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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Yes willow, get it split as soon as.
  2. oldwoodcutter
    What a load of old cods, and his firewood looks a bit on the damp side.
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    Red fir
  4. oldwoodcutter
    I think the last time I saw a chain filed that badly was when the forestry commission used its own ‘operatives’ to fell all its trees, half never could file and used to get the roving mechanic to do it properly for them whenever he came up the rideway, which could be once a week.
  5. oldwoodcutter
    He looked to be panicking a bit there when it pinched. I used to see old cutters spend a good while walking round tapping the base of a Lombardy’s with a hammer, with their ear close to the trunk, and with good reason. Often it was adjudged to be rotten and I’ve seen the face cut put in up to 10’ off the ground to get into good holding wood, and once on the deck the evidence of rot was there for us to see.
  6. oldwoodcutter
    No good at all, you may as well draw your cash out of an atm and wipe your arse with it.
  7. oldwoodcutter
    Tarmac and turf also laid by award winning assistants
  8. oldwoodcutter
    I think when our 230 rad got busted I got one from Wrexham at about 1/4 the cost of genuine, just quote all the numbers off old one .
  9. oldwoodcutter
    Don’t forget to send us a vid of the surgeon and his , er , assistants.
  10. oldwoodcutter
    I was standing around while my truck tyres were being changed. A young fellow came in and started talking to the fitter, his mate I guessed . The walk in guy regaled all his exploits of the previous night with a woman they both seemed to know. I won’t go into details of course, but I was disgusted with the misogynistic language he was spewing out, and I’m sure if she had been there to overhear, she would have booted him sharply in the balls. The boss is an old friend of mine, and when I went to settle up in his office I told him what had happened out in the bays, and he assured me he’d sort it out.
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    Par for the course, I’ve double hazard taped whole forestry blocks off , only for them to actually lift the tapes up and bob under to continue on their way , straight into the mouth of death valley.
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    Yes it’s always been a favourite for turners , the white wood of the mp. They used to craze me for it, and after all the effort I put in to sort out nice lengths and cuts, with offers of a top dollar ,they would offer a derisory price upon collection or delivery. After one joker too many, I soon learnt to not bother with it, except to make the woodyard bonfire bigger.
  13. oldwoodcutter
    The day after there were members of the public marching off down that bank looking for her. You would assume that Lily Law would have sealed off the bank immediately they got there, and got a fingertip and/or forensic search underway.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    Yes artics of mixed hardwood cord from rideside are around £1250 plus vat, with haulage extra £300 for up to about 20/30 miles out, but more if delivery further afield pro rata.
  15. oldwoodcutter
    I’ve done several monkey puzzles, some big specimen ones, but the last one I dismantled was as rotten as a pear at Nordelph. The branches exploded as they hit the ground, and chipping up was frought with even more dangers. I overheard my lads say at the finish that they hoped they didn’t get any more of those bast*rds to do. Just got to be careful with spikes but I can’t remember getting infected, just hurt at the time.
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    If I was going to be handing out that kind of money, I would at the very least made contact in person, including looking at his site of operation . Or if he was at the other end of the country I would have made arrangements for someone acting on my behalf to do same.
  17. oldwoodcutter
    Yes the telescopic wolf one is favoured by contract climbers for whacking dead or rotten stuff off. If clouting it doesn’t work they resort to plan B and hooking it round and pulling it down. Of course if subbies are working on your job, you’ll need to supply it,as they can’t fit it in their Subaru rally replica with unusually splayed out wheels.
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    I’ve always been a big fan of village magazines, you’d be surprised how many customers/clients prefer to use ‘local’ people, and a good deal of our business comes from them. Yes our website and Facebook page bring it in too, indeed we pay extra to get at the top of local searches. What is a waste of time usually are those village selling page posts on Facebook from the Karen Loosedrawers out there wanting that 80ft conifer over some greenhouses gone this week , and willing to go as high as £50 as that’s top wack due to being on universal credit.
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    James says it’s covered within clients insurance . Ive had similar jobs, I’ve given the client a price, they’ve called the insurance company there and then with the cost, have come back outside to me and given the go ahead. The beauty in these situations is you can say £5k for something like that, get paid upon completion by customer, then they get paid in due course by insurance. Yes, some insurers want 15 quotes but others just say do it.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    The 500i is on another level and a must have if your business is heading towards the big stuff. Get a 25” , 30” and 36” bar so you can take anything on.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Of course no one’s indispensable. At the same time if you have a good gang of lads that sweat their balls off for you day in day out, through boiling sun and lashing rain I certainly wouldn’t do a lot of balling and shouting about marks on walls ( which has happened on my sites in the past) A few well chosen words of advice and encouragement work wonders usually. A bucket and brush or sponge soon clean it off, which obviously they’d have to do before leaving, to the customers satisfaction. Im not training lads up from not knowing how to stir their tea up to being first rate ground workers to see them slope off never to be heard of again over something like that
  22. oldwoodcutter
    At least this fits, last year’s gloves I could only start to get 3 fingers in.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    What often happens after a short while is you’ll get the condensed milk, while your arb contractor gets fat on the cream.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    Many years ago a friend of mine went out one dark night and took the top out of a spruce that he’d had his eye on for a few weeks. Unfortunately for him, the estate was heavily keepered, and at that time they were out and about guarding against poachers. The land owner decided to prosecute and it went to court, where he sympathetically told the magistrates he couldn’t afford to buy a tree ( in truth he’d been raking cash in all year doing domestic tree work) and didn’t want his 2 young daughters to have a xmas without a xmas tree. The land owners friends were on the bench and he was fined heavily, and had his name splashed across all the local papers . This was a good 50 years ago and I recalled it the last time we got chatting and he laughed about it, but it wasn’t funny at the time for him.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    I’d like a pound for every time I’ve stood under the yard security light after getting back to the yard this time of year and disinfecting lines or boots or just about everything else that can get in contact with rancid stinking dog muck. And after finally thinking about trudging into the house out of the rain and cold, I notice the truck pedals and mats are covered in it too.

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