Graham
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Was at a factory site the other day. The walls were adorned with warnings and instructions. Even one telling you to use the handrails on the steps. The people there walked around like zombies turning at rightangles to cross roads on their marked walkways. The world is mad!
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I'd say Anthracnose as well.
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That's a Whitehouse axe I've not seen before. Got a few myself and picked up three Gilpin axes last week. Get it in the electrolytic bucket to clean it up.
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Very nice find. As it's Cannock I'm presuming it's Whitehouse or maybe Gilpin?
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Nice. Like that. Everyone's lawn should look like that:thumbup1:
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Can't see them as it wants you to sign in.
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There are plenty of hobby pole lathers in the country but I bet not many doing it as a craft to make a living at. Just as rake, besom, clog makers et al have virtually gone apart from hobbyists.
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Prune cherries in full leaf. Reduces chance of silverleaf.
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Honey fungus. Have a look under that lifted bark at the base.
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Austrian scythe is a beautiful tool to use. I've always used an English and took one to a scything festival with the intention of competing with it last month. I was using it in the practice meadow but had a go with an Austrian with a 90cm blade. What a revalation! I reckon I was twice as quick with it as my English and less effort too. I bought one.
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I used to love shooting them in Sept when they're collecting acorns and nuts Used an FAC air rifle. Not an efficient use of time but very gratifying and they fed the ferrets.
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I have an Austrian and an English. With them I'm controlable, they cut, stop on demand, forward and reverse, side to side, use no fossil fuel, cut anything but they do make you sweat like a murderer on death row:001_smile:
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Used to do a lot of whole tree pleaching for an LA. If there's plenty of crown you should be ok. The way to get 90% of them down is start your pleach with a boring cut and complete it leaving a couple of inches at the top of the pleach uncut. That way you can get your cut just right without the tree starting to move. When it's ready just sever the piece left holding it. Do the same on big thorn when need to.
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Works on PC.
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As said previously many trees are. Populus x candicans aurora and some other hybrids are particularly prone. Malus spp. Fraxinus under stress.
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Blue Atlas...C. atlantica glauca. May be dry. Worth mulching around the base. Could also be phytophora. Is there any weeping from the trunk?
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In their natural habitat Ginkgos favour wetter sites and can grow to large trees. I think there are some named varieties that don't grow as big but I have no idea if yours is one. As for the soil situation you need to know if the clay is a shrinkable one.
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Think mine must be a problem at this end.
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Same with me IE9
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Pollarding's ok as an ongoing pruning regime.
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Where does that time go to? 1987 seems like five minutes ago. The first year of self-employment for me and was earning 2k a week when we went down south!
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Did a job on friday for an elderly lady who was originally from the area of two great edge tool makers. I was asking her where the forges originally stood and it turned out that she had worked for one of them...Gilpin's. When she finished work her boss presented her with a set of garden tools they'd made to suit her size (7 stones). Beautiful things they are too. She also had three axes. A fantastic little 1.5 lb hatchet; a 1.75 lb hatchet and a Kent pattern topping axe dated 1916. I am now the proud owner of them and have spent this morning filing and sharpening. Each one has taken a razor sharp edge and will be put to good use.
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They are alder leaf beetle larvae.
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Or it could be B. pendula. Or even something else
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Betula pubescens.
