oldwoodcutter
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Our eastern european friends send 44 tonners over here driven by 18 year olds.
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Used to use an old laundry basket that had seen better days. We now have a big chunky oblong wicker basket that caught mrs oldwoodcutters eye when she was last in the stove shop. Cost i believe,was about the same as a small s/h hatchback.
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Ive worked with a fair few climbers of all abilities over the years,and nearly all have welcomed my offer of a ladder to get up the first 25 ft to tie in,and as above,always footed properly.
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Whats the old saying - selling the unprofitable to the ungrateful . . . .
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Just watching it on channel 127 freesat.
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R.J. died in his early 40s before the war,from cancer. A brilliant mind cut down in the prime of life.
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Just started to watch it and its got turned over to london palladium, "because you've just watched the football". Bloomin heck.
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I thought he'd got blue hair.
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Funny lines that customers come out with!
oldwoodcutter replied to danroker1987's topic in General chat
A lady who was quite flirty when i priced her job last week called me at lunchtime today to say go ahead,i said that i will come on my own and do the job myself friday morning. " but dont arrive before 9 as i will still be in my nighty" I said i will be there at 7.30 then,and she said "well if you want to" I think i can still remember what to do. -
Funny lines that customers come out with!
oldwoodcutter replied to danroker1987's topic in General chat
"No its not protected (while discussing removal of a 700 year old yew in the middle of the village)and its not in the conservation area,but can you do this on a sunday by any chance" Yeah,right. -
Funny lines that customers come out with!
oldwoodcutter replied to danroker1987's topic in General chat
" you've taken too much off,can you put some back on again ha ha" excuse me while i bust my gut laughing at that one. -
Sat in front of log burner drinking tea most of the day,had a good run but need to recharge my batteries so good opportunity taken.
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That was a long time ago Jon,but i can see the look on his face as though it were yesterday.
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Ive only had 1 that caught fire,fresh heap of chip left at job site,burnt down next day somehow.
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Years ago I was with a pal of mine early one sunday morning,and as we talked i followed him into a dark shed where he kept his chicken feed pellets in a wooden barrel. As he scooped out a hod full of pellets in the semi darkness,he shouted and a rat was hanging off the underside of his outstretched arm. He was a tough partner but that rattled him for a minute. Gone now,but we often used to remember that morning.
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There's no need for that Jon,ive been poisoning rats for more than 50 years,and i only wrote about the colour as most second generation wheat based baits are either blue or red,and usually alternated from time to time when laying. These contain Difenacoum,and ime as responsible as anyone when it comes to poisons.
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Ime not linking the chemicals in r/u to parkinsons unscientificly,its for all to see on wiki parkinsons page,and he does not sit at a computer if he can help it.and secondly there are no crows,magpies or other winged vermin resident, as the farm and its neighboors are fully keepered.Thanks.
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Part of the gentlemans agreement at one of my yards is for me to keep the rats down in the farm buildings. Ime now using the most potent bait available to anyone,red stuff which will kill them ive found in 3 days,but as fast as 1 gang are done in,another lot move in a few days later. Those i notice running around my cord stack are simply blown to smithereens with my Browning 725.
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I dont know much about chemicals,but i do know that a good friend of mine who,as a farmer,has been spraying roundup and the like for years like its going out of fashion,and now,in old age,has the terrible shakes of parkinsons,a decease often linked to exposure to r/u. And secondly a yard ive had for years is surrounded by big arable fields being sprayed with something every other week,and year on year the birdsong has decreased in line with the reduction of aphids weedseeds and insects,until now,the whole area for miles around is as quiet as a grave. What price progress?
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Stihl MS460 what is the minimum bar size you can run
oldwoodcutter replied to pseudonymplatanus's topic in Chainsaws
I run an 18" bar more often than not on my 460,yes some find it a bit of a handfull if they're not used to it,but i really like it. -
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I like that Redwood,thanks for posting M.D.
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I use the oregon brushcutter shin guards,they're thick,shaped nicely,with strong velcro. They've saved my shins from being sliced open plenty of times.
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We're starting at 7,be finished and gone by half 3 - Tim.
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Ime chipping at Little Dunham tomorrow,or Beachamwell on Tues, you can have it for free if you make yourself known to us,mixture of birch spruce and oak,but i havn't the time to deliver it to Lynn for you Terry.
