Well the title says it all! a brilliant version.
It's all about me, What I get up to, my fishing, the gear I use for my fishing, also other stuff from time to time & anything or everything else that comes & goes along in between ; )
Monday, 26 July 2010
Well, You Cannot Always Get Your Own Rode,Eh!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Bang went the plans of a Sunday afternoons fishing session, ended up cutting a big old horse chestnut tree down in some horse fields over at Gunthorpe, that had been struck by lighting a few times. It was also hanging over the roadside, & also the local authority had put an order on it to be cut down, so it had to come down, before the time limit had ran out, or the local authority would cut it down at the owners expense. No problem, gets there looks at the tree & sussed the job out, of how we were going to cut this tree down, anyway everything went great until we had got to the two branches that were over hanging the main road, i went up the main trunk & sent a rope round the first over hanging branch, gets down & pulls up the tension of the rope, up goes Glenn ( the owner of the horse fields ) with the chainsaw & away he goes, we'd got the first branch down into the field, sound, but then came the problem, roadside over hanging branch no.2, same thing again sent the rope up round the branch & pulled it tight, Glenn goes up again starts cutting away at it until it starts to creek, so i yanked back on the rope & down comes the branch, sods law the bastard thing went through the hedgerow on to the cycle path & into a lane of on coming traffic, so here's two daft sods on Sunday afternoon diving through an hedge row with a pair of chainsaws to get this big branch that weighed about half a ton off the main road & cycle path, luckily Glenn's old man was watching the roadside & guided the traffic round, so there weren't any accidents, thank Christ, the only damage done was a broken fence panel & post on the cycle path.
So after clearing all that up & repairing the fence, we stopped for a fag break & then put all the gear back in the van, & then this thought occurred to myself about why tree fellers charge so much money for doing these jobs, its to cover the public liability insurance policy you need, so just like what happened to us this afternoon, when these unfortunate accidents happen, you don't get sued the arse off.
Bang went the plans of a Sunday afternoons fishing session, ended up cutting a big old horse chestnut tree down in some horse fields over at Gunthorpe, that had been struck by lighting a few times. It was also hanging over the roadside, & also the local authority had put an order on it to be cut down, so it had to come down, before the time limit had ran out, or the local authority would cut it down at the owners expense. No problem, gets there looks at the tree & sussed the job out, of how we were going to cut this tree down, anyway everything went great until we had got to the two branches that were over hanging the main road, i went up the main trunk & sent a rope round the first over hanging branch, gets down & pulls up the tension of the rope, up goes Glenn ( the owner of the horse fields ) with the chainsaw & away he goes, we'd got the first branch down into the field, sound, but then came the problem, roadside over hanging branch no.2, same thing again sent the rope up round the branch & pulled it tight, Glenn goes up again starts cutting away at it until it starts to creek, so i yanked back on the rope & down comes the branch, sods law the bastard thing went through the hedgerow on to the cycle path & into a lane of on coming traffic, so here's two daft sods on Sunday afternoon diving through an hedge row with a pair of chainsaws to get this big branch that weighed about half a ton off the main road & cycle path, luckily Glenn's old man was watching the roadside & guided the traffic round, so there weren't any accidents, thank Christ, the only damage done was a broken fence panel & post on the cycle path.
So after clearing all that up & repairing the fence, we stopped for a fag break & then put all the gear back in the van, & then this thought occurred to myself about why tree fellers charge so much money for doing these jobs, its to cover the public liability insurance policy you need, so just like what happened to us this afternoon, when these unfortunate accidents happen, you don't get sued the arse off.
Friday, 23 July 2010
Bloggin On
Time To Move On, Me Thinks
Don't know whats been going on with the Barbel Society of late but every time it's mentioned on the forums, certain individuals have to come out in it's defence! & it seems like it's doing more harm than good, that's another one of those reasons why i haven't joined! ( politics) now that's an understatement! it gets worse from there on, eventually the tides will turn, as they say! eh? the panel of communications chairman ( Fred Bonney) aka: forum Fred seems to like getting into fights amongst the members & ex members, this ain't a good thing at all & I'll sooner invest my money into something like the Angling Trust, at least there; there are arguments with some meaning to them, at least with some clout.
Take for instance the other night on BFAMW; Fred, getting into fights with Tony Rocca, Mike Joyce & Chris Pearson. This in itself isn't helping the BS it's alienating the problems from within the said society, to be honest I personally don't know where this all started! but it goes way back in time, further than the times when Ray Walton was involved in the makings of the then ( new ) BS, unfortunately now it's full of retiree's trying to make a name for themselves, ( know it all's)! call them what you like for me, but it just gets worse & worse as time progresses & on that note that's more than enough a justifiable reason why i shall not be joining the BS.
The weekend is almost here & i cannot wait to get back out on the river bank, there have been some nice fish coming out of recent, even the carp are starting to show themselves in some stretches.
Trouble is where I've been fishing recently the fish aren't shoaled up any more, they just seem to be few & far between, but these downpoors have certainly helped put more life into the river, it's definitely done some justice somewhere. Anyway that's enough talk about it, I'm off down there.
Edit: well i was going down the river this afternoon, but got called out to do a job, never mind there is always sunday. S'ppose that's the beauty of being self employed.
Don't know whats been going on with the Barbel Society of late but every time it's mentioned on the forums, certain individuals have to come out in it's defence! & it seems like it's doing more harm than good, that's another one of those reasons why i haven't joined! ( politics) now that's an understatement! it gets worse from there on, eventually the tides will turn, as they say! eh? the panel of communications chairman ( Fred Bonney) aka: forum Fred seems to like getting into fights amongst the members & ex members, this ain't a good thing at all & I'll sooner invest my money into something like the Angling Trust, at least there; there are arguments with some meaning to them, at least with some clout.
Take for instance the other night on BFAMW; Fred, getting into fights with Tony Rocca, Mike Joyce & Chris Pearson. This in itself isn't helping the BS it's alienating the problems from within the said society, to be honest I personally don't know where this all started! but it goes way back in time, further than the times when Ray Walton was involved in the makings of the then ( new ) BS, unfortunately now it's full of retiree's trying to make a name for themselves, ( know it all's)! call them what you like for me, but it just gets worse & worse as time progresses & on that note that's more than enough a justifiable reason why i shall not be joining the BS.
The weekend is almost here & i cannot wait to get back out on the river bank, there have been some nice fish coming out of recent, even the carp are starting to show themselves in some stretches.
Trouble is where I've been fishing recently the fish aren't shoaled up any more, they just seem to be few & far between, but these downpoors have certainly helped put more life into the river, it's definitely done some justice somewhere. Anyway that's enough talk about it, I'm off down there.
Edit: well i was going down the river this afternoon, but got called out to do a job, never mind there is always sunday. S'ppose that's the beauty of being self employed.
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Not been on for a while
Been busy of late, with now being self employed, still doing all the hard graft me'self though, sometimes you just cannot win.
Anyhow had to miss the BFAMW Trent fish in due to some hassle at home, damn it was really looking forward to that an'all, but still these things happen.
That reminds me, I must give Coops a bell!
Don't know what happed with this years world cup but jesus, it's been the most boring world cup, i've ever watched! & as for England well lets not go there.
Been doing some barbel bashing on the Trent last weekend, had one out at 6.5lb, in a late friday afternoon session,not a bad looking fish, looks like it had been on the bank before because there were a few scales missing & some red marks round it's mouth.
Also had another one at 11.5lbs, in another session on the sunday yes a new PB double, I could'nt beleive the size of it when it came upto the surface, the fight of this double was totally different compared to the smaller fish, these doubles don't scrap like splashers do, it just hugged the bottom, but didn't go very far off downstream like they normally do, looking at it this one's also been banked before aswell anyway here's a photo of her.
Anyhow had to miss the BFAMW Trent fish in due to some hassle at home, damn it was really looking forward to that an'all, but still these things happen.
That reminds me, I must give Coops a bell!
Don't know what happed with this years world cup but jesus, it's been the most boring world cup, i've ever watched! & as for England well lets not go there.
Been doing some barbel bashing on the Trent last weekend, had one out at 6.5lb, in a late friday afternoon session,not a bad looking fish, looks like it had been on the bank before because there were a few scales missing & some red marks round it's mouth.
Also had another one at 11.5lbs, in another session on the sunday yes a new PB double, I could'nt beleive the size of it when it came upto the surface, the fight of this double was totally different compared to the smaller fish, these doubles don't scrap like splashers do, it just hugged the bottom, but didn't go very far off downstream like they normally do, looking at it this one's also been banked before aswell anyway here's a photo of her.
So far two sessions two fish & i'm well happy & i even left behind Ray's dub dodging club, cannot wait to get down there again.
William.
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