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  1. greenman
    Big old hairy larch, looks like she's hanging in the picture but she went straight down, first proper felling job since 6th January. We've been clearing windblows in the woods since then, that's the real fun hung up trees with root balls! Any way Hard work! You arb boys are all about sunglasses and short sleeved t shirts! I'm a forester and that's real work (besides I'm too fat to climb trees and not over keen on falling from great heights either). Did you have the winds over January where you are? They were certainly good for business for my pals were do tree surgery work round here.
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    I'm a hand cutter so no shortage of wood for me, have a session in the spring to fill the log shed and just bring a bit home everyday from work. Always plenty of hung up trees or dead wood around. The house I'm in now has central heating but we barely use a couple of hundred litres of oil a year. Wood burner keeps the whole house warm.
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    I've said about this bitch on the 'Reece's billy' thread. She's a 3/8 5/8 bull out of billy. Comes to work everyday. Don't have to speak she's just 'there'. When I'm on the saw in the woods she just curls up by my quad or the fire if it's cold. She'll walk to heel behind any tractor/loader whatever I'm driving, sits in the cab too if I'm on the road. Used to work with sheep and cattle, pottered around like an old farm collie. If I look round she's there, if I tell her to stay, she's there till I get back. She's caught just about everything there is worth catching. I've never had a collie cross
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    There's definitely something 'different' about a hill sheep. When I kept terriers they were fine around the sheep on the farms at home and would potter around the yard and the downs no problem. When I moved to Wales for a while I daren't let them run free on the hills as I couldn't break them to the sheep? Yet when I moved back to A different lowland farm back in England they were fine again. With hindsight I think they were racist and it was because the sheep were welsh.
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    I grew up in Tadley. There were a few thefts back then that ended up in 'paices hill'. I may be throwing out wild accusations but on past history.
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    I've got an arb top of my 08 isuzu rodeo, metallic green that I no longer need. Reasonable condition in line with its age. £180 if it's any use to anyone on here, will put it on ebay at the weekend I expect if it hasn't sold. I'm in Hampshire and you will need to collect.
  7. greenman

    Cuckoo

    greenman replied to gonetoearth's topic in General Talk

    See reading that Pete, I was brought right back to your I'm in charge of the chat room threads ffs Baw, I'm starting to like you, considering you appear to be a transgender anti policemen/women that's not a good thing. Aren't you Scottish too? I think I'm going to throw up.
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    Cuckoo

    greenman replied to gonetoearth's topic in General Talk

    That makes two of us then.
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    Cuckoo

    greenman replied to gonetoearth's topic in General Talk

    http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/sukb2013_tcm9-358727.pdf This is worth a read for those of you crying out for a bit of 'science'. It doesn't point fingers, it just gives an overview of bird populations in the uk and it's territories.
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    Mmm, chainsaws, noisy. Currently felling some big larch, spruce and pine using huskys a 560xp and 576xp, both autotune. My wife thinks I'm sad and calls my 'forestry journal' tree porn. To be honest she's right, heard a saw running last week said to my mate, bet that's an old husqvarna 346, embarrassed to say it was.
  11. greenman
    As far as I know Reece has never bothered being on here and Billy's been dead about 6 years so you might be flogging a dead horse.
  12. greenman
    That's the one, the first litter.
  13. greenman
    My bitch from Reece out of billy did, the other one was from South Wales, nothing to do with billy.
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    It's a sad day when I take offence on here! The 'line' things an odd one. You have a good dog, you breed from it, you have another good one and you breed again you've got a line but there's the potential some of those pups would be shit either down to the genetics or the owners. With dogs that have a 'name' there are more pups out there attributed to there line so more chance of bad ones? I had a dog from a bitch called 'Diane' who I'd been out with a lot and her brother 'Arthur' both a talked about 'line'. The sire was a coursing greyhound so granted the percentages of the two were differ
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    Mines just a dog bred off a couple of dogs as far as I'm concerned. I'd never had a bull cross till her, my pal did and I liked what they could do, he knew Reece who had just dew clawed the litter and he was due a pup as stud fee and said I could have it. There's a bit more to the story, but I've had the bitch since she was 6 weeks old and she has genuinely been a cracker. I agree I put a lot of time into her and gave her a lot of opportunities to do a lot of things, however the breeding must of played a part, I've had other lurchers before and since that have had the same opportunities and up
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    I have a bitch from Reece out of billy here. This was the second to last litter out of him, the mating was repeated and that was the last litter before he died. Truly the best dog I have owned, has never jacked and excelled at everything expected from her breeding, she's sat on my quad now, comes to work everyday on the farm, on my previous place she used to help me get the cows in for milking, providede with more meat than I could eat and supplemented my wages for a while, will do a days beating, retrieve rabbits live, pick up feather to the gun, retrieve running birds, squirreling with catt
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    . You make you own charcoal Used to make my living hedgelaying, cutting timber and coppice amongst other things. Made charcoal in the spring summer and sold a few loads of logs in the winter. Sold my soul and taken a full time job just under a year ago on an estate I cut on as estate worker/ forester, got a young family and the rent on a cottage round here was too much so had to take the job. They still let me make charcoal I'm my own time, just make enough to supply the local butcher and a couple of community shops.
  18. greenman
    Roe haunch over the fire, pinched the grid from the scrap bin on the farm, perfect for sitting a cast iron pan on!
  19. greenman
    Always have my cast iron kettle and pan with my chainsaw kit when I'm working in the woods. Kettle was from a bric a brac shop and the pan was in a skip outside a posh cottage! Nothing beats cooking outdoors, even at home we've got a fire pit at the end of the garden, often cook the sounds joint on a spit.
  20. greenman
    excellent reply Did you learn from it stewie At the risk of putting myself at the sharp end of your witty repatoir baw, who's stewie?
  21. greenman
    I work as a timber cutter and a lot of what I do is hardwood. A big saw shouldn't kick or pull if it's sharpened properly and the rakers are the right depth. You will get kickback of any saw if you put the wrong part of the tip in contact with the wood. The safety gear, boots, hat and trousers seems depressingly expensive for something you 'never need' until the day a saw comes back at you then you shit yourself and thank f**k you have been wearing it! Touch wood I've been lucky so far. Saws are like anything, more you use it greater the chance of an accident. I've ridden a motorbike
  22. greenman
    I'm an instant convert to therabands, the older forester I work with was shooting catapults since before I was born and had always used square rubber on his, gave him a go and besides out shooting me with my new catapult, he was really impressed and asked me to order him some bands. B.P.R do you prefer flat bands or I see you use tubing on some of your catapults? Also fancy a go at making one of the ergo styles you make at some point, I've got a big two foot square plastic chopping board, about 3/4 inch thick, might try cutting one out of that. Do you just use wood rasps and sand pape
  23. greenman
    Just stuck a set of flat bands on a natural oak fork. Bound them to go over the top. Have to say they are a revelation, double gold tapered 20 to 15mm. Pulls back far easier than the Barnett bands I've been using for years and I reckon have similar power? Had the first go today up the woods while we had lunch, using [BANNED TEXT] nuts pinched from the workshop and didn't take many goes to be fairly consistatly hitting a bean can at 12 paces. Going to build a catch box for the garden and get my eye in a bit more over a few different distances and angles.
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    My best mates dad has always smoked a pipe. He's got advanced MS and has no movement except a little in his head, one of my most important jobs when I worked on their farm was filling and lighting his pipes! Never smoked one myself but love the smell of good baccy and there's an art to loading it to get a good draw, if I got it wrong he soon let me know! Whenever I see him now for a catch up I'm always expected to put a pipe between his teeth and light it!
  25. greenman
    Just trawling through the original catapult thread and I can remember that when it started, interesting to see only 5 years ago and nobody was really using flat bands, bit of bitching back then! Ordered a few sets of ready made tapered flat bands to try. Felling some big timber oaks today so been for a wander with my brew and cut 3 nice oak forks, a yew and a holly. Got 3 nice blackthorn and a hazel yesterday. Always liked a natural so having a play with those first but might have a crack at an ergo someday, see what they feel like to shoot. I'll get some picks up of the ye
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