nepia
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Funny you should ask: I'm about to send off my second set but need to message them to suggest they invoice me for the first set! The reason I went to them was that on here a while ago their Arbtalk rep said 'can do those for £35'. I'm not holding them to that but I expect them to be significantly less than the £75 (inc VAT) I have been paying elsewhere.
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GA Groundcare recently sharpened my Jo Beau blades (also with reverse angle of course); the guy on the phone had never heard of Jo Beau but the blades came back fit for shaving with
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Not unique to trees. Saw a lot of it on some Ox Eye Daisies in Scotland some years back but they were only a few miles from a nuclear research establishment - Dounreay Daisies!
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Ha ha! Roger, you're the guy I alluded to on the other thread with the world map.
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Jeez you're fussy!
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I'm sure @gobbypunk will reply too but no, ash isn't the only wood that can display pink. It's quite common in small amounts. One that comes to mind that has it in spathes is Cotoneaster.
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@orang-utan you may want to look at http://www.landskills.co.uk/ They're in Dorking
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Works for me; how about you @Old Mill Tree Care? There's a guy listed at Headley.
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This is a very old thread but service seems to be as good as ever. I wanted a bar of a particular size that wasn't on the bar size calculator thingy; this was Thursday afternoon. Bar arrived this morning. So a big thumbs up to Rob and DPD. 👍
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If you're still looking in a few days Al message me; I'll knock on the door of someone round the corner who had a big ash butt carved recently. Jon
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If the advisories aren't anything that cause an MOT fail (they don't by definition of course) why worry if the vehicle passed? They advise. My wife's car had an advisory last week of a chipped windscreen. Now that's not a fail in itself but the 'advice' to sort it is good advice.
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I've only found three butterflies in the logs this winter; normally I find at least a dozen. But many wasps, mostly not large enough to be queens and without wings so what are they - workers that have tried to make it through the winter? Hedgehogs; haven't seen one here for years but I was logsplitting near Gatwick in November and found a hibernating one at the bottom of the cord 'stack' (jumble). So I rapidly built a deep bed of dry leaves, put him/her in them and covered/surrounded it with a barricade of rotting wooden panels, small logs etc. Happy hedgehog sleeps hopefully.
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If you're looking to do tree work in gardens learn Lawson's Cypress, Leyland Cypress and Western Red Cedar. They look different and smell different but you should know one from the other. Pyracantha... almost every job has at least a token stem or two, often 10ft up the middle of a conifer tree. The same goes for Clematis armandii!
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Morning Rob and welcome to the forum. I know your place well being from Caterham. Your frontage belies the scope of your business though; I thought you were simply a smallish firewood supplier 🥴 My apologies! Good stuff. Jon
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Is biomass usage sustainable and as green as it is made out to be?
nepia replied to Pete Mctree's topic in General chat
...which is why I enjoy the dam destruction YouTube vids, mostly in the States but some in Spain too. There it's law that any municipal structure no longer of use must be destroyed. A heck of a science to it too it seems; you'd think that a few well placed sticks of dynamite would do the job but not by a long chalk. -
A bit pie in the sky probably but could it work for you if you shredded - shredded, not chipped - the finer green stuff but still burnt the bigger stuff? If so you need a shredder, not a chipper. Fewer cleaner bonfires too.
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Don't worry about it; I've said the same thing several times on here and it hasn't affected my softwood sales!
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I have a 2 series Husky with one Husky nut and one local hardware store wing nut so probably standard threads
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Well I have a Stihl E140 that I was given 7 or 8 years ago when it was at least 20 years old and it's been brilliant. I've invoked the thermal cutout a few times without apparent harm but then that's what it's for - to prevent harm. I can't say how much use it's had; mine's irregular in both frequency and intensity.
