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Pigs will clear anything, but ground nesting birds won't survive. Fenced off just to the bracken areas could work. Electric fences.

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Hella rain and wind yesterday evening and night but seems to brightish now. Forecast was grim for today though. Glossing the stairs, dog walk, rugby, pub sort of day hopefully! Be good n safe if you out working today! Cell, Amanda.

I ended up getting one, brilliant tool Pulling a willow out of a river, using a redirect up a sturdy oak. No way your pulling that out with the machine alone d39eb903-dcc8-4861-ad66-f1f63694e38d.mp4

Type of tree will help as some are more desirable than others and is there easy vehicle access, will it be down, machine for loading or rings to handball? Free or beer tokens?

No . They have a few tablets ( pardon the pun ) that the staff go through it with them . One woman said on the phone that she had no internet so could not do it . My missus said " you have an email address " well I don't use that the woman said the woman . It has saved , on average about 300 phone calls a day so far .

Ill adjust it to 1.5,yeah it is old , but like I say if you keep trigger on it runs and cuts etc fine,just wont idle for long

Approved.

Presumably a 500i has a map for different injection timing depending on revs, load etc too.

Looks like it's still in its pot planted into the ground.

Strimmers, trees and the public. A dangerous mix.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to town and country planning (excluding... Section 197 of the Act is the guiding legislation as to why Arb Impact Assessments are sought for in connection to planning applications regardless of conservation area status. The council's website should have a validation checklist, which should specify what type of report is needed for different planning applications.

How did you try to lift it? With a/the rope and pulley up the tree (can't see from video if you crotched it or used a pulley/ring/biner)? Or just by hand on the ground?

Milling finished so a quick update. The 18mm ply board with 45 degree blocks worked a treat. Fixed it to each quarter with a screw at each end and milled down to one board past the ‘centre’. Then removed the board, flipped the log over and finished milling the second half. In each quarter, the ray fleck figure is visible in the four centre boards as I’d hoped, so I’ve the option of jointing each set of four planks to make four 0.9m to 1.0m book matched ‘slabs’. Maybe table tops? Planks are generally very good, with a few small / pinhead knots. A few splits around the heart in some boards, but I’ll cut that off in due course. Overall, looks like grades 1A and 1B based on the pictures in the publication ‘Making the Grade’. Not bad for a 160 / 170 year old garden tree and thankfully no nails. Re the volume of useable timber, the log started as about 40 hft (hoppus measure). After milling there is an average 10 planks per quarter and a total from the four quarters of about 30 cu ft of planks including sap. Having measured the planks excluding bark, sap, heart and splits, the quartersawn heartwood volume is 20 cu ft with planks generally 200mm+ width with a max of 270mm width and up to 350mm at the flare at the bottom of the log. Interesting to see that the heartwood measure is half the hoppus measure, which I guess gives a better idea of the ‘value’ in a log? The upper log was milled slightly differently to the earlier sketch. I was looking for roughly 10 x 2 planks which will be trimmed to different widths after drying to exclude sap, etc. Just aiming to have some stock of oak, not for anything specific at the moment. There was a shake I’d forgotten about, we found a patch of rot from a broken branch and other issues, so we adjusted the cut pattern as we progressed to keep faults on the sides of planks rather than in their centre. Got 18 square edged planks with six quarter sawn / ray flecked planks, three either side of the heart, plus flat and rift sawn planks. All the planks from both logs now moved from the sawmill and about half stacked and sticked with 20 x 12mm sticks at 400mm centres. Waiting for storm Amy to pass in the meantime and after finishing the stacking, will cut and split all the offcuts for our stove. Nothing wasted! Overall, milling these two logs has yielded some good timber for my ‘a hobby woodworkers’ future use. And lots of fun! Andrew

Unfortunately not. I will be with my 11 year old daughter and her friend. A bottle of Shiraz and a few tins of Belgium’s finest will see me through.

Could be a place to visit one day.

I get the use of the 760 regularly and have had the use of at least three other models over the last 5 years. Zero issues so far. I love them.

sorry Stubby, you were closer before.

NBC in 2011, Trump said: "In my opinion I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the President would be blamed. If there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one who has to get people together."

wow - it's your lucky day - some guys have written a whole 50 page booklet 'weed control in Christmas tree plantations'. Merry Christmas https://cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/2022/04/fcfb015.pdf

I'm using a Sequoia harness with 2 bridges and I want to fit a connection ring on each one. The bridge that came on the harness is a size 'M' (45cm), about 10 or 11mm thick so I just added another one the same to match it as it seemed fine when I climbed on it. Petzl connection rings come in size S (28mm internal diameter) or L (46mm internal diameter), but I can't find it stated anywhere which size ring would be best to use on those bridges. By my reckoning the small ring ought to be big enough to accomodate the thickness of the bridge itself plus the thickness of a karabiner with a few mm to spare, so is that the one to go for? Or am I missing other potential uses for which I'd need the extra internal diameter of the bigger ring(s)?

Ring got forced back into the groove about 1/2 mm, I was surprised there was enough depth in the groove for that to happen.

Did you rate it as a grinder though Josh? Pretty sure that’s the one Ross White had, and thought it was mentally good, possibly too good for the size/weight. Like an animal 8” chipper that weighed 400kg.