Lancstree

Saw them on my recent trip to Madeira. I'll post some pics when I get the chance. Saw lots of ancient laurels and heath trees too. Even dandelion trees!

Its a secure place. A friend of my Dads. I've already seen a local thug on streetview!

Looking at street view on google and following the suggested route you can turn right from the A34 onto Gately road

Thanks for the tips so far

Yes tommer. And my car will be safe as it will be in a cage!

I'm heading off the Wythemshawe in the morning to drop my car off and get a lift to the airport. I'm just wondering if anyone could suggest the best route? Then place is located on Brown Lane just off Styal Road. My Dad has told me his route which involves going down the M60, joining the M56, coming off at junction 4 and heading along Simonsway. Looking at google maps I've seen; come off M60 at junction 3, head down kingsway, alrincham road, styal road. I'm coming from accrington and need to be there before 8am. Any suggestions?

nice one. Just been given a load of small cut up bits.

I've heard it can give off toxic fumes. Is it safe to use in a multifuel stove if seasoned?

That sounds like a suitable method for the slow cooker skyhuck. I will give it a try today. I like the sound of the other ideas too especially the addition of tabasco.

Tinned stuff mate. Want to make a lot for a few easy meals.

has anyone got a good recipe which is simple and easy. Is it something I can make in the slow cooker?

Maybe the tree couldn't be felled. Hard to tell from the vid, but those stubs didn't help when dropping limbs. Fair play for climbing it though

They don't wear em in the states so much

That was a dangerous tree but why do you have to hold onto it with one hand while cutting with the other?

One from recently

I'm in local authority. The job is part of a revamp on the playground but the work goes down the river some way and there are some really big limbs to get back 'ashore'.

Just started this job today and its a right knacker cracker. The willows over the bowling green hut is being reduced (drastically) i.e. all but taken out but leaving it standing to sprout. The trees are multi-stemmed and massive at the base but we won't need to cut it all the way down. The targets are a privet hedge with a fence and the buildings below but the problem is getting all the stuff back into the playground area. Some of the limbs go way out over the river and suitable points for lowering from are few. Zip line setup would come in handy but we don't have the gear for that and I've only done it once which was way back with more primitive gear. Besides the two willows there are pops and more willows all the way down the river banking for about 500m that need removing, raising, reducing etc. Gonna be here a while and will post more pics.

Its not a waffle, it all makes sense. I respect that you are offering your experience and its helpful. When my anger kicks in I lose all sense of fear and become like a coiled spring but when the people that know me see this change they are horrified and that is what makes me see sense again. Two things have helped me with driving; getting a very small car so I'm out of the race and never using my horn in anger.

Start the day with a bowl of porridge, banana and a touch of jam, followed by a red bush tea. Then I'm hungry again about 10 am so have a chocolate bar or rye bread with cheese or salami. Couple of nice ham butties with salad and jalapeno peppers for a kick at lunch, accompanied by a packet of walkers baked crisps, activia yoghurt and another chocolate bar. Finish with some fruit or raw carrot and celery. The real eating starts when I get home!

Looks like the wolf was owning the bird one a couple of occasions

Very true taupo. I'm a very placid and friendly person thought I can snap when I let enough things get to me. Did you get cognitive therapy by any chance? I've got a good control over my anger because I've never harmed anyone but some times I feel on the verge of it. Particularly with my next door neighbor. All it ever amounts to is me speaking my mind. I will keep it that way

Has anyone seen the film falling down with Michael Douglas going into MacDonalds with a machine gun? Well I felt like him a bit today. Started off getting annoyed with idiot drivers then later I was reading in a newspaper about gangs of lads going round in BMWs trying to groom young girls into prostitution in the North West and Midlands. This made my blood boil. Then on the way back from picking my girlfriend up I got stuck behind an extremely bad driver (post man) who nearly ran into the side of me when I overtook because he was busy reading envelopes. Later I was in town and saw what I suspected to be the initial stages of grooming as there was some big lads in a very big BMW, blocking the road while chatting to two young tarted up girls at the side of the road. A short while later I was walking down the street when one of two teen lads threw a screwed up piece of litter over his shoulder without any concern. I approached them and gave them a piece of my mind even though I knew it was futile. Rant over!

I used to cut and hold now I prefer not to. When I started working for local authority I was still in the habit of cutting and holding but I was told not to. At first this annoyed me but over time I learned that I could do the job quite well without it. That's enough reason for me and besides my wrists are buggered enough! I also used to rarely use my side strop but that was drilled into me and now I use it on most chainsaw cuts.

Right. I saw one in tesco which had a copper base but that was £35 so I thought I'd best leave it on the shelf