spuddog0507

I just cant see myself towing a 3.5tonne trailer about with a push bike, well not nowadays 😂😂

Yes and a big gripe i have is with temperary traffic lights, all set up and FA being done, Just been for some shopping and pick some dog food up, 2 sets of lights on the A6 one lot a bit going on and the other nowt, 30/40 cars HGVs coaches all sat waiting, and the powers that be say we need to get our carbon foot print down, i think they need to start the shake up at the top first,,,

If it is going for cattle bedding he will be ok on red,,

Not been much help on here so far for you, there is a awful lot to be considered here, first what do you call fully certificated ? CS 30,31 ? and what other tickets after them ?, how long you been doing it ? are you fresh out of collage as many a young lad thinks he is the Bs n Es once he has a chainsaw ticket, i have employed young lads fresh out of collage and they are just 1 step up from useless but want £100 £120 a day using my saws n fuel and they cant cut enough timber to pay there wage and thats not good for me, can you use a tape measure and cut to spec as this is one issue with me that i see the younger lads struggling with, from a employers view you need to be cutting a value of timber that is more than your day rate espeicially on a clear fell, i have one lad who is shit hot as he will put 20-25 tonne on the floor in the day on a clear fell, the other lad working 100mts away might do half that, Thinings is different it can be straight forward at times or it can be a pain in the arse, i went and looked at job recently and soon as i walked in to the woodland i just thought i dont want this job, planted in the early 60s at 4ft quite a few dead stems and very poor timber with not much over 12" in dia, told him to clear fell it and start again as thining it would be a night mare as it should of been done 30 yrs ago, where abouts are you located,,

Just been told this morning that the bright star above and to the left of the moon is the planet Jupiter,, every days a school day,,

Just having 5 while waiting for the 5th drive to start on a fantastic sunny day on the edge of the pennines and fyld plain, 2nd photo was the view from shoot base about 7,30pm

Not sure if Bally had a double drum Igland or Boughton on a 1164 a few year back, and it will of been worked hard with him, both good winches,,

Igland a third more , might be a good reason for that, look at the double drum Iglands that where fitted to countys and worked day in day out, One i know of is still on a county 1164 ok not been worked for about 3 year now but if memory serves me well it was fitted to the tractor in 1979 and it will of done a bit of work in its time and can still pull,,

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,