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Nice qoute, ent heard that since uni

Cheers, he's not bad, the wife was away this week so the ginger muppet had to come to work with me! Luckily it was the kind of job where I could let him have a run round during breaks!

Started a big job this week on what will be a care home complex, some lovely holm oak to take down, a lime to pollard and a lot of conifer and yew to take out, it'll be a two weeker! Got my new groundy on the job though!

Alright chaps I'm in the market for a new harness. Anyone with any experience of the TM superlight, in comparison with the standard one? Thank in advance

Depends on the size, I coppice some for a friend, goes for stock fencing and a decent price, anything over goes for biomass £20-25 p/t

Nice!

Yeah my grandad used to do it to stop it freezing! I think 50l will do the pump no good though 💥

We are off on holiday on Monday, so my job was to tidy the house whilst my wife picked up a few holiday essentials and dropped the dog off at the in laws. Roughly 20mins after she left I get a call... A very nervous voice on the other end of the phone explains to me that she has managed to stuff the tank with as much of the wrong fuel as physically possible! As if it wasn't bad enough by the end of our conversation somehow this has become my fault! Anyway, I told her not to start the car and to leave on the petrol station forecourt until I could get there! I managed to get hold of a siphon kit and some 25l fuel cans from a mechanic friend and head down there! I spend the 15 mins trying the get the pipe Through the filler cap and into the tank.. Anyway as turns out peugeots have an anti theft gauze preventing fuel from being taken from the tank. Bloody French I think to myself! So I spend the next 25 minuets faffing around attempting to locate the fuel filter, thinking if I have to draw the fuel through here I may end up bleeding and re priming the system here on the forecourt. (Not preferable). Then I remember when hoovering out the car a few months back I found an inspection hole in the floor underneath the near side rear seat! Take the cover off and Roberts your mothers brother, there lies the fuel pump, disconnect the out pipe connect my siphon bottle and away we go! A lot of pumping and 51 litres later the fuel tank is as empty as it's going to get, so I brimmed it with diesel and hoped for the best! Anyway that is the way to turn being in trouble (even if through no fault of you own) into serious brownie points and save the £200 quoted by the RAC, to do it for me. I even stuck the contaminated fuel in my old shooting truck to save that too! Win win! Anyone else's life like this?

I like the 362, plenty of go, and i think its pretty versatile, maybe a tad on the heavy side. Never used a 560, would love to get my hands on one though. After using a 550 for a week solid i was rather impressed, worked hard with no real trouble, was nicely ballanced and fairly frugal.

Meindl Airstreams for both! IMO Comfortable, Tough, Waterproof, Smart. What else do you need.

1)MS 362 2)Trousers< Airstreams, helmet 3)Gransfors small forestry axe

Always been BFG muds for me too! Having said that, i stuck some insa turbo saharah's on my shooting truck this time and they're bloody brilliant. noisey on road, and admittedly re-moulds, but clear well in deep mud and i have really given them a hammering all round since january. very impressed for the money - only £350

Yeah not bad 50 odd over pea stubble, 18 of which were feral, they weren't really committing to the deeks though. I've had better days, but better than being dragged round the shops or watching the box I guess.

Successful?

Just got in from a spot of pigeon shooting, dog fed and just ordered takeaway!

I know a great black smith that can make custom brands,... pm me if interested.

The Woodfored's reserve is very good that was my last effort, made the mistake of moving it the same day as drinking it (friends BBQ). This time I have decided to double bright it... So lost the gas from the secondary fermentation but gassed it up with co2... Works well!

Run a Charnwood 7kw, only a small room but it gets too hot, we have a fair bit of exposed flue though so we get more radiant heat than you would with a brick chimney!

Yeah grey squirrels are everywhere round here :thumb down: I take my nephew out with the air rifle for them sometimes. Would be nice to see a red one day, because i never have... my dog has caught a few greys this year, if they are caught out in the open like....... and the neighbours guinea fowl too :lol: I got in trouble for that one!

Surprisingly enough, foxes don't take many rabbits, unless they are weak or mixy, in which case they are not a problem anyway for long, otherwise the rabbit/fox population would balance itself. A fox's main diet, consists of far smaller prey animals than rabbits usually, voles, mice, rats etc. Also this, Pheasant shoot requires fox control, and bunnys and muntjack. Only a small shoot, on a tight budget, and gets very heavily populated with foxes which ramps up the costs dramatically if not controlled. There is an unnaturally dense population of food, when the poults go in, and therefore an unnaturally dense population of predators, so control is the only sensible option. In my experience, foxes don't move into to territories quite as quickly as you'd expect so popping out with the rifle every now and then does keep the numbers to a sensible level, no one that i know wants to see foxes totally removed, sensibly just controlled. Indeed they will, not all of the pelts will be used unfortunately as i often use them for fishing flies, and training dummies (for dogs), and 16 is more than i need. All the rabbit meat goes into burgers etc, plus a few given to friends here and there... when i was younger i used to sell them to the butcher for £1 a piece, no such luck now though, rabbit meat no so popular these days. Honestly not intending to offend anyone, or wind anyone up, i just thought id show what i got up to when not working.

Was asked to sort out a rabbit problem on a livery yard next to the pheasant shoot, I'm involved with, steady night but next to a row of cottages so I took the air rifle and the 17 hmr. 16 bunnys and a Charlie right at the end.

I fancy a pair of Aquafell Xpert S3 's my treemme's are getting a little tired!

*long sorry

Organised! How London do you leave them to mature? I hate maths

:thumbup1: Bloody hell thats serious, i tend to make 4/5 brews a year. Not including the odd wine, port etc, fancy a bash at cider this year, found an old cider press on fleabay!