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Just installed a Warn M8000 today using the Taubenreuther hidden winch mount. It took 3 hrs from start to finish so I'm well chuffed. The build quality, finish and accuracy of the fabrication is great. Highly recommended.
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Hey Alec, that sounds really interesting. Certainly a brilliant place for starting out in the tree industry... the home of root growth investigations and of the ubiquitous M9 rootstock! I'll have to investgate micro-propagation techniques further. On the subject of Elms, I'll be rooting a few cuttings myself using the excellent advice contained here. Thanks. The nurserymen around here suddenly clam up when you ask about rooting cuttings! (I wonder why?) Of course the beauty of cuttings is that you can take hundreds to improve your chances of success.
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There was the "great british elm experiment" headed by David Bellamy a few years ago. I identified a great number of large elm tree in North Yorkshire, mostly in Hawnby, and offerred to send them some genetic material. They declined. A local nursery up here sells disease resistant elm trees. I've planted a few and they're still growing strong, although not very large yet (16ft tall and perhaps 20cm girth). The nurseryman said that you can send a small twig to a lab (somewhere!) and they will take shavings of the bark, grow these in gel into small trees and send you back 200-300 rooted trees from the parent twig. I never looked into this further but the guy obviously knows what he's talking about.
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"sea buckthorn" painted green
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SG of around 0.4 i.e. 400kg/cu.m approx.
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They look home made......badly!
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Spray with petrol and set of fire, worked for me first time.
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I'm liking this idea. Legs would go through no bother. How would I deal with the head though? I've only got a 6inch chipper.
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He's obviously just a doyle who picks up the saw without thinking. They are a good product although the gold pegs look a bit spindly. These are better and save loads of time.
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Motion sensors are also good, for an early warning system, before any damage is done that would cost £££ to repair. Already got the grave dug big enough for three. Nobody would ever find it.
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Double doors with alarm vibration sensors on both. If the first one is breached, the GPRS linked alarm is calling for backup. I can be there in 30 seconds with the shotgun so you better be quick getting through that second steel door.
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A lot of really old headstones are too brittle to move, so we stack small straw bales either side, hammer fence posts in at the corners and put straps around. 9 times out of ten we never even hit them, but it's worth doing just in case.
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Fleet Tip in Bradford. Don't know what they're like.
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I wouldn't prune it back to the stem until you have spoken to the TO, because it isn't life threatening at this stage and would leave a large wound. Hard to estimate, but looks like greater than 1/3 of trunk diameter and therefore contrary to 3998. Prune it back to the sub-lateral. The contrast in the picture isn't great, but it looks like there isn't much evidence of decay, it may have been compromised by high winds and twisting earlier in the year i.e. abiotic damage rather than biotic.
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stratford eco 20 or dunsley yorkshire, we have both
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I'm so upset I can hardly type. Your name will be mud in the 70+ old dears club.
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I thought it was called Dutch Elm disease because it first affected the dutch elm tree, Ulmus x hollandica
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It sounds like the same Irish man we had 'round trying to sell us saws, "they're stihl, but they don't say stihl on them. Made in Switzerland". "Funny that", I said, "why wouldn't they say Stihl on them? And I think stihl are made in Germany anyway, but by the look of that choke lever, these look like a copy of a husqvarna, which are swedish." Not a very convincing salesman, just VERY persistent!
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Flask of hot butchers sausages and bread baps for 10 o'clocks, another flask with hot stew, chilli, bolognese or curry for dinner (more bread). Flask of coffee, two litres of water, banana, apple and pear, mixed fruit and nuts.
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Daft and irritating terminology used in this industry
Perkins replied to Goaty's topic in General chat
Popular tree, Fir tree (to mean any conifer). Our nearest competitor has 'fir tree specialist' written on his van! And on the subject of americanisations: "I'm good thanks" there are plenty of other adjectives to describe how you are feeling/doing, like 'fine', 'great', 'not bad' ,'fantastic!', 'absolutely top of the world' etc etc ect -
Work positioning harness Rope tied for DdRT with a bowline, blakes hitch and figure 8 stopper knot. Adjustable lanyard Carabiners
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I swapped a trailer load of conifer brash for two tickets (with three course lunch included) into a point-to-point race event. They were using the brash to fill out the cross-country jumps.
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£80 minimum charge will cover up to around 18inch diameter stump, then around £5 per inch diameter, or more if there are big flare roots or surface roots, or if it's really hard wood, or for any other number of reasons. Aim for £700 per day and you won't go far wrong!
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It works by exactly the same method as the stick method i.e. similar triangles. 45degrees is 100% on the scale i.e. you are standing at the point that the tip would land if you felled the tree. The bonus is that you can measure a tall tree in a small space, with greater accuracy. Good luck and happy clinometeringering
