spuddog0507

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,

I have Hever sold as much firewood during the warmer months as i have this year, was on a job on Monday and the neighbour asked if we would move the logs to her house 250yds away if she left us a can of pop each, I just thought that shogun don't run on pop thou, if we are loading it it's back in the yard for it or a price agreed beforehand for delivery and a bit for the timber,,

The driving standards have dropped dramatically in the UK over the last 20 yrs, but we have more cars on the roads now so that is to be expected, and as RAC man said weed, we have a few local meeting places where cars gather and the occupants have a chat over a few cans and joints,,But its just the way of the modern world,,,

Hine sight is a wounderful thing and we have all made the mistakes, late 70s early 80s i had circa a dozen Yamaha FS1E,s go through my hands, used to buy one for a fiver or a tenner get it running and then sell it on for 30-40 quid, all so had DT125s 175s Rd 200 and 250s, but back then they where worth nothing but now very sought after, a elderly neighbour of mine has a MK1 2 door Escort on a F plate and every time i see him i ask have you sold that car yet, and his answer is could of sold it dozen times today, Only good move i made was getting away from Jap bikes in the early 90s and buying my childhood dream,

there was a mk 1 Escort that sold at auction in Holland a couple of years back, it was type of complete, it had been stood outside for near on 30yrs so had vast amounts of rot, which i would of said was far beyond salvage, vin number was 0000000004 so number 4 off the production line, it made 48000 euro !!

You will find that all training courses and assessments today carry a lot of H&S which is not a bad thing in todays world as they dont make common sence any more, When the younger lads say to me, i dont know how to do that, i just say you do as you did it on your training course and you did it in your assessment,, i think most of it is done/said and covered in the assessment so as if any thing was to happen at a later date and that said pearson was issued a certificate, they cant really go back to there employer and say i was not shown that ??

If it was for the National trust i would think it would be a NPTC assessment and yes he would of been told that you dont chip dead wood, dead wood reacts very differently to green wood in many situations, my chipper dont like dead wood at all and with a few Ash die back jobs of late the amount of times a piece or chunk of wood has come flying out the in feed skip is unreal compared to green wood and if your stood in the wrong place they can hurt, we felled a woodland a few year back that was all dead Sycamore and to be honest i did not enjoy it one bit as when they hit the deck they just explode and limbs seem to fly every where,,

I think from the 70s there was quite few and the biggest ones that I can remember are Osmosis Crazy Horses, all about big cars with big engine polluting the sky,s, this msg is near 50 Yr ago now and wouldn't you thought more would of been done by now ??, Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK very true of what was going on in the UK at the time, bin men, miners, train drivers and British Leyland all on strike, then people ask what happened to our industry ?, then came the true version of God save the Queen and this along with Anarchy in the UK very much sumed up the state the UK was in, Late 60s Bonzo doo dahe dog band, I'm the urban space man, Neil hinds got the idea for the song as he walked to work across manchester and the urban spaces he had played on as a kid where either built on or where being built on, and now I think urban spaces in most towns are long gone ,,

Is this just for the 80s and 90s as they go back long before that ??

Finding wood on the roadside or what's been cut in the woods !! That is theft,, every thing in life is owned by some one and some company, land owners and contractors take the issue of people just helping there self's quite seriously today, so be very very careful, I for one would not be happy if you stole timber from us but would you be happy if I stole your hard earned cash or came and helped myself to your logs out of your log store ? I am sure you would,not be happy, friend of mine has a theft case in progress at present, but when some idiot walk,s in to a wood land on the edge of dark helping his self and is picked up on a night vision sight on a riffle By deer management team !! Land owner asked the said culprit if you had knocked on my door dropped me £50 you could if filled your boots,

What do you call large trees ? 80/90/100 ft tall 600,700,800mm DBH, there is more to it than just cutting it all to a said length, best thing to do is find a buyer and cut to there spec ? but i would think that 12 trees is hardly worth the effort for a timber merchant not with out they are of a very good size and quality, Where you located ?

Have they changed all the code numbers again ? if so ? i was a bit lost when tickets moved from CS 30,31,32,34,35 to the newer codes and if its all changed again i will be totally lost now, !!!

I so one about 11,15 ish and TBH it was one of the best i have every seen, The moon was a fantastic sight last night as it looked very close and very detailed,,

I have never bought any less than 100ltrs of chain oil or 5ltrs of 2 stroke oil for many years now, just find it so much easier to by in bulk and try to get a better deal on it even if i have to buy more than i want to get the deal, cant be doing with running about for small amounts of chain oil /2 stroke oil, when we get to last 25ltr drum of chain oil i just order more,

We are correctly covered for what we do and where we do it, as if we where not we would not be sub contracting to who we do to, we work on approx 20 sites in Lancs ,West Yorks, North Yorks and the lake district, only one site has a power line running through it, one has a public footpath running through it and another one with a public foot path running along a boundry which i have never seen any one use yet, these sites are very remote and phone signal is either very poor or none at all, all this was stipulated when i took the PL out and after several questions later they came back with the price based on the information i had supplied,,,,

My PL used to be with a company of here and when i first took it out the price was OK, so to give you some idea of what we do in the forestry sector is small clear fell jobs like up to about 200 tonne, windblown clearance on boundry lines, stock fence repairs and dry stone wall repairs along with a few other things, i have no size or height limit on the trees we work on, now given every where we work is in the middle of no where and the risk is very very low my PL kept going up by £70 £80 quid a year untill it got to where they was asking for over £700, i just thought enough is enough and spent a wet and windy day ringing round other insurance firms, Ok there was a lot of No,s but came across a very helpful young lady who did what she said she was going to do, like i will ring you back in about 30 mins and yes true to her word she did, after a couple of calls quearing a few things she came back with a price of £186 for the same cover as from previous firm, so i went with her the year after it went up by £8 to £194 and £8 again this year to £202 this sort of increase i find acceptable unlike the £70,£80 a year increases i was getting before, i have been self employed since the mid 80s and only ever had one small claim in 88, i have all ways been a very loyal sort of person but in the last few years i have started to think a bit different as i dont think loyalty goes any where now a days, so top and bottom of it is it does pay to shop around now n then as i did and saved myself over £500 on one years PL insurance,,

I used 4 of them a few year back when i had filled all my IBC,s fastened all 4 corners of panels with clamps and zip tied 3x2 uprights about every 2ft on the inside, put pallets on floor and when it was half full put another layer of pallets in and it worked fine, bulged a bit but not much,,

if its fit to mow for either Hay or silo let some take the grass off it for a bit off money and get the hedge cutting in on the deal, then find some one with some sheep and again rent it off for winter grazing, so let some one else do the work and make a few quid out of it as well,

One of them lines women was very smart as well,,

Well Bugger me backwards we have actually won a game of football with out it going down to penalty,s, Well done to all and very enjoyable to watch, i think the blokes have something to prove now ???

It's not going any where and I have a ongoing project for it to go in,

Sorry but we have to come to terms,, that the country can't manage with out them sort of people ?? There is a lot of people out there in all fields of work that get paid good money to do a job they can't Do ,,,

i have my eye on a v2003 thats sat in the corner of a warehouse and has been for 12/15 yrs now, all shrink wrapped down to pallet as it was delivered from Kubota and its £1800, cheep yes,

Sounds about right that one, some lads i work with now n then you would think they had been cutting stone flags with there saws,

Well thats a bit more like it, had dealings with SEPA in the past and TBH they where not that bad to deal with unlike our EA south of the boarder who seem to be a waste of time and thats if you can get hold of any one who knows what there doing ?