Graham

I'm going. Long trip of 160 miles but should be a good day. Come on sign up:thumbup:

I see a hedge regularly which the owner has painted after losing it to aphids.

Cotoneaster I reckon. Don't malus fruits have individual stalks.

Use it for what it's intended for...cutting wood. Just give it a rest now and again. In the dirt bike world the saying is 'ride it like you stole it'. Fannying about will result in glazed bores and lower compression.

That's true. I bought rump from our local butcher on Sat. From that was a huge steak sandwich for me, Thai curry for two and a Chinese for two. Cost...£6.00. Try buying at that price from a supermarket. Oh and a few raggy bits for the dog.

Birch.

North Indian Garlic and Chilli lamb.

I've used an English scythe for a similar length of time. I took it along to the Wimpole Scythe festival this year with the intention of having a go. To cut a story short I 'borrowed' an Austrian scythe with a 90cm blade and the difference between the two is like night and day. Didn't compete on the day due to sciatic nerve problems. Came home with a new scythe in the truck too:001_smile:

It's called a nail. Moves the grass to the swath. Just use a decent piece of wire.

I would have thought £600 was a decent price for a good job. Is that with them doing all the prep work?

Pretty sure the pump is mechanical. Try putting a rubber bulb primer in the fuel line to get fuel to the pump before you try and start it. We have the same problem with ours if it's been standing a while.

The old treatment was Cheshunt compound. You can't buy it now but there's plenty sitting on old shed shelves if you can find it.

As a matter of interest how big is the hedge? Prefer to do it without noisy old saws:001_smile: Better still ban them for comps!

Hopefully I'll be there. Haven't sent off entry form yet.

I'd always thought that tulip timber was used for carcassing in utility furniture. Just shows that a craftsman can utilise it to turn it into something exceptional.

Wasn't assuming that they are a fix-all but to demonstrate that the fact that obstructions aren't all bad. There still persists the notion that watercourses should be clear or else all our property is going to be inundated.

Trees in rivers are seen as an important asset for biodiversity and flood reduction. Many are now left in as large woody debris (LWD). LWD creates shelter for fish, invertabrates and creates areas of differing depth due to scouring of the river bed. The increased flow around them also cleans gravels providing spawning sites for fish and suitable areas for certain nymphs to live. They reduce flooding by reducing the effects of canalisation and dredging. Dredging gives only a short term effect against flooding as all that water rushing down has to back up somewhere and drop its load of suspended silt from washed off farmland so dredging becomes a vicious circle. LWD stabilises the flow, creates pockets where silt can settle naturally and reduces the wash off from farmland. Hopefully gone are the days, which hark back to the 60s, of creating sterile and prone to flooding waterways. Those land drainage engineers have a lot to answer for! The Wild Trout Trust produced a video showing the effects of the above which demonstrates beautifully the disastrous effects of dredging. I shall try and find a link to it.

Well a friend of mine cooked one. Years ago he and a few of his mates went on a fishing trip....500 yards away from home on the local river. His job was to supply the food for the party so he took along an air rifle with the intention of cooking a rabbit stew. Unfortunately his intended quarry was pretty scarce but what did appear was a local moggy. To save face as a hunter the moggy ended up being the main ingredient of the stew. It was skinned and in the pot and his mates never found out about it. My friend found it tasty and a sort of cross between chicken and rabbit. So a hint of gameiness about it.

I pollarded my Bramley three years ago I think. It wasn't on a dwarfing rootstock and made a lot of regrowth but no fruit. I posted on Arbtalk about it and took the advice of putting multiple cuts into the underside of some branches and tying them down into a horizontal position. The cuts callused and the branches bore blossom followed by fruit this year. Vertical branches I left didn't blossom. This winter I plan to bring more branches down and prune out some of the regrowth.

Think I would have them down as death caps. Was once violently ill from eating unidentified fungi I collected with some field mushrooms. Took me a long time to ever face eating fungi again.

Must be a low charge in the battery. Have you tried jump starting it or using a known good battery?

Bit mental that is:thumbup:

No time for cats. When I was about 13 I remember our cat bringing a kingfisher. Caught it in the stream in the garden. Luckily it was still alive and hopefully survived.

When I used to shoot I loved getting down to the river meadows and marsh after work hoping for a wild duck. Only ever used to get one or two as I never fed. Just relied on the adjoining stubble.