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I haven't looked at the age demographic though - yes, I'd tend to agree that let them go quick so that they can get out there, retrain, enter a new line of work and be happy productive workers. All well and good if you are under say 35. Once you get past 50, retrain and enter the workforce is going to take 5 to 7 years... you are starting a new career aged nearly 60.. and who is going to employ a near 60 year old 'new start' knowing they'll only get 5 years profitable work from them? Aligned with this near 60 year old looking for a new career, there could be another 4000 of them similarly recently trained looking for new jobs in a town where there are not that many vacancies. Let them move for work? Away from their lifelong homes, kids and grandkids? Look to the North East, it takes generations to revitalise an area when the sole major employer closes, holistically a managed decline is a better option I think, let them retire where they work, and develop the young to move into new industries.

Yeah, but opening the window and shouting boy what's the weather is usually very accurate compared to that pine cone 😉

Time and attrition is cheapest. Leave a tool next to it. Everyone who comes or goes has to hit it ten times on arrival and departure. Don’t let children hit it. Then they’ll really want to hit it. Then let them.

Buy a new one .... Husqvarna chainsaw guidebars - Chainsawbars WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK Other sellers exist ...

Just got that Merlin bird song identifier app which is pretty awesome. Would recommend.

You'd definitely want to cook it before recycling the protein back into the flock, especially if dead through illness not injury. But personally... I wouldn’t do that. This isn't mid-war Stalingrad you know.

Id just trim the tips & any crossing branches now at the height that suits you (Depends on how tall your ladder is for harvesting?) the remaining tree structure will thicken up after a few yrs. Propping up branches with "hazel cloth line props" etc is what I do or you could also consider thinning out the fruit.

Looks like my £80 China 25cc one. It's been stood in the shed for ages but still starts and runs (on Alkylate fuel) whenever I try it.

Loads of plantations about with the stuff it likes im wondering how realistic it is the above recommendations being enforced and effectively used across the whole area to control it. Could end up like in Germany/europe for the UK....fairly fast it seems? The climate /droughts etc seem critical Fighting a losing battle WWW.FORESTRYJOURNAL.CO.UK The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) has had a devastating impact on the forests of Germany. Rising...

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So you are all about community now 🤔 you started off very differently to say the least

Defo Cherry Laurel. Does is smell vaguely like almonds? Almond essence to be more precise. Makes good firewood anyway, as its a high density timber.

I think somebody on here years ago posted photos of IBC liners they were using as raised beds, with a simple strip of wood screwed round the outside to keep the shape Edit - it was @Woodworks page 2 of this thread

Spud knows his stuff on these machines. 200t parts are now getting scarce, no more stock of the major metal parts, crank, cases, cylinders, pistons etc. Some plastic parts are still available but they wont be around for long! I suggest to always go oem on a machine that's used for pro work. Non oem is very hit and miss, even a non critical part might just not fit and you can spend more time than its worth trying to make it fit

I’m not interested in blingy climbing gear. A VT and rope wrench works well enough for me. Made no real effort after getting that to become any more super squirrelly. I chose to focus on other things instead. Rigging basically. But when I was toying with getting a mechanical device a few years ago I did my usual obsessive amount of research and concluded that the bulldogbone was probably the best. Not much of a review I grant you but just how it looks from my POV.

September to January, ferrets, nets, lamps and. 22 rimfire after that they are free to procreate and keep me busy the next season.

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Encore: Knocking on Heaven's Door. Fu...uck!

I can't remember if I've told this story here, but apologies if I'm repeating myself. My apprentice ( AKA Aged Parent ) and I spent a happy Sunday morning removing one dead tree stump, and one very unhealthy one from a client's garden. He was going off to play golf, so paid us before we'd finished ( we'd done work for him before ) and once we were done, we enjoyed our Tesco meal deals for dinner in the sun in the car park. Monday morning, my phone's red hot! According to our client he'd been " tidying up after us ", when the beautiful laurel bush next door " just fell over in slow motion ". The ones we'd been dealing with were about ten or twelve feet from this, by the way. It turns out the bush had a fine root structure at the neighbour's side, but one lone root at our client's side. Which he'd chopped through, in his " tidying ". His neighbour was not happy, and the longer they had to look at their pride and joy lying across the lawn, the less happy they were becoming, so off we went again on a Fire Engine job. Long story short, nobody home at either house, so we removed the evidence, and sent him a bill. There is a footnote to this tale. We returned to trim the hedge between them later on, and where his shed was, it was impossible to trim from his side, even by lying on the shed roof upside down. As we left, it was obvious that neighbour was home, so we politely knocked on the door, and asked if we could pop in for five minutes to trim it from her side, which would in all honesty have improved her side greatly. Her response? " I wouldn't p**s on him if he were on fire ". We took that as a " No", and went home.

Like a freshly greased whippet Steve . Thank you . 🙂

Shit aren't they?

Yippee totally agree, just didn’t know how generic they were.

Hydration helps - drinking - but if you need to hydrate you need to replace the salts lost in sweating too - electrolytes can help - check out say cyclist or runners shops for hydration tablets, or a pharmacist for the same - these have the right salts and minerals in. Natural cures would be salting food and bananas - bananas have potassium salts and salt has normal salts, sometimes an inbalance of the 2 can cause cramps - If you are deficient in one then it will be topped up, but won't go over a limit with the other? Might be wrong there. (else a bit minging... at the end of a long (running) race one runner had a cramp, another runner suggested "You need salts, lick my face" (the salts lost in sweat were now dried on his face as a handy salt lick) )

Many thanks for this reply (which I totally missed until now, sorry!). The site is not in Devon by the way!