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Depends where you are. I'm in the deep south where the leaves are still green and lush so I've done a couple in the last week: I doubt there'll be a problem.
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For full satisfaction go back to the willow a year after the work. We did a medium weeping one a couple of years ago (in winter) that didn't look 'weeping' at all when we'd finished with it but a year on I was working next door and spoke to the client; she was made up with the resulting regrowth forming a thin curtain descending from a high crown. My climber had had the foresight to make a nice job of it.
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That's because of the sewage outlet that used to be there; made me ill every summer holiday as kid!
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Well done Ad and Luce; all the best to the three of you. Jon
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Recognised the shingle! Lol. Jon
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Exeat Gap? Birling Gap?
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Yes - ish! The machines are a great idea and the security aspect is my only concern. Why do they need to store card details for heaven's sake? It's just asking for trouble. Of course perhaps they don't any more but they certainly used to; yobs were ripping them out of shop counters and caning the last 24 hours of card details!
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Yes, losing it would be a downside. I may be a bit out of date here but certainly up to about a year ago those machines stored recently used card details that could be retrieved with the right software; that's why stolen ones fetched so much when sold on. Mrs. Miggins may not be impressed at buying several laptops online the day after you'd reduced that nice cherry for her. As I say security within them may have improved but definitely something to assure yourself about before embarking on your electronic venture.
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A house just round the corner is called Badgers Bottom and it's only 30 years old. White Knobs Way (Caterham).
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I've had Ankalads on my small ladders for years; they're excellent, each side being adjustable both vertically and horizontally. You just set the ladder and adjust each pair of telescopic legs. Having used them so much I don't like the look of the tripod ladders, with just one extra leg. I'm sure I'm wrong to be wary of them but just how stable are they? Seems to me that as soon as you meet a side slope you need to block one of the ladder feet. That's true of an Ankalad setup too but you have two extra feet, spaced far wider that the ladder width, giving you four points of ground contact, not three.
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That's rough but you seem very stoical. The fact that you're here 6 days after the event seems to indicate that perhaps the stroke was mild...? I hope so. Whatever happens good luck to you for the best possible recovery.
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You'll find some thoughts on the current '130 or Navara' thread! Welcome to the forum. Hope you can both give and take from it. Enjoy. Jon
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Botanical latin- for the love of
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Training & education
You want colours?! Latin Color Word List -
Botanical latin- for the love of
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Training & education
campestris - of the field pyra - fire acanthus - thorn hence pyracantha sinensis - from China occidentalis - from the west orientalis - from the east pendula - guess! gymno - naked -
Stamets, oil inoculation is here!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
I did say I didn't get it! And I don't think I was the only one... 10 years...? Hmmm; cynicism suggests that in 10 years a few enthusiasts might be using it and then on highly valued garden specimens. On roadside trees? Really? It would be good to be wrong though I suppose. -
Ha ha. Up the ante then; grab a couple of labelled wood grenades this time. Lol!
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Stamets, oil inoculation is here!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
Yes, but you probably won't want to infect tomorrow's tree! Perhaps I'm missing something because this seems a classic example of taking a sledgehammer to a walnut. If you want to infect a stump - one cut! - just paint the darned stuff on. That way you avoid mixing, infecting your saw's oiling system, then flushing it all out again, a process that presumably involves fungicide. I just don't get this. -
The good ole Rupture & Hernia Society say prune grandiflora in spring as growth begins and lightly in mid-summer. A spring prune would avoid your light sensitive leaf issues I guess as the sun is weak then so newly exposed leaves can acclimatise.
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Mine stuck in 4WD High at two years old. It was, as stated, a switch in the top of the gearbox. Took Nissan half an hour to sort.
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Got it. Thank you. Jon
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I think we're all impressed with that; good one. Can't wait to see your new kitchen. You realise don't you that with a new floor you'll need a new cooker, fridge, worktops, saucepans to match...
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That's interesting: I can see how mulching helps the tree but what explains the lack of miner I wonder? You'd think that a healthier tree would be all the more attractive to them. Patent that idea quick!
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The police knocked on my door the other night. They had a picture of my wife. 'Is this your wife sir?' Shocked I said 'yes'. 'I'm afraid it looks like she's been in a car accident'. So I replied 'yes, I know, but she's got a lovely personality'.
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Does anyone yet know the long term prognosis here? Leaves are going brown in July so I would think that the trees simply can't sustain such a short lived sugar factory year on year. Are we headed for a mass cull of HC - in the South anyway - ?
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Firstly, keep your stock out of the sun and drying very slowly (to prevent cracking) but you probably know this already. A couple of weeks ago I had two recently died trunks 5' long (garden pollards) by 7". The black hearts constituted 3/4 of the diameter. A well known woodturner looked at me with confusion on his face when I said 'give me £25' for one of them. B*gger; he'd have easily given me £40. The wood nearly broke the sound barrier being whipped off the back of the pickup. So, yes, laburnum in good condition is worth money. Fill yer boots!
