Will C

26 minutes ago, Stevieb said:

All that has been sorted I have purchased a dedicated mewp trailer that will accomodate the heaviest machine and keep it under 3.5 ton. The real question is do you sacrifice 2 meters in height and near 2 meters in reach for a drop of 500 kgs???

IMO no you don’t every picker I’ve used has always just run out of reach at some point 

3 hours ago, Peasgood said:

They went through ok to start with but seemed to struggle by the end of the day. Have to admit I was struggling by then too. 
I got the rootstocks cut down and chipped yesterday which was what was needed but I had more stuff lined up for today but couldn’t be arsed with another day with it not working right. 

 

 

Blunt? Not evan close, you could ride bare arse to London on that and not cut yourself!

The lighter one will be over weight for smaller towing trucks at 2.4t plus trailer so you will need the full fat 3.5t towing capacity so you may as well be full 3.5t

No one has ever said “I wish my mewp was a meter smaller” 

9 hours ago, se7enthdevil said:

hi all, there are a nice set of Lawn Bowls that someone is unwilling to post and i was hoping to find someone that can just pick them up from their location and ship them for me?

 

EX16 5DN

 

 

 

if anyone can help the please let me know.

Not seen you around these parts for a while. Hope all is good? Are you still turning the skittles?

Good luck finding some one 👍

Pair of Robin chicks in our storage racking - taken a couple of weeks back. They have now fledged and left 👍

I asked a pretty, young, homeless woman if I could take her home, and she said yes with a big smile.
The look on her face soon changed when I walked off with her cardboard box.

THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC,
PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST WORRYING IN RECENT YEARS.

25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.

That's scary.

It means 75% are running around untreated.

15 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Do you know my wife?!

I reckon she must be my wife’s cousin 🤣

 bloke keeps phoning me and singing stand and deliver, I've told him he must have the wrong number but he's adamant.

A woman is cooking eggs in the kitchen when her husband comes running in...
Immediately, he sees the eggs and gasps in horror.

"Be careful! CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh, my GOSH!"

The wife, startled at her husband's violent reaction, dashes to the fridge to get some butter.

"You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW!"

The wife, concerned by the status of her husband's mental state, forgets about the butter and goes running to the eggs.

"WE NEED BUTTER! Are you CRAZY??? Where are we going to get the butter? They're going to stick! HURRY!"

The wife runs to the fridge.

"CAREFUL about the eggs! CAREFUL. You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them quickly! Oh not that quickly, don't you know how to cook? Are you insane? Turn the DAMN EGGS"
At this point, the wife starts crying, since she has no idea what to do.
She gasps "What is WRONG with you? I know how to cook eggs." 


The husband simply smiles, "I just wanted to show you how it feels when I'm driving with you in the car".

15 hours ago, Stubby said:

Oooovavooo !

Illrarnnoo 

Air flow is key. We have seasoned in cube m bags as long as you allow air flow through the stack and the rain off you will be fine. (I may have just been lucky)

Stack them tight and get them wet you may have problems. 

10 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Yes, we were dropped off at the end of the farm drive.

When it was snowing Dad used to take us down in the tractor to meet the bus.

In the summer I used to put a foot each on the three point linkage arms and hold on to the cab behind his seat.

Seemed dodgy at the time, even dodgier looking back.

10 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Just found this shot of our old school bus drop off point with the house in the background.

 

 

We were much the same, about mile and quarter from bud stop to the farm. Got dropped there most mornings but walked back most days from about 7 year old. We used to ride in a trailer as the lift arms wouldn’t take 3 of us easily 

it never fails to amaze me how a lot of tree folk had similar practical upbringings 

21&3 for me but it was a cortina with 2 brothers outside the pub 
do I get a extra point for being brought back from a farm sale sat in a old wardrobe in the back of said cortina with some plough spares?
I also remember lifting the mats in the back and watching the road go by through the holes in the floor!

Arr the good old days 🤣

Re check it’s the right belt, there doesn’t look to be any slack for the tensioner to take up. If there is no slack they won’t last long!

@trigger_andy had a logsol but don’t see him here much recently 

I’m nicking that saying! As much as we don’t care it does get boring and spoils the general atmosphere of the place 

When would you be looking to start?

Is there anywhere to camp up with access to water reasonably locally 

I assume you have sorted a felling licence as with 2 cutters (again assuming there forestry cutters who crack on)  you will hit the 5 cube threshold by tea break on day 1!

You have mearly been deemed good enough to go a learn the job and how to do it! It will take a min of 2 years to be able to tackle any situation you come across as second nature. Now go climb and enjoy your learning!

It was this article that made me lose any respect I had for the arb association

On 26/04/2024 at 09:28, GA Groundcare said:

Price increase on it's way 🤣

What is a ballpark figure for a set of cs100 blades? (I’ve got the Italian Peruzzo copy on tracks but I believe it is identical to the cs100) 

Our forst experiences match

micks. Great machine when it running well but the brake downs were regular. In fairness redwood did sort them but frustrated with the Agro it causes doesn’t come close