nepia
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A bit strong:001_tt2: It was a there-and-back-in-the-day job thank you very much
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Paid car rate at Dartford the other week for a Navara and chipper. I thought I'd just had a lucky escape in the morning but paid the same on the return trip.
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Agree with the 'drawn' look of the daff: couldn't have been shop bought one planted out recently could it?
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I don't pretend this is 'market price' but I sold some 26" dia. rings last year for £25 each. What I would advise is act fast. The best pieces went to possibly the best turner of MP in the country and he prefers the rings kept on damp ground, end grain down, i.e. he wants them fresh. Another turner, well known in the south-east, turned his nose up at some 20" dia. rings from the same tree just 10 months later because they'd been cut 'too long ago - they've gone like cotton wool by now'. Get moving and don't let them dry. Yeah, they're a pain to split but if you put a ring on its edge and whack an eye (knot) in the middle with an axe it'll split. Jon
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Ouch, but a good advert for roll cages - they're there for a reason and the fact that the driver can talk about this morning is that reason; the tractor's just a machine though I understand that may not be the way it feels to you just now. Fingers crossed for insurance; this is the kind of thing you pay for so good luck.
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Dave, I've never seen that before. What's the management regime for the stumps from now on? They'll be hairy caterpillars next winter so I guess cleaning the trunks and removing all but three or four shortened new stems will be in order...? Jon
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I know nothing of it personally but I do know of an extension built on aforementioned piles (but steel ones) inserted to avoid the roots of a large TPOd Atlantic Cedar. Presumably temporary exposure of the roots was necessary to map them and hence avoid them with the piles. Will be returning in a few weeks; want me to ask for more detail? Jon
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Is it a lapsed pollard? The crown's looking a bit thin; is it in decline or is it just the picture? But to answer your question that's about ten times anything I've ever seen. I have to reduce a 14" dbh seedling in the spring though... Thanks for posting; magnificent tree. Jon
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Woodturners love the stuff too if there are any small bits suitable.
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A pair of standard 11 rung ladders with these attached. Ankalad Ladder Stabilisers
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It would help if you were in a position to offer something in return - anything; some people have free range poultry so barter with eggs, you may be a mechanic and be able to do a small something for them - anything. My local pub keeps its fire raging with free good firewood because a tree surgeon keeps a generous slate there. -
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Look at the stuff he's sold before. He's a helilogger!
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Seems like you're chasing anything but an UNinsured loss; LAs have insurances coming out of their ears! Patience man, patience...
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A hooker told me I could have my way with her for just £10 because she had no womb. I asked how we'd do it then. She said 'acwoss the woad against the wailings'.
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But aren't buzzards preying on squirrels? The birds are spreading fast - at least they have along the south coast - and they're native (I think!) Granted no bird currently preys widely on foxes but is it worth the risk of protecting the eagle owl just so it can take some foxes when it will take a load of other wildlife too, presumably including just about any bird it can catch? Genuine questions asked from a position of ignorance; I'm not trying to shoot you down.
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It's all here. Recommended reading for anyone ever likely to come within miles of the true London. The Zone starts at the south edge of Croydon and just off the top of the M23 in my area so affects far more than just 'London'. It's all about keeping your filthy fumes to yourselves so our delicate lungs don't suffer or paying us (well, Boris) lots of money for the pleasure of polluting our fair city. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/lez/ Jon
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Gareth - apologies; was accidentally ignoring non-South Easters. LEZ = London Emissions Zone TfL = Transport for London, who control London these days. Shouldn't affect you too much I hope! Jo
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At that size and age (probably late Victorian) perhaps the tree's just reached its end? The similar one I dealt with 15 months ago was loaded with Honey Fungus at the bottom but that may well have been effect, not cause. To be fair a spill of domestic heating oil 20 yards away probably finished it off but it was on the way out.
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Not 'consultation' but 'confirmed' according to the TfL site.
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Seems to me that if it's all you can get then it's better than nothing. Be honest with customers and you'll be fine. I sold a load last Sunday that was nothing other than sw/ch; it was very dry (dead tree cut into rings summer of '07) and was for woodburner use. The client's a regular so I wouldn't mess them about. Go on - you know you want to.
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I think you'd have to go some to suffer cyanide poisoning from laurel. When I was a teenager I deeply inhaled the fumes from an airtight jam jar that contained a lump of cyanide the size of small sugar cube. The jar hadn't been opened in months. I felt a bit sick and dizzy for a few minutes but was fine after that. Wibble.
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It's great as a 'middling' wood to go on the kindling before the hardwood. It dries fast once split and burns very well. Definitely keep it.
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Old pollards I'd guess.
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A slight derail but I thought this may be worth storing at the back of your mind, especially as it originates from next door to you. http://www.slef.org.uk/landm/pdfs/leaflet.pdf
