Saw-sick Steve
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In parallel with Princesses and frogs, did he kiss you?
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Peanut butter (crunchy), cucumber, red onion and Mayo. Hugely calorific, but then, all the best things are:thumbup:
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I have used dead hedging extensively in the past to stop deer browsing on regrowth with great effect. However, its very labour intensive and may not be as effective against Muntjac. Piling brash over stumps seems to be almost as effective, and involves a fraction of the work - cheaper than wire as well:biggrin:
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Have'nt we all! The trick is not to hang on to them
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Years ago, working on a National Trust woodland, we used to thin Beech and Sycamore as they were considered invasive. To prevent re-growth of stools, the warden instructed us to leave the stumps as flat as possible and cross-hatch them so they retained water and rotted. Didn't make any appreciable difference as far as i could see. Years later, managing my own woodland, i decided to experiment and cut half a coup as per BTCV manual and the other half randomly. I can honestly report that there was sod all difference in stool survival or regrowth:001_smile:
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Where abouts in Kernow, Jack? My grandfather used to farm just outside St. Agnes (Goonbell)
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Usually Moths that fall out of mine:blushing:(and notes with George V on, white fivers etc...) On a related embarrassing note, i ran out of the house this morning to catch my daughter before she left, and on closing the door behind me managed to catch my untied laces in the door and went flat on my face:sneaky2:
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Is it late enough for this yet? Cracking day today, work in the morning, great game of rugby in the afternoon, followed by friends out for a good night in the pub. Feeling pleasantly blotto now, but have got work rolling round in my head at the moment. Times like these i can really see the attraction of working for someone else and being able to switch off outside work hours:001_rolleyes:
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...you've just spent 4hrs felling in the back of beyond, on yer jack, then after dinner carefully roll a fag out of the last bit of 'baccy you've got left, then go to light it, only for yer bleddy zippo flint to break at the crucial moment and with no other source for a light:thumbdown:
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346xp IMHO, a worthy successor to the 242xp. May be worth checking out the Jonsered equivalent - basically the same saw but a bit cheaper. I do a helluva lot of coppicing, and you can't beat a Husky on the small saws.
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Stick the bag in a dustbin like you would a bin liner. Better with 2 of you admittedly, but works for us.
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Absolutely, but wheres the incentive for government to go down that road in a market economy where there are shareholders dividends to pay and profits to make?
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I always thought it was something to do with the cold breaking down the cellulose(?) and releasing the sugar, or summat like that:confused1:.
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No, no, and no! I was involved in countryside management for enough years, and woodland - particularly urban fringe woodland - was always the biggest headache and drain on resources. Apart from the annual tree safety surveys, root monitoring , path maintenance etc etc... to try and reduce the numbers of ambulance chasers, you will have all the problems outlined previously - dogs, vandals, theft, litter,etc. Its hard enough to look after with a full time Ranger, let alone as a hobby. Find a nice rural wood with no, or limited, rights of way and then you can pootle about til yer hearts content.
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Sent a lad out a few years back on a great wind up, to buy a new pen knife. He was admiring one of the lads Swiss Army knives and could'nt decide on that or an Opinel. Even better than that, says I, get a Swiss Navy knife. They're blue and much more corrosion resistant. Of course a couple of the other lads joined in, ''yeh, they've got a fish hook remover'', and ''flotation pockets so they don't sink if they go overboard'' Next week he came in on Monday morning and said he'd tried to get said knife and that one shop had never heard of it, another put the phone down, and a third burst out laughing! We kept it going for a good while, easy in those pre-google days. Couple of months later we wound him up about a gas run TV, but thats another story:biggrin:
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You mean you don't??!! You'll be telling me theres no treacle down Baldhu mine next:001_rolleyes:
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Galicia, Asturias, and the Picos are next on the list. What little i've seen of northern Spain (top end of Pyrenees, Basque country) has impressed.Where did you stay? Hotel, campsite, campervan? It always seems more complicated (and Expensive) when you've got kids. Loads of Europe i'd like to see, went to Slovakia for a wedding last year and the walking and scenery (High Tatras) was incredible - 10% of the countryside is virgin, with bear, lynx, bison etc. Just always reinforces what a tiny little overcrowded island we live on:thumbdown:
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Ah, the good old days. For years as a kid i used to think that Boxing Day was so named because of the annual Choppers v Squareheads fixture:biggrin:
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Basically the same as sloe gin. Just replace sloes with blackberries and gin with whisky. Anybody tried tree rat?
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stick 'em in the freezer overnight!
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All this wet weather must be suiting you then, what with yer webbed feet n' all. At least you had the good sense to be born in 'druth - Tremorvah by any chance? Still makes you a squarehead though. Camborne - did'nt they used to have a competitive rugby team?
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No noise/pollution - apart from when using the forwarder! Believe me, i think its great to use horses. I had a day harrowing with a pair of Shires a few years back and they're awesome beasts (and i mean that in the correct sense of the word), but i cant see how the compaction in terms of p.s.i. can be less with a horse than a track dumper or quad:confused1: By the by, what part of Kernow are you from? Please don't say Camborne - im a 'druth boy meself:thumbup:
