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I get all that Agg, but pre-teens and chainsaws? I won't ever understand that one.

Beats the Hell out of me why any parent would put their kids in harms way.

I nearly lit the fire in my living room last night, it was cold enough. Big fire in the kitchen was lit.

A couple of years ago I called in at a fuel station in Oz. This station was just a shed in the middle of nowhere with a couple of fuel pumps out in the yard. These fuel stations are about a couple of hours apart with nothing in between. You fill up at every one because you don't know how far the next one will be. As I was filling up there was an old boy on a motorbike filling at the other pump. I said hello and asked where he was off to. Not many bikes around in those parts, too remote and too many kangaroos to jump on you. He said he was going home. He was on his way back to Brisbane after visiting Ayers Rock for his 75th birthday! That is a 6000km round trip and although I would like to go myself the 6 day drive through some pretty bleak country puts me off, and that would be in a 4 wheeled vehicle. I wished him a safe trip and said "Go carefully". He said he would definitely be going carefully as otherwise he might not be able to do it again next year. Pretty cool dude I thought.

Poplar and willow are hardwoods. I know the burn but not as good as leylandii. Turns out I do have some hardwoods after all.

It's not very often I burn hardwood, mostly because I haven't got any! I do have abundant softwood (leylandii) and all heating,DHW and cooking in a 6 bed house. I also have a 10 acre plot of mature Larch that whenever I look into having it felled the best offer I ever get is we will fell it as long as we can have the wood for free. What's that all about?

I looked into it because of this thread. As far as I can make out it is not illegal to undertake on a motorway but it is frowned upon, in my own opinion there are dangers involved. They key bit seems to be the wording "should not" rather than "must not". If you are seen deliberately weaving all over the place to overtake/undertake you are likely to be charged with dangerous driving if the police see you. I have to admit, I always thought it was illegal, apparently not.

I've never heard of him, so no. Just looked him up and he isn't far away. Just shows how much interest I pay towards tractors.

I don't know what you mean so I guess not.

I looked at some pics, it is 110 not 130

I do it sometimes but it sure isn't legal and not very sensible either really. I even got pulled for it once many years ago.

We did have an excellent local dealer but he ditched them in favour of "posher" makes because he wasn't able to sell enough of them. A bit affluent and snobby in places around here. We have a 90 widened out to 80" and a 130 (I think. great big 6 cylinder thing that just purrs along all day). Now I wouldn't do it myself but Uncle mows a bank we have that is summat like 45 degrees. He mows across the bank with them too!!

SAME is cheap and cheerful, you get a lot of tractor for the money. A lot of farmers don't like them because they want to impress their neighbours with JD's or Fendts etc. We don't care about such things and have been running a fleet of SAME for more than 20 years I guess. Last non SAME we bought was a new IH784 so that puts some sort of date on it. I snapped a gear lever off once but it was a long long time ago and hasn't happened since on any of them. Can't think of any special faults other than dissolving bodywork on the sprayer tractors, probably due to the sprays. Had a couple of them self combust due to wiring faults, that is about the worst thing I can think of. Still got 5 of them on the place at the mo.

Tring? Is that near the Bucks boundary?

Thank you both. I thought it was but not experienced enough to be sure. I can eat it then if i so wish, not sure that I do though. It is my tree in my field, no targets but my geese would be proper upset if it fell on them.

On a mature oak that is starting to hollow. Not the first time I have seen it inside this tree.

No paperwork, not even a producer. Often wondered if they were even real policemen after never hearing from them again.

110, Chester bypass, about the same time.

I would cut into lengths a log it later with a sawbench. No way will you cut as fast if using a chainsaw. I appreciate that wasn't really your question but at 50-100cube it is a better option IMO.

From the comments on the vid you would think the whole thing was due entirely to the cameraman holding his camera the wrong way.

Why didn't he put it down after the first time it bit him? I would! Found some when I was a kid, put them in a sand castle bucket and took them to show Mum. Turned out she doesn't much like snakes.

I have an Oxdale as in the vid. My logs are 17" long as that is as long as they will fit in it. Pretty much all of it is Leylandii and I get it stuck at times. Anyone that has never used an axe will be stuck nearly all the time. You do need to know where to split it.

Depends on the wood and depends on which 10 ton you have. First thoughts are that it will go through exactly the same whichever you have. If you don't have enough power to do that your wedge just stops but your blade would go in an inch and be stuck. Being stuck is a PITA

I once read an advert for the Post Office Bank. it said that 98% of the population live within a few hundred yards of their nearest Post Office. At the time dozens of rural PO's were being shut down, the nearest one to me was 5 miles away. The advert made me cross because to me they were shutting down all the rural PO's and still claiming nearly everyone was only a few hundred yards away from their nearest branch. I was so cross I actually complained to advertising standards (very Victor Meldrew and quite out of character for me). They went to great lengths to hold an inquiry into the matter and to keep me very well updated on the progress. They then informed me that 98% do live that close. There's obviously more PO's and people in the towns and cities than I thought. It could be they all work in the construction industry unbeknownst to us. Probably not, but my point about statistics still stands. I thought farming was more dangerous, (I am a farmer). I think the fishing industry says the same too

It could just mean that 98% of the population work in the construction industry and compared to other jobs it is one of the safest. Statistics can be used to portray anything you want them to.