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Well i hope Fury does it as he is about to become my new nieghbour, but i think he will struggle and Wilder looks the fittest by far, i just hope Fury can put pressure on Wilder from the off and stay on top of his game and repeat the result from last time,

Well dont spill it then 😂😂 You stick to your Shandy 😂😂

Highland Park i find is best with 1 ice cube and just leave it till its nearly melted, there must be 10 or a dozen bottles in our shoot shed,

I would just get a push bike if i where you, sounds like a dream job to me, 😂😂

Yes but my main issue is the people who write and put these things in place, what are there expierances with the said equipment probably zero or very little ? Its not long since we where chosen as a contractor on site for one of the forest managers to do a accesment with a outside body, a young very attractive lady in her early mid 30s, on this event she was checking that this manager was asking the correct questions to us, now given what he knew about the machinery which would be very little, like its got 4 wheels and a engine, when it came to saws i just got the feeling she knew a bit and he knew zero, so we asked her a question and she replied she had a CS30/31 saw ticket, so she was asked what are the 10 safety features of a chainsaw and the answer was chain brake and that was it so how can she access someone and charge £450 a day + VAT, ?

So if your climbing or using a saw every day this could be classed as your refresher, now that has amazed me, how on earth did some one think of that one, Its been a scam from day one with the refresher courses just keep some people in a job, Last one i did was 2 1/2 yrs ago and i still havent got the certificate yet and its not as if i havent rung and asked for it half a dozen times, there is a very small percentage using saws but a massive percentage driving, why dont we need to re sit our driving test every 5 years ??

A few lads i know have had a few issues between them and nearly all have gone to the Shell V power, Esso Supermet or the Texaco one that i cant remember its name, I have been on V power for about 4 months now just mixed the same with no issues,,

I have heard they do loads but , mainly taking your money of you for doing FA

Looked at them about 8 years ago and yes they where nice and shiney for not a lot of money,, found one or 2 issues with then for our job of extracting timber that would of needed altering, All so looked at Shriomer but a lot put me off them, in the end i went for a Kubota L3250 40hp, OK its older but at least it was proven to be reliable, its been laid out in all weathers on jobs round the north of England and its never mist starting yet even when covered in 6" snow, We had a Kioti Gattor thing on our shoot, bought brand new but never out of the dealers with issues, 3 of us in it one day and front hub sheared off , drive went on it another time, electrics all gave up one day, i dont know what happened to it as we only had it for a season i have the feeling it went back to the dealers as over the time the shoot had owned it it had spent most of its time being repaired, for me i would be looking John deere, Kubota, Iseki but at the end of the day you get what you pay for in this life,,

Polish window cleaning comes to mind 😂😂😂

I think with his 7hr day and a hr in breaks, he could still be at school ??

Using my little tractor and timber trailer i love it and when i get on that its get me off it if you can, i have spent many 10,12,14,16 hr days on that tractor, NO drugs just a butty box and 2 flasks but when we have a couple of hundred tonnes of timber down and the going is good but the weather forecast for the wk after is crap its a race against time, I have gone on site at 8am and not left till 2am more than once as if i had not done it the timber would of been sat there for another 3 months but it was extracted on a wagon down the rd and money in the bank, put a bit of effort in and you will be rewarded, simple,

I knew 7-8 yrs ago it would be a hard decision, and its been harder than i ever thought. Its not the first time nor will it be the last, but its been the hardest by far, She was fantastic out in the field, good on the whistle, good call back, good on direction commands, good at finding game, fantastic on runners and would not give up till it was found, should of been trialled but that just seemed a impossible thing to get in to if you know what i mean, its one of them, if your face fits, she had never been in a vets since she was 12 wk old, had the odd off day but nothing that warranted a visit until yesterday, Was putting my boots on this morn and Asha (the pup) has to come and grab the laces every time, i said to her you have some big boots to fill now as that Pepper plank over there cant even find them,

Hi lost my best mate Sky of the last 13 1/2 years yesterday, it was the hardest decision i have had to make in the last 20 yrs and now you will understand why, She was a pup i kept back out of a litter in 2008, at 10 days old she was dead in my hand not once but twice, i revived her both times and she made it, I kept a very close eye on her and she made very good progress and by 6 wk old started to stand out above the other,s, she was showing good potential as a working dog by 8 wk old the decision was made to keep her back, training commenced and the progress was excellent, turned out to be the best dog i have owned so far, The decision over the wk end was a tough one to make but it had to done, i have 2 more labs here Pepper the plank 7yr old and Asha or should we say storm Asha as every thing has to be done at 100mph, Asha is 14 mth and been very very clingy today but it was Sky n Asha that played about every morning outside so she has lost her best mate as well, its even been hard to write this but there wont be many of us that have had the expieiance of holding the same deceased animal 3 times, R.I.P Sky 07/03/08 - 04/10/21 Happy Hunting XX

So when he sets up thats another company struggling for staff, Dont quite add up to me ??

That one needs a pull by the law, there is one that is either or was on a Mini and that is U2 i think if i owned that one i would be ringing Bono and emptying pocket, Just checked it and it is still on a Mini, used to be on a white one but now on a grey one,

weather wise your lucky we have had some what more than 5" of rain in the last wk going off my bucket outside we are more like 8-9" here, one of my first real interests in a property was in 84 at the ripe old age of 19, the property was on the outskirts of Lochmaben so it would not of been far from where you did your ticket for Logbullet with Dave Blakie, it wasnt 1 house but 2 sold as one lot, it was originally 1 house but had been made into 2, 1 2 bed and a 1 bed, there was about 4 acres with it and it was sealed bids to a solicetors in Locherbie, it was addvertised as offers over 20k, i listened to my mum n dad to much back then and backed out, but i do regret that desission to this day, We all think different and we all make F - - K ups but none of us are perfect, and if some one does think he is perfect i will bet he is in his mid late 50s, has a Audi TT convertable, wears a pink t shirt, Rayban sunglasses that he has had since he was 18, wears flip flops and shorts all year round but has shares in Deep heat due to having rumatizam !!

I have been there as well Andy, been married got divorced, paid her out on the house and then put a 25k extension on the back, didnt borrow for the extension just worked my arse off and saved to do it, but i tried and was successful, and my argument is if you dont try you wont know. i just think some people are shit scared of making the phone call to try and arrange a mortgage, my take on that is nothing ventured nothing gained, they can only say no, I took a chance making a phone call about 10 yr ago regarding some firewood left behind on a harvesting contract, that phone call was the best phone call i have ever made it netted me 10s thousands of pounds of work that i have made some good money off and its still going on, i am in negotions at present to purchase upwards of 500 tonne of good Larch from a site that has very poor access, timber will be track side ready to load and move and its cheaper than yours, so happy days, going to buy a mill but dont tell Rough !!

Tell you what, i will sell you a 3 bed stone built farm house with attatched stone barn with 51 acres of land based in the ribble valley, open your bedroom curtains in the morn and your looking south on to Pendle hill looking north and you see Stocks res and the Gisburn forest, ok it needs money spending on it but its a 1.2-1.5 million pad when knocked in to one dwelling with 5/6 beds when finished, currently awaiting a grant of probate and the day its granted its for sale at 600K good investment for some one,

Where is here Devon ? there seem to be a lot of negative comments and thoughts on this, you moved from north of the border to Devon and i would say there is a big jump in house costs between the 2 locations, a 4/5 bed detached house with double integral garage around me would be around 380-400k but that is hardly a first time buyers property that is some thing you buy 15-20 yrs after getting on the ladder, you chose to make the move to Devon and i now taking it that you are saying you cant afford a house there as you say you are on the move again, so i have to ask why did you move there and not some where inbetween where you may be of been able to buy your own place ?,

No small chip sorry, but Bucks is worlds apart from west Yorkshire, i am not in west yorks and i thought there was nothing cheap around me that first time buyers could afford but i was wrong on that one, 2 bed flats on a estate just round corner from me over looking a field, river and a golf course for 120k,

FFS you must have a big spade as you dont half dig a big hole for yourself ! whats cleaver about buying a house, nothing, tens of millions of people have done it, And it was not for pennies, it was a big step for all of us, and dont think it was a walk in the park, because it wasnt, interest rates where sky high in the teens of % compared to the pittence rate today of 1-1.5%, You say millions on minimum wage low paid jobs is there ? well if anyone had anything about them they would try and better there selfs in life like millions of other people have done, You say every one of your generation got the deposit given, Bollox, my kids have both got there own homes and niether of them got any help with deposits and them 2 are not 30 yet so miles of your generation, they worked when they was at school collage and have saved hard to get the deposit together, they didnt piss it up every wk end or do weed n coke as they wanted to achieve something and what is wrong with that nothing ! So let me ask you when was the last time you took your accounts and your partners wage slips and sat down with a mortgage/financial adviser ? from what you have posted on this site about what you do with in the 4 buisness,s you have and what you charge for milled timber, obtaining a mortgage for you would be a doddle ? so 4 sets of books and wage slips on the table in front of a mortgage adviser ? so whats the problem ? You could buy your own property where you live for very little compared to other areas of the country and lets face it we all have to live with in our means ! renting a house is just dead money and all you are doing is lining some one elses pocket, To borrow a 100k over 25yrs and pay it back on a mortgage would be not much different to what your rent payment is and guess what you would own the property at the end thus leaving something for your children, a mortgage payment on say 100k over 25yrs would equate to at current interest rates of 1.5% would be £400 a month and that would be you purchasing your own property, your rent at present is probably more than that payment, so given how much you have said you charge for milled timber you would only need to sell one plank a week to pay the mortgage and own your own property, ?, You seem to have a big chip on you shoulder about this subject, BUT why, is there some under lying credit history that is stopping you from doing what millions of others have done, there is people i know in your generation that have worked hard and are now virtually mortgage free, so what went wrong with you ????, you make out on here you are earning tens of thousands but yet cant afford to but your own house but then again you can afford to pay some one rent,

Yes both my Daughters have done it and they are both still in there 20s and both have had no help from me or there mother as i know of, i think my Mum and the other Nana gave em about 1K each but that was for furnishings,

A mate of mine worked on oil rigs out off Brazil, all he did was 12hrs on 12hrs off he used to do months at a time on them rigs, not as if he could just nip home back to Selby for a few days, he used to go back to the main land now n then and stay in a hotel for a few nights and have a beer or 2, like he said he went out there to work and earn silly amounts then come back to the UK and buy a house or two,,

This might be a bit boring but its based on facts that i can remember, I bought a house in 1985 at a cost of 22.5k, at that time i was self employed on £3.50hr labouring for a builder, at this time a pint in the local was 70p a pint, so to put that in to perspective for the cost of my house would of been 32,000 pints of beer, i have just looked at what simular houses sell for today and i would be looking at around the 200k mark, i dont know what a average person earns today but i do know what ale costs and its getting close to a fiver today, so a 200k house would be 40,000 pints so something has changed ? this above is based on a simular property that i bought but there is 2 bedroom flats available for 120k which puts it in to a better perspective for todays first time buyers, Then there is several other things to take in to consideration which all add to the equation, if you run a car/van today the insurance when you have past your test is outragouse today at around 2-2.5k, my first van was at 17 and was a Bedford HA viva van and the insurance was £42 for the year and at that time it was just over a wks wage, So with todays youngsters paying stuppied amounts like that this will hamper saving, Then today we nearly all have a mobile phone in our pockets and this comes up on every expence sheet when applying for any sort of finance as today it is taken for granted that you have a phone and it is a expence, but back in the mid 80s mobiles where just about here but not many had them, if i wanted to make a call i had to find a Phone box and hope i had either a 2p or a 2 bob in my pocket, In our small town back in the 80s we only had 2 chippy.s and there was only one of them open after 7pm ,we had no Indians, Chinese, or Italian take away,s today we have 2 Indians, 3 Chinese, 5 Italian take aways and a subway plus many other day time take away,s and there is all ways some one in them, We dont have a Mcdonalds, Kentucky or Burger king as yet but what we do have is several ice cream parlours and sit in desert bars ! well thats what i call em, So to sum it up YES things have changed but i dont think someone in there 20s to buy there first property is out of reach by a long way, its just all the other costs they have that we did,nt back in the 80s/90s, when it comes to that expence sheet there will be a phone contract, car insurance, credit card, loans etc this lowers the chances of being able to qualify for a mortgage today, and with the expences they have today that are now taken for granted hampers saving for that deposit !, and then its like do they need to go and get a Pizza at 10pm eat half of it and bin the rest, No they dont, i used to get them when we got our first Pizza take away and i could,nt eat it all i did,nt bin it i took it to work day after for my dinner, I think its just the way the younger generation spend there money and its not wisely i am afraid, there is one saving they do make tho that my generation didnt and that is they dont buy records today or as my kids called them early versions of CDs i used to buy a couple every wk and they was about 75p a go, So i just think todays youngsters just have to much to spend there money on that we didnt have back when we was saving for houses,