Conor Wright

Year two with my pfanner arborists and they still look like they're only a few weeks old. Was iffy about the price when I went looking at first, but comfort, fit and overall product quality is above any other brand I'd worn before, (stihl, sip, oregon) and they look set to outlive the them all too.

This.

Just for the record pfanner have four plants, three in the eu and one in Ukraine. They are not made on the cheap in Bangladesh, however if you like child labour buy four cheap tshirts and spend the same amount. Still won't have the quality of one properly designed and manufactured item.

Was going to comment on Same too, but you pretty much summed it up. Place I was working at today have a 2008 one 100hp with quick fit loader. Very nice machine. . I occasionally drive a 95 hp kubota (2012, not sure of model number offhand) it's ok but has given some trouble. Shuttle clutch and front diff. It's been hired to golf courses and used on a farm in it's down time. Nice to use bit I'm unsure of their long term reliability. Lots of zetors this side of the world. Yet to hear any horror stories.

Back to square one.

Yeah. I reckon I've just given away my million quid idea. Ah well.

Just glue two together...

Good machines, once you have the backpack battery. Demo'd one last year and was impressed. 3k incl top spec battery put me off though. Interesting company. Do a lot of vineyard equipment.

It's the right size for you!

Nope!

Yeah, it gets us all put on a watch list! Talk is talk but talking to a bomb wont stop it blowing up your family. A good read by a great author "liquid times" by zygmunt bauman. He touches upon the fear of terrorism being the main cause of terrorism and the fear of other religions and alternative populations causing racist nationalism and fanaticism. Short read and well worth it.

Your life sucks..!

He's merely rubbing the clitoris of war. Don't worry, he'll spit on it and ram it in there yet, for now he's just teasing. Besides, they need to secure the oil first. That needs a plan. Plans need people with knowledge, therefore knee jerk trump is reined in a little.. for now at least. Not that I'm hoping for a war, quite the opposite, yet it seems inevitable with the states. Sadly.

History repeating itself? Stock up on diesel!

..and do what exactly? Honest question.. the use of so much energy to kill people and destroy ancient civilisations sickens me, yet here I am bitching about it on the internet. Not exactly being an activist is it? Kinda hard to denounce their actions when we claim such close association to them (I'm in Ireland) we just spent millions to have their great leader over to play a round of golf at his mansion, then tell our limp twisted leader to build a wall from donegal to dundalk. A clueless fool who cannot even compose coherent sentences. In control of the largest military in the world. The sooner it implodes over there the better for the rest of the world.

Add an extra 20 onto the invoice "for breakdown of invoice"

Most people choose not to care because they find it easier to continue with their lives of convenience and "western" (read americanised) culture.. my thoughts on it at least. People forget about Cambodia, a neutral country which had more bombs dropped on it during the Vietnam proxy war against the communist influences of Russia and China than were used throughout world war two. Two million tons of bombs. Two million tons. On a neutral country. Possibly the greatest act of continued terrorism ever perpetrated on the planet.

Rice with coconut milk and mango chunks.. Porridge with cornflakes, mixed dried fruits and a fresh banana mashed in, with a spoon of honey. Scrambled eggs with kiełbasa, maasdam cheese and pickled cucumbers (ogorki) Sourdough bread with avocado, ham, cheese, tomato and pepper in the oven until the cheese is almost crispy. With some leaves from the tunnel on top. I'm lucky that herself is an excellent and willing cook and usually home before me, so I don't have to resort to such hastily constructed meals! Saying that, I have been abandoned today and will have to resort to roast duck with new potatoes drizzled in duck fat with a hint of garlic and homegrown veggies for dinner.

Sshhh! Don't ruin a bargain for some poor individual!

Not a fan of chemical weed killers personally, but sbk would probably do the trick.

As it sits on the lorry its value is minimal. Maybe consider slabbing it or making dimensional boards and selling them yourself? By the time a mill cuts it to its nearest commercial length, checks it for wire and nails etc, makes what boards they hope will sell from it, then stack it and store it til it sells, I'd be surprised if it was worth over 50 quid to you, if you can find one willing to process it at all. I often bring back wood from my own jobs and plank bits of it. It's more a hobby ie. Its not profitable.

Sounds like you need to take the next step up in your business and get in a manager. Then you could go on the tools the odd day, have some time off and still get more jobs done.. Kinda sucks if you don't have satisfaction in your work.

It's all a complete waste of time so long as you're still burning fossil fuels to create the electricity. Have your own turbine or solar setup to generate the power and I applaud you. It's a genuine and real step in the right direction. Buy a new car, with it's obvious requirement for raw materials, plug it into an already overstretched national grid and then turn around to pat yourself on the back for doing "the right thing" really? Don't get me wrong, battery tech is the future, but it can only be viable if we also change how we generate the electricity to charge them. Otherwise it's just adding to the long list of non beneficial "environmentally friendly" disposable crap we already produce.

Back on topic... surely it's the aim of any climber to climb until they can afford a decent mewp or spiderlift to ease the physical effort of climbing?! (skyhuck being the exception!) Obviously there will still be climbing only jobs but easing the daily physical requirement can extend your working life. I don't climb so maybe I'm talking shite but I do notice my climbers are always happy to see the mewp on site!

It seems strange that while we control the lives of virtually everything in our environment, usually killing them as soon as they are of use/hinderance to us.. ie everything from cows to commercial forestry to caterpillars. Paradoxically we strive to extend our own lives and that of those close to us far beyond the useful. The mother of an ex gf died in her late forties due to complications surrounding a permanent condition she had. Unable to communicate for the last year or so it was hard to tell what was going on in her head but I doubt it was good. Those closest to her possibly made her suffer unspeakable anguish through their selfish desire to keep her alive. Surely that is the height of cruelty. Haven't fully figured an exit strategy myself, i enjoy work and hope i will never fully "retire" I would love to say I know I'd have the courage to end it on my own terms before I became too useless to pull the trigger. The thought of dribbling in a wheelchair scares me more than anything else that may or may not be. On the other hand, if I'm still alive at 80 and healthy I'd make the most of it. As long as I'm not a burden on others.