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@MattyF mentioned it on here a while ago. I'm sure they were something like EUR3000 at the time. Now appear to be around EUR1200. Good price point. Looks easier to live with than a Hobbs. Looks like my competition. Sort of. EDIT I had said that the cleat-off-for-cranking was a neat trick. Now half changed my mind. Yes, it means safe, non-juggly one man operation but it'll fill the drum up and then you'll have to un-cleat, take some wraps off, re-cleat and go again. It'll pull about a foot of rope per turn and I reckon you'd have to reset it every three or four turns. Then you'll try to take as many turns off as possible so you can fit more back on and accidentally let some rope slip back. Then you'll be annoyed.

Stop watching the news.

Easier not having to wrestle a long bar about out of the cut. And in the cut, easier to plunge/carve in any direction. Plus a cubier load you can get closer to your body. Big biscuits, the weight can be far away from you, more friction on a bigger face, they can seesaw on the edge of the stick etc. Just more awkward. And it's easier to sharpen short bars so they cut straight enough at their full length. You'll find a lot of big bars in the wild that can't.

Yes yes yes.

If you need to nibble so you can throw pieces somewhere safe rather than just shove them off, you're better off nibbling cubier blocks than big diameter, thin cookies. Short bar rather than long. Digs in, plunges etc better. I even carry a few of these with lag bolts/screws for if you need to tether a chunk that's in danger of falling off while you cut it, like a big beech knuckle.

First shoot of the season. No lead this year. Easier on the tangles and no doubt his neck. Harder on everyone’s hearing. He was generally good on the whistle but I did have to use my big voice a couple of times. He responds quite linearly to volume and intensity. Which is fine for me because I’m a metal and hardcore punk vocalist but probably less enjoyable for Maureen, 68, next to me on the beating line, trying to enjoy the countryside. He was pretty good. Stayed close. Got a bit big for his boots later on and went further. Had a word. Fine again. Bumped a hare on the last drive. Massive thing, all of about eight feet away. Nearly managed to dive for him but I’m slow witted. Willow coppice btw. Headland mulched for harvester next week apparently.

Would guarantee Mark goes in on an adult ticket. Possibly two.

God no. Spandex-clad strumpets draped over diggers like Kingwell had at the APF a few years ago. Crass as fck.

Discussing drug use with a mate: "You'd be fcking unbearable on cocaine, Alex. You already gan on like a cnt without it."

Sugar. Vast amounts of sugar. Lager is basically an energy drink.

Right or wrong to do it in the first place, you're making a lovely job of that reduction.

Big signs showing what's on, where and when. No fcking app or QR code to scan for interactive virtual bollocks. Food and drink reasonably priced. The low brow cycnicism of being pumped £14 for a burger as a captive market honestly stops people coming. Extremely high quality talks/demonstrations/workshops. No generalist sales rep reading from a brochure. No fat office wallah wasting your life with a powerpoint that might have conned a wildlife trust but doesn't actually say anything. Proper experts, talking details. Vet and discriminate. Extremely high quality only. Good classroom environment. Maybe a gazebo with a side open so people can be under shelter, looking out to an outside demo but able to check a board or paperwork in the dry as it goes along. One mic for teacher and one floating round the crowd for questions. Podcast it? I'm particularly interested in arb rigging so, for that, a selection of trees including spready-crowned hardwoods. Trees getting cut and roped. The ability to get close to see well and have a go.

I rack them up and Mick knocks them down!

Didn’t you have an arb ops manager thing lined up?

Gays, blacks, gay blacks, black gays etc.

He's probably still trying to programme the fanuc robots from a sky remote or something.

A mate worked at a university. They cleared out the (pleasingly analogue) physics department. I had a van. His house is still rammed with robotic arms and oscilloscopes.

Where's silky been? I've been waiting for big news for about a decade now.

I've invented something better. Coming soon (about 2040).

How light can you go before it’s a pain? And how easy to pull slack?

Have you used either of the ISC ones?

I need to learn some kind of meat preservation. Salami most appealing. Need some fat for that. No wild pigs around here.

Never got on with jerky. Meaty cardboard. Big on lamb though. I love fatty stuff.

OK.

Nice. Did you get the boar yourself?