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For anyone who keeps tipping their hiab trailer over when unloading to the side, the Mog mower jacks that I intended to use as stabilisers for my hiab trailer are now on ebay. They weigh 27kg each and are rated at 1.2 tonne each.

I had a similar trailer. It was very heavy on the nose but very useful nonetheless. The biggest drawback wasn't the weight though... it was prone to tipping over sideways when dropping off builders bags. Unless you were very careful in the sequence of unloading and where the last bag was placed the whole lot would be up in the air. I had a set of Mog mower jacks lined up to make stabilisers but never got around to it as the temporary fix of a sawn off railway sleeper jammed under the unloading side of the bed worked so well. Trailer has gone now but the 4 unused Mulag 4769 jacks (each rated at 2 tonne I think) are still available!

A couple of manufacturers are listed here: Making charcoal - how to make charcoal and where to buy charcoal kilns

Agreed. We will look back and read these threads in five years or so and wonder why it was all so difficult. Some see the challenge ahead and tackle it head on, others will be dragged there kicking and screaming and others will fall by the wayside.

King Canute (actually King Cnut) "commanded that his chair should be set on the shore, when the tide began to rise. And then he spoke to the rising sea saying “You are part of my dominion, and the ground that I am seated upon is mine, nor has anyone disobeyed my orders with impunity. Therefore, I order you not to rise onto my land, nor to wet the clothes or body of your Lord" But the sea carried on rising as usual without any reverence for his person, and soaked his feet and legs. Then he moving away said: “All the inhabitants of the world should know that the power of kings is vain and trivial..." The tide will continue to rise and at the moment Stihl are getting their feet wet. Just like any other business faced with the changes and challenges the internet has delivered, they can sit there and drown or move back and adjust their business model to provide the price, convenience AND service expected (if not demanded) by their customers.

We had all but two tractors in the same place so here they are:

I have just put the other two safes up on ebay - one is a massive 6ft perfect for chainsaws etc and the other is a more manageable 3'6" but still good for securing high value tools. The fork lift is still in for repairs but I hope to get it back in the next week or so after which loading will be an awful lot easier!

It was used to "adjust" the gap between them so both doors would open. Need to move it though!

A really hard day extracting three safes from offices, loading them, unloading them and then getting the one that I actually wanted in place. It was a match for one we already had to male up a pair. One now has new bars chains, chisels, axes etc in drawers and the other will have the saws just hung inside.

All news to me. Just a thought... if physical damage occurs then how does an engine recover?

Looking forward to reading about your experiences.

The owner of a five acre block that he had planted up over the last 20 odd years was recently contacted directly by OS themselves to ask for the name they would like to be apportioned to the new woodland.

Thought the same when I first saw the 'x-ray' but the report is dated Monday 31st March and Assoc Press is fairly well respected source. It looks like the Daily Mail has dug a bit deeper into the story: Tree trimmer survives having CHAIN SAW lodged in his neck | Mail Online

Chainsaw accident X-Ray of chain embedded in the neck APTOPIX Chain Saw In Neck

Marrakesh - just inside the old city walls surrounding the Medina

Depends what you mean by benefit. It will drain your existing nitrogen levels in order to decompose but will improve a poor be a good soil structure if worked in.

I didn't know there was a choice. I think the news yesterday just about sums up what the average punter thinks about the present state of politics. Long live the Bus Pass Elvis Party! BBC News - Bus Pass Elvis Party beats Lib Dems in election

Just had a look and just these two biomass boilers will use 1m tonnes of wood per annum. Yes 1 million tonnes. It will be difficult enough fighting over the scraps these guys miss but it might be even harder to find someone to transport it.

Having been at the Iggesund plant at Workington this week I believe Keilder is doing very well out of Biomass. Between this boiler and the EON Lockerbie boiler Kelder seems to be doing very well. I am sure if we have any of the transporters on they will confirm. As an aside it took 8 minutes to turn around a full load of 4 bays of 3m cord - gatehouse to gatehouse. Impressive operation and very nice people.

Yes you can but around us there are two sorts, one in a blue drum and one in a clear drum. The clear drum is really good stuff, ideal for chicken sheds and the like as it leaves hardly any residue. The blue barrelled stuff leaves a sticky 'engine oil' residue which is not good if it comes into contact with anything but does give good colouring. The really bad thing is that (in the last two drums I had) is that it is 25% - 33% water, which of course you only find out when you have used the rest of it. Naughty.

Sorry nothing so scientific - no plan just seat of the pants getting in as many plants as I can each year. It used to be easier when I grew ash from seed as they were pots so much more flexible on timing. Once ash was a no-go I have had to buy in bare rooted plants in order to maintain a decent yearly planting (last year and this year). Hope to be back using my own grown trees next year.

I hope to have them all in by Saturday. I bit off a little bit more than I could chew this year. We have trialled quite a few species on this black moss ground and alder is out performing SRC willow and hybrid poplar (which was not what I had expected). Sycamore and oak are also doing well so I will replace any fails with a mix. We did set off with ash in the mix but....

Great link - thanks

Having just come in from planting Alder (for the record and as a farmer... on my own land and without any grant) this thread pops up. Arisings will always occur but I noted them getting more and more scarce to come to the 'open market'. They are grabbed very quickly at the source so I decided we needed to have our own fuel source. I got sick of waiting to find any existing local woodland to come to market and so bought arable land with a view to slowly planting it up. I just wish I had done it sooner. It is hard work planting every year but it was rewarding to have our first meaningful 'harvest' this winter (mainly a tidying up of 8 yr old silver birch and hazel). Only another 300 plants to (quickly!) get in this year!

I just googled "entitled to an opinion". The title on the third result made me laugh and wonder whether forums had been the main driver to elevate it to number 3 of 183 million?