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I am not familiar with the 7 ton but I know that this five ton Portek has no hydraulics or hydraulic ram on it. It is all electric, electric motor and kinetic flywheels. I have tested it on some fairly tough bits of Elm that I could not split with my trusty X27 Fiskar and although it took two or three goes on the Elm it did eventually split it and never has become stuck in anything.

We have found it to be an excellent machine, well built and quiet. You need to be firm with the handles as the rack will sometimes kick back and catch you unawares if you are not holding it firmly. My neighbour keeps wanting to borrow it and I have trouble with him not returning it when he said he would which must be a good advertisement It does punch above its weight but we use it at home in our woodshed where my wife can cut smaller stuff for the Clearview Pioneer 500. She likes it because it is fast and quiet. I have mounted it on a waist high table and the splits fall into a barrow so she does not have to bend all the time All the bigger stuff is dealt with by the Palax 600 Combi. I would say that the splitting power is nearly as good as the Palax but of course with a fourway splitter and conveyor on the Palax there is no contest for output from long log to firewood loaded in a ton box.

The blindingly obvious solution to the problem is to ban internal combustion engines and replace them with renewable energy powered electric vehicles. Don't blame the trees, blame the humans!

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Now that has to be wet as it is no good dry!

People who are waiting for someone or something to show them the way! I see Dave has put his axe to rest :sad: Breaking News : David Gilmour to announce retirement from music - Mediamass

Took a packet of Jammie Dodgers to discuss insurance over a cup of tea with the NFU manager. As I sat there I came up with the idea of leaving the packet of biscuits on his desk as a reminder for him in the current political climate Just About Managing My Insurance Expenses

__________________ And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no-one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. People that fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way

You do not need a new billhook when you have me. I keep all my posts sharp and to the point I can talk billhooks all day long

Probably is private, but I was wondering if they were CSWs in the van. It may be that it is an anti terrorist unit and may be run by an authority like the customs but it was still over the top. It was absolutely clear that this was not an abandoned car posing a terrorist threat.

I have just been done by what I assume is a CSW. A ticket arrived this morning with a fine for £60 or £100 if not paid within 14 days. Last Saturday I took my wife to Humberside Airport at about 9.30am. It was raining and there was nobody around so I stopped the car on some yellow cross hatching which I assumed just meant no parking. my wife jumped out and took her suitcase out shut the boot and headed off to the terminal grateful for not having to walk a long way from the car park in the rain. This operation was recorded by three hand held cameras and took precisely 32 seconds, I never left the drivers seat and went on through to the car park via the barrier which was only about thirty yards from the cross hatching, Of course I stopped there for a similar amount of time to retrieve the ticket. This was a fairly officious piece of work and I would put it on a par with being fined for doing 30.5 mph in a 30 limit In the hand luggage inspection area there were hardly any passengers and my wife was last in the line. In fact there were more officials than passengers. I put one foot over the line to kiss her goodbye and some other officious git came over and told me to move my foot back across the line. Not a good morning!

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I do not recommend doing this prank to the truck belonging to the boss! [ame] [/ame]

"When I were a lad" working my year's practical on a beef unit, my first day was to assist the team of vets and farm workers castrating a bunch of calves. Harry the old stockman had a dirty old brown coat and had a habit of snivelling a lot and automatically putting his hand in his coat pocket to reach for his handkerchief with which he would quickly wipe his nose and return the handkerchief to the pocket. The operation seemed to only take a couple of seconds. One of the old vets slipped a couple of testicles in his pocket when he was distracted and of course he wiped them all over his nose before he realised what had been done. I laughed with everyone else, Harry seemed to mumble something but took it well and I thought nothing more about it. At the time i was living at home and sharing an old Moskvitch car with my mother. About a week later mother complained about a strange smell in the car which became so intense that one day we searched everywhere for the source. Lifting up the back seat mother found the source and picked up a disgusting festering lump and said "What's this" "Bulls Balls Mum!" She dropped them as though they were red hot!

I don't know how you found him to be but I found him to be great company as well as a great guitarist What is (was) the name of your band?

Took out Grandfather's old army WW1 wire cutters and clipped some barbed wire from an old fence we are replacing. Seemed appropriate. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/103675-whats.html

Brilliant but actually very worrying as with that kind of ability to manipulate imagery, somebody who did not like me could make a video of me threatening people in our local high street with a chainsaw and have me locked up! I think I had better start being extra nice to everyone! ps my dear old ma had a boxer called Buster when she was a little girl in the 1920s.

I use the BR600 in the on floor corn store. It is so powerful that it moves loose grain back into the heap far quicker and easier than with a brush. For leaves it needs to be a certain distance away for the best vortex effect. I see that there is a gutter cleaning extension tube as an option Has anyone used one?

Thank you for that link Wills, I have ordered a copy

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I nearly remembered the poem by heart but it was not quite right having googled it. “Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. “He's a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

Just visited Gunby Hall, National Trust property and there was a room there with three huge maps which they had just discovered rolled up in a basement. They were the battle plans for the Battle of Loos near Arras which was such a disaster. The owner of Gunby was the wonderfully named Field Marshall Sir Archibald Montgomery Massingberd who was so upset by the loss of life due to his plans that he spent the rest of the War trying to improve things. I think that the Somme was next on the list I never knew my Grandfather as he died in the last war but a long time ago,when I lived at home and my father came down for breakfast, I would say "Good morning" and father would strike up with the poem by Siegfried Sassoon called "The General" "Good morning, good morning" the general said as he passed his men on his way to the line But the ones that he spoke to are most of them dead Or cursing his staff for incompetent swine He's a cheery old card muttered Harry to Jack As they slogged through to Arras with rifle and pack But he did for them both with his plan of attack All the more poignant since Grandfather was at school with Sassoon and I would think he taught father the poem Grandfather was actually wounded at Souchez which can be seen on the map Probably the last time the wire cutters were used in action

Well done you learned folk I dug it out today from the depths of a cupboard and tried it on some barbed wire which it cut more easily than the bolt croppers would have done. They belonged to my grandfather and have his name and the date "1916" written inside the leather case. He was wounded at Arras in April 1916 and had to have his leg amputated because gangrene set in It really did make me wonder about his time in the trenches, crawling on his belly at night in the mud and cutting his way through the barbed wire A remarkable tool that still works perfectly a hundred years later The case has a belt loop so it sits very comfortably on one side and is not too big or heavy

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I agree the water consumption needs to be looked at. I found that by drinking about five pints a day not only do I feel less tired but it also stopped my muscle cramps. This may also be linked with cutting out tea and coffee, low manufactured sugar consumption, I take the sugar from fresh fruit. Less booze Agree about the swimming We invested in a swimspa about four years ago which is indoors and is used every day. You swim into a powerful current. Cut out general vacuous TV and select a program to watch if you must. Better to learn to play a musical instrument and use the time as a form of meditation. Limit computer time Pack up earlier and go to bed early. I would strongly advise against a nap in the day as it means the sleep will be lighter at night. Good pillow and mattress, quiet bedroom and a wife/partner that does not involuntarily kick in the night Medical checkup for diabetes or other problems All this might sound like a recipe for creating a boring old fart, but there is not much more boring than being around someone who is tired all the time. Perhaps short tempered with the tiredness. As you become older you become weaker. Although I look fit and much the same as I did when I was twenty five apart from the hair loss, I cannot lift the two 56 lb weights above my head which I used to do with ease. Hopefully by the time you are in your sixties as I am you will have established your business enough to delegate much of the harder work and have earned enough to give yourself the breaks you deserve after a hard working life. If you read the thread on sleep started by Gray you may just find sleep by reading Arbtalk posts! Your eyes are becoming very heavy, you are becoming very sleepy, you need to lie down, you feel a great weight....................