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spuddog0507

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  1. Rough Hewan, he is only at Huddersfield so not that far, i dont think he is on here any more and i do believe he is busy, Looking for his Teddy,, 😂
  2. yes all caught in the estuaty Seen a couple of videos on youtube that where done up Scotland catching seatrout on the fly in the esturys and it looked good sport,
  3. Seatrout ??
  4. well just watched the full fight, Wilder had burnt him self out by end of round 6, looking for that big punch but not connecting, fury was out of it in the first 2 rounds then started to come back, wilder down then fury down twice, fury made headway from round 7 and dominated from there, he wore wilder down and then put him down, blood coming out of wilder,s left ear again and bleeding heavy from his mouth, Wilder will have to go back to fighting no bodies or better still just retire as he aint lived up to all the hype !! Fury well who is going to stop him ? it wont be AJ or David Haye may be Usky ? but i dont think so,,,
  5. Get in training J and have go you will make millions ?, I can watch boxing all night and some of the best fights i have seen are from the middle weight, super middle weight, welter weight divisions, the 80s and 90s where the best by far in these divisions, Haggler, Hearns, Lenoard, Duran, Jones, then in to the 90s we had Benn, Eubank, Watson and Mcclelan, very explosive fights, I cant see what people see i Football and what they get paid is outrageous, and when they cant hit something thats 24ft wide and 8ft high from 6yds is beyond me ?? God help us if we have a third world war as it wont be footballers that win it for us, they will be supposed to be bombing Berlin and hit London instead and score a home goal,,,
  6. It will pay you to spend a wet day on the phone and do some shopping around, Mine was up for renewal during the first lock down and after ringing and leaving voicmail several times and several emails, the renewal was getting closer so googled some insurance co,s and ended up with a better policey for about half the cost of what i was paying before, it all depends on what your doing, if i can remember who i did it with i will msg you the details,
  7. Well he is not moving to the Charlie Chester paradise of Clitheroe 😂😂😂, He has been trying to buy the old water mill just down the rd from me, but its not a place to have young kids running about,,i will point it out to you one day,,
  8. 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,
  9. Well dont spill it then 😂😂 You stick to your Shandy 😂😂
  10. 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,
  11. I would just get a push bike if i where you, sounds like a dream job to me, 😂😂
  12. 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, ?
  13. 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 ??
  14. 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,,
  15. I have heard they do loads but , mainly taking your money of you for doing FA
  16. 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,,
  17. Polish window cleaning comes to mind 😂😂😂
  18. I think with his 7hr day and a hr in breaks, he could still be at school ??
  19. 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,
  20. 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,
  21. 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
  22. So when he sets up thats another company struggling for staff, Dont quite add up to me ??
  23. 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,
  24. 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 !!
  25. 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 !!

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