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That is a surprise. At least they serve beer in French McDonald's joints.

Where is your friend based? That might be a better question, maybe not a suitable location in this situation but someone else following this thread might be able to help out.

Try a jump lead as an earth

And why throw away?

They use them as spacers for stacks of long runs of metal furrings (first fix electrics). Clearly not a softwood type as no resin is present. Smells nothing like conifers and is a bit less prone to dents.

Morning all, Wet here again as well. Reckon we are heading for the news of "coldest/wettest June since bla bla". Still, at least I managed to get a job done last week, where we had been waiting ages for the ground to be dry enough to allow machinery into field.

I dropped my phone out of a tree, landed end on into soft mud which filled the tiny mic hole. I did see videos of people using hot melt glue, didn't fancy that so used a sewing needle to poke the mud out - whether it was that or the mud I don't know but either way I now have a new phone as no-one could hear me afterwards. So I'd be cautious about poking anything in the holes.

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You will need to think about the legal implications of letting someone loose in your woods if there is an accident. You will be probably liable . I have 5 small woodlands that I use for crosscut & maintenance and felling upto 200mm, and never get to the 5m3 felling licence requirements when running the course. Even with me running the course in woods that i manage, there is always mess that needs tidying up, stumps lowering etc, but in the long term it is a benefit for the estates.

It's also a pretty good way of demonstrating the importance of setting a knot and using a stopper knot. A slip knot is a bit too close to a Bowline 🤔

I don’t know tbh! It was brand new.

That's the OP's figure from 6 farms. Assuming he goes out once almost every week, he will visit each farm 8 times a year. With that much land we could assume he is probably out all Saturday or Sunday morning when he goes This is enough to upset most wives, so as an unpaid hobby that is pretty good going. Does he average one deer an outing? Most stalkers don't manage an average of one from 2. Are the landowners going to be happy with that few deer coming off the land? The woodland owner needs to look at an offer and decide if that stalker can really make a difference to them or if its a bit of fun for the stalker who likes to collect places to have fun. I seem to recall reading somewhere that one breeding doe per 5 hectares was average for Roe. On good habitat it is certainly more. That means you have more than one new Roe per year coming off 5 hectares, never mind the Muntjac. They will pour in from land to the sides unless that is well shot too. Take out the big bucks and you just get a lot of youngsters who all like to have a good fray. A good stalker really can make a difference but it needs dedication to the ground. The owner needs to appreciate this.

Somewhere between an inch and half an inch of oil. You'd expect a lot more basting with pan-fried too.

I would like to vary my woodland management plan for a single compartment. I have a felling license to clear fell this compartment and allow natural regen. On reflection would prefer to clear fell and re-stock with Cricket bat Willow. Can anyone advise the simplest way to get this change approved? The compartment is low lying land, designated as broadleaved but not ancient on the magic map. The land frequently floods which has meant that the plantation of Thuja and Norway spruce in this compartment has at least 50% failed. Is this just a case of sending in an application for a new felling license for this compartment and with re-stocking at 100 stems per hectare (which is what the .gov site suggests for cricket bat willow)? or do I need to get the management plan varied too? Another side issue is that I would rather like to move a track to an existing central ride through another compartment that is to be clear felled. I have no metalled track but I got it approved in my management plan to surface the existing unmade track and I got the council to approve it for planning permission as it joined to a classified road. I have now got more than 25 metres from the classified road with surfaced track as per the planning permission. I can see that the old track is not as ideally placed as it could be for efficiency and cuts through the RPAs of the nicest trees in the whole wood (which are to be retained). Its a bit of a no brainer to move the track but how many hoops would it involve I wonder to get it rubber stamped? I am tempted to just do it as I am past 25 metes and I need a surfaced track for good management. It sounds like permitted development to me but I would be glad of people's views. Thanks, Paul

I’m going to give 94 a miss

Kevlar saddle .

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20 is your standard agricultural shed. You mean 30m length not width I assume, as that's a lot of area and water?