Graham
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Sterilized milk in tea:thumbdown: Do they still sell that? Carnation milk:thumbdown: An old tenant farmer where we took an ash down in his yard. Plenty of tea until my mate went into the kitchen to collect and came out saying there were rat prints and poo in the grease on the kitchen table. My mates' dad who was a plumber being given the milk from the cat's saucer in his tea:001_smile: The lady who served us breakfast, a cooked lunch in the kitchen and afternoon tea:thumbup1:
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Spot on:thumbup1:
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A thoroughly bloody good bloke. If I'd have been him I'd have probably pulled me for a check too. He's the second of Staffs police that has been decent to me. I was doing 100mph on my bike down ,a quiet, M6 when a patrol car just appeared in my mirror. He came past and lit up a sign in his back window warning me the limit was 70:001_smile:
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It's always appreciated. Just laid 300m of big old hedge opposite a row of houses and only one oldish guy supplied us with drinks. I remember once we pollarded some big old willows for a client. Everything had to be thrown over a wall, dragged through the garden via a small gate to the front. After three days we eventually asked for a cup of tea to be told by the 'lady' she was too busy. She sat in front of the TV every day in her dressing gown watching the shopping channel.
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It could only happen on a Friday. Up at 4am to be on the road at 5 and on the job at 6. No lunch etc and all the tools loaded back on at 2pm for a nice early finish. On the way back I was intercepted by a patrol car with lights on the back saying 'follow me'. Well I was never going to outrun him in a Transit loaded with roots and a digger on the plant trailer. Ended up at a VOSA station for a thorough inspection and weighing. Cutting a story short I was 250kg over on the back axle and 300kg over on train weight. No tacho, which I didn't even think applied, no rear no. plate and no plate on the trailer showing carrying capacity. I hold my hands up. The cop could see we were decent blokes...I think and said he wasn't going to pass us over to VOSA as they would pull us off the road and do us for all five offences. I walked away with a strong lecture, £30 fine and told to get the digger off as soon as possible. Fair play to him as he said we probably wanted to get back for a pint:thumbup:
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Been twice for non payment and both times they paid up. Was also taken to CC by a smart ass solicitor I worked for. Did some emergency work on a tree for him. Made the tree safe and left arisings stacked telling him that I would return as soon as I could but told him I was busy and he was ok with it. Ended up in court with him saying that he had to get someone else to finish the job and I should pay the difference. He sat there with a smarmy smile on his face until the judge took my side and he had to pay my expenses:001_smile:
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Public speaking- time to get help!
Graham replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
It matters not whether you are more knowledgable or not. You're not there to lecture but to pass on enthusiasm and encourage thinking. I think the best way to overcome nerves is to get your audience involved by them asking questions. It then becomes more of a conversation than an address. Oh... and make sure you're pockets are empty. -
Once took out a 400mm high pressure main with a Becker. Sounded like Niagara Falls and left Bridgnorth without gas:001_smile:
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Take all the top for firewood and leave the stem to rot away naturally.
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I shoot and fish but I would never dream of shooting rooks whilst they're breeding. Some may have just started sitting now. Traditionally it's the middle of May when the 'branchers' are shot for a bit of rook pie. Unlike crows rooks are not great pests eating mostly worms, leatherjackets etc. One of the great sounds of early spring is the activity in a rookery.
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Poplar. Poss TT32 hybrid.
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Looks good. How do you get the bark to stay on?
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On the subject matter. The bleeding possibly does reduce the uptake of fungal spores but there are probably many thousands that are sucked in as soon as sapwood is cut. The final cut is the one that allows spores to enter the system. Whatever happened to the experimentation of mixing a fungicide into the chain oil?
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Did a job long time ago for a homebrewer. We sank a bottle of his birch wine with breakfast taking down his Lombardy. Amazing what confidence it gives topping and lowering out big sections
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By the time you've set a mewp up you'll be anchored in and done half of it. I reckon £200 about right.
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That is definitely bilberry.
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For hedgelaying you can't beat the Stihl axes. They take a razor edge and hold on to it. I have two...pretty sure they're Swedish made. Most hedgelayers I know use one.
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Never had experience of an anchor breaking due to the cold but it must effect a branchs' strength. When hedgelaying the temp certainly effects the pliability of a stem when it's laid becoming more brittle as the temp drops below freezing.
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Just seen this thread and as I sit here there's a constant buzzing in my ears:confused1:
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Have you been out with a girl that has a bush like Terry Waites allotment:001_smile:
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I guess you'd have to fit a removable register plate. Would only have to be something simple out of ally or similar.
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Short story of a guy i worked with many years ago. He was clearing a woodland where a new road was being built. I can't remember the voltage involved but in the vicinity were pylons and cables coming straight out of a power station. He was well clear of the lines when he felled a tree that fell on to a barbed wire fence nailed to another tree. As he worked his way up snedding the last thing he remembered was a huge blow to his body. He suffered massive damage to his internal organs and external damage to his chest when the 076 was blown into him. This line had been checked by the National Grid prior to felling and he'd had the all clear to work. Damp days, tracking and earthing through the barbed wire. Don't go near those lines!
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LA and in a town park. Only targets are ducks so not too many safety issues:001_smile:
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Prunus may be 'subhirtella' which would be flowering now and that daff looks a bit drawn. Have they had a cloche or similar on it I wonder:confused1:
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Now how many of you could lay peacefully and contentedly in that bunkhouse with a howling gale outside?
