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Been raining here all most all night and most of today had a looking a tub out back this aft and i would say close on 25mm of water in it ,,

Yes i Googled it and no mention of Dr Graham Garden on it but he was and Benard Cribbings i could be mistaken as he was on several other things at that time including Jackanory,,

Jack Hargreaves was all so on a kids program called How back in the 70s with Graham garden, Bernard Cribbings and i think Fred Dineage,i suppose it was a early version of How its made or How do they do that, i will have a look for his stepsons page, cheers for that,,

Thats a episode i havent seen before, i dont think that shooting Pigeons like that could be shown on national TV today, but we did,nt live in a snowflake world back then,,

Yes, it used to be on about half 12 on a sunday after the farming program on BBC1 i used to sit and watch it with my Grandad in the 70s, i have reacently discovered the program changed its name to the Old Country when i dont know but been watching some on youtube of late on a channel with David Knowels,,all programs where of a true view of country life, i think i have a box set of DVDs some where,,

A mate of mine does this with the magnet as he burns a lot of pallets, he takes about 30 pallets a wk from a fruit n veg wholesaler and when he gets the nails out with the magnet he fills a metal bucket and then a 45 gallon drum with lid cut out about 1 1/2 45 gallon drums a year of nails etc,

I put a 9mm cable on ours as it gave us near on 100mtrs instead of the 12mm that was 70mtrs the 9mm a bit lighter to drag about,

Good winch for a small outfit, i bought one about 7 yr ago and its been used a fair bit, i cant Believe the price thou its double the cost and a bit on what i paid,

This is from a year or 2 back, but its all about the progress of a young dog that if it had not ended up with me i am sure it would of ended up like one of them big fat labs that puff n pant when walking from one room to another, the dog came to me at 81/2 mth old and would not retrieve a ball or a dummy, so we set to training with a older dog present and training began, progress was fast and it just came together quickly, first photo is at 12wk old, 2nd photo just watching and listening 3rd photo the dog was 366 days old with her first retrieve on warm game that was about 100yds, 4th photo was 10 days later with her first Goose, she is now a member of a picking up team with me on several shoots, bit head strong at times but very good at what she does,

The would think the FC would not let you do it with out, you produced the relivent saw tickets, PL insurance and tickets/certificates for the any thing else they can think of, i think the best way forward is forget the FC and go to private land owners, this could be a simple way for you to get a yearly supply of firewood and its supprising what a good bottle of Scotch n a bunch of flowers can get you,

just put it on FB market place and it will be gone before you know it and ask a few quid for it and you will get it,,

I all ways thought they where better left on the legs 😂😂

French oak sleepers still available at £26 each, there is a guy near Chorley Lancashire with a yard full of them, it makes me think at times how are they produced and transported for that sort of money,,

That's just our local builders merchants but they are not the cheapest and as some one has told me this morning, they got 3 pks of blocks 2 pk face brick a couple of bulk bags of sand and cement plus a few bits n bats from another merchant 20mile away and it was £215 cheaper delivered to site than it was from the other merchant on his door step,,

As per title,, 9 pm Ch 5 Sunday night, 1978 the winter of discontent,, this will be of interest to some and not to others, some of us on here where there in 78 and remember it well, we had the miners on strike so that lead to no coal for power stations so no electricity, power going off every night at either 8pm or 9,30pm after the news on BBC1, British Leyland, The binmen on strike rubbish piled up every where in the streets which lead to some towns and citys having a massive Rat infestation, Interest rates on a raped rise, I dont think its going to be as bad this time round but its heading that way, some signs are all ready there, Interest rates on the way up, cost of living seems to be going up weekly at present, some sawmills we deal with have not been taking saw logs for near on 2 month now, and 2 of the biggest saw mills in the UK are full of saw logs and there warehouses are full of sawn timber, i was talking to a driver from a local builders merchants this week and he said they are very very quiet and have been for a couple of months now, Thing are not looking good,,

How much do you want to spend ? this is from some one with 40 + yrs experience in the timber game, you can spend very little on machinery and do the job, you could all so spend tens of thousands and get no where with the job, a lot is all down to the ability of the driver on the machine ?, you may disagree or agree, one lad who works with us would bury our tractor and trailer with in half a day and it could be a site where i have been extracting for 2 or 3 wks with no problems at all, quads are ok but very limited with what they can pull out, gator style 4x4 again i would think limited, Avant i would say forget it as the load in the grab would be twice as wide as the machine, when we are tidying up on a job and the timber but ends and bent stuff we have left behind, we just ring up in situ and use a 1 tonne high lift 4WD dumper and its supprising what you can move with one in a day, Our main out fit for extracting timber does its job very well and it dont make a big mess,,

Done a few sites where we have cleared windblown and as the rootplates are all ready half up we have just pulled them out with a grab on a digger and flipped them over in to there original hole, they will all rot down and supply nutrients for the new stock,

I would say thats a very simple fix for any one with a fabrication/blacksmithing back ground, stove i would say is a Hunter herald, a log customor of mine has a Herald 12 with back boiler doing both hot water and heating and i call it a good stove,,

looking at the photo that tells me that it is lacking oil on the underside of the bar ? you say tour using good oil but what oil is it ? as what one calls good oil some one else with more expieriance on saws will say its not,, looking at the bar i would say your oil is not up to the job and all being flung off at the tip of the bar and very little being carried round to the underside,,

Well said and some good points there that i 100% agree with, i have seen and read about so many saws bought on line and then took to local dealer when a problem arises, I have never bought a saw on line yet and will not do, got 2 local dealers that i buy off and its one saw from one and then one saw from the other, then when a problem appears and saw goes in its straight to the front of the que no questions or faces pulled as they no it was bought from them,

Can you not upgrade the stub axel size ? that should not be happening on a machine like that ? i take it you grease it regularly like once or twice a week, i would not be replacing that with same part, i would be redesigning that with a upgraded stub axel and bigger bearings regards of cost,, nothing more frustrating than needing a machine thats down,

Up here in Lancashire we are doing OK, seen a few Roe deer all with 2 young except one that only had one, Badger activity seems the norm, Rabbits seem to be on the increase at present after getting RHD a few years back and near on wiping them out, Swallows seem to of had a bumper year with loads of young ones about down at my yard, Greylag,s from some local gravel pits have had a massive year and in a recent chat with a fellow shooter we decided last years numbers where around 7-8000 birds but will be some where around the 20,000 mark this year, crops have done well with one farm we shoot on getting 4.92 tonne of wheat per acre with 3 tonne of straw along side that, maize is about 8ft high but some one told me a few wk back that he had been down south and maize was about 2ft high, we have been lucky here with rain now n then as others have had zero rain fall,

To me it seems like the energy companies and the powers that be are just taking the piss out off us at present, and yes this will cause some major problems now for some of us, but at some point we will all be affected by it in one way or another, spoke to a elderly gent at wk end who i do a bit of dog training and shooting with, he is 83 and he said his DD for gas and elec is £350 a month now but has had a letter saying that sept payment is going to be £435, he said that is one and a half wks combined pension for him and his mrs, its not a big house 3 bed bungalow but now he has decided to get a wood burning stove fitted i tried to talk him out of it and just said you will have to do what a lot of others are going to do, get another jumper on, I for one will not be using much gas this winter as i have put some shitty coni to one side old fence posts and some part rotten beech birch and alder, i might look in to this working tax credit thing my self, but only problem i see is i was born here, lived and paid in to the UK all my life, single male, no dependants under 18, No drug or alcohol problems, and white, so probably get FA, so i will just have to cut back a bit and muddle through, it will be back to my childhood days of the 70s when i used to rub the frost off the inside of my bedroom window in a morning but still could,nt see for the frost on the outside, Good memories but hard harsh times back then and i am sure others on here will of been in the same situation, no coal, no electric dad on 3 day wk, then laid off for 6 wk and no money, all of a sudden rabbits,ducks,pigeons phesents and what ever we could catch out of the river or out at sea became normal food and if we had a good day at sea on the cod some would be sold on and a treat like sausages would be bought with the proceeds, and most of us are moaning about electric going up, but at least we have some,

From a recent outing looking at some windblown spruce,

Yep I put mine up this year and there is no haggling over price it's take it or leave it, there will be one lad ringing up who all ways has to haggle and he will mention mates rates but that is no longer availableb as well, I know the lad who has the garage where I get my fuel and have done for 40+ years, but n don't get mates rates on petrol n diesel of him, the brass neck of some people is beyond belief at times and believe it or not I still have a electric,gas,council tax bill to pay and my pint of milk and loaf of bread are the same as everyone else's,