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Fergus is making me a sign reading; "My other tractor is a Porsche" for my beloved DB 1490, or perhaps "My Skoda is faster than my Porsche" Ps I ud then needa buy a Porsche tractor!

It all depends! Dig a small bucket in at full boom reach and use a strop round the dipper arm near ground level perhaps? And put the bucket on arse about face to form a better anchor. Also depends a lot on the angle of the re-direct, minimal deflection, should not be an issue, getting on for 180 deg = 16 tonne of virtually doubled line pull, assuming winching in 8 tonne.

A joint venture wit Nissan or somesuch, is it not? Der Gay wagen pick-up, factory spec natch, is the real mccoy. Or one o them new Aussie Army yokes!

Ah hav a plan to use the 17 tonne splitter downstroke to, via a wire strop, to "winch" the bundle down tight before strapping, in which case I could possibly get away with using blue rope, with or *without those clever patented plastic german Knotti thingamabobs. *Without simply by throwing on a farmers hitch with a flick of the back of the wrist. But got plenty of polyproplene strapping to use first. Just need to up productivity:blushing:

An update on my glacial slow progress to date. Note the 1/2m3 bundles have stayed tight, and they have been sitting exposed outside since early last September. I stack reasonably carefully, then winch up the strapping, then "beat" the protruding billets into line with a long (18"/2') shafted 3lb club hammer (one handed job) then retension:thumbup1: Note despite the log grab pinching in tightly, they go back to the round when set down. Then simply lifted with the borrowed JD and pallet forks, though I would intend to make a 2 toed/pronged frame outta 76mm tubing, with tapered ends to easier thread through the stacked bundles.(or 2 buckrake tines more likely, why re-invent the wheel!) The stacked bundles also "breath" very well, and lend themselves to easy covering, and the easy securing of said covers. Also easy to stack high in the shed, and again, allowing for really good airflow through the stack. Marcus

JHC! WTF is your problem?, this addressed to all those numb-nuts who, in the linked article, made out like he was some kinda airborne Attilla the Hun cum Adolf cum Stalin cum Pol Pot cross-bred wit Idi Amin, 'n a wee dose o ISIS thrown in forby. Get a life, and a grasp of realities, likelyhood of risk/harmful outcome etc. etc. PS Note the one sensible opinion from the professional Pilot! Marcus

:thumbup: Nice one :thumbup: Would "a celeberation of a life lived" be an appropriate comment? PS. My 84 year old, and ailing Mother recently asked me to stop by the local Undertaker recently to leave in a bequest for a recently deceased relative. I dropped her off at the door and sat myself back in the car, when I saw Mum re-emerging from the "shop" I got out to help her back into the car. The undertaker, after my mother was safely in behind the closed door then asked?, "And, how is your mother keeping?" I merely replied that I understood his professional undertakers judgment, should be a better judge of my mothers life expectancy than any relatively uninformed opinion of mine. Which I repeated to my mother when I got back in the car, having noted the quizzical look on her face. She, my Mum, proper snorted with laughter at my account of our exchange. Marcus

Got boils on yer arse or sommat!

(i) Senior Managment never finishes hers. (ii) I sit behind a desk most days, and simply do not work up an appatite (also being near 60 is a factor) (iii) I only got 3 teeth, and 2 of them are very loose.(seriously and ashamedly) PS When I were a lad . . . ah cud fair eat . . . but I never were inclined to pay for a steak, unfortunate, when i had a set of teeth. Sigh But no teeth need to consume Guiness and champ, so no danger o starving to death!

Home made bread, fresh from the breadmaker, butter 'n "leftover" rare Sirloin steak, from last night. 15 secs in the micro wave to remove the fridge chill. A pickle of salt. Perfect!

I noted our local electricty supply company, NIE (as was anyway) never stopped using creosote to treat their poles. I "jarred" our head of Environmental Health on day re the Topic. Because no other product was as good. Despite all the research and copper based Greenwash products. Simples!

A loop sewn into the front of the wife's Public School issue type of green serge knickers. Would work just as well. Bloody indestructible they were.

Well aving seen 57 this past weekend, came home from work, put the winch on the ould DB, scoffed a 1/2 bottle o wine wi me tae, an off up the Moss. (i) Broke nothing! (ii) Climbed a tree, (it was a heavy backleaner, & in danger of crushing me wee Oaks) I probably would not have done at 17, got the wire rope hauled up about 5m and yoked. (iii) Routed winch rope round behind a sound fresh cut stump, to hold it down and get the pull angle right. (iv) Pretensioned the winch rope to ease the tree back, knew I had judged it right as the gob was trying to close on the saw, gobbed er out to just past 1/2 way, paused, watched and studied, tree never stirred, snicked the ears, and put the felling cut in to leave a good 3 or 4" hinge. Tree still never stirred. (v)Then back to the tractor & Winched her down, exactly as I had planned, and bang on target.. Textbook or not it worked. Would I have done it when younger, hmmm? I like to think it takes the ould dog for the hard road.:lol:

oops!, missed that outstanding clue!

Forestry Tractor & TimberTrailer | eBay cheers M

absolutly no need to stop up ditchs (or sheaughs ) all moss moss n more moss, NO sheaughs to stop up. back up this afternoon, I just keep find more n more Oaks, and the odd Beech, I would love to know the vector for the Acorns, carried at least a 1/2 mile to a mile "as the crow flies", but prob Grey Squirrells or Jays? Might need to hire a microlight and take a look from aloft. or buy a quad copter n camera:lol: cheers m

What had been cut-out Moss, and overgrown by Birch, is now home to an amazing no of naturally seeded Oaks, with a few beauitful Beech in places. I am currently felling the overshadowing birch so they, the Oaks, will grow stocky, and hopefully therefore less likely to suffer windthrow later in their life(after I am long gone!) Leaving the Birch where they fall to feed fungi n bugs n beetles n such etc. Taking a surprising pleasure and satisfaction in doing so. marcus

I desire to be "burped" through a Wood Chipper into my own private (but anyone else is free to enjoy) area of woodland, to feed nature in return for nature feeding me. Fairs fair!

Well, actually, since we bin practising since Feb 1982, kinda finally got it properly sussed:001_tt2: These young-uns only bes deluding themselves, as they do rightly say, the older the Fiddle, the sweeter the tune! m PS Anyone ever in Ballycastle, wanting a "feed o meat" visit the Anzac Bistro, for a steak, absolutly amazing quality, with equally good Guiness, and wonderful friendly staff. 5 weeks in a row of a Wed night, quite perfect, n I bes a right picky bugger.

Daniel, This is why I leave ebaying to Senior Managment, she is meticioulous in research, and NEVER FORGETS owt. Well cept her age, n perhaps her exact weight, n her waist size, n other minor details. Quite why she deemed me to be marrying material is a source of constant wonder to me! Frugal, good mother, stylish dresser, non-drinker, good listener, most Excellent negeotiater, Private girls School educated!, excellent Cook n baker n jam maker, need I go on? And an astounding judge of character,(well she DID pick moi!) with the knack of seeing or hearing what is NOT being said, i.e. spotting the delibrate omissions She has other attributes I will NOT discuss on here. tee hee.

Daniel, The wife asks ALL the right/pertinent questions, prior to purchasing, and in some cases, like the otherwise pristine Kenwood Major, (which had been bought primarily due to the spotless condition of the heavy glass blender jug) and which parcel rattled like a bag of bottles immediately on delivery, the seller said to keep it rather than him pay the return postage. This item, despite the probably 1.0kg plus weight of the glass jug was stuffed, unpackaged in a cardboard carton with nowt to protect the heavy glass from being jarred against the even heavier metal casing, scheesh! The next Major turned up, and turned out to be "not as described" i.e. it did not work, like it were claimed to "100%", plus the high res photo was kinda oddly? taken of the back of the machine, therefore not showing the busted (& long time busted) control knob. The shagged-done pair of Carshoe shoes, being describes as "hardly worn/like new", the seller then claimed the Mrs. had wore them done in a week, despite them never even being tried on, cos they were in such bad shape. We have never denied recieving delivery, despite to be signed for parcels being left on the back door step(as we know the local courier) and ALWAYS follow ebay and Paypal protocals Ditto the discs for the Magimix which were advertised as, and double checked on, as being genuine Magimix, they were not, some shitty poor, probably Chinese copy. but The plusses, mostly on fabric, some direct from Japan(Kiminos for the Silk), some lovely genuine sellers. Though some sellers appear to be unaware of the existence of tape measures, mixing their feet up with metres etc etc, oddly (statistically) the item always being smaller than described! We try and "do as we would be done onto" Regards, Marcus

My wife is a habitual ebay buyer, and rates the Paypal protection very highly, and has not-infrequently invoked it, ALWAYS as a result of either; quite deliberate seller mis-description, cunningly posed photo angles (to obscure wear or damage), or shoddy packaging (like simply stuffed in a single plastic bag, resulting in broken goods on reciept. All seller faults, mostly deliberate. We now open and all-round photo all deliveries on reciept. M

The Leyland engines in the S&D bin lorries back 30 year ago, drank about 5 litres o oil a day, but NEVER shat themselves. So perhaps not so much soft as resilient!

Or travel with a 50kg Mastiff, one with a flatulent disposition. Anyone opening the door will reel back out retching. Ask me how I know!

climbing a tree , like a BOSS - GIF on Imgur