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Oh where is Steve to moderate this thread!!!!

Take a tip from me to get yourself out of a hole, you may have to crowd fund it otherwise you will end up in a scrape.

No problem once you get your teeth into it!

If I have any worry about a hung tree or rotten dangerous one I bring the Teleporter with a 6 metre boom, 3 tons of lift and a lot of pushing power as well as quite a bit of pulling power. 4 wheel drive ad the teleram to push the machine out of a muddy situation, it will tackle nearly anything that it can drive up to. Last job was a large Lime that had split about eight feet up and was leaning at about 30 degrees into a mass of Sycamore small branches. Too dangerous for me even to chainsaw, and a nightmare to rope up and winch so I just went in with the Teleporter and with a heavy weight on the forks rested it on top of the large limb which came crashing down safely to the ground moved the machine further up the limb and the weight brought the rest of it down to the ground. Ten minute job, solo with me 6 metres away in a safety cab. Ok not everyone has a teleporter, but it is worth thinking about speaking to a local farmer or contractor who may be happy to charge you but what price is safety?

That story was quite a scoop!

Well she was French and maybe used guilish words to lure me!

Really dig that!

I remember my first shag from years ago, but it could have been a guillemot!

Always the favourite band of our bass player. Never really listened to them properly. Taste On the Boards album nearly worn out! I remember Dave Arbus playing this song at Lynn

Here is my quote on here from 2018! Now you both have made me sad and nostalgic! I went to see Rory Gallagher at the Corn Exchange in King's Lynn in about 1970 and it was amazing how he filled that great room with the sound of his AC30. East of Eden were the support band. So I bought an old AC30 some time in the late 1970s and had some fun with it and the Strat. Unfortunately it was one of the many casualties of my massive 1991 burglary along with the 1968 left hand maple neck sunburst strat. I put my postcode in several hidden places on that guitar hoping that perhaps some guitar repair shop might just inform me. Alas no such identification on the Vox. Aaaaah the warmth of valves and the fullness of analogue! Quote

House could be haunted!

Well you have all those 10mm spanners and electrical screwdrivers for a start, then tape measures, trowels, axes, knives, chains, shackles, groundies..............!

After over a year and a half of searching, been round the farm, searched all the woods and tool stores and vehicles, just about given up when I found my missing Stihl skidding/ lifting tongs in my garden leaning up against a tree. The bright original paint had worn off and a layer of rust and green mould had made them invisible. I must have walked by them a hundred times Anyway I searched the web and could not find another set anywhere. I bought these in 1996. I did not think that they looked strong enough but as I used them more and more, I was amazed how they coped with everything. Never bent and never had to be sharpened. in the end I bought these much heavier duty Wilmec double tongs which are excellent but less handy for smaller jobs I have also searched the web for another set of these for a friend who was similarly impressed, but they too seem to be out of production . The Stihl ones open to about 20 inches and the Wilmec ones to over four feet. ( for a slab). Three and a half feet for a log With the Stihl ones I did have to leave the cab to put them over the log but the Wilmec ones are brilliant and seem to grip every time Anyone know if either are available? I have invested in a pot of Matbro yellow paint and had a morning dabbing most of our tools!

Well it was shirtsleeves yesterday and suntan but today my fundamentals have been frozen while mowing and I see the Blackthorn is out in beautiful white flower, so again “Beware the Blackthorn Winter” saying comes true!

I do not sell firewood but burn a lot and the stove is on all day every day and night throughout the Winter. When we have some sun the hot water is heated by solar tubes. i burn Ash , Oak, Elm and Sycamore. Mainly Ash and am not fanatical about checking moisture with a meter. All the wood is kept loose filled in 2 cubic meter wooden boxes which have open slats and are stored in an open fronted lean-to. I can tell by looking them whether they are fit to burn, colour ,cracking, settling in the box and also weight of each log and sound it makes when clacked against another. Out of interest , I will try the Fairy Liquid method on some different pieces using our air compressor maybe attached to a rubber loo plunger and do a video on the result (if there is one!) Proof is in the pudding and the stove has a temperature gauge both on the door and on the heating pipe which operate in a narrow band if everything is ok with the wood. Added to this there is no smoke out of the insulated flue when running and I have put the chimney brush up the flue only once in years and there was honestly nothing there but a little dust. So because my supply is fairly constant and uniform, I have reached a stable situation after a time I have the luxury of not having to deal with the general public and therefore not having to deal with the new rules. When we did try and sell wood years ago it was painful. They wanted different lengths, different splits, pine to make it smell good, and some wanted it stacking in their woodshed which was through a gate across the lawn, down some steps, well many here know the story. One customer we found sprinkling the wood with a garden hose because he said it makes it last longer!!!! They walk amongst us!

I always loved this one, Villanova Junction from Woodstock, which was very different from his usual guitar work and very moving.

Never heard this live version of it before either, I think he must have been practicing ready for Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock !

I see that the lyric sheet I copied missed out the most important bit at the end! WELL MAYBEE, MAYBE IT’S JUST A CHANGE OF CLIMATE! smell of a world that has burned. Well, maybee, maybe it's just a change of Climate. I can dig it, I can dig it baby, I just want to see. So where do I purchase my ticket, I would just like to have a ringside seat, I want to know about the new Mother Earth, I want to hear and see everything, I want to hear and see everything, I want to hear and see everything. Aw, shucks, If my daddy could see me now. Source: Musixmatch

Just realised Jimi was way ahead of the Global Warming theme back in 1968. I just want to talk to you. I won't uh, do you no harm, I just want to know about your different lives, on This here people farm. I heard some of you got your families, living in Cages tall & cold, And some just stay there and dust away, past the Age of old. Is this true? Please let me talk to you. I just wanna know about, the rooms behind Your minds, Do I see a vacuum there, or am I going blind? Or is it just remains from vibrations and echoes Long ago, Things like 'Love the World' and 'Let your fancy Flow', Is this true? Please let me talk to you. Let me Talk to you. I have lived here before, the days of ice, And of course this is why I'm so concerned, And I come back to find the stars misplaced And the smell of a world that has burned. The smell of a world…

Branch Logger has to be a better way than these options!

If it soon rots in the ground, it doesn't sound as though the treatment is very effective!

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