Doug Tait
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This deserves more than the laugh button David, keep thinking about it and chuckling to myself. Was only my mother that really called me Douglas and usually with a disapproving tone!
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Thanks for that link, interesting stuff. Looking at the map of contractors shows only 2 in Scotland and another couple in Northumberland (which is close to me in the Borders) but I'd hope there are more people doing it in the area. Would certainly like to see more layed hedges around. Since I heard Gimlet on arbtalk is looking to move to this area I'm hoping to see some of his work in the future.
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Showa did a waterproof gardening glove which are good in the wet but a bit bulky, I wouldn't climb with them but decent on the ground if not using lowering ropes. I always wear those fingerless weight lifting gloves to climb now, just enough glove for gripping rope but fingers free for dexterity
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Funny enough K, the farmer came along at one point and we had almost 30 vehicles in his field to get the road cleared, the only one that spun it's wheels was the Police transit!
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Bank holiday madness on the roads here. We were diverted due to a big accident on way home from site, then came across another accident on the single track road diversion. Fortunately equipped to do some traffic management and once the Police arrived we cleared the road with the valtra.
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I feel for her Gary. I've a photo somewhere of a young me stood under the washing line, all tears and snot, my num-num blanket and favourite teddy just out of reach
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A pair of chainsaw gloves is only one protective glove anyway isn't it? I'd say get cheaper work gloves and don't put your hands near the chain
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Do you think he'd lift the front end easy, or would it just go bang and collapse? I passed about a dozen scooters today, dressed like mods and very flash looking scooters, looked like a club day trip. That your kind of scooter riding eggs?
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Congratulations! It's a beautiful bouncing... Ducati Stubby you're a man that knows bikes, is that a huge petrol tank in front of the rider, or a tractor front counterweight?
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That's the first woman to give birth on a motorcycle Sam
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Something I've never seen before, a sparrow landed on the house gutter, paused then went into a gap under a roof tile. Second later it was pushed back out by another sparrow which stood on the gutter holding it by the leg. Had quite a struggle dangling upside down trying to get free when eventually the one holding it shook like a dog with a toy in its mouth and released, throwing it away. It took to the wing and disappeared sharpish. Don't mess with the sparrow!
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local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
Doug Tait replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
Was at the local dealer to collect a saw, when I got out the pickup this hedgehog wandered straight up to me in the car park looking a bit wobbly. Had a little wound on its stomach near the back leg that I suspect was infected. Gave it a ride to the local rescue centre where it can recuperate. Bit embarrassed about its box, would've been far better in a husky one!- 649 replies
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At first it was the 'Dirt Rally 2.0' game logo imprinted on the screen, but then the physics just didn't seem right either
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Saw a lovely garden room today where we were working, like a little hobbit house And a peak through the front door window revealed a wood burner cooking station inside And there was even some work done!
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Hi Sajid, all that I've heard about helmet comms is from reading on arbtalk, I've never used them personally, but if you use the search page there should be info to find. From what I remember, most people fit the comms unit to their existing helmet and pair them with the others on site. Sena seemed to be a popular brand
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You must have really, really long arms!
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2 months since its move and the little Rowan has been slower coming to leaf than the other Rowan Tree in the garden, but it's really got going now.
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Pruned an old Apple tree today for someone in the town where I was born. I said I remembered delivering The Express to the house when I did my paper round and it turned out it was the clients father that the paper was for. She told me he'd done a lot of research about the property and showed me some documents he'd obtained that noted the Tree was planted almost 100 years ago by someone from the town with the same surname as me! Quite a coincidence.
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They're quite different looking eggs from the thrush Gary, another learning day. That blackbird I was talking to beside the thrush nest must've thought I was daft!
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Agreed, I stand corrected Billhook. Had assumed the nest belonged to the blackbird hanging around close by, but I think you're right. Having compared them on an egg identification site the nests are similar, but different looking eggs.
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Park the land rover on the Whitehouse lawn Khriss, Biden will just roll over
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New rules on moisture content come into effect today
Doug Tait replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
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There's a climber somewhere that asked "where's the silky?" but nobody knew where it went. Maybe the Forensic officer will find traces of the climbers blood on it and they'll start a murder hunt
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I've been impressed by the hedgelaying stuff on here, and it's been interesting to hear about as there is little evidence of it locally. The Borders has an abundance of flailed or overgrown hedges, or just rough fences. This week I've been with a local company who have a young lad from Kent working as a groundie. He is very keen to learn hedgelaying, and said he's being taken on as an apprentice by Scotland's only commercial hedgelayer who is based in the Borders doing blacksmith work, but travels the country plying his 'laying' trade. It's a shame there's not more of it done up here, to me a layed hedge looks so pleasing to the eye and must be the best solution for a boundary as well as nature. Look forward to seeing more on arbtalk.
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Scottish Borders (thanks Stubby). Town called Melrose is where I live. Been the complete opposite weather today, by 9am was working in a t-shirt and had to put the dog in the shade, lovely!
