Mr. Bish

I have started making my chains for all saws from 201 to 660 so I have a little understanding but am struggling to find a reliable spec for the MS150T Can anyone confirm that I should get a reel of .043 1/4 chain or will I get away with .043 3/8 Struggling to find oregon reel .043 1/4 #confused

Thanks both. I can now answer and start remedial work much better informed XX And yes, when I did it they used to keep bees...

I'm guessing it should be assumed that I did cut all the fruit bearing branches off. I was pretty brutal. Do you think the fruit will return? If thats the case then perhaps a 2 in 5 new growth reduction would make sense?

Barrow loads I know becaise I had to cart them off. Tree was done in October 2010

I sort of need to give an educated answer and come up with a treatment of sorts as there are two fine mature cedars just over the road from this one that died.

I'm looking at a semi mature cedar that to mee has no good reason for dieing but is practically gone. Has anyone ever come across sudden oak death effecting Cedars? (Yes there is a Rhodi bush underneath) Thanks, Chris

I cut back some apples for a client pretty hard four years ago. It grew back well as I had expected. Went back to her garden for more work and was asked a question I couldnt answer... "My apple trees have had no fruit now for three years, this year there are about three apples between the four trees.... why?" All I could do is mumble a bit about single sex trees... then apoligise and said I'd get back to her. Anyone have any idea as to why? also any cutting based treatment as they are now massive and bushy again. Thanks.

"Softwood roadside" Erm... what does that mean? Unseasoned softwood lengths? Thanks for advise. so should I just shift entire pile at £3 a ton and try chipping less in future, is that the consensus of opinion?

I agree with that principal but I have no crane on my lorry so if it doesn't fit in chipper it goes to logs

£7 per

My last load taken by Stobbard Biomass was contaminated. Every other load they have taken in the last four years has been good but unfortunately the loader got a bit carried away in the last load. They have now dropped ALL future loads down to £3 per ton which makes it not cost effective for me to dispose of chip through them. Anyone know any other biomass buyers? I produce around 250 Ton a year so enough but not a massive amount.

My opinion... because you asked. Sycamore reduction is a horrible thing to do. It would need doing every few years after. Removal and replanting is better or even big crown raise :-) Why buy a house underneath massive TPO trees? They have been there longer than the house is my guess.

I have so got to try that :-)

I saw you guys hurling axes at the woodland. Looked like fun :-)

I had an old yew to deal with once in almost the same condition. Cleared all the (railway sleepers in that instance) and builders sand put in 10 years previously. Overdosed the soil with fish blood and bone Then left a hose pipe on it foe an unreasonable amount of time. That was four years ago. The tree started showing marked improvement after about 2.5 years. As everyone has said The tree should survive but you will have to be very patient and it may not look better straight away. Then in abouut 4 or five years come back and pay one of us to go through and clear out the deadwood and you should once again have an absolute beauty of a tree there :-) Nice to see someone who is actually trying to help the tree for a change :-) *thumbs up* The usual customer we would speak to about that tree would be something more like "I love trees but I just cant handle the needles, nothing will grow underneath and we get no light in our kitchen. It's got to go."