oldwoodcutter
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Certainly a mask is advised if standing all day over a log splitter in a shed or outdoors on a still air day. I would often cough my guts up after doing that but since wearing a light mask on advice from an expert in that field,my lungs remain dust/spore free.
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Ive been £80 a cube for a while,next turn they'll be £90,take it or leave it,ime not breaking my back in all weathers to give my logs away.
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Thanks for posting md, i enjoyed looking at those.
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There are several 2 man teams hereabouts,fresh out of the local college quoting and of course winning domestic work by charging £150 a day. Try competing with that.
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Had a couple of herberts drive up to my main yard,which is like a mile from anywhere and a dead end, while i was up there the other day,when i asked them where they thought they were going,they said they were looking for somewhere to go to the toilet.
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Theres a car supermarket hereabouts with about 20 navaras lined up,all out of manufacturers warranty,and all been sat there for months. Buyer beware,as they say.
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Ive dug a good trench round the clump to get a sling around the root and pulled the lot out with my truck in low range fwd. As long as theres no gas,electric or water under there of course.
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Your mate's going to lose a couple of fingers in a minute doing it that way.
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Anyone recommend any comfortable work trainers with steel toe caps?
oldwoodcutter replied to Rob D's topic in General chat
Hi Rob,got some Dickies Storm super trainers last october,and ime impressed with how well they've stood up to it,no faults found yet and ive wore them a lot when not in my leather boots.Tim. -
Its the unpredictability as much as anything else that keeps it fresh and exciting,perhaps the phone doesn't ring for a few days,then you get home and theres 5 messages on the answerphone. All the planning and preparation right up to the night before, that has to go on to get the jobs up and running and completed often gives a degree of satisfaction and worth. To be out there,often at a different place each day ensuring all is going smoothly and safely,as i tell my youngsters,this is reality not some video game. And finally to feel proud of building up and maintaining a business that you can call your own,while answerable to no man.
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I'de be hard pressed to tip my worst enemy's dead wife out of that heap.
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Hi Stumpy,good to catch up with you yesterday,Tim.
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Very little,unless you prefer working for nothing.
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When they say 'can you just' i generally stop what ime doing and go and have a close look at what they're talking about,taking them with me. Ime working out a price in my head all the time,and when ive had a good look say something like 'yes,thats not a problem,that'll only be another £20 or £50 or £100' or whatever,that way theres no room for any misunderstandings.
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I enoyed eating pedegree chum but friends said it made me look a bit ruff.
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Ive got a great grandfather rights license.
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You're not wrong there Dave,i had a branch swish back and wrench my helmet off a week ago,you know,the one that comes from nowhere. Things can happen to everybody and anybody.
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Yes,that was also my understanding Steve,leaving people carriers and mini buses to one side,i didnt think that just because you've glass in the back doors that entitled you to do 60 on normal roads,but my white van man friends claimed otherwise to me.
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May i just ask a question and sorry for derail,but theres some panel van experts here it seems.A fellow was telling me the other day that while accepting that Sprinters/Trafics/Transits are restricted to 50 on normal roads,he maintained that if they had glass in the back doors then you can steam on at 60 without fear of being pulled over. True or false?
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This is happening here too,pal of mine had his 55 plate defender doors unbolted from his front yard last week,defender not visible from road,and pc plod told him that the night before a defender had its seats,headlights and front grille taken off and the owner was asleep in his bungalow bedroom about 5 yards away.
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Been a while since ive seen one of those old gut busters.
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Well the old fc cutting boys had a much simpler way,ive seen them walk away from the tree and bend down and look through their legs,and when they could see the top tips of the tree through their legs they stopped and dragged a heel on the ground,and after it went over those tips would be on his boot mark. Those old boys all gone now.
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I like his enthusiasm.
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Just a heads up to defender owners in norfolk/cambs pal of mine opened his curtains the other morning to see that someone had nicked the doors off his 55 plate defender,parked out of sight in his front yard,pc plod told him that day before someone had their seats,headlights and front grille nicked from def.parked beside their bedroom window. If you'd like exact locations pm me,thanks,Tim.
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I can beleave that,i was hedging in the grounds of a 4 bedroom detached georgian house when a window boy pulled up in his berlingo next to my truck,he had his ladders up and down and round that house in no time,i kept an eye on him and he'd done in a little over 10 minutes.
