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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 15:18:42 GMT
And I’ll blow a bloody tree down 🤦🏼♂️ teamup.com/event/show/id/gkMdz38F4MkPmwXrQbYou18s3rmrjSNot unexpected - there’s some leggy old crack willow and poplar trees down that reach. A couple looked precarious when we came by two weeks ago. mouse has abandoned his long day tomorrow - will re think and hopefully regroup next weekend 👍
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Post by JohnV on Aug 11, 2019 16:14:55 GMT
1987 I was single handing a 72 footer down the GU heading for the Lea and Stort was stuck by a quadrillion fallen trees at Cassiobury park. I was held up for weeks.
Went out and bought my own chainsaw but it was damn near December before I got to Bishops Stortford.
sigh ..... happy days
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 16:36:43 GMT
I love how big organisations automatically feel the need to 'apologise for any inconvenience caused' - even when things arent any fault of theirs.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 11, 2019 16:44:14 GMT
And I’ll blow a bloody tree down You got a car. Go there with a chainsaw. Cut tree into bits. Lots of luvvly firewood for Winter. That's what we do here. What a bunch of pansies in England.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 16:55:16 GMT
And I’ll blow a bloody tree down You got a car. Go there with a chainsaw. Cut tree into bits. Lots of luvvly firewood for Winter. That's what we do here. What a bunch of pansies in England. Boaters do the same here. I remember seeing them swarm over a tree over the Ashby a few years ago. By the time CRT got to it there was just a pile of sawdust. So keep your Finnish 'men a real 'ard' myth where the sun does not shine.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 11, 2019 17:04:56 GMT
Well... we do keep going in minus 30 Centigrade... whereas schools in the UK close down at the threat of minus 6 as per the "Beast from the East" Feb 2018. Chaos at Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester with a few snowflakes (how appropriate!) - yet planes plod on across Siberia to Japan from Helsinki in mid-Winter. Don't forget the Finns were outnumbered 10 to 1 in WW2 against the Russians and gave them a thrashing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 17:22:22 GMT
Well... we do keep going in minus 30 Centigrade... whereas schools in the UK close down at the threat of minus 6 as per the "Beast from the East" Feb 2018. Chaos at Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester with a few snowflakes (how appropriate!) - yet planes plod on across Siberia to Japan from Helsinki in mid-Winter. Don't forget the Finns were outnumbered 10 to 1 in WW2 against the Russians and gave them a thrashing. Well at least we have a sense of humour.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 17:29:23 GMT
And I’ll blow a bloody tree down You got a car. Go there with a chainsaw. Cut tree into bits. Lots of luvvly firewood for Winter. That's what we do here. What a bunch of pansies in England. Sadly foxy, I have a fairly standard car that runs on terra firma, not an amphibious car, therefore I’m about as much use as tits on a fish. Access is via farm tracks that require land owner permission to get there - again, something I don’t have when one of those big bastards comes down and blocks the navigation the EA deploy a hiab truck, a welfare van, a work boat, a pontoon, a land rover, a bunch of blokes with turfers and chainsaws - I’m sure they would love you to come and show them how it’s done with a bow saw and a canoe 🤦🏼♂️
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 11, 2019 17:41:58 GMT
There was a big pine tree down 4 years ago here, between Pöntiö and Pahkala around 1545. 3 cars on my side, 3 on the other. Knowing it was a windy day I had our chainsaw up by the front seats of the bus, and the helmet-visor (otherwise you get chippings sprayed into your eyes). I jumped out of the bus, cut it up (5 cuts), two of the car drivers dragged the chunks to the ditch, and the road was open. OK, not in water, but you get the idea. I did cut a tree that had fallen down on the towpath in Lower Heyford 3 weeks ago - ask the CRT towpath 'ranger' (of whom I asked permission) or come and have a look at the logs in our cratch and the rest that are under the back cover (could be dry enough to burn by Christmas?).
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Post by mouse on Aug 11, 2019 18:48:17 GMT
And I’ll blow a bloody tree down 🤦🏼♂️ teamup.com/event/show/id/gkMdz38F4MkPmwXrQbYou18s3rmrjSNot unexpected - there’s some leggy old crack willow and poplar trees down that reach. A couple looked precarious when we came by two weeks ago. mouse has abandoned his long day tomorrow - will re think and hopefully regroup next weekend 👍 Depends on when the EA get round to disposing of it. If not done quickly, I can take a trundle down to Nassington or Mickey Mill.
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Post by mouse on Aug 11, 2019 18:54:04 GMT
Mickey Mill. Tried to edit the post 4 times as it kept putting Mickey Mill!! Gave up trying the edit. There is an old mill at Mickey near Peterborough 😡 E L T O N.
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Post by mouse on Aug 11, 2019 18:57:41 GMT
Gotcha ya Barsteward
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Post by patty on Aug 12, 2019 6:06:47 GMT
S'long as no folks are hurt when large trees come crashing down, inconveniences r just that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 11:01:48 GMT
And I’ll blow a bloody tree down 🤦🏼♂️ teamup.com/event/show/id/gkMdz38F4MkPmwXrQbYou18s3rmrjSNot unexpected - there’s some leggy old crack willow and poplar trees down that reach. A couple looked precarious when we came by two weeks ago. mouse has abandoned his long day tomorrow - will re think and hopefully regroup next weekend 👍 Depends on when the EA get round to disposing of it. If not done quickly, I can take a trundle down to Nassington or Mickey Mill. Give Nassington a miss... You’ll find it a bit of a pain on your own! Crown at E L T O N is a better bet 👍
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 11:03:59 GMT
S'long as no folks are hurt when large trees come crashing down, inconveniences r just that. We got held up on that stretch a couple of years ago - the lads worked hard to clear it, that’s how I know they need a bit more tackle than a chainsaw and some enthusiasm to get the job done 👍
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