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They do require a lot of maintenance.. Well ours do..

Kwickchip/tunnison/ts.. Was my first chipper. Comparable to a tw 190 nowhere near 10 inch.. Ours was hse compliant and that was 14 years ago.. Looks to be of a similar era to my machine so nearly 20 years old..

By providing a reference for the source.. Hodson and Busseri (2012)

Hmmm.. Pretty sure that is not true..a fact in science is an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true.” Truth in science, however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow. Assuming this "research" uses convicted criminals to assess the tendency to criminal behaviour it is more likely just to show that criminals who get caught have low IQ's.. Which would make sense. There are a lot of cultural differences that mean the IQ tests given need to change from one group to another if these differences are liable to skew the test results. However, when the tests given are modified to account for cultural differences we all lie somewhere on a standard bell curve (normal distribution). Lower cognitive abilities can be used to predict greater prejudice through right-wing ideology. ... Hodson and Busseri (2012) found in a correlational study that lower intelligence in childhood is predictive of greater racism in adulthood.

There is always an exception.. However as I understand it is not going to happen with pipes under pressure such as mains water. Root ingress may happen but again unlikely in pressurised pipes. It is not a suitable environment for root growth in most cases..

It is unlikely to be the tree IMO. Roots do not squash pipes.. It is also unlikely the roots are in the mains water as that is under pressure. Roots get into waste pipes that are leaking.

Captive bred hawks are worth £250 each...Happy to wait a couple of months for these guys to fledge, hopefully in the future they will help keep the pigeon population down...

These little guys are in a tree we want to retrench... Makes a difference from pigeons..

Well you should... It's part of the job..

It is a beast of a chipper.. Turntable knackered... Engine 92hp Kubota turbo diesel Tank capacity 50 litres Weight 2180kg Length Towing 3700mm / Working 4250mm Width 2070mm Height 2524mm Throughput Up to 12 tonnes per hour Max dia. infeed 254mm (10in) Feed method Twin hydraulic feed rollers c/w No Stress Blades 4 x 6in double sided fully hardened

We have a dead TW250DH turbo. The engine is good 1200 odd hours I believe.. chassis has some cracks, one of the hydraulic motors is broken and we have nicked the spout, for our greenmech... We are currently keeping it for spares as we have another, so we won't be giving it away.... But feel free to make an offer..

This sounds reasonable, Mr Sparky is probably on Sparktalk, complaining about a cheeky arborist trying to rip him off. The first £100 of any job is to cover the quoting, getting to site setting up.. so in my mind the first tree was only £40's worth of work, therefore £60 sounds OK..

I have been looking, and had not seen it locally.... I was starting to think some folk were exaggerating the presence and any ash with die back was being blamed on Chalara.. After seeing every other sapling in South Wales infected I can see why people are panicking.. It will be carnage here if it does as predicted..

After saying I have not seen Chalara locally, saw a young tree with classic symptoms in Nottingham today..

I have recently returned from a cycling trip to South Wales (where I rode 2 abreast and held up numerous car drivers) and was shocked by the state of the the trees, thousands of dead larch, whole blocks knackered and ash dieback evident on many young ash . I have obviously read about it but not seen it on such a scale.. I have not encountered anything like it in the east midlands... Pretty scary..

My experience is you would be better with rigid a sit on top unless you really need an inflatable.. I have 3 and they are, much better to paddle, maintenance free, close to indestructible, fun in all sorts of water, including small surf. My tarpon 13 is 8 years old always lived outside and never needed to do anything with it. I think the record was 12 scouts on it..

It might feel like 15 mins but you would have to be stuck behind them for about 6.3 miles for that to happen.. Cycling has huge benefits to health and wellbeing, and I am sure saves far more man hours then it costs. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/10097449/Cycling-halves-the-number-of-sick-days-taken-by-staff.html

Meer speculation, but could this have been an incident that would have been avoided if railtrack had been a more helpful neighbour..? I have know knowledge of the case..

Isn't the whole point the scythe wins..?

I bet you would find a very different result if you asked the facebook members.. I expect the ages would be younger over there too.

The wood has to be a certain size for the beetles, IIRC the beetles enter or are attracted to wounds.. I have pruned (against my advice) two healthy mature elms with no signs of DED and been called back a few years later to fell as they were dead. https://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/RIN252.pdf/$FILE/RIN252.pdf

Yes, but it is carried/spread by beetles..

The sale of the business at the end of the day is the holy grail.. I am not sure it happens often. The other possibility if you go big is to be able to take a step away from the actual day to day running of the business and have managers take over. This appeals to me, as potentially I would basically be able to keep working at whatever level I want. I am not there yet, and unfortunately to get to that level is involving years of working with not enough hours in the day.....

Sometimes I think the owner operator model is the best way to stay. Nice kit looked after, choose your jobs. Sure you have to stay on the tools.. But there is a lot less agro. The alternative (which I have followed) involves getting multiple teams who never look after the kit the way you do, staff nightmares and your life spent on the phone and at a desk... I do have a good bunch of guys, but I think I could have been financially better off if I had stayed small, it deffo would be less stressful and I wouldn't have had to spend so much time out of work exercising to stop getting fat.. So I would invest in bigger better kit to make your life easier.

Getting it mowed twice a year is enough of a mission.. There are a small group of volunteers (mostly me) who manage it, and I don't have time or the machinery.. We planted it in half a meadow but don't manage the other half which is cut once a year for hay. With hindsight we should have put the wild flowers in that side as the grass is not nearly as vigorous as in our orchard.. https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=sutton bonington community orchard