David Cropper
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You want to see my "extraordinary athletic feats" I can perform if a cat comes near me. I've knocked tables over to get out of the way before now in houses, pubs, restaurants causing much amusement to my so called friends. Bastards! Some bird once threw a kid's slipper with a cats head, not a real one, at me at a party, table gone drinks everywhere. Bitch! I worked for a friend of my wife a couple of years ago. Wife told me" She's got a couple of Jack Russels and a couple of cats." A couple of cats? She had bleeding 13 of the bastards! Quickest grinding job I've ever done.
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What do you use to store logs by the fire?
David Cropper replied to Rob_the_Sparky's topic in Firewood forum
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What do you use to store logs by the fire?
David Cropper replied to Rob_the_Sparky's topic in Firewood forum
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I bought a cheap one off Amazon UK for £68 after I hit the two German tank shells. Half the time I can't be bothered to use it. I went to a job and got tangled up with a defunct telephone wire which went either side of a path. 4 metres of the stuff wrapped round the cutter head. I asked the client if he knew if there were any other cables, pipes etc in the garden. He suddenly remembered there was an electric cable from the gite to an above ground swimming pool. Got the detector out of the van, found the cable, no problem and traced it to the box. However, I wondered why the cable had split and multiplied into several lines. Answer was, if you wear steel toe capped boots, don't swing the detector head over them.
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To keep the Army guard dogs I worked with at heel we held the lead in the right hand, across the body. Tug the lead which will bring the dog into your knee, tell him to heel, or what ever command you use, if after three times he isn't responding, stick your knee out, let the lead go slack then yank him in hard onto your knee. Usually works and reminds him who's the boss. Works well with Alsatians, don't try it with Dobermans, after the first time, he'll give you The Look, second time he'll be chewing your arm. I don't know what the temperament of your dog is, make him know that he's the dog and your his boss. Firm but fair. It works for my wife, I do what she says, or I get the knee.
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She was an absolute cracker of a dog. Her best moment was just before my daughter's friends arrived for her birthday party. Birthday cake left on kitchen table, Pansy in kitchen decided this was too good to miss, cake on floor and around Pansy's mug, wife not happy, daughter in hysterics, friends thought it was part of the entertainment. One of the best dogs I've had.
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These two chestnuts were left at this height by a tree surgeon, why, I've no idea, not because the client wanted, but he decided. I had to reduce the one with a shovel next to it for perspective, into four segments so I could move them. Nearly sodding killed me. The other one by the gate was rotten inside but not outside, dropped this as low as possible before grinding. I used my Echo 600 with a 20 inch bar that I bought two years ago just for the bigger stumps.
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I found this old photo from nearly 40 years ago. Pansy, the English Mastiff lying next to her pal, Eric the white rabbit, who by the way thought he was a dog. My Jack Russel is out of shot, but him and Eric got on well. Eric had to go when I bought a whippet greyhound pup. One day Eric was reclining in his hutch, Sabre the pup saw Eric, didn't realise Eric was another dog, dived onto Eric who by now was thoroughly confused why he was been bullied. I gave him to a pal of mine but a fox took poor old Eric. Not often you hear of a fox killing a dog.
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Billy995. If I might suggest something which is said with the best intentions. Before you put anything on here, make sure you have a working knowledge of the subject, otherwise you will find you will be savaged for not knowing the correct terminology etc. You will get a lot of good, well meant advice from some of the blokes on here but also you have to be very thick skinned at times. If you're not too sure of your working practices then don't be too proud to ask, but the other side of the coin is don't take any crap, we all had to learn from someone. Don't be put off with the piss taking, a lot of it is just that, nothing sinister in it. Working in France is a strange experience when you first start, there's a lot of good people who will help you out if you ask, go about in a positive way. Most of us work well with each other and pass work on or do the same job together.
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That's because I am a very wise man Khriss. This situation over here has become very toxic, best to keep out of it, that's why I've said what I said. No doubt some will elaborate what's gone on, not for me I'm afraid.
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Legend or bellend I thought you weren't getting involved in this crap Shep? Stay out of it, let the others squabble about it. I see violence in the offing.
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This is Buster the Bastard again. He's realised if he climbs high, he can more easily spy out any coypu, ragodin, swimming around, then he's off. He's the daughter's Welsh terrier. This is a young one he spotted.
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Good lad, welcome back. Sorry about your mum.
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For God's sake, don't start Mick Dempsey off! If he sees that, he'll be battering one off! Ugh!
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Darren Turnbull ate it. It's on his plate.
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Agree entirely. I remember watching about 5 years ago on BBC Scotland an SNP West coast councillor, or whatever he was, an old rabid sod, that if the subs left the Clyde then oil would be the lifeline of the West coast. His reasoning was, that, if my memory is correct, the subs would stop access to the oil. The mask slipped with him, so angry that he was almost spitting venom.
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Blimey! You really don't like England do you? Do you have any English customers, and if you do, do you air your views to them? For me, for what it's worth, Scotland should go on it's own and either sink or swim. I want the Union to remain as it is, but maybe tweak it so that the other three nations get more of what they want, within reason, to bring them in line. Great Britain wouldn't have achieved what it has historically without you. It looks like the Scots on here are divided equally as to whether to leave the Union or stay. It looks, generally on here, that the East coasters prefer to stay and the West coasters wish to go. Maybe I'm reading it it wrong. Is it that there seems more economic benefits to living in the East than in the West?
