nepia
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Promise your beloved a holiday in Mexico so she can fulfil her agavicious desires.
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It's an agave and the flowering will kill it!
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Plantfinder hasn't listed that variety for 8 years but there are others currently available. RHS Plant Finder / RHS Gardening
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This might be easier. Oregon's monster mushroom is world's biggest living thing - Science - News - The Independent
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No, not that sort I have a used but good condition Stihl bar for anyone who wants it. - part No. 3005 000 3909 - 14" (50 drive link) - 1.1mm groove - Picco tooth There are three chains to go with it, all used, all with life in them yet. If interested PM me and I'll post them to you. I don't want anything for these but perhaps the taker would care to hit the Donate button... Cheers, Jon
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Indeed. If Christian & Martha only made 4th place the competition was red hot. Great work by all.
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Have just been to my mate's farm near John O'Groat's and helped him deal with the bigger bits of a 25 ton load of conifer stem he bought to see him through a couple of winters. He could not believe that such an apparently small axe was splitting 26x16" rings. It's a seriously good axe.
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The best book- IMO essential reading for arborists
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Training & education
Thanks for that. Seeing as probably 100% of the information in the book will be new to me I'm happy to pay the Kindle price: I think the hardback would have been stretching things a bit. Jon -
You wouldn't want to hit this then!
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I run 24" & 30" bars on mine and love it. Parts availability not a problem it seems as I've just put a new chainbrake handle on.
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Just proves that the simplest ideas can be the most striking, which those certainly are.
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It is rumoured that Harry Redknapp has negotiated a £3m compensation deal that will be worth about £3m after tax.
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Have had the same thing in a large garden in Epsom; they're very territorial and our one could make the length of the 40 yard garden in just over two minutes to get to us!
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I get similar every now and then. Check the H and L screws are at factory settings (refer to manual) and see if that helps: they made need a fine tune from there but the saw should run well enough. If that doesn't do the trick you need better advice than I can offer.
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What's the likely long-term prognosis if these trees are left untouched? Perhaps the weather could change to conditions in which the trees could put on strong growth and outdo, or at least live with, the infections. There's a 40-odd year old one at the top of my road looking poor; very few leaves on it but I haven't looked closely for the scatter-gunned appearance so I really have no idea what the problem is. I had thought 'general stress' due to having mown grass up to its bark all its life; it's always lived in a lawn.
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Is this the thing? http://www.logosol.com/store/uk/index.php/catalog/product/gallery/id/37/image/1099/
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A bit of a sod when it kicks back!
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Correct. If you're getting one (you should) go through the threads on it for tips etc. Jon
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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arbtalk-christmas-charity-raffle-2011/37314-loadhandler-uk.html?highlight=loadhandler
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(free) advice on a 30 acre wood and its management
nepia replied to citrus's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Thanks for the lengthy response Mike. The success that I have seen is in very different circumstances to yours, namely beef and sheep reared on homegrown organic barley, oats and grass/clover leys. And in the north eastern tip of Scotland! I take your point about the labour needed to make sugar beet a success organically; the same applied in Scotland to OSR; without chemicals it simply wasn't feasible. A great shame about your dad but as you say agrochemicals have never been pleasant things to deal with and nothing like what comes in a 1 litre bottle at the garden centre! Cheers, Jon
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Not having a dig at your farming methods at all but isn't that a good advert for organic growing? The subject is far from simple, I know that, but my limited experience of organic farming well done is that while output goes down by, say, 25%, input costs go down by considerably more. The more your chemicals cost the more the potential benefits increase but I don't know if organic sugar beet growing is viable... Jon
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(free) advice on a 30 acre wood and its management
nepia replied to citrus's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ask http://www.surreyhills.org You're exactly the kind of person they're looking for, especially the guy specialising in PAWS (Plantations In Ancient Woodland). He's on here but I can't remember his moniker. And yes, there is free advice available. Jon -
I know oaks like damp ground but it looks as if this one's been standing in water. To what extent could/would that contribute to decline? Obviously a willow or alder would be whooping it up there but an oak...?
