RobRainford

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.

holiday lunge, not a massive effort, french eople kept staring at me. they must have been jealous

it doesnt even look like softwood, looks a bit like ash?

i would be interested in that cord, but is 6mm a bit thin?

WOW! That was awesome, love the effect of the sound and the through the porthole effect!

i thought blue smoke was related to the turbo, but i wouldnt imagine the van to have one given its age. Other than that, i would say oil too, is there no way you can get a smell of it so you can see?

I can see where customers might see that as a good idea "oh if he's on here he must be ok" but you can't beat face to face interaction. There's a few sites like this. They want a fee so you can give 'free' quotes. I saw builders and plumbers giving silly money quotes on jobs which I would price a lot higher.

Sorry it's sold now! Didn't take long. Cheers anyway

I reflect green mans comments. I never intended to offend anybody, if it did I apologise too. It was late for me so I just put what was first thought of. It's a horrible ordeal, I can't imagine how you could feel during any part of that situation. I never want a situation like this to happen to anybody I work with. Whenever someone starts reaching into chippers either to grab something out that won't go through or push that little log in, I always have my Hand on the reverse roller button. As much bad practice reaching in is, I'd rather be able to keep my colleagues uninjured than maimed or even killed. Thoughts out to the guy and his family!

I bet you said 'oopsie daisy' and 'oh bother' a bit! How did you manage to do that?

rob if you want, depending on exams, we could both go up there in may and to the other shows and share the driving/fuel for a day?

my dad did learn some italian with the rosetta stone stuff, took some classes, its still on his ipod which h leaves playing in the house and you walk in to hear the stereo talking italian! i woud love to learn a second language, i seem to be able to get the gist of what italian says and i did german at school but the teachers didnt help with the enthusiasm. then again, i struggle with english sometimes

they will have a shelf life, as they degrade from UV rays and being generally knocked around, but most of my kit hasnt had lots of use over 2 years, so theres still at least double that left, but other people may have the same kit and use it 6 days a week for 2 years and some parts of it wouldnt be worth picking up!

I agree with that. Just man up and take a battering! Love my cs100. I have a brush that is handy for shoving bits in. Sometimes a stick with a fork on so I can shove them In too. Plus it's ok if you catch the end on the blades! Self propelled would make it a great chipper. But why not just get your second guy to help you drag it round?

I heard dick Turpin was terrified of it!