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  1. monkeybusiness
    I spent my formative years covered from head to toe in cow shit and it never made me (or anyone else I know) ill in any way tbh.
  2. monkeybusiness
    Yeah, I need to give it a quick once over really, just CBA!!!
  3. monkeybusiness
    I’ve got an old Husqvarna lawn tractor with a very good 21hp Kawasaki engine - I’m trying to work out if the engines have any value as it’s just sitting in the way and needs moving on. It has a decent deck (removed but complete) but no grass box. The transmission is a bit weak imo, it works and doesn’t make any horrible noises but doesn’t seem to have as much ‘go’ in it as I’d expect.
  4. monkeybusiness
    Rubber tracks only stretch when the internal steel cords are broken (and the tracks are subsequently goosed). Tracks coming off regularly are either too loose or idler bearings have failed.
  5. monkeybusiness
    @doobin
  6. monkeybusiness
    What work are you doing to get £2500ish per day every day for a 2 man team out of interest?
  7. monkeybusiness
    Your saw will be fine - if you are worried just chuck a tank of fuel through it chopping up some other timber afterwards.
  8. monkeybusiness
    He must have copied me then - we originally did it about 18 years ago!
  9. monkeybusiness
    I’ve used these in the past to zip line big rings down - drill two holes on opposite sides of the stem and wind these in to clip krabs into.
  10. monkeybusiness
    🤣🤣🤣🤣 - this post needs moving to the Jokes thread…
  11. monkeybusiness
    I worked for Honda in a previous life when the S2000 was launched and did a few events at Millbrook - it’s an amazing place to thrash around!
  12. monkeybusiness
    In my opinion at 4m away you will be fine to just dig a trench. Willows are incredibly resilient, and you are far enough away that you are highly unlikely to destabilise the tree. From the pics it looks like at that distance you are digging in the roadway anyway, so you aren’t going to be disturbing anything important root-wise. Biggest issue will be making sure the pipes are laid correctly as any weeping joints etc will be a magnet for roots in the future…
  13. monkeybusiness
    Farkinell - has it stretched your arms longer too?! Beast of a bike!
  14. monkeybusiness
    You don’t want any of those heading off downhill!!!
  15. monkeybusiness
    Big tree that! Any pics?
  16. monkeybusiness
    A couple of weeks from Approved Hydraulics - they must have improved significantly! Anything I’ve had from them has taken months!
  17. monkeybusiness
    I’m not sure about the confusion and hostility over this request - the op has stated it was a FC stipulated clearfell (I suspect Phytopthera due to the presence of Larch - oak is also a host species). Lapsed pollard stumps with the harvestable timber removed could easily still be 6ft plus tall, particularly when growing on a slope. These stumps would still potentially be hosting phytopthera and it makes sense for the FC to insist on their removal and destruction to cleanse the site for replanting (even though the whole enterprise is a case of closing the door after the horse has bolted, but that’s not the op’s fault)…
  18. monkeybusiness
    From the description the finished height combined with the width is the killer - I can see how time would get eaten up fannying around trying to not get stabbed on a job like that. However, 3 days has to be taking the piss. Definitely a flail job, if there is access then blokes shouldn’t be cutting that crap (you’d end up with a better hedge if flailed by someone half-decent too).
  19. monkeybusiness
    I’m tempted to backtrack away from lime - the inside looks more Norway Maple. The union just visible to the right of the second pic looks more lime-esque though. OP - lick it all over and report back with flavour notes please…
  20. monkeybusiness
    Lime
  21. monkeybusiness
    That’s a beauty!
  22. monkeybusiness
    Yeah, he’s full of shit. He had a ‘right-on’ moan about Qatar but was happy to take the dosh and go over there to commentate. He’ll take money from anyone (the guy promotes junk food ffs). Bellend IMO.
  23. monkeybusiness
    Just seen the pics - if the birch was also pruned by the same tree surgeon they know what they are doing, they’ve done a decent job there. Your euc definitely didn’t die because of pruning, and it was 100% the wrong place to plant that tree so the outcome was probably for the best anyway. My money is still on frost, but that could also have been killed by a disgruntled neighbour (though eucalyptus can be quite hard to kill off with glyphosate, so I’m leaning towards frost).
  24. monkeybusiness
    No, you aren’t. Gunnii can be susceptible to frost damage in my experience - I’ve seen mature specimens die after particularly cold spells.
  25. monkeybusiness
    Read my last sentence, I might be a long way off asking price but reckon I’m a lot closer to actual value!

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