Mick Dempsey

I agree.

Sorry to hear that Stubs. Still dark here but clear sky and a bit frosty. Easy parasol pine today, should be a smooth slide into the weekend.

When was that?

Saw that, always seemed a decent fella, RIP

Poor weather today so in the workshop today. Going to fit a flap to the roof of the chip truck to reduce overblow. Over the years (and the trucks) I have tried, and failed to find a robust, effective solution. They tend to get broken/lost. This time will be different!

I see this phrase ‘drop shipping website’ a lot. What does it mean?

They can’t spell what they do.

Morning all. The day after a day getting wet. The good news is my gloves are dry….

Now he could say he wants to save the tree under any circumstances, he could say that he wants it out but the wife likes trees etc. Or any permutation between the two and my response would be the same. So for me, it doesn’t matter what the client says.

I see you have sammich, I also like sammich.

Yes it would be (interesting)

Been topped or lost it’s top in a storm a good few years back. I reckon the crotch would have rot in it. Seeing as there’s plenty of others of the same species, and it’s situation re. property, if I was asked to quote, I’d offer to take it out or walk away. Plenty of others may disagree.

…dude.

Oh, so that’s why Le Bon Coin, a French version of eBay doesn’t like me putting phone numbers in. Telling me it’s for my own security. I use FB marketplace mostly these days anyway.

Was watching that on YT this morning, great song.

So after winching a 1 tonne log over my last helmet, I have succumbed to the modern age.

I have been low key obsessed with this song since I first heard it at 8 or 9 on the radio.

There’s a few experienced saw mechanics on here, I’m sure they’ll come in soon enough.

Crankcase seals at a guess.

Sorry to hear about your mate Alex.

By way of an addendum. There’s a saying I often use when I’m talking to some unfortunate employee about why I’m making some seemingly over the top safety belt & braces approach to a back leaner over a property or the like. All the pheasants ever bred, will not make up for one man dead.

I used to look after a release pen for a couple of years when I was 16/17, went beating every Saturday for a few years. I actually wanted to be a gamekeeper, till I realised the servile nature of it. Kept ferrets etc. I was mostly used as a stop on pheasant drives, because of my age. In West Sussex we have ‘ghylls’ streams with steep banks either side wooded with overstood hornbeam coppice. Anyway me and another kid were stopping on the top of the banks and a pheasant flew over, the gun (stood at the bottom of the ghyll next to the stream) followed it and fired, catching the other kid in the face with a half dozen pellets. The gun (an upper middle class sort) was devastated, never really recovered, went round to see the parents, chucked his gun away etc. the kid carried the pellets for years, the docs not deeming it safe to retrieve them. I didn’t think too much of it at first, I actually envied the attention he got, but over the next few years I grew to be scared, not so much of shotguns, but me making a similar mistake with one, and I never wanted one. Pheasant shooting? Meh, not all that sporting imo, but no real objection.

Be my guest, close to the bone I’ll admit, but at least it’s original.

Never seen a GS on a shoot, well not since Schindlers List anyway.

Good point.