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Ratman

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  1. Would av thought Nolan would take any excess off ya, hes in to chopping and splitting?.
  2. My brother did a bit of work for Chris but that would be 20ish years ago. Very good reputation round these parts too. Where you from OSM?
  3. It amazes me how animals adapt to situations, my mates mum rescues dogs and the amount of road accident encountered dogs shes took in that have suffered lost limbs, damaged eyes, ears ripped off etc and they STILL just battle on like theres nowt wrong, still remain loving and attentive at same time! She had one dog, bit like a sausage dog, lost a rear leg but because she was so long in the body, she struggled on walks to keep her back end up. So when on walks she had a little two wheeled cart that she used to get strapped to her back end [emoji23][emoji23] ace to see. Never bothered her at all, then round the house she just used to manage without, brilliant!!!
  4. As above Mark said by others, sorry to hear. Just mentioned it to my Mrs and straight away she suggested the chair. We’ve no experience of Dutchie’s prognosis but have heard of and seen dogs adapt well to the bailey chair with successful results, mainly seen on tv programmes, and on dog forums, but i’d go for it regardless, its an option at the end of the day and if it helps her to survive then its a winner!
  5. I struggle with knots, can’t seem to get them right.... ever!!! They always seem to turn out and operate like a noose ? I may put this in the gizmo section.... [emoji848] vesp, wana buy it?!
  6. Ratman

    Jokes???

  7. Chris Ball yeah, Tom Dixon yeah (charcoal man), Gaz Haslam yeah, Arran Grundy yeah, all older than me but know of them, they may not know me but again may of heard of me. [emoji106]
  8. Drive some telegraph poles in to ground and make your floating obstacle to lay between them, then attach some galvanised ring brackets with rollers on em, they can then travel up / down ya poles depending on amount of water collected. Like floating jetties in harbours.
  9. You prob know Grant Ingham from Waddington, retired now, Bob Townson from Dunsop, also retired. Mick Bolton from Sawley, works with us in Garage.
  10. You want a plaster? [emoji856][emoji855]
  11. My 1st boss is Graham Cowking, his cousin is David Cowking at slaidburn, used to knock about with his daughter Emma and son Steven who lost his eye in car accident many years ago. Wood’s....??? only Wood’s i know are in bottom by green, and top side of bridge, used to see a bit of Paul, knew him through Tom Carr who was my best mate back in the day, Tom died in Landrover accident on way bk from Skipton. Knew Tom and his dad Henry from way young through my dad and farming etc. Good old days
  12. Sporty spice with new gum shields fitted, aka shergar! [emoji206]
  13. Work with Nolan, hes off at min, and Bernard i would imagine is Bernard Marsden? If so then yeah known them for 20yrs or so now. Whos family at slaidburn?
  14. Twat! [emoji23]
  15. ??? i prefer scary spice! only cos i like a bit of ethnic [emoji6][emoji39]
  16. Clitheroe yeah [emoji106] born and bred, from farming stock originally but worked at Castle Cement in garage since i left school, know quite a few from round and about from local villages and towns.
  17. Love some of our local guest ales [emoji108] where do you reside spuddog?
  18. Ewww [emoji37] dirty spuddog!!!
  19. Ahh..... but have you sorted the return ticket out yet yolky? [emoji6] or are ya going on all out full rascal mode and staying out beyond the early hours [emoji848]?[emoji482]
  20. Good job my Mrs aint seen or read any of his posts.... she’d tear him a new arshole!!! [emoji1528]
  21. Racist towards emoji’s now too.... fucking top class bloke you [emoji122][emoji122][emoji122]
  22. I live in a “quiet respected neighbourhood / town”...... a work colleague of mine from our night shift had just started work at 8PM and i’d just gone off shift and gone home. At half past 8 just cracking top of a can i got a phone call..... could i run across to said colleagues house as his partner had rung up all distressed. She had heard noises in back garden and upon going to investigate she had seen figures stood at the back doors trying the handles to get in!!!! I went across to find her in a quivering wreck, i reassured her things would be ok and the messers had gone and her fella would be home any second too. (They had two kids in bed upstairs at the time) I started to return home, (150yrds away) and i heard rustling from an old boys garage roof?!...... went to investigate and found 5 teenagers with rucksacks, metal bars and neckachieves part covering their faces. Now me being...... quite to very capable of handling myself thought..... hhhmmmm... hows best to play this one? As 5 against 1 is clearly a loss (wish vesp was with me [emoji6]) i kinda called them on it and said whats the crack?... what ya playing at? Three of them were all apologetic and said they meant no harm, the others were dead cocky and arsey! My mrs could see what the crack was through living room window looking down the road so she rang “the police” took 50 mins for a bobby to arrive, never landed at our house where the complaint came from and we never got a report back to say what had come from the “investigation”!!!!!! Still to this day we think WTF??!!! My work mates mrs gave a statement as to what went on whilst in her quivering state..... still to this day she never got an update or outcome on the little sods!!! ?????[emoji35][emoji35][emoji35] So to the likes of a major incident like Grenfell, to a lesser incident like above (but still intimidating and scary to some)......... yeah your police attendance times and actions are not “just” but SHITE!!!
  23. Was renovating my latest house purchase back in 2012, i ripped the old open staircase out and rebuilt a new one. The original treads were a real dark red grained wood, wouldnt put them down as mahogany, but a real deep red colour.... i’m clueless with wood types and names ??‍♂️ (something i’m trying to improve on) but when sawn they produce a real fine deep red dust, and if split, they split dead straight and almost brittle like, but christ its a hard wood in general with some mega heat output when put on the fire, burnt em all tho, as had no other use for them. Other than the beech i acquired last year i have acquired most of my burning material is from work, usually pine and imported soft woods used for packaging and crates. Other than that its the usual phone calls from local farmers to cut up a natural damaged oak, ash, beech, all burn great for me after a proper times seasoning.
  24. I bought an induction motored table saw from axminster, cracking table saw with side elevation for the angles but the fence supplied with it is pants!!! Will adapt something like you have when i get round to it but everything is up skittled at home at min till i get my new man cave built.
  25. Just come on ebay now, you would obviously need to ask your general questions but looks pretty tidy. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202495275665

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