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Thought I'd share this link from hort week - its a few snaps from this years Saltex.

IOG SALTEX 2009 | Photos | Horticulture Week

Thanks Mik. I'll make sure I get those. My plan of action is this:

Buy stove (taking into account dimensions)

Sort fireplace - Get a piece of milled timber if better lintel is needed and sort out a hearth according to fire dimensions

Get HETAS installer to drop the liner, fit a chimney pot and hook it all up

Burn

Is that a good order to do things? I'm not really clued up with DIY

Thanks Mik. I'll make sure I get those. My plan of action is this:

Buy stove (taking into account dimensions)

Sort fireplace - Get a piece of milled timber if better lintel is needed and sort out a hearth according to fire dimensions

Get HETAS installer to drop the liner, fit a chimney pot and hook it all up

Burn

Is that a good order to do things? I'm not really clued up with DIY

Dunsley Highlander 5 £605 inc vat and delivery. Not bad at all.

Seems a strong backing for Morso, which I've found at £665 inc vat and delivery.

Both prices from Stoves are us - is this a good company to deal with?

I'm going to be getting a flue liner installed also. Will I need any other parts except for the stove and the liner?

Nice one. I've been told about machine mart ones once before and the regal seems to have slipped up in price to £344.

I'm in the market for a multifuel stove that is suitable for a smokeless zone/control zone. I just want it for secondary heating so 5kw should be ok but ideally I'd like it to be still burning in the morning. My terraced house is quite open plan so could I perhaps up the kw's or would it still need venting?

I've heard morso are good but a bit on the pricey side, even for the squirrel.

Any tips?

That's kind of you to offer Penfold but in I've since decided against trains as my brother has just got delayed an hour or so on his daily commute.

Is there any bus's from leeds city to the park? I hate driving in leeds so might get the train

Gannoderma australe?

Maybe a shout though I've just seen the scottish get-together/tour thread and realized this is around the same time.

Come to one of the north west get togethers. We've had a couple at Dean's wood in Brighouse and one in Hurst Green, near Clitheroe.

What do you lads say to an autumn get-together then? I could see about that camping barn again - good pubs and grub nearby, wood burner and basic camping kitchen.

I would have thought only a little and the second you put your weight back on it would grip like hell. Fair comment though, perhaps it comes down to the shape and diameter of the stem.

That looks like a good idea Tim. Would you use it on a stem of say half the size again though? I'd of thought there would be a fair bit of friction on larger stuff. I like it though and I'll try it out.

You need not untie the running bowline. Leave a longer than normal tail from the bowline and the knot will break from lower down the tree. You can use it to descend to the next cut but it can be a bit fiddly if there are some stubs or twigs.

I've not practiced this too much yet but I read about it in a Paolo article somewhere and it makes sense.

Interesting.How does the groundie do it.?

Rescuing climber gets to the casualty, unlocks the figure 8 and instructs the groundy to take the life line. Once the climber has released the strop the groundy can lower the casualty through the figure 8. So it takes a team of 3 for this type of rescue.

I see. Though the advantage of a figure of 8 is that you could descend on it nice and smooth if you had to get to the ground at a moments notice (e.g. to rescue another climber) and as I said before the groundie could lower you. You just have to make sure that the figure 8 is locked off when working and a rescuer would have to be able to unlock it to get you down.

Why a prussic? Do you not find it difficult to descend on that as there is more weight on the prussic due to the lack of friction that you would have on a double rope setup?

Just wondering how many people tie off their life line with a running bowline and use a figure 8 instead of the rope loose around the tree with the normal hitch setup? The obvious advantage of the former is that it could make rescue easier, as a groundie could in theory, control the descent of the injured climber once a rescuer had attended to the person.

I've been one for a while but have done very little if nothing so far! It depends how good a tree warden coordinator you have. There are three main areas that a tree warden gets involved in;

Liaison between the community and the local authority

Keeping an eye on the local tree stock and reporting observations

Piloting community engagement activities (e.g. get kids out planting trees with their family)

In theory its a really good thing as it can get you some good experience if you want to be a woodland officer and it does your community some good. But like I said it depends how good your coordinator is at communication (often tree officers are coordinators). There's also the potential for training courses if the LA has a decent budget set aside for the scheme.

I'm under the impression that you can buy the stein helmet with either peltor or sordin ear muffs and you can upgrade to better rated ones. So is it a simple case of buying the spec you want? Are the sordin muffs better than peltor?

I'd recommend the samsung. I'm using it now and its very reliable and ultra transportable. It can handle quite a bit for such a small processor and memory and the bluetooth is really handy for getting pics from your mobile. A couple more people on here have the nc10. How much are they now?

Anybody got these files to share yet? I'd like a copy

Cheers for the replies. I don't have any more pics but the tree is a large beech in a woodland setting approx 30m from the path from what I can remember. This is a well used path and the woodland is private land but the landowner has an agreement with county council on rights of way. I thought I took more photo's than this but there are a lot of these brackets in one place in the tree. At the time I didn't inspect the tree for other visual symptoms. There are a number of other large beech trees nearby and these might be in a position to prevent the tree from reaching the path, however dog walkers always stray from the path! I was on the Ancient Tree Hunt at the time and I went there to verify data on a tree recorded by a volunteer when I stumbled upon this. The tree I was verifying had a large bow break out in the past too.

Sounds like a good position. Hope you find someone with the right qualifications and experience

Ganoderma australe? - on a mature beech, standing and the brackets were near the base. Guru's, if this is correct and it causes white rot and eventual failure, should I inform the landowner?