nepia
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That was the opportunity for your very own 'Chinook removal'! Would have taken the whole tree in one.
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See very amateur and defo not 'promo' vid on previous page.
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Unless the splits in the bedliner are going to tear the sheet there's no need to worry about a ply board; the sheet runs over the ridged plastic fine. I've never run mine over anything else.
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And cheap(ish).
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Grazing response- A "thorny" issue
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
Thorns are surely just modified stems so if you remove the apical dominance by nibbling it off you boost the lateral growth production. No nibbles in the centre of the acacia = little lateral growth. Too simples? -
Airspading a planting pit - The Dogs danglies?
nepia replied to David Humphries's topic in Picture Forum
Bringing things back to my level way down here it's so good to see the minimal staking forcing the roots - as you say yourself DavID - to work for a living. How often I see decent young trees forced into motionless bondage that almost does away with the need for the tree to support itself. -
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You're not wrong! Croydon (then run by Biffa) fleeced me £96 for 915kg of leyland chip a couple of years ago. But I was desperate. And the worst bit? The so-and-so's went and tipped it all over a heap of sofas, wardrobes and other furniture to landfill it! (unless they were firing a power station from Factory Lane, but you'd know whether they were or not better than I). Phew. Needed to get that off my chest...
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You won't catch your chain on this one; I use it all the time at home. BRAND NEW LOG SAW HORSE on eBay (end time 11-Nov-10 08:52:52 GMT)
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Definitely split the stuff now. Just had to split up some rings of sycamore cut a year ago; they were like iron and it took twice the work to get them done.
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That's fantastic info - thanks. A relative has a ?200-year old Western Red that took a big strike some years ago and I'm sure he'd be keen to take any reasonable preventative measures, especially as he's lost two large cedars to lightning and knows of other similar events in the same garden. Cheers, Jon
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Was told my the wife last year not to sell all the MP I had because it was such good firewood and she's not wrong. Burns like dry (real) conifer but lasts longer.
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If it's to protect the lime tree wouldn't it be better attached to something else nearby?
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Did you?
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Ha ha. He was never going to get squashed (roll cage) but he should have hung onto the wheel for dear life.
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He had been caught - more than once - but not convicted. Failings in the way records of arrests and intelligence were kept and exchanged allowed him to slip through the vetting net, especially as he didn't play fair (irony) by using a false name in his job application. Sorry to be pedantic but Huntley's ability to do the job he did wasn't because he hadn't been caught; in that sense the system didn't fail. If it had been used well he would never have become caretaker at that school. In short human error, not system failure.
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Here we go - I think. Until 12 hours ago I was a Youtube virgin so be gentle darling. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct6mlCw8Vhc]YouTube - Unloading[/ame]
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Gone very quiet hasn't it. No reply to my post above despite the promised updates and I know someone that can't get an e-mail reply on the subject either...
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'Fraid not. It works by strapping a rolled up plasticised sheet - looks like a roller blind - to the top edge of the tailgate. The sheet unwinds onto the empty pickup bed, the load goes on top. To unload you insert the handle into one end of the roller with the tailgate down and wind.
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That's the man. Jon
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I use it with my Navara but they're a 'one size fits all'.
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Yes. Bought one a couple of years ago and use it all the time for chip and logs. Flippin' brilliant. The only minor issues are that material tends to fall over your winding hand when unloading and stuff can get 'caught' in front of the wheel arches. You do need to move the vehicle forwards/material backwards halfway through a full load. On a good day you can clear 90% in one go, on a bad day 50% when the frontmost stuff doesn't grip the sheet. Early Sunday morning just gone I sent a full load of logs down a 10' hole under a pub in about 45 seconds. Where to get one... E-mail the USA and they should give you the phone number of a man in Louth, North Lincolnshire who is the only outlet in this country. No web address, just a phone number. Sorry, I don't have it any more. The price was I think £176 all in. Best of luck, Jon in damp Surrey (sorry Mendip!)
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Cheers. Have sent the info to a relative working for the Council grounds maintenance dept for that area though he probably knew about it already. Jon
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My missus thinks I'm immature and that we should set aside a day to sit down and talk about it. Yeah - like that's going to happen in the middle of the conker season.
