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Because they’re expensive, people wouldn’t charge them, then people would break them, if they didn’t steal them.

I haven’t been to a doctor for twenty years. Am aware from musicians of ENT specialists’ existence. The hearing test in the first post was from when I had them cleaned and tested before having custom moulded in ear monitors made.

I often have my left down and my right up to get a mix of comms and ambience. I've had recurring bastard earaches in almost always my right ear for years now. Well that doesn't sound like much of a surprise, does it? Yes and no. It manifested for a while with a tight jaw. I couldn't tell whether it was the ear, the jaw or a tooth. The dentist tried telling me it was a tooth but they turned out to be shady bastards who urged me to have teeth unnecessarily pulled for the surgery commission. I had my ears cleaned. That staved it off for a few months but that was also a few months that I wasn't doing much tree work, up a tree, ear(s) exposed to cold draughts. Anyway. This is now a somewhat rambling post about my ear hurting, with no real questions. Anyone experienced similar? Any revelations?

Gawd bless em. I wish I'd kept mine. Lovely little van. Was only the fuel pump. I wasn't as mechanically handy back then.

Now I think about it, the lads who took him to the shop could have easily fed him a sandwich and scratchcard without me knowing.

That looks lovely as long as your hands are warm. What gloves are you wearing?

Sweating like cornered nonce after ropewalking ninety feet you mean.

On electric saws, I want to know what was used to cut down the Sycamore tree on Hadrian's wall. 0:29

I go from a 220 with 16" bar to a 500i with 25" bar. I keep wanting to want something like a 362 or 400 with a 20" but I just don't need one. I'd do three cuts with the 20" and then need the 25" anyway. This is climbing btw.

I had a muntjac head sitting on a staddlestone. Noticed Sailor had nosed it off and was having a tentative lick. Thought little of it. Couldn't find it the next day, save for a few cm of jawbone. Crunched the whole thing up.

Too much clearly because he's deposited vast amounts under normal circumstances today too. He got into the spare food bags upstairs a couple of weeks ago. Might check those again.

Please do.

Aye. Still feel awful about it. I had to get back up a tree but a couple of the lads took him to the shop with them, where he apparently shit bigly more. He was alright in the side. Poked his head out and watched a fair bit.

Had a shocker climbing yesterday. 03:30 - Small walk. Big shits. Good. Who can see where this is going already? 04:40 - Get in van. 07:30 - Arrive at site, urban residential. Quick walk round the block, pissing on things. 09:00 - Check on him in the cab. OK. 11:00 - Check on him in the cab. Far from OK. Poor bastard was caught short and shit al owa the passenger side. Or more to the point shit in one place, jumped in it and then jumped al owa the passenger side. Mercifully kept off the driver’s seat and my new coat. Spent the afternoon in the side of the van instead, door open. Uneasy with security but in fairness anyone going to nick anything would find an Alsatian first. A smelly Alsatian at that. Used loads of kit and was quite a busy day so everything just got thrown back in to be sorted another time. In the centre of that pile is a carrier bag of tremendous foulness that I need to throw in a pond for a few weeks. @kevinjohnsonmbe for the untidiness, the shepherd and the fact we haven’t seen you in a while.

Install an inverter on the chipper and you could have a corded saw there too. Nice and quiet.

A day and a half in the house and a George the Hopeless didn’t bother her arse to even get out of the carrier bag she was in. Threw her back into genpop with firm instruction to buck up or get strangled. Check at lunchtime. IMG_4417.MOV

300 is too heavy for what they do and the switching is shit. 220 is great. Haven’t tried a 200. Not that I can remember anyway.

What’s in the back of your mog, Mike? Surely not a chip box if it has a window? Lift on/off tool store?

Wales. Obviously.

Moderately sure it’s not a Hobbs anyway but actually the freeworker one @MattyF has one of.

@Mick Dempsey Get your teeth into that description.

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Smaller island but still an island.

The obvious solution is Rough Cutter sets Mark up with a buyer at £45/tonne and gets a £10/tonne commission. £150 from one job just for knowing something and someone.

I’m right handed and have the same problem. A shame we’re not closer.