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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

Meh! Use a "farmers" hitch, essentially a sheep-shank, threw on the tether wit a flick o the back o the wrist. looks insecure but will NEVER come undone whilst under tension. But! Hard to demonstrate (as stated above)

sexy sexy Sir! Ps What pedigree is the minature Fresian below the MB Trac? M

Will a "here's one I prepared earlier Gendarme" suffice? PS I never seen such fearsome thuggish looking traffic Cops as the few we espied in France, fortunately only when driving past, must be a prequisite for traffic cop selection. m

Pertinent to the above, when carting straw home, Dad always flung the made up the "tethers" off the back of the trailer, to drag behind through the dry clean stubble, it left them lovely and unkinky. Ps I tink I origionally mis-read/misunderstood the title:lol:

In my "hypothetical" head, for my very limited lifting requirments, I have drooled over these babies and could concieve buying one for work given the chance, to replace a 80 HP 4WD Tractor, said tractor whose back end is never used in anger, therefore the limited lifting and PTO of the babby handler ud not be an issue. And As long as item of plant weighs less than 4000kg, transport is not an issue. We already have a 640 Avant, which is very popular and much used. BUT! I keep being astounded by the capabilities of the wee 3720 JD hydrostatic drive tractor with dedicated 300 Series JD loader. It is an absolute ANIMAL for its weight and horsepower, plus will turn the front wheels near sideways, so is incredibly manouverable. Now a 4 Series JD HYDROSTATIC drive ud be proper perfect.(for me, that is) On fat grippy flotation tyres. The hydrostatic drive as configured by JD is simply phenononal, cannot stall, cannot spin, and can absolutly load the rather large bucket to capacity, effortlessly, with "loadmatch" and various other very clever JD technology. cheers m

The hydrostatic drive is the "dogs", for the precise application of all power with none wasted.

Pure "sex on a stick", my dream machine, esp with 3pt linkage AND a PTO.

I dared take a short video of some Secondary school attending "oiks" (the male variety) throwing their post lunch litter into our Riverside Park, a persistent problem, when I took it straight to my superior he near had kittens! I said I was merely going to take it straight to the school Headmaster, and after identifing the miscreants, he could delete the clip there and then. what kinda mixed up world do we now live in. How else could I indentify a particular male school child/children wearing a uniform, from among a schools worth? Marcus

Why did you let into your car in the first place, cos otherwise how could they be taking pictures inside your car.

Oh that was close - Album on Imgur :blushing:derp! ps It were a very nice stick they were saving for milling