the 'todays job' thread

[peds]

Took a few low limbs and broken branches from a beautiful big macrocarpa, and a load of deadwood from a corsican pine, overhanging someone's lane; then spent about 7 minutes rounding off a tiny little birch in the middle of town; the we had an hour or so to kill before the rain started, so we blocked up a trailerful of an Eowyn sycamore (stem off to the left there)... glad it wasn't my saw that found and powered through this buried nail, from a piece a good 15 feet up in the tree!

 

 

 

 

The homeowner later confirmed that there was indeed a treehouse up there in the past, a few decades ago...

 

[maybelateron]

The most bizarre thing I had to do some years ago was use a 9 inch angle grinder up in a large beech tree to remove the over engineered tree house - heavy gauge 2 inch angle iron that the main substems had grown round. Then cable tied red fabric to all the protruding metal stubs before a chainsaw went up the tree.

[Mark Bolam]

Blackthorn clearance from last week.

Ripeur 2 gloves essential.

[peds]

13 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Ripeur 2 gloves essential.

Djaknow how when you get a thorn in the knuckle you basically turn into a cloven-hooved beast of the field?

 

I was chatting to a homeowner on teabreak just a couple of weeks ago (two day leylandii hedge removal pictured below, 36m³ chip; we were given tea, scones, fruit cake, apple pie with cream... bloody lovely customers), who shoots a bit of venison. Now, he was told, by some fella at some point in history, that if you take a beef roasting joint and stud it with blackthorns, in the same way that you'd stud a Christmas ham with cloves, then it pretty much turns it into venison. Ultra-traditional recipe, apparently. 

It's an intriguing idea which, let's be honest, sounds like total bollocks. But I wonder if whatever substance that causes the reaction to a blackthorn prick might tenderise your meat in some way...

 

We don't eat much beef, but I'm tempted to give it a go at some point. 

 

[Mark Bolam]

But wouldn’t it be a bit prickly to swallow?

[peds]

It'd be like a dog eating a bee...

 

[sime42]

4 hours ago, peds said:

Djaknow how when you get a thorn in the knuckle you basically turn into a cloven-hooved beast of the field?

 

I was chatting to a homeowner on teabreak just a couple of weeks ago (two day leylandii hedge removal pictured below, 36m³ chip; we were given tea, scones, fruit cake, apple pie with cream... bloody lovely customers), who shoots a bit of venison. Now, he was told, by some fella at some point in history, that if you take a beef roasting joint and stud it with blackthorns, in the same way that you'd stud a Christmas ham with cloves, then it pretty much turns it into venison. Ultra-traditional recipe, apparently. 

It's an intriguing idea which, let's be honest, sounds like total bollocks. But I wonder if whatever substance that causes the reaction to a blackthorn prick might tenderise your meat in some way...

 

We don't eat much beef, but I'm tempted to give it a go at some point. 

 

 

Interesting idea, but does sound like bollocks. We look forward to hearing the outcome when you try it.

 

I think it's bacteria on the thorns that cause most of the problems. Maybe that would perform the alchemy of turning beef into venison.

 

That shadow under the skin there is I'm pretty sure a blackthorn that I never managed to dig out at the time. I'm surprised to see it still there, not checked it in years. I thought that it had somehow been subsumed by the flesh. Unusually for these, it wasn't particularly painful, probably because it was nowhere near a joint.

 

[peds]

I bet you'd be gamey and delicious.

[kram]

I was cleaning a bar the other day, had a burr so filed that off. The burr caught and went through my nail, a little irritating but not painfull, which is odd!

 

[Rich Rule]

Horse Chestnut Re Reduction.

 

Back to previous points.  We didn’t reduce it previously.

 

also raised the canopy and cut back over roof and lights on the RHS.

 

Basically to stop smack heads from using the play area as a shooting gallery by making it more visible to the residents.