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I think one of the reasons he was made to have a full MOT was due to a rear light lens being cracked. Hardly something that is going to wipe out all the wives and children on the roads is it. As I said, they were nitpicking. The earlier poster said he was let off for not having a trailer test, he would have got jail if this gang had got him. I wasn't defending anybody that has an unroadworthy vehicle, I was saying that VOSA can, and do, go a bit OTT at times. Apparently they are self funding these days so are inclined to administer as many fines as possible. See the "overloaded" thread if you want better examples of who is more likely to wipe out wives and children.

I'm no expert on the matter but I don't think you have to have passed your driving test in order to be insured. You can buy car insurance as a learner. From that I am assuming you would be insured for a trailer with or without the specific test. It doesn't apply to me anyway, and I wouldn't recommend putting it to the test without checking.

Stihl MS200T

They have spells of pulling all vans and pickups around here. Usually nitpicking over stupid little things. Know of one bloke who was made to have 3 MOT's in as many months! Has anybody been "done" for not having trailer license, ever? I said to someone the other day they needed a license to pull a trailer, they said they weren't bothered and nobody gets done anyway.

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A wind blown Ash I have been cutting up smells of horse piss. I even looked round expecting to see a horse the first time I noticed. I always have a sniff of fresh cut wood, don't really know why. I have some bits of cherry spread randomly in my log pile, I can tell when I get to each bit.

I was out at 4.30 this morning and won't be finished til well after dark. Have to admit to having last weekend "off", although it did involve sawing logs all day so not exactly restful. Will be at work every day for a fortnight from now. No, you are not alone.

It puzzles me how there hasn't been a massive public outcry over the whole horsemeat saga. The issue of whether or not horse meat or bute is bad for you is completely beside the point. The real issue is that you have no idea whatsoever where that horse came from, how it was treated, what its health was or even what it died of. It could be roadkill for all anybody knows. There is nothing to say it is actually meat either, it could just as easily be intestines, hooves or any other part of the animal. If it were your local butcher caught doing such things he would most likely get jail. What do you think is likely to happen to supermarkets for the exact same crime? At the supermarkets insistence farmers have to jump through a myriad of traceability hoops, and yet the supermarkets then go on and sell "meat" that they don't even know what animal it was, never mind where it came from! And you can't tell me they didn't know what was going on. Even if they didn't, it was their job to know. Of course if folk go into a supermarket and buy "value" burgers and expect it to be real beef they are just as daft.

As a farmer, all my life I have had it drummed into me that the pto shaft is dangerous, it will kill you, do not go near it. I really struggle to understand how those hy-crack type splitters are even legal never mind how people think it's now OK to go and jam a bit of wood into what is just an extension of the pto. Numerous threads on this site regarding H&S and numerous posts saying these cone splitters work well. I accept that many people have them and generally say they are quick to do the job. Well I guess that redneck massive flywheel with an axe head welded to it comes under the same category. I shan't be using either of them ever. Hydraulic splitters done right shouldn't involve getting a hand in there but they do, so much so they even made a law saying both hands on the handle.

Then after all those years of pain and suffering when they finally say they will fix it you say you are too busy. For goodness sake man!!!

This is a long wheelbase Cabstar, a lot bigger than the usual ones. I had an Astra estate on it last week and nearly got the tailboard up.

Do you mean an Oxdale? I have one and they are very good. Had mine a few years now and have no regrets buying it.

I can reverse four wheelers and I like to think I'm a bit good at it too. Couldn't do that though.

If you loaded that on your own I take my hat off to you.

Load and a half of logs

You can shoot foxes with an air rifle and yes you can kill them with a good shot. You really really shouldn't though because it is just downright cruel. Air rifles are not powerful enough to be sure you will kill it and like as not you will just wound and cause pain. Don't do it.

I do a fair bit of shooting and I do enjoy it. I justify it to myself as pest control. I love shooting rabbits and pigeons but can't justify shooting foxes, so I don't. They do me no harm so I do them no harm. I can understand the challenge of shooting woodcock and snipe but can't understand why people want to kill them just to prove they are a good shot. I can understand the enjoyment of being on the marsh at unsociable hours but don't understand shooting geese. By all accounts they don't even eat nice. Each to their own of course, just my opinions.

Is a 15 year guarantee realistic? I haven't used any timber recently that I thought would last 15 years in someone elses care. Are you going to come unstuck in 14 years when it turns out the treatment used on the wood wasn't all that good after all? On the other hand, how much meaning would a customer put into the 15 years anyway? I wouldn't expect it to last 15 years if I bought one. I doubt I would be living in the same house in 15 years and I'm damned sure i would have lost the receipt anyway. But there are those that would turn up on your doorstep in 14 years and 364 days, receipt and broken log store in hand.

I said something very similar on a shooting forum recently. They thought I was mad! I have never shot one myself.

No, that is how you clean the griddle.

I have made a few, just for myself and friends. Leylandii works very well. The bigger one in the pics took 2 gallons of water just to keep it cool enough to cook on.

I have a brand spanking new splitter coming this week, I am sawing up logs as quick as I can into a massive great pile.

Ever so slightly longer than the fence does IMO