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If you fancy it Alec I could collect on my return trip: I must be driving by the gent's front door next month. Dry Rot: early next month I'm visiting a mate in Wick so if the burr needs transport to anywhere close to the main drags connecting there and Surrey give me a shout. Jon
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Artificially changing the pH of any soil is a hiding to nothing in the long run I've always understood as soils rapidly revert to type. But grass grows quite happily in acid soil so as hedgesparrow says I doubt that pH is your problem. Also bear in mind that everyone's got an excess of moss due to a year of non-stop rain so is there really a problem unique to your lawn? Perhaps waiting and seeing if some decent weather sorts it (!) is all that's needed.
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I can see it now Al: Rob will rock up as planned on 29th with his Mog but with you suffering Mog Withdrawal Syndrome he'll get away some time in the middle of April Good luck with the job. It'll be a landscape changer losing something that size. Jon
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Horse chestnut: as said a sod to split - you can't even see where the grain's going but it goes in all directions. Once dry the wood's like balsa. Rubbish stuff, so bad in fact that it's one of the few woods I won't even mix into a load for sale. Sweet chestnut: much less clearcut. My experience is that it takes years to dry enough to burn well. I've been getting it in the neck from the missus this winter for burning so much of it 'because it doesn't give out any heat: haven't you got more of that lovely Lawson's Cypress?' So my suggestions accord with above: ignore Horse Chestnut but if you can get some Sweet for free go with it - it's free. But don't pay money for it. Jon
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Ta for the ID - I don't doubt you for an instant. Re topside view... I forgot me hover boots - so sorry:biggrin:
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Neither. Yet
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Picky, picky... Are these of more help re ID Tony? The limb's to come off. Apologies to the suggestion of Chicken of the Woods I so poo-poo'd; these things aren't lying as flat as I thought.
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Ditto. I'm sure your operative feared the use of immediate unlawful violence against himself and was merely trying to keep the driver in his car to prevent that violence being used. Nowt wrong with that. Deliberately driving into someone is no 'accident'; it's an assault, the car being a weapon.
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They've done a lot more than three! Frankly I think they've had enough fixing of older machines that have succumbed to fuel change (!) but the Aspen isn't to blame: the problems would surely have occurred sooner or later anyway. Both my older saws are getting pulled apart and having rubbers replaced before I switch them to Aspen. One's done, the other will be when the firewood season draws to a close. Jon
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Yep, Charlie's an unusual lump all right! It's a good thought Al. He uses a local guy with a Mog and timber trailer/crane for transporting big stuff: the cost of that will knock any value in the wood but it would get it shifted. Jon
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Totally off the cuff here Al but if you're really stuck for losing it how about asking a farmer or two in the area if they need gateway barricades; large lumps of stem are popular for that. Still charge for the disposal of course because if that doesn't work you're going to have to fork out to get it shifted yourself. Jon
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But at least we got to own a bank... ...losing billions a year and being fined for naughties left, right and centre! It's a mad world.
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Not a clue Tony: the limb was 10' off the ground, the light was poor and it was one of those 'while you're here' moments. Overall impression was of a fungus that forms a thin coating rather than protruding distinct FBs; not much help there I'm sure. I'm sure the limb will come off: the guy's pretty paranoid, the limb loss won't spoil the tree overall but if it did come down on its own it may well land on his rarely used G Reg Merc! Thanks, Jon
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Er... um... probably not. But I did ask if I should have found it there: seems not as I can't find 'stereum' in it. Thanks Al.
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Thanks for coming back to us. Staggering to think that less time has passed since the birth of Christ than had elapsed between that tree's life and the birth! Well I understood it...
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Just seen this Clive. I was gutted to have missed out on a load of robinia burrs recently near Cobham (a pair of turning vultures had 'em! ): the stump is nearly 6' across. I did get 2.5 pickups of free firewood from it though! Will bear you in mind. Jon
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Given his line of business you could ask this chap; he's just outside Kettering. I've had no dealings with him but have had his name mentioned. English Hardwoods
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<p>Well well; Luke didn't hang onto that for long did he. Yes, a great little machine. Heavy as hell by modern standards but it can do just what my contemporary Jo Beau can do but I can pull/lower that off the back of the pickup with ramps; no way could I do that with the 'busta.</p>
<p>Are you in Lincs too?</p>
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<p>Good buy!</p>
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<p>Jon Paine</p>
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<p>Caterham</p>
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I've got details of a non-Arbtalker from Guildford I can PM you who apparently has a Lucas mill.
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Is it safe for all boots? Manufacturers of breathable leather goods instruct that special treatments are used; ordinary treatments spoil the breathing properties they claim.
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I can see the logic of the first one there ELG but I burn only softwood and have no problems. Next to no soot from it and the hardwood gets sold, not burnt.
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Well they do all divert to the same place! But if you're asking 'wouldn't it be better just to use 112?'... one day, one day...
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Reckon you took 'secondary burn' in that flue cube thingy to new heights!
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999, 112, 911 will all get you to an operator in this country.
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Because one day we will probably drop 999 and join the rest of the world on 112: 112's been valid here for a long time.
