Doug Tait

The foreign lorry drivers on our roads really are a mouthy bunch. Set up TM this morning and was stood by the light head to check timings when this chap stopped beside me. Very chatty but I couldn't make out a word of it. Grahgrrrr oooof ooofff mmmmgggh. Northern Macedonian?

That was very efficient, thank you kind sir.

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Willkommen zurück Herr Bob! Morning all, 0c foggy and calm this morning. Like maybelateron it's a mewp day here too.

He'd posted another clip somewhere of him riding the rootplate! I was more concerned about the dog.

You could just wait until he starts the 'I don't care, I'm a rebel and time has no meaning to me' thread.

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Quite right Stephen, I did write them in a Welsh accent after all. Morning all, hope everyone has a dry and fruitful day!

Now's probably the time to confess that I was quite sure I didn't do social media until the day Mick Dempsey pointed out that arbtalk actually is SM, who knew! I'm less naïve now I think. I'll post on here and will speak nicely to the OH as she has FB and a few mates are on it and other platforms. Can probably get something on work FB and insta too. Thanks.

I apologise Ted, Les's comment triggered a memory.

American werewolf in London.

We have some interesting chats Les. Remember meeting him once (he lives next to my mate Lawrence) and he said "see your boy Law is walkin in the woods these days then". What do you mean Dai? "He's walkin in the woods in ee". Don't know what you mean Dai. "He's walkin in the woods you bloody fool! In the woods every day ee is, walkin, for money you see". I said ah, he's working in the woods. "That's what I said you bloody fool. He's taking out wood for eatin". For eating Dai? Who's eating wood I said. "No you bloody fool, got cloth ears you have boy, he's takin out wood for eatin, eatin your bloody house you see! Of course Lawrence was doing chip for biomass.

Well that was an interesting breakfast, discovered I'm at the centre of village gossip, currently known as the angel of the moor! The other night on the moor walking Cassie, the whole time we could hear Dai, the Welshman of the village (mid 80's) shouting forlornly into the darkness, "Jack... Jack... Jack...". Obvious he'd lost his collie again. Well Jack came to say hello to us so I took his collar and headed for Dai's voice. He was a bit flustered to be fair, he'd been out for a while and the darkness had caught him out. The poor bugger fell over so I got him up and found his keys dropped in the heather, then had to show him where his car was as he'd become so disorientated. No big deal I thought, just what you do. But Dai sees it differently! Telling anyone that he meets the tree guy saved his life on the moor, in his hour of need he'd asked the lord for help and I came to him like an angel from the darkness. I've had a few texts about it but half the people we met this morning were laughing saying "so you're the angel of the moor, saved Dai's life he's saying". I was even introduced to someone's husband as the angel! I've been called a lot worse and breakfast was lovely so not a bad morning was had.

Think I'll be using the code later today Rob, thanks very much! Will get you a pic when I can.

Morning. Pretty miserable here yesterday but not as bad as the forecast suggested. Only went out to walk the dog anyway. Looks better today, heading out with friends for a breakfast. Good day all.

A woman hears a humming sound when passing her daughter's bedroom, she goes in to find her daughter naked using a vibrator. "What on earth are you doing?" she says. "I'm 35yrs old mum, this is the closest I'll ever get to having a husband!". The following week dad hears a humming from the basement and goes down to find his daughter naked with her vibrator. "What on earth are you doing?" he asks. "Dad I'm 35yrs old, this is the closest I'll ever get to having a husband!". Come the weekend the daughter gets home from the shops to find her dad on the couch in front of the TV with the vibrator humming beside him. "What on earth are you doing dad?" she shouts. "Calm down dear, I'm just spending some quality time with my new son in law".

Morning all. Been windy through the night and an amber warning for rain all day, won't be going far today so my weekend has started! Have a good day all.

Not sure I'm understanding either but I think it's self tending too efficiently, with the weight of 20m of rope below any slack just runs through? If so as Mark said just load the hitch a little to get it to bite.

So you're free to do a reduction in line with BS without permission then, according to the gov. Dan beat me to it!

That's the business. Perfect on the picker bonnet!

Morning arbtalkers. Second day on the convoy job been postponed due to weather forecast, windy today. We're taking mewp to do some more cutting on the route instead, that'll be interesting when the wind gets up! Hope maybelateron is improving today, have a good day all.

That was a close one Jake, if you'd have cut right through the pouch you'd have lost your baccy!

Yes they're trying to minimise the area of tailswing. They were particularly bothered about going into airspace without permission as apparently the landowner can invoice them for use, they said some Councils can be terrible for it. Just one of the reasons the drone filmed everything.

Couple of times I went up in the mewp sawdust was falling straight down to the ground, not a breath of wind. The tip of the blade is measuring wind speed continuously and the guy controlling the blade has option to rotate to deal with a little side wind but it's very weather dependant. It's due to travel again Wed/Thurs but forecast not too good.