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? No problems so far but I should shouldn't I.
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Perhaps not so much with pure rapeseed oil; it's the last in the queue to congeal. I use nothing else in my saws and have no problems but then I rarely use a big bar though I recently spent a day ringing up 24-36" with a 30" bar and don't seem to have suffered undue wear. I never use any other veg oil; I think they do congeal. Of course even rapeseed oil will over months.
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If that's a Wedding Cake tree it's been cut in a way that destroys the point of having it so I doubt it's that! Also the tree doesn't seem to be trying to stratify its structure. Of course it may not be a Cornus at all!
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Yeah, we ended up dangling a couple of ornaments just inside. We really didn't fancy a plastic kestrel gently swinging in the lounge!
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Maybe the UK should plant more....
nepia replied to Squaredy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Thus creating a small corner of New South Wales! Thanks very much. Jon -
A week after leaving school I went to work on a large estate in West Sussex, turning up on time on the Monday morning and introducing myself. 'You need to speak to Bill X, the foreman. Ah here he comes now'. And there was Bill, a man in his 50s, wandering up the yard with a 9' sleeper under each arm!
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It certainly is. Wow. What a beautiful animal.
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There's the Cornus test (again!): very carefully tear a leaf across the central vein but don't let the two halves separate. As you slowly pull them apart you'll see a fine filament of latex-like sap if it's Cornus. I think it's a good shout from tomo, certainly as far as the leaf goes. The fruit is nothing like that on my Cornus alba but that doesn't really mean a lot.
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Yep, that's it. Look at meeee... thud!
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Maybe the UK should plant more....
nepia replied to Squaredy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
That Leyland plantation is Tolkienesque! I've never heard of the ability of MP to coppice; I assumed that cutting the stem below the existing branch line would kill it. Another schoolday - thanks. As an aside... you have great knowledge of East Sussex; do you know anything of the history of the Euc plantation beside the A21 at Lamberhurst? It's been there most, if not all of my life and that started when Yuri Gagarin was doing his thing! -
That's good news. Having a bird kill itself against your house window makes you feel guilty about being a human being! We have a picture window that allows imperfect vision right through the house. It has the blood of a couple of blackbirds, tits and a Gr.Spotted Woodpecker fledgling on its hands. Pigeons have bounced off, one leaving a most artistic detailed outline of a bird with wings spread.
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Rescued this little one unharmed from a soft-mouthed cat last week
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A small point but the Brazil figure is almost certainly well ahead of ours as they aren't counting Covid deaths in the favellas according to a Brazilian friend.
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Good one. Maintaining the Sarf East beetle theme my lad had this in his garden in Beckenham a couple of days ago
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Which is why I lay mine on top of a pallet on top of the full IBC. That reason and because it allows further airflow across the top of the logs.
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How about weaving the extra finer wire in and out of the verticals and tensioning it on every post with big staples?
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I use Tarpaulin Heavy Duty Ground Sheet Camping Tarp 185gsm Blue/Brown WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Blue/Brown Heavy Weight Tarpaulin 185gsm. At 185gsm, our new Brown / Blue tarpaulins begin the heavy duty range of... The oldest ones are at least 5 years old and I'd give them 8/10 for condition.
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...but reasonable tarps aren't expensive!
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Er - no but I can't wait for the video! Not very helpful - sorry ? To be a bit more constructive... I'd say that successful chipping of that dreadful foliage would depend on the chipper being able to grab a tip via a powered infeed roller or two while you jump out of the way. Feeding the stuff into a gravity fed machine would be a form of torture I'd say. But if you do it I wish you the best of luck.
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Pear!
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As they're on conifers I'd say Phaeolus schweinitzii is a good candidate; a bit difficult telling from knackered old brackets though! In the extraordinary event I'm right it's not good news for the trees. But wait for better knowledge to come along.
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But then the bark does look more like pine than plum!
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I'd say beech for pics 1&2, ash for pic 3; the black ball of Daldinia concentrica makes it highly likely.
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That's good to know. I've only ever had any quantity of it for firewood use on one occasion. I didn't get round to processing it for nearly a year by which time it had noticeably degraded and quite a lot went to waste. Sorry Al if you're reading!
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Maybe the UK should plant more....
nepia replied to Squaredy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yuletide bedecking does indeed still occur
