RobRainford

I have poison ivy with a lockjack and find itself tends well when your high enough. Doesnt need much height.

Cool. Mistletoe is an odd thing! I always wondered where it came from and then saw huge 7' balls in a couple of poplars. When we sell it at Christmas I encourage people to grow their own!

We've got a pigeon print on our kitchen window. Makes me laugh every time!

I second the secateurs, I did one and found I was using those more than the silky. Much quicker and a cleaner cut on a lot of the smallest stuff! I've got a few side reductions coming up and I still get a bit wary on them. Having a good guy on the ground is key to help get your eye in and making sure they don't look daft!

a hilux! cant go far wrong with a bit, well a lot, of waxoil, winch and some big tyres!

When I used our crew cab nav there was only just enough room for gear in the back seats. I was thinking king cab navara for myself but there's even less room in that. I would go for a single cab like cts and build a toolbox into the tipper

No point in calling police tbh, just get straight onto the council and relevant people to get the ring barked tree down. The first is just mature sycamore bark, it flakes in it's old age, kinda like skin

What length per season would you consider slow/medium/fast growth rates? Im looking for info on a couple of things and all i see is slow medium and fast, i wouldnt mind a length! i know it can vary due to site and conditions but surely someone has an average? id think <6" is slow 6-12" medium and 12"+ is fast, or is that too much?

If you cut the top off a chilli, clean it out inside and then roast them in the oven like that till soft, stuff them with mascarpone cheese mixed with a few herb and stuff. The chilli gives you a nice kick and aren't too crunchy and the cheese helps to put the fire out!

The crane could be used for timber. Crane feeding a cs100 would be interesting though.

We've got some in our poly tunnel. 1000,000 scoville chills. I'm scared to use them!

Could you not mount a crane to the chipper? The hydraulic capacity may be a problem though, but a chipper running at working speed, could it run a crane if it was feeding two pumps? If you were going to stick a chipper on the pto of the wagon, go for a pto greenmech cs100, only needs 20hp!

I've only ever found a sycy leaf as big as my face, not quite as big as that though rob. I hope you were killing it, it must have been a mutant Syc that was going to grow 6x normal size

I've had some use out of the phat strop now, courtesy of Mr Collins . Thanks Andy. I've been using it with a silky sugoi 360 It was handy on a reduction over a conservatory, I cut a sizeable branch and had hold of it with one hand but needed two and couldn't manage to get the silky away. Having the phat strop on, I just dropped it, felt weird at first thinking just let go. It dropped, bounced around a bit, albeit a little more than I'd liked as it could catch my ropes quite easily due to the weight of the saw. It came in very handy on a few situations like that and bing able to let it hang made my life easier After only a few days total use, the elastic sheath has become very furry very quickly and 'bobbled' so it catches on Velcro and gets worse. I used it with the saw strapped to my leg. Wasn't all that bad, it did create a bit of a loop that got caught on a few little bits on branches that nearly pulled my saw onto my lanyard, nearly a brown trouser moment but it was avoided thankfully! It's handy on your leg, but it's a compromise, if you hang your saw on your harness it would be pretty good, although that loop again can still get caught and having it down next to your leg you could manage it easier. I had no problem with the elastic limiting my reach at any time. Then again, I'm not exactly tall at 5'8"! I was stretching the elastic but it's not very strong so doesn't impede cutting any more than an awkward cutting position! I'll get a good bit more use and see how it fares, these are early impressions after a bit of use. They are handy when you need them, so they are a good addition, however, watch for the bounce back when you drop it near your lines, try to drop it like a chainsaw and lower it down if possible as that minimises bounce. If it couldn't be dropped easily, using the black elastic loop at the end you can clip it up to your harness temporarily on a darkroom or anything with a clip, or hold it in your teeth like a pirate. (Aarrr! ) Hope that covers everything!

lets hope the dog mistakes the drawstring on their trackies for a rope on a tree and does a good job of preventing them from adding to the gene pool

myerscough does all the courses you require, other than that millhouse training in skelmersdale does too

It does look like it's got honey fungus, look at all those brown leaves! It'll get the hedge next!

I'll take a guess at Homoerectus climberus var. Buzzycutter 2nd pic: oh noo it's going the wrong way! Love the vid. Wish I could work that quick.

:biggrin:I would think your bang on the money with that. The very slight serrations are what got me thinking Holly too, nice one!

Does looking at it on google street view count? I'd say £150 for me on that job, spike up the back, bosh off in one cut, trying to create some fracture pruning habitat and feed it to Gloria and the groundy to the piranhas if he's not quick enough

You can apply for career development loans at direct.gov.uk. Im not sure on the intricacies of it because ive not looked to deep into it. I've been thinking of applying for a them to get through a few tickets. Depends how reasonable they are though.

I have used some 19mm DE briefly and it felt fairly supple and nice to use I own some 13mm Portland braid and have been pleased with it, it's SWL works out about 600kg ish and I've dropped lumps of a decent size on it. Knots well and feels nice in your hand. Not too rough but not as smooth as D E

Should have just left your foot in there to cool it down! Or took all the shelves out and got in there yourself

Ill google that and see. The toothing on the leaves is what's had me too!

Claus mattheck books are very visual, terms and bits in them may be a little tricky to grasp but are simple enough when linked with the pictures. I've only got one but want to buy more. Body language of trees Stupsi explains the tree < on my wishlist! I'm sure a certain dryad will recommend these books too!