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Mrs oldwoodcutter and i went to a bulimia awareness fundraising party on saturday night. Blimey,the place was heaving.
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I dare say he's got used to working by himself.
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Back in the 60s a pal of mine liked to take his sawbench into the woods to log up there,instead of bringing the cord home to log He got a contract to thin larch on a big estate,and when he didnt come home as usual at teatime his wife biked to the phonebox to ring the farm foreman.He drove over to the wood to find the tractor and saw still running,with my mate on top of it,and going by the small number of logs on the ground he'd been like that all day. It was what nowadays youd say was a wake up call for me and i never forgot it.Nor did the foreman who'd been to hell and back as a fepow,but later told me he'd suffered flashbacks of that bench for long enough.
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I have to be extra careful nowadays,so i always take someone young or old with me on jobs i used to do alone,not only felling but hedging off the ground.Apart from the safety side,it generally cuts the time down to less than half,than if you do it all by yourself.And i dont fall asleep before ive ate my tea quite so much.
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Lummy me,at that rate he wont be standing behind a saw for much longer.
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By buying new,you will generally have the peace of mind of its reliability.If you are relying on one saw to do your work then the last thing you want is one that lets you down just when you want to be getting on.
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Left my truck and trailer alongside a street lawn first thing,as my clients frontage had builders vans parked there,and its right on a busy mini roundabout.I walked over to see how best to back my trailer in,and the lawns owner comes after me ranting that ide blocked his drive.i walked back with him to prove ide left at least 2 yards away from his opening but he went bonkers and wouldnt listen.It takes more than that to ruffle me,i walked away and told him to do the same or ide turn him upside down and shake the change out of his pockets.
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They have invented new medication for depressed lesbians,its called tricoxagain.
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Michael O'Leary [Ryanair] walks into a Dublin bar and asks for a pint of Guinness. "That'll be 2 euros" says the barman "That's a very competitive price" "Yeah,and would you like a glass with that?"
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Ammunition boots for me
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Just after xmas a lad swished some ash brush by me just as ide taken my helmet off for a breather.Turned round to get a facefull of it - thought for a few seconds that he'd blinded me.Eye filled with blood imediatly but after of lot of water and effort the blood slowed.Went to doc that night for ointment and opinion,and it took a week or more to clear.Just the very time i wasn't wearing my specs or helmet.
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Don't often turn my nose up to a nice drink,but few weeks ago was on a rotten old scots pine with my son-in-law helping.Out came the tea "with soya milk" ,i dont know how it tasted,but looked like something the cat spewed up.After saying thanks,we simultaniously upended our mugs as she walked back to her door.
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A young feller from hereabouts swallowed some Tipex instead of his Viagara,woke up with a big correction.
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Tell my young draggers to use the word 'please' when client asks if you'd like a drink,and 'thanks' when brought out.And we always take the mugs back pronto in the hope of more later.
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Same here Paul,i bought 1 off Yvonne couple of weeks ago and used it over 3 days felling and stacking some big willows .Just when you think you've seen every handtool for treeing under the sun,along comes this.
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Hereabouts,they've just caught a prolific little car thief .Suprisingly he was japanese - name of Tommy Tookamota.
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Once got tangled up with a discarded fishing line while dismantling a willow,had to use my knife to get out . . . dont expect that counts?
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Was going for Tim's Independant Tree Services,or Tim's Working Arborists Tree Surgeons. Mrs oldwoodcutter remained unconvinced though.
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If you're knocking the tops out of conifers,another old favourite of course is honeysuckle.If you dont see it up there when you quote,a 2 day job can easily go to 2 1\2 days.Nothing will give or drop without a lot more effort.
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Reminds me of my mate,long since gone to that big woodyard in the sky,whose old place was becoming surrounded by new houses and yuppie neighbours,who were very touchy about noise - they didnt like his hens or his tractor. Final straw was when one asked him to stop using his lawn boy when they were having a bbq. Funnily enough after that he got in the habit of firing up his old sawbench on sunday mornings,usually a little after 6 and started to attack his heap of seared elm. You could hear that blade singing out miles away. -
Ive a similar one but without the adjustable front legs,but the back one is fully adjustable.Seem to be up it all the time recently,just dont know how i could do without it now,made a bridge up from my pick-up bed so it sits flat on the roof.Had it on connies all this week.
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Anybody out there set up a business on their own?
oldwoodcutter replied to YoGi_93's topic in General chat
Agree there Nick,even on a job i can do myself,i now prefer to take someone with me for safetys sake.Its always taken more than twice as long to work alone,you get done in less than half the time with another pair of hands. -
Persivered with tree magic,but just couldn't get on with it,even cut the leg straps off and made my own up.Treated myself to a dragonfly couple of months ago,just the job.
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Young fella who'd lost his licsence was hitch-hiking to his girlfriends house when a superbike pulls up. Of course he had no helmet,but was wearing a baseball cap as they do.The biker suggested he turn it back to front to stop it blowing off. After a few miles at the roundabout he realised his pillion had come off,so went back to find him in the middle of the road with some good samaratins giving some attention. He was shouting and howling and crying for his mum.Enquiring as to the young gentlemans injuries,was told "he was sniffling a lot when first came across him,but realy started moaning when we turned his head the right way round"
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Best Way to Take Down a Palm?
oldwoodcutter replied to Lurcherman's topic in International Arborist Forum
Australis
