Conor Wright

Our arb dogs! 2 yr old beagle boy and 1 year old gsd bitch, called her karma.. let's hope karma never bites you in the ass.

After weeks of asking each other what we wanted for Xmas we decided that we needed nothing, couldn't think of anything that could make a suitable surprise and as we have no kids, we decided act like kids ourselves! So we bought a polaris ranger.. on the pretext that the practical back half is mine, for work and jobs on our few acres, (and tax purposes!) and the front half is for my better half, with room for the dogs and the ability to splash through mud and giggle like a kid! Also building a little bird feeder as a side project to stick by the front window Xmas day.

Fair point, should have said all religious fanatics who think their misguided beliefs give them a right to hurt others.

Some log splitting today, found some surprises!

Technically not today's job, storm damaged beech on Wednesday.. was dark when finished and a miserable day so no photos of the finished result, had to be a hard reduction to stabilise the remaining stems, homeowner wanted to retain the tree which is always good! Yesterday's Ash removal, restricted roots and a worried neighbour, all wood stayed on site. No chipping. Big thanks to William who has the balls to climb these things for me, while I keep my feet on the ground!

Sorry to hear you were targeted by the scum.. after running some scum out of my own yard last Friday and Saturday nights, keeping watch for four nights, thinking they had fo'd i finally fell victim to the persistent little scrotes. Having dropped off the mewp after a hedge job i left one of the long reach hedge trimmers in the basket, came back this evening. Gone. Entirely my own fault for not locking it up.. but still a kick in the hole. The law is doing so very little to protect those of us who ultimately contribute to their wages being paid. If they come again they will not walk out. I doubt they are going to use this themselves, so is the cheapo who is happy to give them 100 quid for a 800 (euro) machine equally to blame? As for the caretaker... should he be fired? Or will he then go full time pilfering..? It's a hard one..

Partially my fault there.. feeding the troll..

AAAnyway.. went off on somewhat of a tangent there. the pin hanging in the tree reminds me of reading a thread on here not so long ago (before i joined) about the strangest things found in trees, about 5 years ago I came across an axe head in the vee of a twin stem windblown maccy i was ringing for firewood.. At least you spotted the pin before it found a chain, or worse, the chipper!

Point proven. thank you. if i ever find a festering shitty buttplug hanging from a branch i shall name it after you. I shall name it "unloved angry narcissistic little man hiding behind a pseudonym who attempts to rile others up but in the end becomes the butt of the joke himself"

Great thread, fantastic pictures and videos, beautiful timber and scenery. work to be proud of! many thanks for taking the time to make edit and upload all of these.

must be sumfink wrong with mine.. is the hole in the side of yours?! Wouldn't call it vesp, its not limp and contains some actual substance of value. Sorry vesp, its not that i'm jumping on a bandwagon here but i've read enough of your posts in my short while here to realise you're a bit of a wanker, thats all.

Sounds like an over reaction by the cops, wonder is she married to one, or well known to a "member"? I'd be livid, on my own land, not breaking any laws. Do the bitch for trespass, pain and suffering, legal costs, upsetting the dogs, trampling a rare plant that grows nowhere else, stepping on a protected snail.. anything but let her away with it!! but given the response of the cops, such a reaction to a citizen on his own turf, literally, it must be safe to presume that all the muslim terrorists, heroin traffickers, human traffickers, thieves, lawyers and politicians have already been arrested.. so thats good news.

This thread seems to have stirred some emotions! There is only one side of the story known to anyone here, so that has to be taken into account..For what it's worth it doesn't look like a 1k job at all.. mornings work for two lads and any six inch chipper, but if someone who didn't particularly want the job priced it at that and then got it and continued to complete the job to an agreed spec then fair enough, but from the ( not great) photos it doesn't look like a well executed job. There is a middle ground between running a tree chopping charity for thanks, stale biscuits and tea and marching old dears to the post office to relieve them of their life savings after butchering a 12 ft maple. Seems to me this job was more in the style of bringing the old dear off down the road in the transit. Barring some exceptional circumstances e.g.. terraced house, no access and a hell of a long way from base there is not a grands worth in that.. that's obvious.. So, if you agreed a price it's your loss.if it was a case of ok lads, do the job and let me know what I owe ye at the end, it'll cop you on to get an estimate or two the next time. If it was a flyer in the door, you're a fool and there's a pack of drunken tinkers laughing at you right now. If it was a reputable company there is either another side to the story, they really didn't want the work or they are not as reputable as they seem. Somehow I have a feeling that right now there is a good ould booze up on a halting site near you.

Agree with Steve, it would be relatively inexpensive to remove now and you can easily grind out the stump and replant near to where that tree stands now.

Have sold a combi deal for a few years.. 40 nets of logs and 5 bags of kindling.. I do notice some return customers have used it all whereas others, maybe they keep the fire in overnight, have a bag or bag and a half leftover.. years ago I sold old fertiliser bags of logs to a lady on a weekly basis for over a year.. one day I asked her could I get some of the bags back, presuming she must have a shed full of them. Oh sorry lovie, I have none.. I cut them up and use them to start the fire. Anyway the point being.. everyone's use is different so after all that I guess you're no wiser!

or "you can't say cu*t in canada!" followed by "i'm a w*nker" The bit about prince charles.. 'e wanks 'imself too!! Doubt they would be approved for release now!

can't recall the song title but its Kevin bloody Wilson, another of his songs contains the lyrics "oh darlin' i'm so horny I could die, I'd fuck a chicken on a chain tonight just to watch the feathers fly" what a poet!

So.. turns out it was a wasted night.. No sign of the fcukers! But credit where credit is due, the gardai did a couple of drive bys, the visual deterrent of a cop car in the general area may have at least helped stop me or somebody else losing our livelihoods. And before anyone asks, no the gard didn't drive over my plank of nails!! Came close the first time he drove in.. think he was as surprised to see me actually waiting in the yard as I was to see him actually doing his job!! Going to keep a close eye on the yard between now and xmas. I sort of like the idea of a tinker family having Xmas dinner and one of the kids going " mommy, where daddy" " Oh paddy, ur daddys having Xmas tied to a tree in a forest coz he were tryna stale stuff again, but he were only doin it coz he havs tu, coz we iis all fat an useless. Now ate yer sliced chukken"

In theory that sounds ideal but while waiting for the cogs of justice to turn you are left with no equipment, no money to replace it and the potential for the scum to return. The law is too lenient and the only language they understand is fear. And I've no problem defending my own property myself. I've worked too hard to get the little I have to allow any thieving little scrote take it.

The pogues, fairy tale of New York hands down. And for crass humour, Rudolph the deeptroath reindeer. If you want to hear it go find your own link.. I'm not gonna be the one responsible for putting that here!!

So.. It's ten to one in the morning and I'm parked up in my yard with the guard dog in the back, waiting.. last night one of our dogs alerted to something in the direction of the yard.. upon releasing the German shepherd, grabbing a light and throwing on some footwear I ran to the yard, approx 80 mtrs, to be greeted by a gentleman bundling himself back into his Passat inches in front of karma, the gsd. Nothing missing and I got the full reg. No worries I thought, he had a close call and won't bother us again. Wrong.5.30 pm this evening literally minutes after walking out of the yard I look out the kitchen window and think I see a red light. Released the dogs and legged it down the lane. Same car. Same story. Dog needs to run faster! Rang the gardai.. may as well have called a florist for what good it did. That said, they called out, nice individual, listened to my recollection of events, told me it was most likely a well known locally based family of known thieves and general naer do wells who, as it happens, are members of the travelling community, and advised me to put all carryable tools inside the house for the night. Yeah. 8 saws, polesaw, a world of woodworking tools, not to mention spanners sockets etc..blah blah.. So after being "advised" Not to beat, shoot, set fire to or torture in any way my intruders. I think I have an idea... So... Buried across the gravel drive is a plank with a row of nails.. driving over this will hopefully flatten their tyres... meanwhile I have a neighbour's loadall on hand to block the main entrance, (it's just inside the gate but virtually invisible in the dark. Just a matter of extending the boom.) just in case their tyres survive. I am going to let them get out of the car, help themselves to whatever, meanwhile moving the loadall to block their escape. ( providing they dont notice the leaking tyres, in which case i will just release the dogs and they can either get out and run or stay put and the rest of my plan goes on as planned. I plan (!) to use the mog to pin their car against the loadall, releasing the dogs to keep the intruders inside their car.. if they make a run for it ah well.. free Passat and some late night exercise for dogs.. If not I'll ratchet strap the doors shut and drag the car, with those stinking cnuts in it to the copshop myself.

Looks like someone's been pawing at it with a digger.no pun intended.. Shoot them. shoot them like rats. vermin. (the owners.. not the dogs, its not their fault.. poor things just do it for the positive feedback) Or maybe its just a business type (you know the ones, lawyers, execs etc.) releasing their frustration after another hard day in the office, stress can do strange things to people. Could it be one of Theresa Mays aides?

The arb fiberglass top on my 2002 hilux had been slowly cracking above the rear door at each side for a year or more.. but it spread from a few mm to about 5 or 6 cm in a few days.. nothing a few rivets and some steel on the inside didn't cure. considering its age,the roughness of the roads/tracks it traverses and the fact it also has a roof rack fitted it lasted well.. however once they begin to show signs of deteriotation act fast!

Sounds about right, however the matbro technique is rarely in use around ere, most opt for the hitachi 130 pruner.. with the odd exception being the doze it out with a transport box technique.. often soon followed by the ' jaysus, call in the hitachi, its going to fall on a sheep/the tractor/the road' emergency reduction procedure..

Proarc? few of them around here both with hire companies and arb companies, simple machines and not overly expensive..