Conor Wright

Slabs are a funny thing. "Special" ones fetch great money. Sadly they're not all special. Properly dried and planed to thickness with stunning grain and a few features in the right places and you can name your price. Plain and boring straight off the mill 40-50 quid per board foot. Then you've people that want to see the one at the back of the stack, right down the bottom, then the first one again, then maybe a different species, then they hum and haw is it better than the imaginary one in another yard the far side of the country before asking could you deliver it to their yurt on a mountain surrounded by bog with acces only by helicopter or yak before haggling to no avail, only then remembering they're broke, have no woodworking skills and no tools, tell you they'll take it so you leave it out you then refuse to sell it to the next customer,(who really happens to want just that particular slab, no other)just in case yurt guy and hairy armpit girl were actually going to do something more than smoke weed and talk about composting toilets. Maybe they actually do things in their mountainside yurt. After a year you come to realise they are never coming back so you run the slab through the kindling machine because youre sick of moving it.

Still using a manual grease gun myself, but thinking about it, everyone I know with a battery greaser is using milwaukee. Noticed you can get an adaptor to use 500g cartridges for the milwaukee now too, I prefer them to the smaller ones you've to insert tha springy thingy into.

Fwiw I got tired of buying 20 ltr drums a good few years ago. There's a company a few villages over that import and mix oils of all types for nationwide distribution, they drop me a 200 ltr barrel every 18 months or so. 150 grade. Never had a problem with it. A few folk drop in saws for sharpening, sometimes they go home with a refill of chain oil too. Never had any complaints there either. It works out at about €1.80 per litre. Last time I ordered one o checked the price of 1000lyrs in an ibc. 1.60 ltr. Thought about it, but wasn't worth the hassle of storing that much (barrels fit through door of small shed, ibc wouldn't). Tried veggie oil once. It was shite. Ok in a topper maybe, but useless on longer bars. If we have work on a site that requires bio oil I just bend over and get whatever is available locally at the time.

I have an lt15 manual. Yanmar diesel with electric rise and fall head. Haven't run it in about two years, would need a service and a bit of freeing up on the deck, but nothing major.problem is im not in UK though, so probably not worth your while... VID-20241130-WA0002.mp4

100% It'd have to be role play though, with her playing shut the **************** up!

The future is bleak.

That's tomorrow's job, wash the hilux!

No shortage of work in Ireland following storm eowyn. In the short term anyway. You'll get a job in the morning with climbing and mewp tickets. Everyone is looking for qualified staff.

Close, radio na gaeltacht. I've a couple more enquiries out that way. That maccie we looked at in salthill back in autumn shit itself too. I'm guessing you've more than enough on? Can send some your way. It's starting to pile up!

A few pics from jobs we have on. Some of the coastal villages got an unbelievable hammering. Some are handy, others need some consideration.

Type c pants are a requirement to conduct the practical part of the course, so is using both hands on the top handled saw at all times, just saying... My partner occasionally comes along with me on jobs, she found it hard to get size 4 chainsaw boots, settled for a pair of oregons in the end. Not a climbing boot, just to say if you're of a smaller build your options may be limited. From memory aborted and pfanner had a selection of smaller sizes. Fwiw I find sawboots very snug, especially on rough ground. Heavy, yes but reassuringly solid.

Out of interest, any idea what weight it was carrying?

A nearby seasonal lake (turlough) almost froze over. All thawed out again now but it looked nice while it lasted. The flock of swans that migrate to it annually were particularly raucous about it all. Lowest we recorded at home was -4.7

Icy drive to work this morning. Very nearly lost the trailer and digger. Can feel a chesty cough coming on. Gonna be a short one today. Countryside looks stunning in the frost though. Dogs love it too!

Sher go on, it's too complex to be a "do it for the wood" job but I can price it. You have my number?