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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.
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Isn't there a plastics skip at your local dump you can chuck a few in every few weeks? Those places are so busy these days no-one's going to notice even if they're bothered about traces of oil.
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Have known two real people called Wayne Kerr.
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I'd go for Lime Hawk myself; the colours vary a lot. What other trees were nearby?
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Willowherb. Once took 33 of them for bringing on (from a patch of ground about to be cleared) and released 17 adult moths.
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Ha ha. My daughter's on her way to Escot Park to steward at the festival!
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Don't they just. Having had a few squashes and kicks from smaller beasts than that I simply don't know how so many of those people got up and walked/ran off. Are they all that drunk or really that stupid? Answered my own question there maybe...
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'England' Steve?! Brace yourself for the Celtic backlash.
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Never knew that one: I drive past every so often. Cheers. Jon
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E-mailed them Saturday, got a phone call 9.20 this morning, made payment. Parts should be here tomorrow. Excellent - cheers Jonesie.
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Right on the edge of Kent; not that near you but worth remembering if you travel north for a job. Greenwaste
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Had it in 1995 and have never had even the slightest problem. The worst bit of the whole thing was the injection of extra local halfway through the 'op' (took 15 mins!) so it wasn't bad at all. No way could I have gone back to work the same or the next day though: several days for me. Definitely a good move after serious discussion with Madam. Jon
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I've recently had a full (Picus-supported) report carried out on a big old beech in West Sussex and the prognosis was a pleasant surprise, namely 'the tree's got years in it yet; I recommend a 30% reduction staged over two years'. And that from a professional who at the same time and to our surprise condemned an English Oak advising immediate fell or pollard. So go to it with your efforts to persuade the owners to investigate their beech further.
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Looking to buy a Jo Beau soon so not being funny here but aren't Vermeer the only port of call for parts rather then just the first? Serious question; not trying to be smart. Jon
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Brilliant for starting big and hard stuff. Yeah they shake like hell on impact but they're not designed to penetrate the log deeply, just to burst it apart. I had one to try recently and attacked logs I wouldn't have otherwise bothered with, e.g. 5-year cut 16" gnarly rings of yew. Once it had done its work the Fiskars X27 did the rest. A word of warning; make sure there's nothing fragile within many feet. Every now and then a log will burst apart and fly miles sideways. Jon PS If your old man doesn't like it I'll have it off him!
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Don't know if this is connected to different ages of the saws perhaps but my 262XP has a blue decompression button top right of the saw; you'd see it just behind the chain brake handle mounting in the fourth pic. Do all 262s have decomp buttons? Don't know...
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What cheese do you use to coax a koala towards you? - Comeonbear What cheese do you use to hide a small horse? - Mascarpone
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My student son introduced me to it a few weeks back. He keeps all his uni work there as a backup to his laptop. For anyone interested Dropbox is like a private vault to which you can give an individual access if you want by sending them a hyperlink to a particular file... Say I wanted you to see a video I'd made. I send the vid to Dropbox, tell Dropbox to 'Get link' (via right click) and e-mail you just the link, not the whole vid. It's like sending you the key to my house so you can go in and have a look round instead of sending you the whole house. Or I can just choose to share the file with you. Dropbox is free but only for a limited amount of space. An excellent place to centrally store files for access from other computers, as a backup and for private file sharing.
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Getting good mpg thanks; something to do with a PSI Powerbox! I did a 1400 mile round trip a couple of weeks back (Caterham > < Wick, Caithness) and averaged 37.5 for the trip. There's nothing like expensive fuel to retrain your right foot; 60-65mph all the way. Back home now doing short journeys with logs/chip/hedgetrimmings and getting 28/29mpg - no complaints now. How bad is your 'presently bad mpg'? Jon
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In the wrong direction, i.e. north of Auckland, there is Waipoua Forest on the unadopted Highway 12; well, it was unadopted in 1989! Big kauri trees there right by the 'road'; in fact the road weaves through them.
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...got called a chainsaw gigolo the first time I appeared in mine. Work Clothes for all Areas of Work from engelbert strauss
