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Spot on x2! I have been farming for well over 40 years and if I had farmed by the weather forecast I would have been broke years ago. I suspect it is the same for arb people. You just have to have all the gear and be ready and prepared for any eventuality weather or otherwise. You have to try and set about the job in hand and sometimes it is too windy or wet but you never really know until you are on site and the amazing amount of times you are surprised that it is not as bad as you thought on site, even if it is really bad only a few miles away. Millions of pounds spent on computers and more to come I gather, £97m supercomputer makes UK world-leader in weather and climate science - Met Office CEO of Met Office on £220,000 a year, £80,000 more than Cameron, and no penalty for wrong forecasts Met Office seeking new chief executive | Western Morning News but now I see a bonus to all staff for correct forecasts! Met Office staff get £1m bonuses for accurate forecasts - Telegraph Wish someone would give me a bonus every time I make a good hinge!

We have an Aarrow Stratford, but I do not remember paying anything like this for it about five years ago! Aarrow Stratford Eco 25 HE Multi-fuel / Woodburning Boiler Stove - Aarrow Stoves - A to F - Brands - Stoves Are Us If I cut 8"x 8" lengths of beech with the Lucas saw and cut them to fit the width of the Stratford, season them and when they are ready load them packed tight on a bed of hot ash they will last 12 hours. A woodburner must be fairly air tight around the door and controls to stay in, so pay attention to the seals. The flames need to be "milky" and not bright. Give a good full heat blast first thing in the morning to burn off any deposits.

Can't make up my mind whether you are talking a load of cock or bollocks!

Don't you need a firearm certificate for it!!

Great link to see the fantastic skill of those helicopter pilots, thanks for posting. Exactly what a Christmas thread on Arbtalk should be about-----the Trees! What variety of tree are you cutting this year,are you using the tops of thinnings, tree with root ball, how much are you making per tree etc etc!

Bought a Stein on these recommendations and it works well but I wish I had seen this micro arb machine first as it has several improvements, "Micro Arb Truc Trailer" on youtube The versatile alternative positions for the retaining arms, the ramp idea for heavy logs, the towing hitch and the galvanised construction. I have not been able to find a price for it which is the bottom line since the Stein has been reduced in price. On the other hand I could easily make some ramps and different retainers for the Stein and a ball hitch female is only about £15 Billhook is online now Report Post

I had a farm sale in 1996, nearly twenty years ago, and one of the items was a Clarke parts washer https://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cw1d-floor-standing-parts-washer I think we paid about ninety something quid for it in 1993 and it went for £110 at the sale when a new one was still in the nineties! A sunny day, good food and drink, good auctioneer and the "I'm not letting him have it" attitude all play a part

In the same way that Myxomatosed rabbits and these VHD rabbits are left alone to die by foxes and other predators and the fact that most people would not feed their dogs on a myxy rabbit, I think it would be wise to steer clear of them On the other hand the buzzards around here seem to do well feasting on them and they are still flying!

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Bren, I just had a visit from a wild life expert and that is exactly what he said it was. Started in Southern Europe and working its way North. Mucks up the stomach and seems even more cruel a death than Myxomatosis. He said he had seen them wheezing and having great difficulty breathing so perhaps it constricts the throat as well and prevents them both from eating and breathing properly. Some have an immunity so they will probably do what rabbits do best and recover their populations.

A couple of years ago were had a plague of rabbits on the farm, pre war numbers and I employed a ferret man as well as setting about them with the .22 rifle. From January tp March 2012 the ferret man caught over 300 and I shot over 1400. A lot of them ended up at the local hospital, probably on the menu as chicken pie! Probably a lot more healthy than chickens on processed food diets and antibiotics. Anyway this week we had a request for some more and I went off but after half a day managed to shoot only four, which was four shots and all I saw. One of them was hunched up like they are with myxomatosis but on inspection its eyes were normal. But its nose area had been diseased and the flesh had fallen away and it looked as though this had prevented it from feeding for when we picked it up it was skin and bone. This was the case with one of the others although that one was not showing the external symptoms. I shot another today to put it out of its misery and it was emaciated. Someone told me the local vet had over sixty cases of rabbit virus with domestic rabbits around here and a neighbouring farmer says he has no rabbits where there were hundreds a couple of years ago. This is in the Lincolnshire Wolds, has anyone else seen a similar rabbit disease?

My father started in the war as he was training to be a pilot in America where everybody smoked and cigarettes were a dime a dozen. I remember when I was a boy a carpet of half smoked butt ends lay on the ground outside the office. No filters but only half smoked so perhaps saved his lungs a bit as he was nearly ninety when he died. But although he did pack up overnight when he was about fifty, he always said he was one away for the rest of his life. He had a couple of "one aways" when on holiday looking out across a bay at a beautiful sunset with a glass of wine when the guy on the next table lit a Gauloise..... I think the trouble is not so much the nicotine but the habit by association. This is true of dieting as well. You stop for a break, cup of coffee means there is a huge feeling of a need for a ciggy or a few chocolate biscuits. No break for whatever reason means no cravings for either. Same thing driving on your own,ciggies and sweeties or down at the pub with a beer in hand. Out come the crisps nuts and ciggies. I know how hard it is as I was a very occasional smoker in my youth. I would buy a packet of ten on a Saturday night and wake up with a terrible throat on Sunday morning. Swear never to smoke again and I would then go through the next two weeks maybe without touching one, never smoked at work, but the next time I was in the pub and someone just bought a round and everyone lit up and offered me one.....just one away.

I would like to nibble away at the top branches, then have a go at some of the limbs, all the while conserving my energy for attacking the main trunk.

SATICHE - 0695 Here are a couple from this link which made me smile • get the new employee to "get a long stand"...send them to a friend who tells them, "You want a long stand? I'll get one. Wait here." ...and leave them. When my mother was a nursing student in England, they had a number of standard jokes. One that I remember went something like this: Nurse: "Go and ask the Ward Sister if I can borrow her fallopian tubes." (Sometimes, my mother relates, the answer would come back "Sorry, they're in use at the moment.")

The old favourites like sending the lad round to the workshop for a tin of elbow grease still seem to work amazingly. On my first day as a student on a dairy farm, the manager introduced me to the cowman who held out his hand to shake. I jumped about ten feet in the air because I did not see that his other hand was gripping the electric fence firmly. (this you can do with a battery type fencer)

Just to back my post. Met Office paid huge bonuses to forecasters who got weather right | UK | News | Daily Express

Your guess is just as good as anyone's guess at the Met Office whose chief executive is on £220,000 a year for guessing. £80,000 more than the Prime Minister. My advice to all is to forget about slaving away in all weathers with your back breaking, dangerous and unrewarding woodwork, and join the met office where you will have a nice cozy indoor job on a comfy chair looking at computer screens, having cups of coffee and biscuits brought to you by some dolly in a short skirt, massive pay and huge pension and job for life. They probably never even look out of the window. You can make any prediction you like and if your prediction turns out to be wrong there is no penalty.

Yeah yeah, I know, it's in my lunch box!

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Just received my phone bill from Talktalk, a long way over the average. My 90 year old mother is demented and has 24/7 care from an agency which employs women from Zimbabwe. Their command of English is ok but not the greatest. They are told to use their mobiles unless it is part of mother's care or an emergency. One of them rang 118118 (she remembered the advert with the two David Bedford idiots) to find the number for UPS whose medical package was a week overdue. "Would you like me to connect your call?" "What a nice lady" the carer thought. UPS were 14 minutes and 43 seconds looking for the package before the line went dead. The bill for that was £52.55! Three subsequent calls each again cut off 1 minute and 5 seconds £8.99 1 minute and 59 seconds £11.87 1 minute and 24 seconds £10.00 Total cost just to find what had happened to the package £83.41! Just below my wife made a call to Denmark which lasted 37 minutes and 42 seconds total cost £0.99p! The poor carer was in tears, as it was not clear to her that such charges could be applied. I had to take it on the chin and have now blocked the number. Spent over an hour on the phone talking to Ombudsman (not interested, utility mate) then Talktalk (it's what we charge mate) then 118118 who backed down and took off £28-00 They said that they had charged Talktalk £39-00 for the £52-00 call so Talktalk had taken £13-00 out of it. I am told by my garage mechanic that even a porn line does not charge this much! Surely there must be some law against this kind of obfuscation, or at least the word "reasonable" must enter the equation somewhere. What if they charged me £1000 for the call, would I be expected to pay? Anybody else been caught?

Bloody good looking lass your missus!

I thought that I put the right link in the correct box but obviously not. On very close inspection the girl is ever so slightly too big seeing that I am nearly six foot and fifteen stone and have size eleven boots. She must be six feet two size fourteen feet and thighs like a prop forward!

OK The Kid, just to keep you all amused! Don't be too hard on me!

Rumbled! I cannot put the pictures up as I would never be able to show my face (words) again on arb talk without being a target for all you wits out there! But to go back to Morten and your very technical answer which only puts my mind at rest a little, again if I just re photographed the image with my standard camera even using an old analogue film, would the experts still be able to see into the image that it had been doctored.