nepia
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Cheaper than a whole new chipper could be a tracked barrow base + fabricated steel something to secure your CS100 to it. If you make the chipper easily (de)mountable you then have the barrow for carting gear or logs as well. See Dean's (Global Newark) post on the previous page re that idea for the Jo Beau M300 which I've gone for. Last week the bare barrow base carried probably half a ton of logs up a sloping garden and straight up the concrete steps to awaiting pickup for me; a revelation after years of handballing!
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Yeah, I agree. I put an HB20 on my Navara but take the tailgate off to do it. That tailgate's capable of taking much more than 100kg (I run the 145kg Jo Beau onto it) but I don't fancy sitting over 300kg on a pair of thin straps and two small lugs.
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To be pedantic softwoods are defined as gymnosperms, not conifers, but nearly all gymnosperms are conifers. Yew may not be a conifer but it carries its seeds without a carpel, i.e. naked, and is thus a gymnosperm, i.e. a softwood by definition if not by property. Simples. Maybe.
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That's... unfortunate! I wonder what he recommends as a source of 'good' firewood seeing as there's none apparently available locally! Latvia?!
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No! Yesterday I added to a pile of chip made in October; it's a heap of mushy brown wet compost. As long as you don't inhale large amounts of concentrated fumes from fresh foliage you're fine with laurel. There are far nastier plants about in abundance.
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Agree with all the above: people worry too much about the lovely smell of fresh chipped laurel brush. Mm-mmm! The wood is great; for such a dense timber (when larger) it dries fast. Good firewood.
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Good luck with everything. If you're interested I have a spare Zubat 300mm scabbard you could have - not sure why you'd want it even if it's the right length (not 330mm) - but the offer's there. Failing the above if anyone else fancies it PM me.
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Yew... far too good to go in the softwood pile; it goes in with the hardwoods. It's 'better' (whatever that means) than some perfectly legitimate hardwood logs such as Sorbus. Willow and pop - if I really have to get rid of any - go in the softwood heap.
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That would be a cinch in that customer's case: 'if the wood was so good from your previous seller best you go back there'! ...Sir/Madam. No need to be rude about it
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Sounds like the stove's more intelligent than the punter if it can discern hardwood from soft! I ran out of dry hardwood some weeks ago (doh) and have sold a couple of half loads of soft just to keep the fires lit so to speak: no complaints yet. I suspect there may be some surprise at just how well and warm the soft burns.
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As an occasional grockle I'll fit in nicely then.
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Is the food still good? Been there a few times when visiting the rellies at Cadeleigh; almost walking distance the back way through Silvertown.
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Same-ish here though I'm a tiny, tiny supplier. Funny how softwood keeps Northern Europe, Scandinavia, the far north of America and Siberia warm yet there's no convincing the south of England that it's any good. At home I burn 100% softwood.
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Glad I'm not the only oddball who thought that then!
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...as it glides effortlessly through the back of your left thumb
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If you're going to be splitting pre-sawn wide logs with it AND making kindling I'd go for the Fiskars X17: 100mm shorter than the 21 so can be used with one hand.
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Now that sounds like a recipe for a contented life though I do enjoy scrambling around apple trees armed with a loaded Silky.
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Wisteria, some advice needed.
nepia replied to Mick Dempsey's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
You two have got it sorted. Mick, your beautiful house will become even more so with a well tended Wisteria gracing it; well done. -
Wisteria, some advice needed.
nepia replied to Mick Dempsey's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Pruning of Wisteria is done twice a year; in late summer for flower formation the next year and structural (formative) pruning in winter. It sounds like what you're proposing should be done about now. This may help https://www.rhs.org.uk/videos/advice/pruning-wisteria -
...blue Isuzu...!
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If you are going to pursue this (and why wouldn't you?) keep that piece of paper. Not a bad idea either to have your wife sign, date and time it ('now', not the date/time of the incident). Keep the phone pic of it too. A signed and dated detailed record of the incident by those present (no conferring) could only help. Stick to what you can personally attest to, not what someone else has told you.
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Quite likely unrealistic but in theory you have the civil route to take against the uninsured driver: as everyone knows he/she is such I take it you do indeed have the index of their vehicle. That the Police aren't apparently interested in uninsured drivers is... not good. Having no insurance is one of the basics that is never ignored in my experience. Have you made unpleasant noises to them about it? It can work! The courts take it seriously and they are often the driver for Police levels of commitment.
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Variably in my experience with normal sized specimens; that's a monster for the UK (assuming it is). I've hard cut limbs - much smaller ones than in your tree - and had them sprout beautifully and I've done the same to others and killed them. To leave that 'with no foliage' is a pollard! Seriously I would be suggesting staged reduction to monitor its reaction; it would be a crying shame to lose such a specimen. I'd also be suggesting a bit of tlc to the root zone and stem; son't stack stuff on the roots or against the tree.
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...plus 2, 3 or 4 and as said a few times now on various threads. If you do consider it go for the 14" bar; 16" is too much in the real world.
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If a sling will lift 5 tons it'll pull 5 tons. For a selection and a good seller have a look at slings1 on ebay. I use ones with a loop at each end for winch work (stumps, leaning trees etc).
