Will Hinchliffe
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This will probably work differently with different shape D rings. It works really well on my Tree austria. You pull a bight through the D and clip a caribiner through it. It makes a stitch plate type friction controller. You can then just hold the hitch fully open and control your speed with the tale of the rope. It works well for me but just go steady when you try it first.
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Yea I think so. Ill pay more attention next time I pass it. Sounds like a nice job.
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Yep the shapes fantastic, very well ballenced.
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Looks great. Where abouts in Bradford is the development? we work that way every now and again.
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Aphid damage on 1km Conifer hedge, how to spray?
Will Hinchliffe replied to Simonsnr's topic in Tree health care
I have never done this but when I was speaking to someone from Bartlets at the AA trade show they said they used baby baby oil in a 10% mixture with water. Apparently it suffocates them. You have to do it wearing only leather pants though. -
Matt is modelling Husquavarna trousers. They are so bright when they are new. Mine are in tatters after a year, and the crotch keeps on splitting. I wouldn't recommend them. Thanks for the kind words.
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Thanks
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And here are some Polyporus on the left hand tree and poor calusing over a lightning strike ( I think but would love to know if this is incorrect) on today's tree.
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We had the power lines dropped for today's beech reduction. Today's tree is on the on the right in the photo. The tree on the left was done (by us) about a month ago. Photos of the trees in leaf are from last month after we reduced it. It had been reduced once already and had died back. Photo one is before, 2 and 3 after. I am pretty pleased with the shape.
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That used to be one of my favourite choices on the pub jukebox. Cheers. Great song to put on:001_cool:
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I put gogolbordello in the work van 6 months ago. There one of my favorite bands. On my first day with downlands they had a ZAPPA tape in the van. I knew id got in with a good bunch.
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Visualise it going where you want it to go. Its a zen thing, sort of ?
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And their sewing machines are fantastic.
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Get some Slica graphte powder. Its for lubricating locks and is great for re lubricating your krabs. It sorts out sticky twist locks a treat.
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I love carboots and Sunday lunch. I havent been to a carboot in ages picked up some nice bargains today at the Standerwick one. 1916 Brades axe £7 5 pairs of nitrile gloves £4 Bag of russets £1.60 Pickling onions 60p Two New OS maps £6 and a pack of cat cards for my cat mad girlfriend £1.50 Very pleased with myself.
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I've just about exhausted all the reading material I have on root physiology. Very little is written in botanical textbooks about secondary growth of roots. I never really picked up on the concept of roots living for relatively short periods of time before. Their seems to be a real gap in the literature when it comes to the responses of the root system to fungal decay. From the last of Matteheks diagrams in the above post it seems like he is saying that decay on the underside of the buttresses would not greatly influence the likelihood of the buttress failing as the majority of the loading is on the outside.
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Do active roots contain a proportion of dysfunctional wood ?
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The Longleat estate (who own the tree) still have there own forestry department and seem to be able to turn out some nice timber. Last year we had a blitz on their roadside trees and a lot of oaks came down. A lot of the timber went to the big gas pipe line that they ran through Wales. I think in certain places they were laying the pipe on huge oak bearers. If it comes down I am sure it will get used.
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Cheers Bundle2 I think you are right it would be a great one to do with an air spade and I think you could make a really informed decision after investigating it in this way. Unfortunately the tree belongs to a 9000 ha estate and I think they would rather pay to have it down rather than incur the cost of repeated investigations and eventually having to fell it any way. I am not in a position to convince them either way. If anyone wanted to do an air spade investigation on it for research purposes I could probably ask my boss to convince the estate to give permission. I would love this to happen.
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We don't back up our kongs but only use them on appropriate ascents. When I first started using them I would fore them through frith and ascend right up to the anchor point then branch roll on to it even on branches with v. large diameters. I now know that this is a really bad way to use them. I welcome the addition of the plate on top but I feel that kong have a duty to either accept old models in part exchange or offer a retro fit kit for them.
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If your going to bust out the SLR buy some slide film. The quality is fantastic and you can just scan them straight onto your computer. I think it works with most scanners.
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It is at worst a racist or word for Roma people.
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Cant see many people parting that much for the kongs. Its to much seeing as the original ones are about 80 quid. Dont incourage them find a differtent dual acender to stock.
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I learnt a lot with a little dig. Photo one the buttresses. Photo two Colybia fusipes. Photo three The excavation - everything below the soil line in this photo is very soft. ( This buttress is one of the main tension roots) Photo four nature of the decay . Photo five decayed sap wood and mycelium. The rot is present on all the buttress roots and does not seem to be targeting already dead roots. It seems to rot from the outside in. and doesn't extend above the soil line. As the tree is weighted across the road and the worst of the rot is on the field side I would have thought this tree presents a hazard to the road users. Although if it fell its quite likely that it would bridge the road landing on the opposite bank.
