Ben90

Agreed, plus it's naive to think that they'll be back the same day they saw it. They may be 'dodgy' but they aren't dumb. Could be six months from now, which gives you plenty of time to did a big deep pit in front of the lockup and cover it up with sticks and leaves

True, but that's easy to say when you sell all the spare sprockets and clutches

What kind of work-positioning cock-up could you find yourself in where the trigger was held in with the brake on for more than three seconds? I think I've been conditioned by now to release the trigger after no more than 0.5 seconds once realising the brake is still on:blushing:

To the OP, I do seem to remember that on my NPTC training, dropping the tip of the saw onto a stump with the chain brake off to see if the inertia mech works, but have never done it since! I will check my mech today

Have you Checked your Mech?

Looks good, just be sure there are no pipes under there!

Any ideas what might be causing the yellowing on this A. campestre? Something as basic as a nitrogen deficiency or poor planting?

Shiny

When the plug in your shower is more often clogged with sawdust instead of hair.

you genuinely appreciate getting woolly socks for christmas.

I use that exact knot but with an extra twist in the top since i use OP and i find it a bit stiffer than other friction cords.

There's also a 'Where to Buy' link on the saw page, dotting out all your nearest dealers, give one of them a call tomorrow morning over tea break!

Due to an unexpected (but should have been expected because it was a Friday afternoon) slight jack-knifing of the chipper while reversing and forgetting we were hitched up, we've caved in the red engine housing and the pull start mech.

We've decided to replace it with a cheaper option of simply the cowling and the grass cover and do away with the pull start since we've never needed to use it (famous last words) so was wondering where would be a good place to get one, or if anybody has a spares/repairs engine with an intact cowling.

I don't think it can be any old GXv620 cowling since, correct me if i'm wrong, they're usually fitted to machines with the crankshaft pointing downwards and as such don't have an aperture for the choke and throttle lever on the 'top', I assume it needs to be a Timberwolf-special upright honda cowling.

Thanks in advance.

(piccy pinched from TW website for illustration purposes only and remains property of Timberwolf)

Its easy for people to assume the worst when FC's land is being sold off to an unknown private charitable trust, especially when the news gear everything to sound bad. Bad news sells.

It's equally plausible that the land could be sold off to good-as-gold private organisations such as the National Trust (maybe not them, but people with similar intentions)

Could it be a branch from another apple thats now been removed?

 

I woulda thought a hanger would die before it had a chance to fuse with live wood.

 

Excellent though whatever the story.

Possibly! Though I don't recall seeing another stump nearby, though there may have been an old wound below where an old branch was (not completely!) removed. I'll have to check it out again at some point.

I thought it might not be such a phenomenon I photographed, since as said, apples have grafted merrily since the beginning of time! Still, I was just pretty amazed how quickly and successfully a whole severed branch managed to graft from a tiny contact point (probably only a scratch on each face exposing a small amount of meristematic tissue) and totally re-jig its vascular system to convert from the typical basipetal flow of synthates to a totally new one. I mean this hanger has all the buds in seemingly the same places it had when cut off.

I'll have to check it out in spring/summer if i remember.

Yes, I did leave it there

Was working on a small apple today and when I got down the groundsman pointed out a hanger, I though 'that's odd' because I'm usually pretty methodical and don't leave hangers behind so long as they're not out of my way. I got up again to find an old cut on the end, it wasn't even a hanger I'd left, and stranger still, it was alive!

Turns out a fork in the tree that part of it was caught in started to graft with it, so much so that the new bark next to the old cut was green, the cut itself has started to occlude and the 'hanger' is covered in buds!

Is this a bit of a phenomenon or just a silly characteristic of apple that i've only just learned about?

I've just ordered another batch of Tegeras, and was too tempted by the boot heaters not to buy them as well!

Share the love, Dean

I hear not a lot has changed, apart from some more indepth stuff on bracing, especially the non-invasive stuff.

That looks brilliant, love the light spiral in it, you caught it before it got too disfiguring.

I found this little number on my CS31 not so many years ago, felling small Douglas fir I found this at the top and kept it. Obviously I've turned it on it's head but that bulb at the end is where the tip snapped out and new apical dominance set in, forming a new leader while beautifully fulfilling the law of minimal lever arm!

The bulbous bit at the end was a whorl of smaller branches and as such has lots of knots in and might end up looking nice once somethings been done with it! I stripped the bark off as soon as i got home and it's dried perfectly with no cracking.

I can see it now, Extreme/Arbtalk Geocaching. Like geocaching, cept the cache's are hidden up in the trees; cavities, forks, whatever. You'll have to climb the tree to get the treasure, that way the run-of-the-mill geocachers don't get their mits on it.

Maybe that's what that mysterious spade-in-the-tree thread posted a while back was all about!

I'm in the Bath area so i'll keep an eye out. Seeing chippers go by always makes me look twice anyway!

I missed this, and it hasn't appeared on Iplayer =(

People love bad news, bad news sells. Well, they don't actually love it but joe public thinks he's being let in on some secret conspiracy when exposed to bad news and the response is to buy and continue buying the paper. Good news gets trumped by bad news, which is good news..if you're the news.

I've been to Watersmeet as well, amazing walk with a lovely Cafe' at the end of it, the drive there from Minehead is stunning as well, the views and cliffs..the drive up the 1/4 hill (one of the steepest in the country) haha

Amazing location, even better photos. We had some great views today too, but the visibility was really low so they didn't make for a good photo. Much clearer where you are though.

Hahah I've seen this before. Fantastic clip and Brooker is hilariously blunt. It's all true though, we're a totally hopeless country at dealing with the slightest bit of snow and the news is probably to blame for this!

Looks like a sycamore to me. Firewood is alright, far from the best but it splits like an absolute dream. If I were you and had a quiet day I would snap it up.

I prefer Halo Reacharound.