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topchippyles

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  1. I had the estate and it was gutsy on fuel
  2. Twin weber carbs on the 2 litre models and good cars they were
  3. How long is a piece of string scenario. I sub contract to 2 firms from time to time and my day rate is £25 hourly as a chippy or £200 a day so how ever many days/hrs i work that is what i get paid regardless of how long a job takes. That is why its called a day rate
  4. Your are really agreeing a price before hand not a day rate
  5. That is not a day rate is it mark ? that is an agreed price for days the will job will take between both parties.
  6. Muppet get back to your shovel 😆
  7. Yup i am a coaster ☺️
  8. Wednesday at 18:39 New Add bookmark #286 A man owned a small ranch near Great Falls, Montana. The Montana Labour Department got a tip that he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an investigator out to interview him. "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the investigator. "Well," replied the rancher, "there's my ranch hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1200 a week plus free room and board." "The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $1000 per week plus free room and board." "Then there's the half-wit. He works about 18 hours every day, with no days off, and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week and pays his own room and board." "But, I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night, and he also sleeps with my wife occasionally." "That's the guy I want to talk to... the half-wit," says the investigator. "You're talking to him," replied the rancher.
  9. You can apply for a licence to process phytopthera on your on premises so may be worth looking into.
  10. Take for ever with a normal garden shredder.I have a ryobi one here and its really good but slow
  11. Made his own shovel to i bet eggs
  12. Hero for a lot of modern day trades eggs and a serious man on the real way life worked the old way
  13. For sure and reminds me of me in the present day musch. Mr fred new no fear
  14. Strange chris how you can climb a tree but ladders frighten you. I get it totally buddy
  15. Get stuffed you and a part timer at best on here.You preach me none sir
  16. Bill when you mill logs they become valuable but also each one will have a story in the grain, Mill the lot 1/3 through the middle into 100-150 mm slabs and store them in the dry (barn/sheds) with 10-15mm spacers around 24" apart.Rest use for the sheds
  17. Totally kev and superb explained 🤙
  18. Sound like Big J here musch
  19. Can you keep the pecker up mr stubbs
  20. You have milled it to thin then matty.All my logs are sealed on the ends asap when they are cut down or i get them and you mill any slab at 100+ mm it will not do any different to being a stem if stored in the dry
  21. Why leave it matty ? Mill the slabs off at 110mm and let then season which is better
  22. Afraid of heights are you musch 🙃 Pussy
  23. I would be keeping the middle third of each trunk for slabbing as you only require 6 in total and cut up the rest for the shed. Drying time around an inch a year is correct but does vary depending on timber but i have 4" ash slabs which have dried over the last 18 months and ready for use.Sticks 10-15mm thick and space about every 600mm- 24" apart and i bet you get some wicked stuff out of those trunk stems bill.
  24. Been on the nest at all as seen crabs look like that.
  25. topchippyles

    Old husky

    Just a boy in mans pants then was ya K

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