chance her phone number has been randomly selected by sony eletronics (thats how they spelt it) And with her 1 million gbp thats got her name on it ime hoping she'll buy me an 880,brand new.
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I purposely kept today clear in my diary as i had a bad feeling about it for some reason. So had a nice quiet rest day drinking tea and keeping my log stove stoked well up.
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I knocked an overgrown spruce over in an estate of 80s built bungalows,i suppose there are 20 properties there,a few weeks ago,i hadn't worked on it before, and we've since done 5 more jobs on that estate,the last one we finished this week. 4 owners came out at various times to ask me to price up work there and then,and another phoned,as did the first one. These small estate residents often talk to each other,once one of them has found someone to do there work who has proved competent and trustworthy.
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That would take some pulling all day,you'd need 2 men on each handle.
