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Morning all. Of course, thanks to the wobble of the Earth, the mornings will continue to darken for a little while yet (and will vary depending on your own latitude...), and sunsets are already starting to get later in the day... So it'll still be tricky to find the motivation to get out from under the duvet for another few weeks, but at least there'll be a grand stretch in the evenings!

Don't worry, he's advanced. He knows what he's doing.

The soundtrack really adds something on FB version.

Oof, he's a big boy. Are there any outfits near you offering a mobile sawmill service? Fair play to you if you want to have a go with a 36" bar, but I'd say you'd get a better yield a hell of a lot easier if someone with bigger kit took it on! I guess clean it up and get it off the root plate first...

Look, he's got all the PPE. He'll be fine.

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Just tested it. Works great!

That's a good looking lid, perfect for the zombie apocalypse 👌

Great news, a good Christmas present indeed. Remind me, are you having a second knee done at all? They mostly come in pairs. Mostly. An unscheduled and incredibly welcome day off today. Nice gentle jobs for me today like mucking out the henhouse, removing a hung up alder by the kids' treehouse from Storm Darragh, and buying a bottle of whiskey.

There's some pretty looking things in that clip. Some of them, apparently, can be explained by just zooming in on a star with the lens not in focus... Some of them less so.

Topping about a dozen cypress in the morning, dropping a couple of big fat sycamore with a digger in the afternoon. One reduced then pushed, one just climbed to put a strap in as high as needed to pull it over. Tall stumps, metal everywhere. Not a twig or a leaf to clean up, the fella with the digger is doing it himself. Driving away at 1600, the Christmas holidays have now started.

Wow. I might just get a horse instead.

Are they going to be selling them off cheap now that the GTA40 is out? Would be a dead handy little chipper saw.

Great work. We are all proud of you! Back right corner looks grand to me, everything is right where it should be.

Going to look at a 2012 Ford Ranger tomorrow. 150,000 miles, 2.2l diesel. Looks good in the photos, obviously been looked after. Anyone want to suggest any known problems I should be looking out for?

Very interesting thread, perfect timing. I currently have forearm and elbow pain. Hoping a break over Christmas eases it! Thanks for the suggestions @Rich Rule

Only broke two windscreens and one wing mirror today, too! Result.

Haaaaaa. Very good.

I know, sorry. Don't worry, there's one stem out the back I couldn't reach with the machine, so I threw a rope up into it to climb first thing tomorrow morning. For anyone walking by tomorrow, it'll look like I did the whole job climbing! Shameless.

If you don't know the answers to any of the questions, you don't have to reply. Perfect, thank you.

No lawn for me to damage today, I just had to aim in really carefully straight in the back of the hilux...

I was driving from Belfast to Sligo on Sunday evening, in the dark... 2hr 30m, if the wind is behind you and there aren't thousands of people driving 45 in a 60... after wrestling Birmingham airport. I was a thirsty fella. Two bottles of fizzy water and a vit hit for me, 30 litres for the car, and off we go again. As I unscrewed the lid on my first drink, intermittent and unnecessary brake lights of the car in front of me doing nothing for my stress levels, I realised, quite suddenly, that I don't have to pay attention to what I do with this bottle cap. It can't escape. I can slake my thirst while still giving my undivided attention to the prick in front of me, then when I'm done I can simply flip it back, screw it down, and carry on. The whole operation has become infinitely simpler, safer, quicker, and overall, a less stressful experience. This is what progress looks like. This is life in the future.

Wet and windy here today, day two of reducing 5 sycamore back to monoliths... good thing I'm a masochist! Enjoy the day team, stay dry if you like that sort of thing.

Who's ready for a really unpopular opinion? Those caps that stay on bottles when you open them... Huge improvement. Colossal. Immense. We've been living in the dark ages until now, and all of you complaining that the cap hits you in the nose when you take a drink because you're too f*cking retarded to rotate the bottle 30° can go cope and cry. Fight me.