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Got around to take a few more snaps..
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Is it just me...but dont they look a bit like E.T.? Great shot, never seen them on the floor like that before
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Cheers! You learn something new every day.... Bracken isnt an issue here at all!
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By all means... do! Will have another read too, just a bit heavy at the moment. Nerd? You?!? Its absolutely normal you know...nothing to be ashamed of... -
Jesus Hama, youre going hardcore....even reading the original paper in Swedish did my head in...
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Happy Birthday!
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Did u need BBC to tell you that?
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Cheers Monkey-D! Mnaged to get some more pics of that fungi wiill upload pics but forgot camera at work... Foray-Horayy!
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Seriously....something like that would be nice to attend aswell, anything similar coming up? I cant make it next week as I have a big job coming up, starting monday. 34 poplars coming down, big forestchipper, road closure, lorrys and a frontloader lined up and me doing the felling and running the job...but after that im reasonable free and up for it.
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Hm... free wine on thursday...
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Thanks! Now that is very tempting.... Monkey-D offered some insight in his daily practises.... I think I have to get the bosses permission to go...or at least have a few days off... agh so many things I want to do and so little time...
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>Im stuck with work over here... othervise i would come over for cider and a foray!!!! Eventhough im more of an ale man miself... Done a few monoliths and retrenchments of trees with Climacodon septentrionalis and other issues... When will the last foray weekend be?
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Why do you roll bracken:confused1: I havent come across this practise, please enlighten me!
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Welcome! More girls!!!! Ive always been a firm beliver in mixed worksites....To many hens makes an awful lot of noice and too many coocks.... Couple of years ago when I was in Stockholm I saw two females tackeling a big tree and the comment that was made by two builders that passed has stuch with me "Thats a job for slender girls, big sturdy boys would never be able to do that, they'd just be to heavy!":biggrin: A bit sexist in a way (but a good way) Welcome to the forum.
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So does it work with Iphone?
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No probs! I´ll just ask my Dad to pick you up on his way back from the oilfields... The forests around here isnt the best, but depending on season there will be a few about; Climacodon septentrionalis, Sarcosoma globosum, Schizophyllum commune, Spongipellis spumea which are very rare around here... If its tempting... They are all found on street- or parktrees
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Too dry? What were they expecting? Green non seasoned at a really low price and you delivered topgrade...?
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Very nice indeed! Wouldnt mind something similar...
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To add evenmore to the confusion....! I just got off the phone from talking to customers relations at the headoffice in Sweden. First she asked me to get in contact with the retailers, whom I already had spoken to three different ones, after telling her that and asking her when, how and if the saw (T540 XP) is beeing relesed in Sweden or UK soon.... She denied that such a saw was in line of production!?!? I told her a saw had been on display in the UK during the weekend, to this information she replyed "As far as Im aware there is no such saw and I cant give you any kind of information", My reply "So its a secret?" "If thats what you want to call it...." What? This is really intricate...
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As with all high quality products you really should produce a certificate showing the customer your soils humus content micro- and macro nutrient content, pH and so on... so you would need your soil to be regularily tested. We prodce and sell 1000ends of tonnes a year of topsoil and compost to landscapers, constructionsites and so on every year.
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Oops to slow... Hama beat me to it... I was just trying to simplify things as compost and soil is often mixed up... Dean, that mixture youre thinking of would work as its a recipe for "homemade soil" you would need a mineral soil underneath that mixture if you intend to use it for growing, that stuff would be "topsoil" with high levels of humusmaterial. The slurry would then be used as "manure" in the mixture.
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That looks like a good size and set up. Valuable and nessesary point is the turning, keeps temperature right and aeration. Another way would be to insert porous pipes (drainage-pipes) as youre layering your mixture of greenwaste and manure/woodchip for aeration and moisture controle. As Albedo pointed out- this would create a compost or a soil enhancer. In order to call it soil you would need to add sand and/or clay to the product before selling it. Worms will turn your woodchip into "soil" but its quicker if you can get the temperatures up initially and use bacteria (aerobic ones) to break it down and then let the worms have a go at it, when its halfcomposted... I know experiments has been carried out using fungus to turn heaps into soil. Maybe thats a market for you Producing and selling shrooms?
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The mixture will heat-up and you will need to keep an eye on dryness and temperature, maybe hose the heap down to prevent it from self igniting...
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It takes time and energy to break down woodchip... You can speed things up by adding high level of nitrogen material, which is high in "energy" one problem then is to keep pH levels up.... Best is to mix 50/50 with poultrymanure, thus keeping pH-levels up and enough nitrogen to break down the woodchip which is high in carbon.
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AHA! Huskvarna has finally found out why Stihl is a better saw... I do hope the new saw has a se through fueltank too... Looking forward to that as Im not too impressed with the new MS200. My old MS020T needs replacing, wonder if I can get hold on a 540t xp from my Huskyrep for evaluation...
