Possible Clues:

• Long-serving archdeacon receiving new rate
• Get the tree into the truck the old way
• Experienced examiner managed to follow English
• It takes an old hand to get the tree in bits in the truck
• Chop up the tree and put it in the old lorry.
• Practiced
• Old enough to have got the bits of the tree into the truck
• Check king with a knight that may have done a lot of attacking
• Person with long experience like old soldier
• Old and experienced doctor gets time and a quarter