nepia
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You're just showing off now!
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Funny how people perceive the smell in such an array of ways; to me the fresh cut timber is a cross between lemon and vanilla!
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Well some of it's in cages 😂
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'Outstanding in his field'! RIP Jethro
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Thank you Sam. You too
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Exactly the context in which such use was described to me; Caithness, 3 miles from the sea. Though even the heather struggled! Very wet and uneven ground
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Well if we're going to start slipping the odd sunrise into the thread... this from near Streatham Common a couple of days ago
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Crikey, you really are in the land of the grand sunset up there aren't you
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👍 🙂
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My suggestion was - perhaps wrongly - that the 1:3 ratio is out of date. My Echo pisses its 28" bar; there's no 'nicer handing' about it! Thinking about it I recently sold my 89cc 064 (why?!) and it's being used on a 36" bar; nae problem! Tolerance of blunt teeth will be virtually zero though when you're pushing the bar length limits; you'll need to keep that chain sharp
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Surely the more powerful-for-their-weight modern saws have kind of seen that one off? My 70ccc Echo pulls a 28" bar with ease - it's the manufacturer's recommendation - but it would manage a 32" I reckon; that's not far short of half engine size. Or is that an exception?
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Goood luck and Seasons Greetings. If you moved down here you'd trip over what you want on a daily basis; they're the most common conifer in domestic work by far
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What I find odd is that only two countries show any increase, and small ones at that, through the war years. Knowledge of how these graphs were collated would be most revealing. Japan's hours fell through the war - odd - but increased post war; that makes perfect sense
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Odd to see the UK's hours plummet through WW2 while Germany's crept up. Then Germany's fell away through their post WW2 economic recovery
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Transplanting trees into a different orientation
nepia replied to spandit's topic in Tree health care
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Transplanting trees into a different orientation
nepia replied to spandit's topic in Tree health care
If they fail or you want more just ask; they seed like thistles here! -
Agree with that. I have a particular tracked barrow base for which Jo Beau make a steel plate floor that then accommodates an M300. I don't use the setup as much as I thought I would but when I do it's brilliant; the infeed chute is the opposite end of the whole to the handles of the barrow base. I suppose if you were stupid you could spray chip straight ahead and cover the controls of the barrow with it but I never have the output chute straight so as to avoid dumping chip onto the chipper engine, air intake, exhaust. As for the height issue - I wouldn't want to hoike material higher all day but in reality it's not a big deal. Often the reason for using the barrow base is that I'm working on a hill: there's nearly always a flatter spot to park the chipper in which case I point the infeed chute towards the up slope and feed from above if you see what I mean; it helps
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Rob, I barely climb in any way at all! So I'm afraid I haven't used it and tbh probably won't. But it was good to see how it works and understand it a little bit. The guy I was with - Marc with the ginger hair? - is using it (part-time) and loving it. His first time out with it was to top 😊 a mature 5-stemmed Red Oak; would have been impossible on Ddrt without spikes! So he's loving it; getting used to the changeovers is taking some thought but it's well worth the effort.
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A few months back someone on here in the know was saying that polystyrene is the easiest stuff in the world to recycle as it readily dissolves in organic solvents. His description was that a 55 gallon drum of the solvent would dissolve 'a barn full' of polystyrene before becoming saturated at which point it went back to the manufacturers for making into new beads or blocks or whatever. Is recycling therefore possibly an option? Does anyone in Ireland do it?
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I think it's in your nature Rob; you're just a big kid who found an open jar of sweeties in March! You're in no way unpleasant, you just get carried away. Who the f*** you're asking?! I'm the old fart who sat in his chair doing not a lot on the SRT intro day in Dorking and I was in no way offended by you but it was obvious you were... keen! Don't worry about it - enthusiasm is a good thing; just remain polite and people will see you as exuberant, not rude. Happy climbing Jon
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List yourself here 🙂 https://arbtalk.co.uk/recycling/submit/?_new=1
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One for @Mark J and @Mark Bolam
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Fantastic Mark. I mean uploading a pic the right way up first go 😂 But the boards aren't bad either. I had some similar a few years ago and they were just fine 👍
