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I have one o walker of dogs and like it a lot. However if the intention is to drop large logs onto it from a height and smash the sides about with diggers, tractors etc don't get one; the sides are double skinned so don't flatten out with a sledge or digger bucket. The high sides are light weight too but I'm a sole trader so am the only one using my kit. There are 3 pairs of in-floor lashing points; why not one more pair I don't know; it would make a difference. The catches/securing mechanisms are simple and easy to work. Removing the sides and extending the posts is likewise; quick, easy and safe. The rear doors are barn doors which is fine but I keep forgetting to open them before I reverse into a tight unloading area! Towing with my Navara is no problem at all. The tipping mechanism is easy to access and hasn't given me any problems; there's a kill switch in the side of the frame at the front and a trailer hitch-type plug on the end of a decent wander lead with magnetic control box. The bed is low which is good for loading and for low centre of gravity but it does mean that when tipping you have to draw out the load in a caterpillar as it quickly backs up from the ground to the trailer bed. I'm very happy with mine. Questions - ask away. Jon

? No pond envy here!

That pond's about 40x12x4ft; there's another better measured in fractions of an acre! The families never share a pond; this lot - the older one - bully the other from pond to pond. I'm surprised the crows and foxes haven't had more; indeed a hen pheasant met her doom two nights ago 5 yards from the 'lake'.

Me again; I'm not stalking you AJS, we just live in the same bit of the country! This is one of two families living in my father-in-law's garden.

Heard one near Horsham yesterday. The first I've heard at all in at least two years. Hooray!

A locally well known miller near me died a few years back (and happily his son's continuing the business). He was a bit of a Land Rover buff - otherwise he was OK ? - and was buried in a coffin his son and friends made from his own stock with a sticker on it 'Don't follow me - you won't make it'!

Watched a Coal Tit showering this arvo in our red-leaved plum: it would perch under the end of a branch, then reach up and bash it to knock off the raindrops. Having used those drops it would then move on to a different branch and repeat. Something I've never seen before.

Even if I don't need the blower at the end of a job I try to remember to take it for just this reason. It is bloody annoying to start the next day's job with a starter cord that won't budge.

Angle shades for comparison; they are similar aren't they and what camouflage.

Another one for Lime Hawk.

Nice to see someone managing to keep busy and be productive ?

A neighbour in Caterham is doing a self-build extension and wants 60m² of larch cladding. He's flexible on the spec for the boards - his words were 'whatever's available really'. So is anyone on here in a position to maybe help? Thanks, Jon

They're on my mate's farm at Wick skimming the ponds he's scraped out!

Exactly that. I bought solid tyres for the Jo Beau but they don't have the needle axle bearings that the originals do. They made the machine at least 50% harder to push.

Other way round I think to be pedantic! Cardinal beetle has red everything unless it's a Black-headed cardinal beetle; and they look very like Lily beetles! So have you been squashing Cardinal beetles AJS?! ?

...speaking of which I was sent this from Wick, Caithness this morning. Flowering currant ?

We started from scratch a month ago. Not only the substance side of testing needed to be set up but all the logistics to go with it; places to do it, deciding who got it first, telling those people where to go when, how they were to prove their identity... all to be made possible via software programmes that didn't exist. As I said we were late to the party but there is much work going into getting widespread testing up and running efficiently.

It's coming... We're just late to the party.

An alien world to me but excellent and fascinating pics David

Helps the eardrums too! We're 20 mins from LGW and the silence is deafening as well as thoroughly welcome.

Hi Josh. I like to make a fool of myself with these 'ID' threads so... I'll say that's a willow of some type, quite likely Goat Willow Salix caprea. The bark is right for me but especially salient is the orange colour of the cut wood. Poplars are closely related so it may also be one of those. But I may just be making a fool of myself ?

The Fab Four's hair may have been slicked at times but that's a bit strong ?

No.8; Small Copper That's me done ?

I'm going for female Orange Tip too!

What a stunner. Sadly I can't Like 5 times.