Graham
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No housemartins around here yet. Numbers have dropped dramatically. https://www.facebook.com/CABS2011?fref=ts
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Stunning pics there. Looks like you caught a bit of projectile pooing from an osprey in the second shot.
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They make a lovely cheese in the Cantal:001_smile:
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Been here nearly two weeks. Just in time for the meadow pipit nests. As a kid a cuckoo's egg took pride of place in my egg collection found in a dunnocks nest....not that I'm proud of it now but learnt a lot about birds looking for eggs.
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I know two people that have had them. Both had injector problems and cost a fortune to fix.
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Anyone use a cylinder mower for domestic grass cutting jobs?
Graham replied to Big T's topic in Landscaping
My first ever job was grass cutting from March to Sept every year. We used nothing but cylinder machines on numerous sites. Lloyds, Dennis and Ransomes. The Lloyds were a wheeled machine with a rear roller and coped well with long grass with bents only becoming evident late in the season if the weather was dry. They were also extremely fast. I reckon a modern rotary would be better as good cylinder machines will be expensive. -
Solid nose will drag a fair bit of horsepower out of a saw esp if you're milling.
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If you don't dye you'll end up doing some twice and missing others. I just put some food colouring in the mix.
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Moray's a good un. Also to Rob McBride too and all others involved.
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Cutting a nice whippy piece of hazel when Tettenhall Dick pears were ready. Skewer one on the end and flick them upto 100 yards
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We had fights with air rifles. Used wheat as ammo. Kept the grains in our mouths so they swelled up a bit and didn't fall out of the barrel:001_smile:
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One which still makes me shiver when I think about it. The village room needed the grass cutting around it and as there were only about five lads in the village we were volunteered. There weren't enough grass hooks to go round so I ended up squabbling for one with another lad. Trouble was I held the handle and he grabbed the blade. Anyway I pulled, he held on and then he had four fingers hanging by threads.
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As soon as bangers were on sale it was time to make cannons. A metal tube about an inch diameter was flattened at the end just leaving enough room to insert a banger fuse. Fix it to a block of wood with big staples and charge it with the contents of a few penny bangers. The usual load was a nut and bolt with some packing around it to get a good seal. That was enough to go through a few shed walls. The biggest ever load was a cold chisel. That went through a cricket pavilion and 100 yards down the field.
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Raw chicken wings and a few biscuits. Loves 'em.
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Thoughts to the individual and families / friends concerned and in the hope he makes a full, and speedy, recovery. Here, here.
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Are you sure it's not a sphaeroblast?
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It wasn't getting at you. Just the fact about their ads:thumbup1:
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Catalpa bignonioides. You can make the leaves even bigger. Prune it so it only develops a few leaves, or even just one! They become massive.
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Which one?
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Catalpa, Paulownia....could do with closer shot:001_smile:
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Swallows and martins here and even one very early swift. A pair of ospreys flew over yesterday heading north....Scotland no doubt.
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Nothing less. Just that you hear so many bad reports of Chinese cast iron and I find it annoying that some British 'manufacturers' forget to tell people in their adverts that 'their' foundry is in China and bullshit with statements like: 'cast from iron ore is superior to recycled from scrap'. Try telling Jotul that.
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Don't they all come out of the same Chinese foundry?
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Does the chain pull round smoothly by hand? Maybe whoever made the chain up spun the rivets up too tight on the tie strap.
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Like him:thumbup1:
