Haironyourchest

Mick - :lol::lol: (picks self up off of floor and recovers) - may we all learn from the mistakes of others and may others learn from ours.....god that was funny!!

There's an auld guy lives in the hills near the village, a cantankerous Cork farmer/fisherman/jachtsman/former fencing champion etc. A character, in short... Fixing his roof one day he told us the story of his prostate exam. I can't remember if his GP or some clinic did the exam, but whatever, it turned out he knew the guy from years past (small country). So the doc is there performing the examination, and your man cranes his neck to make eye contact and says (with a heavy Cork accent) "Y'know doc...they say it's only a sin if you enjoy it !!"

....I hope he flushed.... Not sure I can really commit to believing this story (it's a good 'un though!) for reasons of basic physics. But then again there were some pretty radical individuals in the first wave of eastern european migrants...

Was the younger guy a pin-headed giant with a cartoonishly outsized chin? Some years ago I worked for a guy and we needed a gennie. We went shopping, and driving through town he spots these scoundrels selling "Honda" gennies out of a big white Renault. Dressed to the nines, like they were headed for the ambassadors's party or something... So he makes for the van as I try to caution him, he says "Ah sure they're Honda's, it'll be fine..." So he buys the gennie for half the cost of a real one and we bring it back to the site. No prizes for guessing what happened next....

Gotta be chain then I suppose....cant go far wrong with chain.

Many years ago there was a famous tree guy near where I live, Dan-John by name (if memory serves). He was completely fearless, but he couldn't climb. His method of getting into trees was to climb up his wooden ladder, stand on a branch and pull the ladder up after him, then foot the ladder on the same branch and go up again. He would, so they say, do that three or four times to get as high up as he needed to be... My pal was negotiating some insurance cover for a job with a broker, and he asked the broker "Do you know Dan-John? Does he ever get insurance?" The broker allegedly replied: "Dan-John has an arrangement with God..."

At the risk of teaching my gran to suck eggs - - consider what you are using to attach the snatch block to the digger. If its chain, I should think it would be fine. If wire rope, be very careful of where and how you attach. Too tight bends, edges, etc will damage and potentially break the rope. Same for nylon strop. I should think the geometry of a digger blade is not very forgiving to those kinds of things. If you lucky the digger may have rated eyes built-in somewhere.

Does he get a two-hour lunch break and bottle of house red with his hot meal?

Seems like a lot of support for using the vehicle... with a big van its obviously the way to go, but when you drive a kangoo? I could open the back doors, stand in and leave them slightly closed behind me I suppose. I'll have to rig up a solid bulkhead though, as can be seen through the windshield. Will try it later.

Some years ago I built a tree house. Eight standing spruces in a rough octagon, topped them, and used them as the corner posts. While working on the project, I noticed the wood wasps doing their thing. I lived in that treehouse for eight years. The first couple of years were like the inside of an alien infested spaceship. Lying in bed and then suddenly a flyover by massive scary wasps. You reach for your beer and:(shriek) !! big wasp !! It got pretty stressful. I figured eventually they'd stop emerging, and they did, but f***K there were loads of them. I took to picking them up with a feather on the end of a long stick and chucking them out the window, then into the fire, to try keep their numbers down. They are harmless, but so huge and scary. Any they don't get less scary with time. If anything I got more and more sensitised to them. And they trashed the posts of my house. Massive quarter inch holes all over the place. Inside I just whacked nails into the holes for hanging things on. Outside water got in and started the rot. Should have plugged the holes asap but didn't bother.....

Brilliant input fellers! I just read all of your comments to my girlfriend over coffee - they made her day, especially Starscream's story about the blower :lol: Pretty much everyone I've worked for has offed the use of their water closet, but as has been said, one doesn't want to have to brush down, de-boot etc every time one has to pee. I carry bog roll and a folding spade in the van for emergencies, but only for use in remote and john-less situations. Also handy for shifting animal droppings.

I have been doing thinning and maintenance at two or three suburban properties in the same street, over that last few years. They are all around a acre, lawns and trees, generally pretty scrappy and rugged woodland with a fair amount of undergrowth, fallen trees with overgrown rootplates, ridges of fern covered bedrock etc. Whilst working, I have always picked my spot, where I'm fairly sure I will not be seen by the owners or by neighbours. So far so good. But being that I like to keep hydrated and will normally get through three or four litres a day in the summertime, I can't help but wonder if the odds are against me that some day I will eventually be spotted. From my favourite spot in two of these sites I can see three or four houses, albeit through the bushes, and at some little distance. I have tried to judge the angles and lines of sight as best I can, to occlude my activity from the waist down. Trouble is as I clear more ground, I am eroding my own privacy. Anyway thats my experience. Anyone got any stories, thoughts? Should this be a moral debate? Googling "I pee in my client's yard" brings up some interesting stuff, mainly from the States. Some people have strong feeling about it both ways...... If this is inappropriate Im sorry and I wouldn't blame anyone if it gets deleted....

Has anyone tried a home brew attempt at removing the ethanol from pump petrol?

Horribly horrible stuff... try pure undiluted Lidl rapeseed oil instead. Its the panacea for bar, chain and conscience.

You may have hit dirt or metal on the start of the 2nd cut! Then it's all downhill from there! Saw heats up, starts getting blunter and so on. That's exactly what I thought. Have you closely examined your chain. Are the cutters on one side blunter? Maybe there was a stone or a nail embedded in the tree on your first cut. Grazing something like that will trash all the cutters on one side of the bar and the saw will not cut straight...

RE. the profane doll - My wee nephew has a fire engine with a powerful Geordie accent, that says "Oooh - there's no smoke wi'out fiya!!"...Legendary....

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNH1mK06Nh2CVgHRWIOXdQbRwE09A4L-MGwhKuh

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipP5ZqtpqxGPgzT6FQaEbxELbDBf-9WCxmr-OKqyhttps://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMPzIHB9SCOPBJDKJ9BAcgVQ9A8jch68LkbD6bshttps://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNH1mK06Nh2CVgHRWIOXdQbRwE09A4L-MGwhKuh So my mate has given me this old topper to rehabilitate...he said the guy who gave it to him said it was running about five years ago! No model number on the saw that I can see, anyone know what it is? If I can identify it I can then start looking for workshop manuals etc. cheers guys!

Compared to the Yanks at Arboristsite we are all Lumbersexuals.

I installed a dash-cam in my van partially with a view to incidents such as this...My thinking is that as the guy approaches in his van or pulls away I will have his reg. as I will not have the time or presence of mind, pen etc to take it by hand. I would then immediately phone the local police station with the reg and report the threat. If he really is someone dangerous they will hopefully let me know. And as a report has been filed, if there is any more hassle, they will already have a head's up and take your side. Seriously, I would have instantly reported. Maybe it's not too late to do so. If stuff like this ever goes to court the party who fired off the report is a step ahead. Next time something like this happens to any of the members or lurkers here, Please consider informing the police ASAP. You might be able to shrug it off but you owe it to all the people, men and women, who don't have that toughness. If we never exercise our rights the thugs win.... A run-in like that will spoil anyone's day, or week. Sad...

Why don't they make filtered nose-plugs? Bet loads of people would buy them...

Sorry to hear that Steve. Im worried about my shed, security virtually nil - chinese padlock but tbh if you pulled the door hard it would probably come away from the frame....No gate. Have been thinking about an under-floor stash for the more valuable gear, saws power tools etc (shed is wooden, on blocks) and keep a few dummy saws and tools lying around as decoys.. Either that or a trapdoor opening onto a man-size pit just inside the door. Bit harder to engineer though.

I posted the vid on Arboristsite as well, and have been somewhat shocked at the difference in overall responses compared to Arbtalk. Im feeling that it must be a UK - US thing... The guys over in the new word have been telling me that I'm lucky to be alive and that thy couldn't stomach to watch the video etc...? Kind of made me a bit worried, what do you think - was the job really that dangerous? I know the cuts were wrong and crap etc. but was I in real danger? Hard to quantify if one wasn't actually threre, I guess. Or do we Islanders just have a more easy going attitude to danger? Hard to imagine. Then again it could just be pure coincidence....