Conor Wright

Never been assaulted but did once have a mental case of an agri contractor smash through the tm, taking a few cones with him and pull right up to the mewp until his front weight block collided with the side of my machine. I was at about 10m at the time and there was also a climber in the next tree setting lines. I was unable to turn the mewp as he had nudged right into it to the point I felt the mewp move. He started screaming and shouting at one of the lads on the ground. In fairness our guy remained calm and talked Mr agri man down a fair bit while I called the heat. Next thing yer man just storms off leaving the tractor against the mewp and fully blocking the single lane road. The local cop turns up half an hour later, recognises the tractor and calls to the man's house a few hundred meters down the road, gets the keys, moves the tractor and muck spreader and goes back to have a chat with the guy, turns out he regularly flies off the handle and is well known in the area for such behaviour. Statements were taken but neither I nor the lady who was on the lollipop he refused to stop at were bothered to press charges. I'd dropped a good few heavy chunks into the muck spreader while waiting for the cops so I was satisfied that "karma" would see that the rest of his day was spent waist deep in chicken shit and broken chains. Had a few shouters and general displays of impatience apart from that but he was the only one to actually do something to endanger anybody.

Proper winter.

Belarus. Or so it says on his channel blurb.

Nice. That is a thing of beauty! Any photos during construction? I'd love to build a little hideaway like that sometime.

Interesting thread. I just purchased a small plot of failed ash and want to replant with something unusual. I've often thought about planting leylandii. I think I'll mix the few acres with wrc and leylandii. Might be a few quid in my retirement years.

Get yourself one of these! Or just hire it with operator for the extraction and save the cost of a tractor. Pm me if you're interested in hire and I'll put you in touch with it's owner. He has a small scale harvester too. North West based but covers all ireland.

Not in the slightest! Ive horrified some of my other half's vegan friends with the same video. I haven't gone further than pheasent, rabbit or venison myself, but then I've never known real hunger. He's odd, no denying that, but in my opinion kinda likable.

enjoy.

Looks cool and practical but 7 hours to charge at over 6kw input to go 100 kms offroad towing doesn't quite cut it imo. Rightly or wrongly I'm still holding out for a viable hydrogen vehicle. Til then I'll stick with my dirty diesels. Has anyone figured out what to do with all these old lithium batteries after they expire yet? We hear so much "green" speak and "circular economy" stuff yet the reality is just the postponement of pollution unless there is a viable way of fully recycling these cells.

**************** that fake grass shit man. Seriously. I'm no eco warrior either I burn diesel and cut timber on the regular but that crap is a step too far, especially in a situation like that. Totally unnecessary, wasteful, ugly, and wholly indicative of much of what is wrong with the world. Full of low grade imitations of so called perfection available at your convenience so you can spend money you don't have to impress people you don't like to achieve hollow praise for a fleeting happiness you could have achieved easier, cheaper and for longer had you just let things be and taken a moment to appreciate the abundance of nature that used to be on your doorstep. Now you're substantially poorer and get to look at old car bumpers all fluffed up and sprayed green. Congratulations.

I agree with matty here, I have a niggling wrist injury and even banging wedges or using a saw with poor av flares it up now. Drop the axe altogether and your body will thank you for it.

Leave that hartnett crap where it is. Had one. Pure shite, sold it off cheap before it caused a serious injury. It rattled itself around the shed floor when idling, engine mounts loosened themselves constantly, belts were of a poor quality, all bolts had to be checked constantly for tightness, the blade wobbled and overall build quality was very poor. Exactly the kind of cheap tat that just shouldn't be allowed on the market. Pure waste of money, unless you like struggling to do a simple job in an unsafe manner. Then it's the machine for you. In between offloading the hartnett and buying a processor I looked at Collino, binderberger and balfour saws. All were of much better build quality but in the end I just got a processor and stopped trying to save wood that was only fit for chipping. You get what you pay for and if it's cheap it's cheap for a reason.

There's a YouTube channel called soft white underbelly. It's a series of interviews with people mostly in and around LA. Not exactly easy viewing, a lot of people who have become homeless and or addicted to progressivly worse drugs, thus leading into a spiral of destitution. Might be of interest to you, maybe not but its a ****************ing eye opener. The place is lost. Simple as.

Oi, I've got a korean model in the yard. and there's not a thing wrong with her. Came over in a box with no air holes though, no clue how she survived!

Dear mick, I have been in a relationship now for a number of years, she is german, a few years older than me and to be honest, while striking she is not exactly beautiful. We get along well although we do occasionally fall out, I've once found myself alone on the side of the road after a particularly bad episode. I've asked quite a lot of her over the years, she has been reliable and a loyal workhorse around the home, farm and even at work. Unfortunately she smokes quite heavily and has needed some expensive cosmetic work recently. It was while she was in for these procedures that I met this Finnish stunner. My gawd, the body, the lines, those legs. so beautiful.youd spend the week in her and want to spend the weekend too. I even had a go in her behind my old lady's back and I'm in love.so smooth and effortless. She is barely half my age but fully legal. I really think I have a chance. My mates reckon I couldn't afford her and I'd end up broke and disappointed as she would probably wind up going the same way as the old girl before her, dated, smelling of old smoke and unable to pull herself up a gentle hill. I need your help mick, I just don't know what to do. Should I keep the mog and chipper or get the valtra with the timber trailer?

I've never met someone with forestry harvesters that didn't have an automatic sharpener. Ponsse do one, I'm fairly sure it's their own, maybe it's another make rebranded. But for starting off, the offering from logosol would be OK too. Just Google logosol automatic chain sharpener, it should come up. I remember the first time I saw one I was mesmerised!

I've resawn a few slabs by screwing them down to a cant clamped in the woodmizer, I had extra length to play with on the slabs so drilling holes didn't really matter but I took 15mm off no problem. Just make sure the screw heads are recessed enough to clear the band!

Any decent battery or electric chainsaw and electrically driven hydraulic splitter would do those logs quietly and efficiently. If a neighbour complains about the noise just make sure you tell them your other hobbies are way worse, like motocross bike testing or speed rapping to heavy metal beats, then remind them you're most creative at night. Chances are they'll start bringing you wood themselves.

Safer. my brother has the pivot steer, very similar to yours. Some day it will crush someone's foot. It's an accident waiting to happen. Apart from that it's a great little tractor. He uses it mostly in polytunnels with a bedformer on the back, it lives well inside its comfort zone. Never seen a hill!

That may make you unpopular with the ladies.

Same, always cardboard. only herself is forever ordering things and stuff on amazon so we have a constant supply of cardboard boxes delivered to our door! Haven't bought firelighters in years. If there is a day we have no cardboard I use the little bottle of map gas. Lights the logs in seconds and way handier than dragging the oxygen acetylene tanks into the kitchen!

It's the truth. I still earn good money on hedges. There's a niche between "proper" arb ie. Big fells and classy reductions, and what the average gardener can manage. I take on nasty hedge reductions and tall hedges fairly regularly and get decent money for it. It's far from glamorous but it's proven to be profitable and regular work. I've managed to kit myself out fairly well for it over the years. It's still heavy work but if you're good at it and can get it neat looking and tidied up quickly there's no reason you couldn't live well off it.

I reckon there will be a glut of fairly new kit coming up soon as people tighten their belts and work slows down. Perfect time to invest in something to ease the labour, as said above mewp or grinder could be good starter machines. It could be a shakey start as it's the early days of a recession but don't let that stop you, you'll be coming in fresh as a lot of people are looking to get out. You only live once. Go for it. If it doesn't work out you can always get a job again, if you don't try you'll always ask yourself "what if?" Just be honest with the family and tell them sometimes there will be long days, you'll come home poorer than you left in the morning, wet, aching, covered in sawchip and chipper dust, stinking of 2 stroke and too tired to communicate apart from a grunt to signal to the wife it's beer time. There'll be bad days too but we don't talk about them.

Blend up a chunk of old oak branch, some wet turf and a dash of stagnant ditch water then add a teaspoon of chain oil and let us know!

Crouching tiger, hidden catshit