Sam Thompson

It doesn't really matter - some people are alive a hundred years and never really live. Other people die at 25 and experience more things than most people could ever imagine. It's an outlook.

New injectors needed in the Land Rover £100, it's not as much as some - but when your a student with little income, and lots of outgoing the little things add up!

My above answer is in relation to arb (professional puffters). Forestry The average age of a FMO is 56ish I think... we need more operators but the only College that gives true commercial forestry training (and forwarding on proper machines) is the Barony, which runs tiny numbers on it's courses and desperately need new machinery. Most lads don't like the idea of living in a all male static caravan in the forest and working 14 hour shifts living on a cocktail of anti-depressants and Jack. Most in industry treat new guys like **** (maybe the right way, but not encouraging) and this combined with the wage, hours, rain, hard graft and wage (big factor) puts a fair few people off and gets them into arbing where they think they will hit big bucks. Answer - Force colleges who advertise Forestry & Arb to actually grasp the meaning of forestry, not teach what arb instructors think forestry might be like. Get some grants going to re en-state/create colleges with both machine training on decent machines (Ag. Colleges manage it - why cant we?) and options for work based learning that is flexible and favours employers but doesn't duck the students over. Well thats my pennies worth anyway. Also, not all those comments are true some are generalisations - I know some machine lads that prefer Tesco Value Vodka to Jack Daniels. There are also some cracking lecturers and instructors about, who teach what industry needs and no crap, however a lot don't get forestry at all.

Part of the problem is that colleges keep shouting about how desperate industry is for new blood!

Why is it so hard for people to keep their hound on a lead when they are about stock?! I drove past a woman and her little lad parked in a field gateway walking their dog in a field full of ewes today (no lambs yet) - dog off the lead and pestering everything that moves. I stopped and went to talk to her, she wouldn't listen and was adamant that she was in the right (No ROW on that land either) She'll be crying when it gets shot.

Has anyone had dealings with the above? Looking at some new injectors from them and they look A) Cheap (Yahooo) and B) Multi national - which always makes me wary for some reason... Thanks, Sam

Go round and kick his head in... I'm lucky that with my subby experiences I have never been stung, or had to wait more than about a week for payment. For me you either go legal or just ask nicely with a big mate. Sam

Me aged 6(ish)... funky Echo saw is still going. I bet those mitts are in the shed somewhere too...

Aviva Van insurance, cheapest by about a grand

Lannie D !

(and I dont sell anything!)

Can I ask how much it was mate?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRZ874GvpM]Pethe - Robin Huw Bowen - Sonata D Major - John Parry - YouTube[/ame] His best song is "The Hedgehog Hunt" but this is the only on on Ytube. I grew up listening to a lot of classical, so I quite enjoy it. Favourite "proper" piece is Peter and the Wolf, or Nutcracker - Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy.

In my day's of archery I used to shoot a Bickerstaffe for fun, it was a tri-laminate Hickory, Lemonwood and Osage I think - it was a truly superb piece of art. It was sold when I outgrew it and I had a true self bow of Yew, it was a nicer bow to own but not so good to shoot. A laminate stave will always out shoot a self bow. Never made one, but a few years ago Richard Head was the boy.

You make your own luck matey. Hope you stick around though, otherwise the forum will need to recruit another yoghurt knitting weird-beard :thumpup:

What a muppet! Deserves everything he gets, how old is he?

Had it re-conditioned today, not as expensive as I thought

Saved 30+ cute baby lambs and my landrover is still sort of working

My battery light came on while driving tonight... apparently this means a slipped belt or a new alternator. Crap.

Shot two foxes this morning However, battery light came on while driving... possible new alternator for the Landy :'(

Ahh, not the north north then, it's nice round there

My Peugeot Partner was a fantastic little beast. 47mpg on a run and about 42 around town (I really miss that now with the LR), really comfy - I did 7k in 9 months. Cheap to buy, cheap to run and did the job I miss the sooty van sometimes! My old man has a Transit Connect for his lads at work, he reckons its second only to the VW Caddy though, I liked it when I have driven it

£100 a day then, plus mileage! Good luck fella, where you moving too?

Felix is about spot on. However if you haven't done the other work before they might not want to pay you as much (right or wrong), just warning you!

A little boy got on the bus, sat next to a man reading a book, and noticed he had his collar on backwards. The little boy asked why he wore his collar backwards. The man, who was a priest, said, 'I am a Father." The little boy replied, 'My Daddy doesn't wear his collar like that.' The priest looked up from his book and answered, ''I am the Father of many.' The boy said, ''My Dad has 4 boys, 4 girls and two grandchildren and he doesn't wear his collar that way!' The priest, getting impatient, said. 'I am the Father of hundreds', and went back to reading his book. The little boy sat quietly thinking for a while, then leaned over and said, "Maybe you should wear a condom, and put your pants on backwards instead of your collar."