nepia
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VID-20221001-WA0002.mp4
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You really need to get Cobham Services out of your mind Steve. It's in the past; let it go 🤣
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It was only taken down to about 10' because the stem bifurcated close to the ground and many years ago the bottoms of the two stems were braced with several large metal rods! Sorry
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I researched this fungus on behalf of my father-in-law a few years ago when it was identified on a 70' topped Black Pine. The suggested course of action was immediate removal. As stated it's a brown rotter, i.e. it degrades cellulose. In your pic the house looks a lot less than 25m away!
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Large Deodar cedar crane fell free chunks loaded into trailer ,Putney london
nepia replied to JoBuck's topic in Milling Forum
@JoBuck He doesn't get on here too often @Rob D -
This could go the way of the cod fish thing given the right ammunition 😂
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You're kidding! Wow; never dropped below 6C here
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I'm fine thanks; it's the rest...
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Summer limb drop? I watched one drop off my own pop last year; a still sunny day and the limb just snapped and fell
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'for the final time'... very poignant. 'The Queen at Balmoral' was an immutable annual event, something never to change 😔
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You mean you can't just report a nest and have the authorities destroy it? Is that typical French bureaucracy at work?!
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I feel a bit ill at the mere thought: I swear and jump about with a single wasp sting but multiple hornet stings... yikes
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Hi Steve; glad you found this. The bowls are indeed stunning
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But the blighters can be dealt with if you have decent hand-eye co-ordination VID-20220909-WA0005.mp4
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You can't fix stupid VID-20220908-WA0003.mp4
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Hence the bees' method of defence; forming a ball of quivering bees that envelope the hornet and cook it alive
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They are indeed admirable creatures. Can anyone please explain why they're still building - expanding - their nest in September? Such behaviour doesn't seem to fit at all with their life cycle
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Lol. The whole house is being reclad when Wealden get round to (hopefully) granting permission and Natural England get round to reading the ecologist's bat report and determining mitigation! I'm somewhat apprehensive about what we may find behind the boards But don't knock the nails arrangement; downright professional compared to some of the stuff here!
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Ironically two years and a day later I may have the answer; they're still building the nest - in September. This confuses me as I thought the building would be done months ago so that the incubation of larvae could be completed during the warm summer months. We've been watching this one on the house grow all summer and it's still growing; pic taken 10 minutes ago
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Just leave it in a heap; no need to fuss with turning it
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Re the use of PVA listen to Mike Dempsey; he knows what he's talking about
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You're going to have to try harder than that to kill raspberries!
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I use leafy chip like that - ramial woodchip to give it it's proper name I think - and actually worry more about the condition of the soil more than what I'm putting on top. I avoid mulching with fresh material during the growing season but if the soil's wet I'll mulch any time with old or new material; depends on what I have to hand. That fine green stuff composts in weeks
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I agree. Much though I get the show of respect it can go too far: I reckon She'd be miffed to think that numerous people were suffering inconvenience in her name, especially those in the horse racing fraternity
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Anything that seals will work surely. I'd say that cheap candle wax would be more appropriate for that purpose than beeswax; what a waste of beeswax! Some keep an old frying pan: melt the wax, dip the log end, job done
