Dean Lofthouse
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Cheers Tony, got quite a list now They like a nice neat site, I think monolithes might be pushing it I take it I plant all these in spring late winter ? All the strip has been dug over and I'm going to leave it for a month then glyphos whatever sprouts to kill off any weeds that were prevelant in there then grass a week after that
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Not cheap is it at nearly £6 per metre
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Found this site for wild or woodland flowers About Horwich Pennine Wildflowers | flowers
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Cheers Bart, some good ones there
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Husky........I'm 46 and type on my key board with two fingers, I've just about sussed out smart phones and can hold my own with most of todays technology, I do feel sometimes that technology may just one day leap forward faster than I can learn it and leave me behind, rather like it did with my gran who used to pick up the tv remote and put it to her ear when the phone rang or my mother inlaw failing to understand her DVD player. I do however know how to rotate pictures before I post them
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This is a first for deano...........an interest in flowers As you know I do grass cutting and hedge trimming for a major brewery. Recently I took down a row of knackered cherrys and ripped out a load of manky spikey shrubs on the brewery frontage that were in a bed that is about 80m by 1m wide. My intention was to grass the full length of the bed and plant 5 heavy standard trees equally spaced. After this thread, I asked them if they will be interested in me leaving say a 10m section somewhere in the middle as a flower bed and have it as a dedicated wild flower bed. I really like the Aquilegia (columbine) that giles named for me and was thinking along the lines of similar flowers that will, between them, give a nice bee freindly display spring sumer and autumn. I could do with some sugestions if you could chaps with pictures if possible I should say the ground is quite dry and slightly clay and I like this yellow one as well if we knew what it was
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No Idea mate, cant think of any reason
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It was us northerners that started Getogethers, it was a northern idea
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Three and a half hours !! Where were armed response ? Probably hiding somewhere waiting for authorisation ( speculation ) I've turned the new off and going to wait 24 hours till all the facts come out
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I woudnt say over complicate Mark, you just develop techniques that work to make your job more predictable and easier, otherwise we'd still be felling with an hand axe................. you aren't are you
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On brittle woods Rich I sometimes put in two back cuts, one level and one slightly above, after I have taken the weight of the backlean on the winch. I reckon it give more flexibility in the hinge making it last a bit longer before it breaks
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Yes, I clip my lanyard on to the ring on my bridge round the tree and back to the same ring, bit awkward sometimes if you need to get in close but it keeps you out of the loop. All it will do is wreck your lanyard.
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Wow Giles, thanks for that It almost makes me want to learn flowers.... but it's interesting to know what is in my wood, before Davids thread I hardly took any notice
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I think this thread should never have been posted if the other person was a member, your actions are no better than Little trees supposed wrong doing. Are you a gardener ?? If yes and littletree knew your were then yes its naughty, but she didnt steal tree work from you. I work for other tree surgeons locally and they work for me, if neighbours ask us to quote, whoevers job it is we are on get the jobs, thats how it works But if someone asked me to do gardening or fencing on one of my jobs and I didn't do it whats the harm I think you are well out of order putting the thread up, sort it out in private
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She wont be right happy having to wear that whilst shopping at sainsburys
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I didn't want to be the first, but now you mention it
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The saw exhaust set fire to the bag, the bag set fire to your trousers and you ran about like a girl trying to get them off with your arms and legs flaling like a windmill Am I close
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One thing I never do if I suspct a possible barber chair is strop in on my side d's that way if the stem does expand, I'm not squashed the tree expands within my climbing loop without me in the equation, I may take a fall though
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Tom, where've you gone mate, you've disappeared !!!
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On heavy leaners
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Waayyyy to go big boy, yeeeehhhaaaaaa, whoop whopp whoop
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This is the splice I did about a month ago. I have purposely not whipped it and have used it as a light lowering rope. The reason is to instill confidence in my own splices to demonstrate to myself how strong they are. I have progessively increased the load and today proper abused it, knocked out heavy load after heavy load and now I am totally satisfied that with whipping they will not move at all under normal climbing conditions The eye has elongated ever so slightly but the crossover hasn't moved, it's still smooth all the way across the x-over, so I am satisfied the eye has just settled in rather than pulled out a little I'm on with making a double dog lead out of Samson Ice now
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It amazing how quick the flies get to work Giles, the turd wasn't from my dogs either, just a present someone left for me. I'd rather they left them like that than in a plastic bag though I was rather hoping someone could name the plants for me, I haven't got the foggiest except for the rhodies, dandilions and thistle Oh...and the Bluebells
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The only thing I can see as a reason for going below is to ensure the saw isn't yanked away in the cut
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I dont understand people putting pressure on an upright tree anyway. I sometimes put pressure on a Sycamore slight backleaners using one of those stretchy kinetic tow straps just to keep the pull going and keep the momentum going because of their brittle nature. You can guage how much pressure is on with the elastic line better and you dont put on a dangerous amnount. I've seen far too many felling vids putting on the pressure, with a vehicle, before the hinge has been formed properly
