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Canal Navvy

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  1. You could try a liner:001_smile: have a look here http://.moplant.co.uk
  2. Is this a cause for concern?, it is not too far away from a rather special area of woodland.
  3. Thanks for posting:001_smile: Yet another great link from Mr Sorensen:thumbup:
  4. A Great Bustard You can't give reference books away without a better reason than "i've read it":001_smile:
  5. No, it's missing a HUGE tractor towing a silage trailer being driven by a bored youth busy organising his social life on the mobile
  6. I would advise caution. The wall looks to be part of an old building, old bricks laid with lime mortar. The remaining part looks to be very sound for its age. Check that it isn't listed/consevation area, it could cost £500 just in roll up and tea breaks. It may be best to leave it to your insurer to fight. Best of luck
  7. Sounds all good. I'll volunteer to be the difficult customer for your soft launch day
  8. On the bonus side there is a choice of real ale at the bar
  9. For the first time in 20 odd years I shall be talking to insurers other than the N.F.U. for our cover. The price rise i can understand but the savage reduction in cover is hard to take. The suggestion that my lack of claims record could result in one big claim i find offensive. They where a really could bunch when they were locally run I.M.H.O. If you have not done so then READ YOUR POLICY
  10. Paid £16.00 recently. My local dealer,who had run out of 2t, offered Aspen 4 with a free Stihl 1 shot for the same price as 2t. Dealers find the cost of buying the minimum order a disincentive.A buying co-op for us Aspen users could be attractive:001_smile: (i do know it has been suggested here )
  11. A tad scary, can't see a hinge,was that the problem or is there something else we can't see:confused1:
  12. Well I am lost too. C.S.31 out of date for our insurers (as a volunteer). Would have done C.S.32 as an update but medium/large trees seems to be in confusion. Without better information I shall spend my work training budget elsewhere.
  13. On 10 stud super singles, so a lot bigger than it looks. 5 tonnes sounds a good guesstimate
  14. A flat pack narrow boat in the 'to do' pile. Not too much pressure as we have a lot to do to re-open the canals.
  15. Not a blow out, but sounds just like a slow puncture.
  16. A stihl chain in 3/8 is sharpened with a 13/64 file. The Oregan equivalent is sharpened with a 7/32 file i believe. I was treated as an odd ball locally when I asked for the 'correct' file, went over the border to Cirencester to get a box of the right ones.
  17. I've tried with a digger mounted breaker, never again. Wood absorbs the impact too well. Would a fire be an option?
  18. That is a lovely series of photographs, well done Tone I have seen bats in a dead ash of about 24" D.B.H. with deep spiral cracks. First spotted deep in a crack at head height, later much higher up. No idea on the species (don't know enough about bats yet)
  19. I think that the guy expects that equipment is maintained in the condition that it was supplied in, to be C.E. compliant it must not cause electrical interferance.
  20. When i'm on clay I carry a road plate that fits into the ditching bucket end on. I use it against the dozerblade or the corner of a track to gouge the bucket clean. It's also really handy for de-bogging.
  21. We should be nice to each other, i'm sure that all of us have learnt lots from here. I would be devastated to try to log on to arbtalk and find it gone due to members lack of appreciation of what Steve has done at his own risk. I think that as well as being nice to each other we ought to show more respect for the effort put into the running of Arb Talk Perhaps we should nominate Mr. Bullman for inclusion in the new years honours list for services to the understanding of trees.
  22. A dozer driver mate had one, he rated it very highly but found that when his D9 was sent to a new construction site it was a real struggle to find a caravan site that would allow a Roma van on.
  23. I have some 19mm double esterlon to splice and want some more robust whipping twine. Yale recomends Size B whipping Twine but I cant find any info on what size B is. Can anybody reccomend a suitible twine and suplier for this. I would like it to be braided twine like on the split tales yale make up themselves. I used zing it throwline to whip mine,seems to work well and the yellow looks good on the blue.
  24. Might those trees have started out as a pleached hedge do think?
  25. Having your own saw is a good plan as on CS31 you can be sure that it will cut straight.

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