oldwoodcutter
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Ime just sorry i wont be around to welcome you to the club in 20 years Western. -
I dont get up on the back of my transit very often,but when i do,the only way now is to sit on it then swing round onto my knees then stand up. Getting off is simpler,i get the nearest breathing youth to operate the tipper and slide out the back.
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I saw a brushwood baler on forestry commission compartments last year,each big bundle was wrapped up with miles of blue string. It was all being stacked rideside,but where it went from there no-one seemed to know.
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I only use a 7t nowadays,what it wont split int worth worrying about,i wouldn't want to hump a 10t onto my transit by myself too often. I was going to have a nice glass of beer tonight,but mrs oldwoodcutter drank it with her sunday tea,so that was that.
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Bam! And then you realise how old you are
oldwoodcutter replied to wisecobandit's topic in The Lounge
I recall Mrs Oldwoodcutter's dad had a rusty coloured allegro. Cant remember which died first,the car or him. -
I read somewhere that in the early days of trying for a peace settlement if he and McGuinness happened to meet just before a meeting,Paisley wouldnt even discuss the weather with him,then after the good friday agreement and later,they would actually sit side by side,eventually even talking casually to each other if they were in the same room in later years. So yes,as been said,a leopard can change his spots.
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Clearly a case of "well it aint my tool" syndrome...
oldwoodcutter replied to wisecobandit's topic in General chat
I happened to be in a friends workshop the other day,and noticed one of his young fellows dragging a 9" angle grinder across the concrete floor by its 3 pin plug,i didnt say anything to him of course,but i did mention it in passing to my friend later. -
Nice one Tom.
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Knew a chap last year who had nothing but starting issues with his defender,ended up palming it off to someone and bought a nice transit tipper,last i heard it was the best move he ever made.
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Same thing happened to my mates 55 plate defender while i sat in it. He's usually very mild mannered,but after much effing and blinding he whittled it down to the starter relay,which he replaced. Then same thing happened a fortnight later,and after pulling out what little hair he has left,turned out the new relay was faulty as well.
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Bam! And then you realise how old you are
oldwoodcutter replied to wisecobandit's topic in The Lounge
We were so poor that one sunday dinner time, my old dad knocked a hole in next doors wall so that we could dip our dry bread in their gravy. -
Many of the young men hereabouts are expected to have developed a flourishing drug habit and career in shoplifting before they reach the age of 21 if they are to avoid being viewed as 'odd'
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I dare say that all of us that run a business get what we nowadays call stressed out,sometimes without realising it. Often its only when a loved one picks up on it and accuses you of being stressy a few minutes after you've walked over the doorstep that it hits home and a few minutes sitting down with a cuppa is all thats needed to restore calm again. But of course stress can much more severe than that. As said,doing something completely unrelated to your business can work wonders.
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If we could all charge that,then the tree game may be worthwhile once again to get a living from,and comparable to scaffolders,roofers and concreters.
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I cant believe that they always get their mum to phone me the night before or at 7 am to say so and so has got a bad foot,or hasnt come out of his bedroom all weekend,or still stoned,or has fever. And these are guys in their mid twenties.
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If i could find the mobile . . .
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Wouldn't life be easier if you didnt have to put on your reading specs every time you want to read a text.
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If you hold a guinea pig up by its tail,its eyes will drop out.
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You've got a while to go before you catch me up Stubby.
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Warning GRAPHIC PICTURES chainsaw injury!
oldwoodcutter replied to Gnarlyoak's topic in General chat
I dare say that nearly all of us who use a topper have used it one handed at one time or another,some more than most.Thanks for posting Gnarly,a wake up call for us all. -
Wel if this is the place to say it,here goes,ime absolutely fed up with youngsters that i spend all my time on teaching to cut hedges straight,feed chippers properly,and to use saws to a high standard of ability,when they have reached that level,only for them to unpredictably go off to wash lorries out or drive a fastrac for 16 hours a day or strim on a frontline mod fighter base all day every day.
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Yes,i hadn't thought of that. Two-man team in action Smash and Grab.
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I went out last night and looked at a fair sized willow leaning over a single storey clay tiled roof and glasshouse beside roof,big water filled ditch running beside trunk. Every last bit will have to be lowered and all cordwood cut into logs,so i said £700. He nearly fell in the ditch and looked at me as if ide gone completely barmy and said he'd had a quote for £150 cash and that surely ide made a terrible mistake. He then pulled out a grubby business card with '150 cash' written on the back to show me. I wished him good luck and on the way home wondered what on earth the tree business has become.
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You could always find the previous keeper from Swansea and see what he has to say for himself. Ive done that in the past.
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Had a quadchip previously and yes it was ok,better than a timberwolf leastways,been using a forst this year and i find it head and shoulders above anything else in the 6" class.
