nepia
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I was downright shocked at how soft the blades were first time I filed them; it's very quick work - on one blade!
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I'll bet there were other exceptions during the previous 105 years!
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I'll bet there were other exceptions during the previous 105 years!
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I wasn't arguing, just making the point that 'wet' doesn't mean 'it'll kark it'.
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I wasn't arguing, just making the point that 'wet' doesn't mean 'it'll kark it'.
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...and yet the 33" dbh one I felled a few years ago was at the bottom of a gentle slope on Sussex Weald clay. But it did stink of mushroom - at 105+ years old!
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...and yet the 33" dbh one I felled a few years ago was at the bottom of a gentle slope on Sussex Weald clay. But it did stink of mushroom - at 105+ years old!
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I was thinking False Acacia - Robinia. The top pic has better colour, i.e. yellow wood in the bottom lump. The second pic's blue and white.
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I was thinking False Acacia - Robinia. The top pic has better colour, i.e. yellow wood in the bottom lump. The second pic's blue and white.
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You'll need the right one; look on the Bay - loads there.
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Magnolias can react badly to pruning; less is more. Mid to late summer is the time. If you're just doing a gentle thin - cutting small stuff - you should just about be OK. If this kind of question is likely to arise regularly for you get the RHS Pruning & Training book. Not quite a bible as I disagree with some things there but very good nonetheless.
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With yourself and Alec making encouraging noises I'm optimistic. The tree has been mulched for a few months now but the summer we've had has really helped and maybe the pruning in Feb made a difference too! It's looking more vital; new, healthy growth has been made and almost no dying of sideshoots as was happening previously. Thank you gents.
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Yes I think it looks different too but not so much so that one could definitively say 'it's not the same'. No growths on the underside: I'm sticking with Pear scab my end all considered. Thanks.
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Pear rust! Is this what I've got? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/8927-pear-leaf-blister-mite-2.html Your tree still very lucky to have met you btw! Jon
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Thanks. Chemical treatment won't happen - if you could see what's been done to the tree physically you'd see what it means to the owners! - but burning the leaves is realistic. Do you agree with the educated guess that pear scab is the culprit?
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Unfortunately the link is out of date so I can't check it out. Saw a mature but hacked pear this morning where virtually all the foliage was as per the pics, including the slight chlorosis. I'm inclined towards pear scab as per David Humphries' suggestion and Apple and Pear Scab but am open to others. If I'm right then the correct course of action for a single garden ornamental tree seems to be to destroy the fallen leaves in autumn. Comments please. Thanks, Jon
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Tell her to get on with it then - there's work to be done! Seriously, good luck with the far more important business of your new arrival; congratulations. The job doesn't have to be done tomorrow: where are you, when could you make it? Jon
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Would have gleefully done that for the brush (I believe I was one of the earliest trolleyites:001_tongue:) but there are boundary hedges back and front that effectively force 45 degree turns the moment you hit the ends of the house: anything protruding beyond the back of the trolley wouldn't make it through the gap. Also when I say the floor is uneven I mean uneven: there's a small uncovered inspection hatch (now covered with a board and an anomalous patch of flat concrete 6" higher than the rest but only laid halfway across the passage! Trust me, after 2 days dragging the brush I slept dreaming of lovely trolley loads of the stuff being drawn majestically across flat tarmac to a waiting chipper.
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Just noticed a small pictorial typo. Ignore the last pic: it's of the very top of the stem that's now in a hundred bits at home drying!
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That's good of you Rob. The actual owner of the tree - not the client! - has been very patient so anything I can do to move it for her will help. Thanks.
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Thanks for the encouraging words Jonathan. Someone else that knows his stuff has seen the pics and says the same thing about it. Jon
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This Atlantic Cedar really is too good to be all firewood. It's situated in a back garden 2 minutes from J9 of the M25. Access is poor: a 30" or less passage down the side of the house with uneven rubble floor. Everything has to be handballed down it I'm afraid. So the offer is if you want to mill it for the good stuff I'll help you in with your kit, help you out with your kit and boards, clear up after you and deal with the arisings (mustn't say waste or someone will slap my wrists.) There are two pieces for consideration. The main section (pics 1-5) is 17', tapering from 31" to 20". The piece that was atop that (pics 4 & 5 and in the foreground of pic 1) is 8', tapering from 20" to 16". Thanks, Jon
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Steve, I've just placed an e-mail order for an item to be collected from Wadhurst. I don't know when collection's going to happen but I'll let you know. Meanwhile I suggest you keep hunting. Jon
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Point taken Stevie but in this case the Mrs had always hated the Magnolia (now trimmed at ground level!) and the rest was hedgecutting, clearing a dead space and tearing six dumpy bags of ivy off the side of the house. But she is showing a reaction: it's all go there now and when I left there was a guy laying dark laminate flooring throughout the entire downstairs of the 5-bed house. Hopefully her resident twenty-something year old son can keep an eye on her. Jon
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Knocked on a door a few weeks ago - a Thursday morning - and introduced myself: "I trimmed the magnolia in your garden last year and your husband asked me to come back this year and take some more off." "Ah, I'm glad you're here; I've got several things I'd like you to do in the garden. David died this week". Got two days work, paid in notes when done.
