the 'todays job' thread

[Stere]

Sounds like a  biodynamic idea no cow horns ?

 

Cow Horn Manure Preparation 500: How To Prepare? - Biodynamic Trainee

BIODYNAMICTRAINEE.COM

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Filling cow horns will fresh cow manure is one of the preparations in biodynamic agriculture as indicated by Rudolf...

 

[peds]

See, if you ignore whatever biodynamics says about the phases of the moon or only stirring your preparations clockwise (counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere,  obviously) or a few other choice bits of comedy, there are some decent ideas in there. 

The cow horn thing is a great way of transferring any number of beneficial organisms from one soil biota to another, if you bury the horns in the right place (a healthy forest or an established organic growing space, that sort of thing), and then you sprinkle the resulting preparation around wherever it needs it... a newly-created growspace with imported soil, anywhere with shagged-out soil, somewhere recovering from chemical pollution etc.

 

But yeah, you really have to cherry pick the worthwhile bits of the biodynamic thing. 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Biggish oak removal. 
Not normally worried about taking old veterans out, but this one made me a bit sad.

Rotten at the bottom though so no regrets.

Yesterday brushing it out, today was the wood.

Really loving my 572, poky enough for the big stuff, light enough for aerial cutting.

[Mark Bolam]

Last 2 days on these leggy ash with dieback over a fragile old barn.

 

Plenty of timber to go round (there’s half as much again out front), but the customer kept it all, the bastard!

 

 

[Mesterh]

So you didnt do it for the wood? You fool!!

 

[Mark Bolam]

🤦‍♂️

[sime42]

58 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Last 2 days on these leggy ash with dieback over a fragile old barn.

 

Plenty of timber to go round (there’s half as much again out front), but the customer kept it all, the bastard!

 

 

 

He might as well have given you the logs and burnt the barn in his wood burner instead.

 

 

[rapalaman]

Just climbed out of some snotty, slippery conifers being retopped - Raining cats and dogs and I’d forgotten how much I hate working in the rain! Luckily I did them last time so decent foot and hand holds left but I’m soaked to the skin, exhausted,  pi…ed off and want to finish and go home to get dry ☹️

[Doug Tait]

42 minutes ago, rapalaman said:

Just climbed out of some snotty, slippery conifers being retopped - Raining cats and dogs and I’d forgotten how much I hate working in the rain! Luckily I did them last time so decent foot and hand holds left but I’m soaked to the skin, exhausted,  pi…ed off and want to finish and go home to get dry ☹️

 

You have my utmost sympathy!

[roboted]

1 hour ago, rapalaman said:

Just climbed out of some snotty, slippery conifers being retopped - Raining cats and dogs and I’d forgotten how much I hate working in the rain! Luckily I did them last time so decent foot and hand holds left but I’m soaked to the skin, exhausted,  pi…ed off and want to finish and go home to get dry ☹️

There's a nautical adage for that, known as the Three "F's".

Fcked up, Fcked off and Far away from home