RobRainford

fly tipping of the material seems to be a big spreader of the plant. Plus it really does take nothing to make it grow. theres a pub near me with a farmers field at the back full of it at the edge. You would think its a hedge theres that much!

knowledge is power. you know what to do, do it right, do it well, do it fast, do more, earn more!

if it wasnt able to hold you, why would you be using it? just lay off the cakes and pasties and you wont need to worry as much!

willow? very wet, thick bark. first pic looks like its either been rubbed a lot or has had ivy on it a bit like steve said. can i see pine needles in the bottom right of pic 1? just in the blurry bit.

the kid got suspended for defending himself? no justice! that little kid deserved every second of that smackdown! i thought the big lad was going to jump on him or something but that would have been insult to injury! Bullying isnt fair to anyone. You just dont know what those people are going through, or what you make them think. Its caused some pretty nasty things!

bark seems thick enough to be a Pinus sp. especially with the deep fissuring which is characteristic of pines. Pine wood, mainly scots pine, is good for kindling and will light off a match if dry enough. Makes good logs too, only if very very dry though.

If you want a Navaho then get it without the seat. They are good harnesses. For extra quickness go for the Navaho fast. It has the posh petzl buckles that make it easier to get on and off. They are good simple harnesses!

i tried out the gold rings on my petzl the other day, for when your tied with main line to your left and then have to strop to your right and its a bit of a squeeze, clipping into those rings makes it a lot comfier!

look along dual carrigeways, youll find bits along there where its blown off a truck and rooted. It is everywhere, theres loads round here.

Our new landy pulls 3.5. Updated springs means we can put 1.5t in the back and it sits down an inch or two. I've had a bit more than I should in our 12ft ifor trailer. Bit more than the landy was rated to. It pulled itself home from Bradford. I didn't want to attempt the weighbridge!

He might have been talking about the new husky topper!

i use poison ivy for my lanyard, it is very smooth and works well with a distel tied short with 8mm ocean polyester, i wouldnt mind buying a long length for climbing on, but my main line has a while in it yet!

I must be in a special club then, i got a free set from Ian to help me on my way. Sorry to derail a bit, but how much would it be to sharpen the blades? mine have dulled a bit already!

i got an ex demo 18hp last week, i am impressed with how they perform, as long as you are gentle with feedng it dense conifer then they do the job well!

near me on knowsley estate, private estate, we are tenants and i asked them nicely so they let me have a wander round, i can get permission and can bring you with me one time if you want? its a great place, utter silence from anything man-made! pheasant pen, big area there, they are well into their game shooting!

id be up for a summer wander round some famous woods went for a walk round a woodland for one of my assignments today, was a rather nice wood, some sections of larch, soem pine, hemlock, oak and sycamore, lots of birch riddled with Piptoporus betulinus, i had a couple of goes at pushing them, one, two, three crack over they go! There was a nice range of species here, some nice burry sweet chestnuts, a tree that was hellbent on phototropism and a lime that may need a thin! some really nice oaks there, showing some nice body language for hamas perusal!

dear santa...

and then have a quick game of angry birds with your brew!

i used to play, but life took over and now they just sit in the shed gathering dust, got given almost a full set from a guy i know, bought a few clubs to finish it off. You can have them all to polish and sell on for £100 delivered if you want!

seems like you can use it for some types of food: Japanese knotweed flowers are valued by some beekeepers as an important source of nectar for honeybees, at a time of year when little else is flowering. Japanese knotweed yields a monofloral honey, usually called bamboo honey by northeastern U.S. beekeepers, like a mild-flavored version of buckwheat honey (a related plant also in the Polygonaceae). The young stems are edible as a spring vegetable, with a flavor similar to mild rhubarb. In some locations, semi-cultivating Japanese knotweed for food has been used as a means of controlling knotweed populations that invade sensitive wetland areas and drive out the native vegetation.[10] Some caution should be exercised when consuming this plant because it, similar to rhubarb, contains oxalic acid, which may aggravate conditions such as rheumatism, arthritis, gout, kidney stones or hyperacidity.[11] Both Japanese knotweed and giant knotweed are important concentrated sources of resveratrol, replacing grape byproducts. Many large supplement sources of resveratrol now use Japanese knotweed and use its scientific name in the supplement labels. The plant is useful because of its year-round growth and robustness in different climates.[12] Japanese knotweed is a concentrated source of emodin, used as a nutritional supplement to regulate bowel motility. The roots of Japanese knotweed are used in traditional Chinese and Japanese herbal medicines as a natural laxative. The active principle responsible for the laxative effect is emodin, present in its natural form as a complex of its analogs. Emodin has a mild laxative effect in doses of 20 to 50 mg per day. Methanol extracts of the roots of Polygonum cuspidatum (Polygonaceae), traditionally used in Korea to maintain oral health, were shown to reduce the viability of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus as well as inhibit sucrose-dependent adherence, water-insoluble glucan formation, glycolytic acid production and acid tolerance. The authors suggested that inhibitory effects may be mediated by the presence of alkaloids, phenolics and sterol/terpenes in the extract.[13] Wikipedia ALso look at http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Web%20Recipes/Apple%20and%20Knotweed%20Pie.html

wooded does the blower come with tubes and stuff? im very interested

somebody called the fire brigade and not the council? that was the first mistake, then allowing the fire crew to try and tackle a simple task for properly equipped guys, they seemed to make it such a pillava that it just put them in a bad light!

Whereabouts in Penrith? There's a bnb near matterdale end where i went past the days I did my cs32 training.

why does it tend to be beech that get hammered? seems to be a favourite among butchers! I wish i had more big pruning jobs had a couple of small ones and tickled them nicely, customer was made up, had a customer phone about a line of beech at the back that they wanted topped, had been done in the past, i said i wont butcher them again but would cut out the competing stems and then leave one to regrow and hopefully regain some shape, they didnt seem too happy that i wanted to give the trees some dignity back!

try a full chisel chain, i assume your running .325 chain?, low rakers will try to grip too much in the wood, keep them as you would with normal sharpening, i find mine cut just as well if not slightly better in dead wood, depending on its condition. Low rakers will kill the power of your saw, especially when its a small one like a 230.