Fine looking horse he was John, R.I.P Woody!!
so sorry to hear the news john a difficult decision to have to make. rip woody .
Sad news JD…
You did yer best for him eh.
Thanks for all your kindness re “Woody” but gratitude to the vet who attended Alex who after a long day doing his rounds went to the knacker mans premises and carried out a bit of a post mortem examination in his own time with no cost to me for a couple of hours for which I was grateful. His findings confirmed that the horse had severe problems within and the decision to put him down was the right one albeit not a very nice thing to have to do.
Must now move on and try and find a replacement to once more make up the team, Buzzer.
Sorry to hear of your sad loss Buzzer ! These things do happen unfortunately when you keep horses. This is a shot of one of the first harness racing Standardbreds I bought in 1979 as a 7year old his racing name was My Birthday and his sire was an imported German Trotter called Helenes Erster and he was out of Pacing mare called Della Pick. We called him Bertie and he was one tough little race horse (just over 14 h.h.) we improved him tremendously and he won quite a number of races for us, his last race was in a “A” Class free for all at York raceway in 1987 when he was 15 years old. He could be ridden, driven (as per the shot) and raced as a Pacer but if I could get him onto the Trot (diagonal gait) he could fly but he would sometimes roll over onto “the Pace” which was his racing gait with the Hopples on. This shot was taken at Appleby in 1989 IIRC on the occasion of Diane Slacks wedding and it was her that drove him in his last race at York and as I also had that nice Victorian Phaeton we took her and her Dad to the Church. Diane was a regular driver for me for a number of years. However, to return to your sad loss I can I.D. with you as this silly old bugger Bertie was enjoying a happy retirement at the age of 22 at the depot in Milnthorpe where he was usually out in the nice paddock rugged up, but brought in when it was cold. So this particular morning the girl that worked for me and was more-or-less in complete charge came into the depot only to find him laid down with a completely smashed huggin bone on his near back leg, heaven knows what the silly old bugger had been up to during the night we could never work out what he’d done so it was a call to the Vet and he came and “knocked” him ! Unbelievable and unexplainable. Cheers Bewick.
kindle530:
Thanks for the reply Buzzer. As bullit said, I can’t believe you can’t find a chauffeur, mind you there are drivers and dreamers and screwdrivers. If I was single I would be knocking your door down mate!
JD… Reference the problem of finding good drivers. I might have an answer, albeit temporary.
After much discussion , myself , Charlie One , TIR Tone and , Evans QC would like to put ourselves forward for consideration…
This would be to drive ONE vehicle, I suppose you could call it Quadruple Manning.
We would be able to do one Paris a week , although in hindsight this may prove an optimistic target. We can’t ship out until Tuesday morning as Tony has Bingo on a Monday night and we’d have to be back by the following Monday as Charlie has an appointment for his bunions.
Please let us know, and in the meantime let us have a copy of the Scania instruction manual. This should be sent direct to Richard as he’s the one wot reads and rites…
Baldrick1953:
kindle530:
Thanks for the reply Buzzer. As bullit said, I can’t believe you can’t find a chauffeur, mind you there are drivers and dreamers and screwdrivers. If I was single I would be knocking your door down mate!JD… Reference the problem of finding good drivers. I might have an answer, albeit temporary.
After much discussion , myself , Charlie One , TIR Tone and , Evans QC would like to put ourselves forward for consideration…
This would be to drive ONE vehicle, I suppose you could call it Quadruple Manning.
We would be able to do one Paris a week , although in hindsight this may prove an optimistic target. We can’t ship out until Tuesday morning as Tony has Bingo on a Monday night and we’d have to be back by the following Monday as Charlie has an appointment for his bunions.
Please let us know, and in the meantime let us have a copy of the Scania instruction manual. This should be sent direct to Richard as he’s the one wot reads and rites…
P.M.S.L. 
Hope these “boys” cheered you up John. Commiserations. Jim.
Balders you have definitely been in the Emerald Isle for far too long as it has for certain it has effected what little grey matter you did have between the ears. For a start if you were quadruple manned we would have to put a 50 mil tow ball on the bumper of the trailer in order to pull a caravan to accommodate you all, alternatively we could supply a camper van to run in unison with the truck but this has also got pitfalls as three might decide to go off piste or go off and get ■■■■■■ so that’s no good either. As for Paris being the intended destination and should we have to pay wages for this job it would be un economical and then there is the night out money on top.
Then you go and get that law enforcer from Wellow involved and that would surely lead to a courtroom somewhere in a tribunal case, as for Tone he cant go any way as he never shipped out with out the Spanish lights and his TIR board fixed to the front of the motor and with out these no one would know he was back at the old job, he wern’t that good when he was doing it when he was young, Squibby told me that. As for Charlie being involved first you would have to fix him up with a little trailer to go behind his mobility scooter for his suitcase and his R&A DKV Card is out of date, then you would have to alter the shipping out to Tuesday morning to allow him enough time to get from Alton on said scooter and he would need a charge up at Winchester Central to enable him to get here at all and then that would mess up Mappo’s plans for bingo the following week.
Having reviewed all the options for your little plan some how I don’t think it would work especially with you lot, all mentally retarded you would need a travelling health assistant with you throughout the journey and that would have to be some delectable female with ginormous ■■■■’s and a figure to die for, but then I suppose the lovely Angie may be free for the journey and as she knows you all that would cut out any intended hanky panky.
All in all Balders your Idea aint gonna work and I think this was a cunning plan so cunning we should pin a tail on it and call it a weasel to have a jolly at the expense of Davies International and that’s where it ends boys, sorry but book your hols with a reputable agent, Buzzer.
Ha! I really am laughing out loud at that JD!
John,
Thank you for your comments regarding Baldrick’s cunning plan,I would just like to say I am quite happy to provide,and drive the camper van to ■■■■■■ these lads on their mammoth journey,I have a few concerns as when I saw Baldrick the other day he asked me if this new fangled cruise control meant he could set it at 56mph and get in the bunk and have a rest !! Mappo was only interested if we could keep stopping at the services to play the fruit machines ! and I am concerned that Charlie has been looking through dear Rose’s tinted glasses !
Tell Horry & Steven not to worry they won’t need to supply a unit we’ll just hitch the trailer to the camper. 
Regards
Richard
p.s. This also doubles as a mobile court house,should we get into any trouble.
Who ever owns that Richard has got some serious poppy as I bet that was not cheap. As for Mappo he would still be on the one armed bandit after the boat had discharged and be half way home before you realised he was missing, Buzzer.
I,m speehless…you lot know me too well… 
Hi buzzer, sent a pm a while back? I didn’t let you know,…senior moment, sorry.
trunker08:
Hi buzzer, sent a pm a while back? I didn’t let you know,…senior moment, sorry.
Hi T08 did get it but on my trash thingy and it would not print it out so could not read it, Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
Busy weekend up ere at a farm sale on Saturday, bought some gates and some cow mats for the cubicles and an 8 ton tipping trailer, and then chain harrowing all day today. Had some rain on wed/thur then been nice since, the grass looks like it’s finally growing up ere and not before time…
Cheers Wrighty.
Better than me Wrighty I also went to a farm sale on Saturday but it was peeing down and as I went up the drive to the farm I thought not a lot of people about may have a bargain or two today but the realization kicked in as they had started earlier than I had thought, like 24 hours before well needless to say I beat a hasty retreat back home, my Mrs said you were not long and said ah nothing there for me today but later had to admit I needed to visit spec savers as I misread the date, all the time im’e thinking good job it was’nt 100 miles away from home else it would have been a disaster, that’s the trouble with age catching you up, Buzzer.
Buzzer
I think we both need to go to spec savers, you for your reading and me for my dog grooming skills.
Cheers Wrighty.
Morning all,
Wrighty, thats a beautiful looking tractor…I always had a soft spot for those Case machines…N`owt wrong with the looks of your dog either!
Cheerio for now.
Morning Saviem
Bought the tractor off E Bay last spring as a bit of a project, it doesn’t do much work just a few light duties mind you it is 27yrs old. We had a 2wd 956xl bought new in 1982 which is still in the area, I tried to buy it but the current owner didn’t want to sell it so i’ll bide my time who knows one day it may be to sell…
As for the dog that is my five year old ■■■■■ Snook, she will ride around with me all day given the chance it’s funny but they just like company and being with you.
Cheers Wrighty (steve)
Steve that picture takes me back to when I was a nipper on the old mans farm, we had a petrol/TVO Nuffield and always got a rollicking for not changing it over and the petrol ran out. We had an inline setup with a Lundell forage harvester and trailer hitch behind that, the whole thing stayed hitched together and came to the pit with each load, then we had a little grey Fergie with a buck rake on to get it up the clamp.
In the mornings my job was to roll the clamp with the Nuffield but it had those sticky out stub axles on and got that stuck on the concrete walls more than once, we also used to put molasses on with an old watering can, messy job that but it’s all gone modern now, John D.