carlos

9 hours ago, AHPP said:

If you want to encourage nature, scatter fridges etc about the place. That's durable housing.

hard to install in trees though! 

could,nt you cut 1m above the hollow??

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Depends, builders have materials, wages on a job that might take weeks/months to complete.

 

By and large we just have to make sure the chippers/trucks and combi cans are full

ye i meant more odd job trades people , just doing a day or a few days work similar to domestic tree jobs.

is money upfront the norm for trades people?

how does everyone listen to their music???

computer ,spotify, cd ,vinyl, shellac, cassette.

i am a cd man mainly, bit on the net with mixcloud, some vinyl but a bit of  faf to put on.

anyone here like wordle?!!

there is a board game thats exactly the same ( yes its a bit analog) 

it seems pretty good called "wordlet"

i wonder if the op mentioned the required part payment at the time of quoting??

if not then no wonder the client is getting pissed.

2 hours ago, MattyF said:

Marlinspike 

sheet bend 

Bowline 

half hitch

timber hitch 

Truckers hitch 

VT 

fisherman’s 

alpine butterfly 

I don’t use anything else really although at some point I’d like to learn a reliable ways to tie alternative to a timber hitch in rigging for the block installation but if it ain’t broke it’s hard to motivate to try! Any recommendations? 

you could try the cow hitch

5 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

In a way, that illustrates my point.

The cow hitch is a defective cousin of the clove hitch, there isn’t any advantage to it over a clove hitch. No1 being that it undoes under pressure.

its good for tying on blocks and capstans, with a couple of half hitches for back up, much easier and quicker than a timber hitch, 

i find a clove hitch on rigged timber hard to undo.

cow hitch.

ye tricky alright, although as a non national living in ireland iam not about to get my pitch fork out.

i think a lot of the more extreme stuff is being promoted by the same people who started the anti lockdown stuff, which i find the switch scary.

that said another news article said there were 75 social houses for rent in cork and in 2 months they had 15k applicants!!

https://news.sky.com/story/how-international-social-media-users-are-stoking-irelands-migration-debate-13127034

thought this was interesting.

3 minutes ago, peds said:

We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one I'm afraid. Personally, I find a square of plain lawn visually unappealing and detrimental to the overall aesthetic of a garden, and I don't understand the obsession with maintaining it, no matter how small and no matter how extensive your other meadow may be.

But that's okay, you can't see eye to eye with everyone all the time, and at least noone got their feelings hurt.

not really the ethos of the thread......but a welcome change

in reference to the highlighted sentence of your post i quoted.

4 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Lots of people voted for them did they 🤔? You might want to have a think about that, or care to quote the percentage ( 1.29% ring a bell)  . His views on the cass report and puberty blockers are utterly disgusting. The Greens have brought absolutely zero to the Scottish people other than waste hundreds of millions of taxpayers money primarily by being utterly incompetent. You are right in one respect, the SNP bought a majority by giving them made up pointless positions in government on cracking salary’s. Your bloody right ive made my mind up about him as have most of the decent people I know up here, him and the twisted tiny minority LGTBQIA  ideology he promotes. A sick  twisted individual by any stretch of the imagination. The crap they  pushed whilst in government is easy to see when your kids are fetching this rubbish back from school 15 year old  old girl by the way. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/patrick-harvie-not-fit-government-32637027.amp

how do you feel about  the lesbians and gays then?

On 19/04/2024 at 12:04, peds said:

Leave it where it is for this season, you'd stress it out a bit too much if you tried to move it at this late stage. It'd be easily enough done if you took a decent sized bit of ground with it, but you would set it back a bit. It doesn't look like it's in the way there too much.

 

Build a little barrier around it to protect it from unintended traffic (stones, sticks, etc.), feed it little and often (compost tea once a week or fortnight, or occasional top dressing with chicken manure and seaweed pellets), and make sure it doesn't dry out. Wait until the next dormant season, December to March, and dig it up then, either into a pot or it's intended location. 

 

Where would you like it to live eventually? Depending on the ground you want to put it in, there's nothing stopping you from preparing the soil now. You'd not need to do much if it's moving into an already healthy garden,  but you could think about planting a deep-rooting green manure in the area to add organic material and to mine nutrients from further down in the soil, or you could mulch the area with well-aged and rotted woodchip to encourage fungal networks to develop. New ground or poor soil (former building sites, new estates, reclaimed ground, etc.) would greatly benefit from being inoculated with soil biota from a healthy woodland ecosystem: just steal a shovelful of soil from a decent forest (probably technically illegal, so be a little furtive about it...), mix it about in a few shovels of peat-free compost or aged manure and woodchip, and dig it gently into the top few inches of the intended spot for the rowan.

Seems like a lot of effort to go to now, but it will lay the groundwork for a prime planting location next dormant season. 

seems to like growing in gravel too!!

not sure euc would be on my list, one question to ask is do they want it looking like a hedge or all natural and undulating etc, no point planting nice looking trees to try a make a hedge and no point try to get hedging to look natural if you get my point.

5m height is a fair bit from  maintenance point of view.

make sure there is machinery access if your planting big!!

10 hours ago, topchippyles said:

What a pile of crap you need to get out more son 😁Proper music attached old chap 

 

 

not quiet sure whether your takin the piss or did you actually think it was crap??!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHb6rNsm-AA

lovin this.

2 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

Having regularly used sign tree work sign language it's fairly easy to communicate without radios when you work with the same guys for a while.

Things like beer. Cigarettes , fuel and food are simple hand gestures..

ever tried comms??! 

the difference is night and day,  think old skool nokia phone texting compared to face to face talking.

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Back in 2020, when my nephew was out here working, he bought and fitted some cheap coms units, worked very well, then they died, and he left.

So it was back to hand signals and shouting.

My newest hired man (18years old) is very into the gear side of things so we’ve got this coming tomorrow.

Seems to get good reviews on Amazon. 
I’ll let you know how they work out.

 

we had somthing pretty similar, worked well, somtimes problems in the wet and trying to connect more than 3 people was a bit hit and miss, but over all ok.

i used this set up with my knee asscender, it worked well.

On 12/03/2024 at 23:13, carlos said:

well i bought it today, it does feel cheap, but i guess at 130 euro!!! thats fair enough.

i wont use it much, i just wanted to stop using my metabo sds too much in hammer mode.

thanks for replies, il let you know what i think once i use it.

well i did the job i wanted, happy enough with it, my sds wouldnt of touched it, a good bit more bang out if it in hammer mode, thanks again for the replies.

carl

my kids love it, basically hangman  

well i bought it today, it does feel cheap, but i guess at 130 euro!!! thats fair enough.

i wont use it much, i just wanted to stop using my metabo sds too much in hammer mode.

thanks for replies, il let you know what i think once i use it.