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  1. John Barleycorn
    A lot of Magnolias are cultivars grafted onto a more common Magnolia rootstock. Watch out for it causing suckering from the base.
  2. John Barleycorn
    Wood looks too pale for Acacia. I took down a 20 in dia very old Hazel 18 months ago & it looked exactly like that.
  3. John Barleycorn
    Wood looks too pale for Acacia. I took down a 20 in dia very old Hazel 18 months ago & it looked exactly like that.
  4. John Barleycorn
    Leave stacked as cordwood for a year & then cut & throw under cover a few months before using.
  5. John Barleycorn
    My theory is that sawpod is a spoonerism. paw sod or rather poor sod
  6. John Barleycorn
    Ash seed is best planted green (August or if lucky, September). It will germinate immediately.
  7. John Barleycorn
    You are right, the answer is NO. Every fire needs a separate flue or it wont draw.
  8. John Barleycorn
    Best one I ever heard of was to get a woman announcer on a pa system at a fete to ask " has anyone seen Mike Hunt"
  9. John Barleycorn
    Ringbark everything to be cut as soon as you get on site. This can be to clearly identify everything to be cut.
  10. John Barleycorn
    They were going to use a Bigfoot suit, but were out of stock. Clacton visitor numbers were way down so they were desperate. Next week it will be aliens in Southend.
  11. John Barleycorn
    Whats the small print on your insurance? Deliberately failing to use appropriate PPE ?
  12. John Barleycorn
    Only ever been to two in my life. But the other weekend went to one in Kent & picked up a brand new French made woodcarving mallet with a composite head for £2.50 normal price about £40- Also a nice book on plant propagation for a quid, written by an actual expert rather than some tv celeb gardener.
  13. John Barleycorn
    I dont believe in destiny in the way that you mean, but neither do I beleve in free will. I DO believe that the world is "deterministic". In other words, if you think of atoms as billiard balls, there is no way that there is any other outcome from their interaction. Certainly no influencing an outcome by "thinking", which itself is of course is part of the deterministic process. In other words, the whole world is part of a giant process, like the scattering of snooker balls in a break, which we are unable to change, influence or determine the outcome of now that it has been set in motion.
  14. John Barleycorn
    Surrounded here by fields only cut for hay in summer & run a few sheep over winter. If they farmed it as I do my veg patch not only would it feed thousands, would employ loads of people & cut food imports. Something is wrong with this economy.
  15. John Barleycorn
    More commonly confused with Hawthorn
  16. John Barleycorn
    Looks to me like a Bullace, or a cross with some other Prunus. Found a lot growing wild in hedgerows near Faversham Kent. Made fantastic jam, started as green slime, but suddenly tuned purple.
  17. John Barleycorn
    I know of a case of a farmer who took on a farm with an agricultural occupancy & did farm. However he had trouble with the council planning some years later as they found he was running a firewood business & buying in all of the wood for processing. They only backed off when he convinced them he had been doing it for over ten years.
  18. John Barleycorn
    Dont forget that on the pole pruner you must slack off the chain when not in use.
  19. John Barleycorn
    You dont need a ratchet. I remember at school almost 50 years ago there was a treddle lathe. The treddle drove a large flywheel via a crank. The flywheel drove a small pulley on the tailstock via a round leather belt. Depending on which way you started it, you could run it clockwise, or anticlockwise. Flywheel smoothed out the motion. easy.
  20. John Barleycorn
    I agree, all apples should be pruned for shape in summer.
  21. John Barleycorn
    Not bad, bit unstable, would need anchors. couple of years back I posted a pic of my yard full of them. They used to sell well, but now everyone is doing them, even B&Q I am told.
  22. John Barleycorn
    I think you used to be able to get a comb type attachment for small Stihl saws that turned them into hedgecutters, dont know if still available.
  23. John Barleycorn
    Have seen them at that price, they are extremely slow & you can split by hand faster using wedges or maul, or in fact if you "are avoiding knots" you could use your axe!
  24. John Barleycorn
    Great one, have not laughted so much since my brother in law tried to iron his crumpled shirt collar after he had put it on.
  25. John Barleycorn
    Dont kid yourself about using a ladder. I just had a lot of work done to my roof & they scaffolded it. Roofer says that due to health & safety regs they are not allowed to use a roofing ladder for any job that takes over 30 mins

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