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RobArb

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  1. Yes i do:biggrin: I've got a friend who lives in West Virgina whos got a Platanus occidentalis in her front garden and we always bicker about which is the sycamore and which isn't:lol:
  2. no its heald wood in stockport
  3. Some nice chatty trees today and yesterday first lot, a phototropic oak searching for light second, sycamore limb reaching out and being supported by graft thirdly, ash growing on top of a cliff at a weird angle ontop of a cavity with roots showing (how its still standing i'll never know!)
  4. yep forgot to submit first time round, done now:001_rolleyes:
  5. todays job, a bit of rhodi bashing:biggrin: (helps if i put pics on)
  6. I keep finding stuff:thumbup1: What if its not sphaeroblasts its torpedo aerated water bottles! Found this in the woods today filled with mud and leaves Looked it up, its a torpedo water bottle embossed with Schweppes & Co, Siberner's Street, Oxford Street, Genuine Superior, Aerated Water:001_smile: Circa 1840-1870, worth about £20-£30 quid but i'm keepin it:001_rolleyes:
  7. Sycamores here are Acer pseudoplatanus not Platanus occidentalis:biggrin:
  8. I've got the mora erik frost knives, awesome they are and i've done loads of whittling with them and they're still sharp! Its addictive once you start:biggrin:
  9. Gotta love what we do full stop, climbing, cutting, felling.. we get paid to do this, thumbs up all round:lol:
  10. I've seen that fossil in the article No not the one in Wuda:lol:, the one in Bacup:thumbup:
  11. nope! Paid for all my own quals, not a penny from anyone but myself
  12. i used to work for a council, and i for one am not lazy, or anything else mentioned (a few definately where though:lol:) and i was definately NOT overpaid! and i agree that they shouldn't be able to tender for private contracts
  13. ps, thats an incense cedar:001_smile:
  14. Calocedrus decurrens:001_rolleyes:
  15. Ah but what you didn't see was the rotted base round the front, so i just went for a decent hinge a bit higher up:lol: You didn't, coz he wasn't there!
  16. Nice job, and nice big chunk of wood. Whats the plan with it? Firewood?
  17. here you go:thumbup:
  18. Trust me, you can't tell from that angle but there was honestly lots of steep, slippy muddy slope and lots of brambles! I'll post some pics
  19. buff it with what?
  20. in the background:001_rolleyes: Why'd you ask?
  21. Found this underneath an alder on a FC site in salford any suggestions on how to make it look prettier than it does?
  22. Nice littlew job today doing some woodland thinning:thumbup: This was one of the fells... Need to start putting all the vids together but need a decent video editor! [ame] [/ame]
  23. and they also have pneumataphores:001_smile:
  24. is it any good this MPGED?

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