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Worrying of the dressing aside there's no reason that dressing shouldn't work. A few years back I opened up my forearm with a hedgetrimmer. Went to see the wife who happened to be on duty running her Health Centre at a large private school half a mile away: 'that needs stitches'. 'NO IT DOESN'T; STERISTRIP IT PLEASE'! Two other nurses looked at it; 'that needs stitches'. 'Nope; please just strip and bandage it'. 11 steristrips and a bandage later and the result is a pathetic little scar that I show people and tell them the wound was soooo much bigger Pooch should be fine I'd say. Good work

The pink sheet/towel sets it off very nicely Mick! Beautiful flowers as always. No criticism but I feel that the colour of the stone isn't the best as a backdrop to that flower colour; do you have space to plant a strong blue Wisteria? That would be stunning against the pale stone Jon

A small number of our Wood Anemones are pink. No white bluebells though

I agree. I also think the tree has been planted a little deeper than it was in its pot; at least the mulch has been piled up a bit. Remove the mulch from the stem of the tree. If I'm right the deep planting will encourage the graft union to send up rootstock shoots. Cut or pull them off as close to the graft as you can; I'm told that pulling them off when they're small actually reduces the chance of their re-growing. Whatever you don't want them; they're much more vigorous than the tree's growth and, if left, would eventually take the whole thing over

@Conor Wright What are the trees in pic 5? Eucalypt? Stewartia?

I don't think you would have known much about it if a torpedo had set your whole cargo off!

Amen to all that. I have both X27 (and X17 for smaller stuff) and Oxdale splitter though not tractor mounted. Both (all three) are excellent

Not like you to say it straight Steve when crippling sarcasm will do 🤣

Some drainage issues there. Any ditches nearby that are supposed to take the water away or is the problem more localised, e.g. compaction? Perhaps a tractor with a leg behind it in the late summer would help 😲

Likewise. Bear in mind that the grease does tend to migrate to one end of the gearbox so plenty grease overall doesn't = good lubrication everywhere

Meet my wood gobbler 😏 The lignin licker From chopped to chipped

I've had a pair of Cofra chainsaw boots; they were pretty mediocre

Don't use anything rigid for the safety flap. If you're chipping blackthorn, apple or anything with jaggy shaped branches (you know what I mean) they can start chipping fine and then get turned sideways by the change in shape as the first bits get chipped and just sit there - wedged behind the safety flap You need flexible flaps 🤪 to be able to extract said branches and try again

Oh my gawd; beefy flaps on my poor little pencil sharpener. What would the neighbors think?

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