A Grizzly Bear with a hangover …

Unless you’re a bit of a fitness freak chopping logs with an axe is a backbreaker of a job.

It’s certainly not my idea of a fun weekend and even less so when you’re faced with the same punishment for the next six weeks or more.

Just 30 minutes chopping wood by hand made me realise that the old-fashioned way is a mug’s game.

Unless you’re training to be the world’s strongest man, splitting five or six tonnes of the stuff by hand is likely to be a fast-track to an orthopaedic hospital bed.

So, what to do with the mountain of felled timber which I’ve been lucky enough to harvest recently?

My get out of jail card was being able to borrow my brother’s John Deere tractor and log splitter.

The JD is a seriously big beast with enough grunt to shame a bad-tempered Grizzly Bear with the mother of all hangovers.

Even on a bad day it boasts well over 200 horsepower and its splitter can make matchsticks out of the knottiest timber I’ve ever come across.

That, and the monster bucket on the JCB telehandler all helped to turn hours of hard graft into a boy’s toys dream weekend.

If you’ve got a serious task ahead of you then having access to the right tools is a must.

That way there’s much less toil and much more reward.

Whilst the software tools and equipment we have in our print room is a world away from the log shed, its exactly what we need to help you get your ideas designed, printed and out of the door in double-quick time.

So if you’ve got any marketing collateral you need a hand with this summer, why not give us a call?

Have a great week.

Alec