nepia
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So what's the answer please Nigel? I too was surprised at the play between drawbar and frame; the rattling from the play is the only noise the trolley makes in use! Also I have been surprised that I can't walk forwards holding the handles with both hands behind my back; I kick the foot with my heel if I do. Pulling the loaded trolley from off centre with one hand is crucifying my back. Could the handles not have been mounted on a steeper stem, i.e. with the foot further back? Not criticising - asking. Cheers, Jon
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Spot on. For me it's mainly the lack of exercise that keeps me awake: a physically inactive day is a surefire sign of a bad night ahead. You got a gym at college - go for a run early evening perhaps?
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what is the world coming to a tree surgeon stabbed!
nepia replied to tree man john's topic in General chat
You're spot on there Lorry: down here speaking to strangers is something you do just before turning them over unfortunately. Us stuck up southerners don't know how to react to friendliness coming from someone we've never met! (Fellow Southerners - I'm exaggerating to make a point!) -
No wonder my mum had panic attacks - once she'd got there!!!
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That places is still going then. I've - er - visited there (a long time ago)!
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what is the world coming to a tree surgeon stabbed!
nepia replied to tree man john's topic in General chat
Your doing your job properly, someone breaks your skull with a large knife and it isn't 'life-changing'?! I'll go stick my head under a train then - I could do with a 'change'. Poor sod; what a thing to happen anywhere but especially bad when all he was doing was his job. Best wishes to him and may the 'life change' be minimal, but there will be one unfortunately. -
Got mine last week and it's going to save soooo many hours dragging. It may look like it can only carry a little but when you lift it to get it in the back of the pickup you realise how strong it is; that bodywork ain't tinplate.
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It's just clicked that it's his own coffin.
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Does every hour need to be a different species? Natural variation could easily provide two hours of the same species in different colours. Laburnum heart for a 'dark', Cotinus for a 'light' (yellow) if you want something slightly out of the ordinary.
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Sold a (small) load of green billets of ash, birch, hawthorn and yew this morning.
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Public speaking- time to get help!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
There's recently been a thread here re the prog Wonders of the Universe; one of the things that struck many was the passion of the presenter. I'm sure you're the same. Don't stand still, vary your voice and keep being passionate; it's catching. Great orators are born, not made I believe, so if you're not one don't try to be one; just do what you are good at. -
Whippendell Woods-
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
To think I used to live next door (87-88) and knew nothing of it... another opportunity missed! -
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Jonesies' first pallet of 11 is in and all sold via pre-order. Let the party begin... Thanks Justin; no more nagging now I promise and I appreciate being one of the first. Cheers, Jon
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Ropeknight, thanks for your time and trouble; that's fascinating stuff but it's obviously an art that takes time and knowledge to get right. I have so many questions! How do you know how many notches to make? How do you know where to make them? Did the four cuts in this example cover the full cirumference of the branch albeit a little at a time? How far below the pruning cut? On what species do you use this technique or does it depend on individual overall circumnstances rather than species? Most of all - well done for saving the tree; clients happy (the main thing) and the only hardwood in view saved!
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That's a good idea. I recently saw a 60-year old hedge made of two espaliered ash trees: the trunks were 12" thick (not tall enough to make the 'b' of dbh) and the overall was 5' high and 30' long, kept in check by regular trimming. Different but effective (in summer). If you make a standard hedge of them then yes, they will grow overnight!
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Not being any kind of expert on the subject I've kept shtum till now but this reflects my limited experience. I have one cheap axe with a bird's beak as you call it and it's useless; the edge profile is way too flat so it just bounces off the log. But I also have a 6.25lb Faithfull with fibreglass shaft that cost me £28 about 6 years ago and I think it's excellent. Seems that price isn't everything!
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Having spent the last two weeks driving like an old lady to squeeze out the miles I've dragged 450 miles from 70 litres from my 57 plate Navvy. I think that's ~29mpg but there was no heavy work, i.e.no towing, no big loads. When the chipper goes on the back it's nearer 2.9mpg! I'm running AT2s.
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...straight up Westerham Hill, through Biggin Hill, left halfway past the aerodrome and it's a mile and a half along - just before the lovely New Addington.
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I'm no expert but that colouring is common in ash I find, though not perhaps to that extent. I would think it's due somehow to fungal activity as spalting gives the same colour but more intense and in a different way, i.e. jagged lines. Perhaps what you have is a precursor to spalting...?
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It's called triangulation I think but I'll bet the Providers don't do it for free; you'd need to get someone important kidnapped - an Arbtalker perhaps - for it to actually be used.
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Welcome to Highams Hill Farm - Bootfairs, Camping, Railway Sleepers
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polite,charming climber available wendsday 9 and friday 11
nepia replied to danroker1987's topic in Employment
How did the weekend work on the chipbox go? Go on, tell me my idea re the blacking was crap... -
Thank you.
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Isn't the bleeding-flushes-the-spores theory the whole reason for cutting Prunus spp. in late summer? On this thread tho'.... cedar bleeds with a spring cut; true? I ask as I may have a deodar reduction coming up.
