nepia
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Thanks. The missus had a look at Marketplace on my behalf; don't think they were there. Hardly surprising if they were going free! Cheers. And I've just looked up where Malton is!
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I'm heading north via Manchester to drop off timber to a forum member, then Newcastle for the night. I'd moaned at the wife earlier how the country's IBC cages seemed to be in Greater Manchester and West Yorks except for a few in Brizzle and Wales; she looked at me with a stern face and said 'you're not taking your trailer (8x5 tipper) to Manchester are you? Mick and Helen (in Newcastle) haven't got room to keep it for you while you're in Scotland'!!!
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That would be true if IBCs were their main business but the IBCs were a by-product from the activities of a plastics company.
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Do they exist?! Nearly all internet/ebay searches take you north west for cages to be had in a more sensible way than '3 available for £60ea'! My excellent cheap source near Dartford - £12.50 per cage or £10 for a dented one - has gone under it seems; a shame. I only need 4 to 6 for now but not urgently; I'm off to Scotland on Thursday! Helpful suggestions welcomed. Cheers, Jon
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Those Blues are pretty. There seems to have been a hatch of meadow Browns about a fortnight ago; there are dozens about. Saw my first Small Copper of the year yesterday on a lawn daisy.
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Oak coppicing's nothing new; hang around for 30 years and harvest yourself some staves! Sorry Billhook - I'm being about as much help as an ashtray in a hang glider.
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Can you identify all the tree's/shrubs in this picture?
nepia replied to SD92's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Agreed though I think the Euonymus is one variegated plant that's reverting. -
Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
nepia replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Good move putting the information flyer on it. Little cost or effort to do it but a load of grief avoided and public informed. -
You're right again! ?
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That is absolutely superb. I love the way you even carved the Ganoderma brackets on the stem ?
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Difficult to be sure but after flicking through two volumes of The Moths Of The British Isles ? I'd guess it's an Umber, of which there are a few.
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Yeah it's a bit of an issue. Experience so far on that score includes the one Tesla charging point at Clackets Lane being busy when it was needed, the one in the National Trust car park at the top of Reigate Hill being blocked by a white van (what else?!) but monthly trips to Newcastle being easy because there are 16 Tesla charging points at Grantham!
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Sat in friends' garden last night with necessary nutrition. This is his new company car - £80k Tesla. 0-60 in 3.6s. Among the many features is a gaming one that allows you to play a kind of Super Mario using the car's steering wheel and pedals! Please don't ask how the financing works - I have no idea - but he pays £200 this year and £800 next year; I know no more. And doesn't my phone take the crappest pics, esp at night!
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Maybe the UK should plant more....
nepia replied to Squaredy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I wonder what happened to its top half! Cheers. -
You got half a day?!
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I'm no fung or tree surveyor but even I can see the benefit of that. It's like seeing straight into the tree. That's excellent; clients can be shown exactly what their problem is and not have to - perhaps hesitatingly - rely on the arb's word for it.?
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Will my apple tree die if i lay artificial turf on top?
nepia replied to asif's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Was on the telly yesterday (I think) that borage refills its nectar supply in just 2 minutes after a bee visit whereas other plants take hours. -
I withdraw! Privet it is!
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Sure; the plant may well be privet but the presence of the flying adult moth on it doesn't make it so!
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I wouldn't have had that down as privet! Escallonia perhaps? ?
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Doesn't the indent in the edge of the bracket suggest it pushed its way round the hazel stem? The hazel spearing the bracket from below wouldn't cause it.
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Norway Maple of some variety I'd say. Environmental conditions will dictate final size but it's not done yet! It looks like it's been reduced in the past at 12-14'...?
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That's special and you've captured the purple sheen fantastically. I believe rotting meat is also irresistible to them ?
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That's a great haul. I'll bid Brimstone Moth, Large and Small Elephant Hawks and a Buff Tip in there. Pic 4 may well be a Carpet. Am I close?!
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The Puss Moth we have and the one with the hairy caterpillars in the US are different species. That said the UK one can squirt formic acid but that's nothing it seems to the effect of the US one's hairs.
