nepia
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...or a piece of polycarbonbate? Not the prettiest but you can work it yourself and see through it.
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Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Picture Forum
Now you tell me!! -
Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Picture Forum
Now I'm learning: small cuts preferable, big cuts bad. Thanks, Jon -
Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Picture Forum
...re the walnut again... Thanks. I find the 'not too much...foliage...' remark curious: you've removed loads there! Done to customer spec of course and I intend no criticism but I wouldn't dare take that much off a walnut in one hit. My colleague and I recently did gentle reductions on a pair and I called a halt into the height reduction on one because we'd taken more off the sides than expected. The customer understood my reasoning and was happy as it happened but I made the offer of going back next year to finish the original spec just to avoid the big single hit. Am I just being cissy over walnuts? -
Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!
nepia replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Picture Forum
Very nice work. My little knowledge of walnuts tells me that cutting should be kept to a minimum - they don't like it. But the example you've provided is a bit more than a peripheral trim! I'm sure there were good reasons but that's not my point: do you have any fears for the way the tree might react? I believe they are susceptible to dieback from the cuts, like magnolias...? Cheers, Jon -
If I came home to that syc I'd think you were something of a magician to be honest. Considering what you had to play with it looks very good indeed; just imagine it two years from now and I think 10/10 is a fair score.
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Never had a problem with Stags Horn except for the branch hairs and sticky, sticky sticky... They're more of a garden plant than a tree so I've played with a few with no ill effects. Never come across one of those malicious lacquer trees though.
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Liam, if you're asking me no - definitely the stopper; tightening it stops the leaking. If you're asking drythropple I'll shut up. Cheers.
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If it's long term cover you're after (if you develop a serious debilitating disease for example) you need to look at PHI - Permanent Health Insurance; it's a form of earnings replacement. But as the legal maximum unearned income you can take is 2/3 of your previously earned income it's not cheap and look very carefully at the exclusions. It's the sort of thing that kicks in if you have a heart attack, develop cancer etc.
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Is it definitely the tank itself and not the plug? I've got a 2000 model and the plug seal is going; have to tighten it slightly with the spanner now.
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Thank God for that. I was keeping shtum about sneaking half a tree of it into next year's pile! But now I can quote you...!!!
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Slippery, could you be thinking of the technique whereby you make several (4-5) spaced shallow cuts on the compression side to release some tension before making the tension side cut?
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That's crap and I'll remember to ask my keys insurer what their take is on it. Looking at it the other way round though it's good cover to have: I claimed all but £27 of a £268 bill last year when I lost mine. I'd guess the chances are that the owner of the bunch you found had already claimed so being cynical - why should the insurance co. go to any effort now? Or perhaps they were just embarrassed at insuring for a Chrysler.
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Bart's link is the one I had in mind. Contains a post from me that coincidentally mentions the Great Smell of Acacia - not.
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There's been discussion here before regarding the bright green Frisia variety. Seems there's a ?virus sweeping the country that - and I'm calling on memory here - leads to blockage of vascular tissue. Frisia apparently has narrow vascular rays. Hopefully someone who actually knows what they're talking about can put that in English for you.
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2nd vid 36secs - 'We're in business'. Ha ha!
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Could be a hundred explanations. Some people near here bought that amount - 11 acres - purely to ensure that no building took place. Money wasn't a consideration.
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We were quoted £60 for a woodburner flue but as the man had to disconnect the burner and drag it out (due to muppet installation) he only asked £45. I think you've got no quibble.
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...but a veritable motorway compared to the A22 if you've tried that crawler lane.
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Would love to help but am committed. Any pics would be good as I know the area a bit. The farm manager killed next door at Dry Drayton a few years ago was a close family friend. Name one of the taller uglier trees Ian for me will you? Good luck, Jon
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Likewise, in fact my A-level biology (only Nuffield, not real biology:sneaky2:) made (most) roots positively geotropic and (most) shoots negatively geotropic. That's why whichever way up you sandwich your broad bean between the blotting paper and the jamjar the root will always go downwards and the shoot upwards. More usefully you can increase the flowering of many plants, e.g. roses, by tying down laterals to invoke the geotropic development of flowering vertical shoots.
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Quite a few people still use them and love them as a thread here a couple of months ago revealed. I love mine too; cracking saw on a 15" bar. I need one of them too having just pinched the tip. Doh.
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Is that the very expensive XP3? I had an XP1 and it was C-R-A-P (the software that is; otherwise it was darn near bombproof, even if it did weigh 3lbs!)
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Isn't the idea to stop the caterpillars crawling up the trunk? In which case anything sticky should do the trick; why specifically rapeseed oil?
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Seems there was a bad storm in the North in 1883. Wonder if that was related to Krakatoa going pop that year. The effects were certainly global...
