RobRainford

if you think how desert trees are adapted to those conditions with the C4 photosynthetic and CAM cycles where they will carry out a lot of their respirational processes at night when the chances of water loss through evaporation is a lot less, by opening stomata at night they can respire in cooler conditions and release stored CO2. They also grow their roots to find water deeper beneath the surface, i did desert plants and adaptations for an assignment. Cacti for example have the stem as their 'leaf' and have the spines for protection to stop heat getting inside because of attack from birds for example. they store vast amounts of water in their trunks also. Look at the baobab trees, they store huge amounts of water in their stems, so they must put on growth somewhere, it may be constant all year round at a very slow rate, or it may speed up in winter where they can cope with the cooler conditions. Tropical trees, its more like a constant growing season, but during cooler months they will slow their growth down, which will give them a sort of ring. But not as we see in our trees over here. For example, an oak with its ring porous cells has huge 'transport potential' where it has large rings which will take up huge amounts of sap. If you look at these down a microscope (ive got photos of it somewhere) you can see the difference in the seasonal variation and where each growing season starts and finishes. The diffuse porous species such as willows have lots of evenly sized ones spread out, which gradually decrease during the year, leaving more lignified areas later in the year, which give us the dark rings. THis is also a reason how species like oak and willow differ in certain conditions for example an oak will suffer more during drought because water may not stick together forming a contstant stream inside the large pores, and as each one is disconnected, it loses more of its transport potential, where if a willow was in a dry condition, the spaces are smaller, meaning it needs less water to fill it, and losing one of these is a very small loss compared to an oak losing one. Dendrochronology can only give a range, you could very well count the rings, but trees that are thousands of years old, may not even have all the rings they should!

i would only worry about water content in the fuel if there was moisture in the air inside which condensed and mixed with the fuel, i over a short term i wouldnt see it as a major issue, but if its left for a long time then its time to think about storage.

Ladys zimmer frame made of little trees. Surprisingly

chicken balls and cow juice which he

you can beat it, but thats called landing!

weve got that shiny lookin skidplate and shackles but thats it, its only used on golf courses and football pitches so it doesnt need a winch. it would look cool with one though!

We put up a lot this time of year. I imagine around 20! I'm always involved with a few. Mainly doing the saw work. We did a 65' Sitka in Liverpool a couple of years ago. We were there till 1am!

Tom we don't have a winch! Next time we will set up a rope through a pulley. Clip on and drive away and zzzziiippp up you go!

I use towa activegrip. Nice and thin. £4 a pair and I find the grip does last longer than cheapie builders gloves. But if you sweat it smells pretty quick. Doing groundwork lifting and dragging brash they don't last long but are ok. I use cheap leather gloves for groundwork. Good for protection against thorns and are fairly warm. Not waterproof though!

It's a proper bish bash bosh job which I love'

Hhaha love it. Turn the picture over and it looks funny!

Here's the hedge. Where the farmer has cut it it needs to be on that level or just below. I know a guy who may want all the chip so that's sorted. As you can see. Access is good. Fairly easy job although the hedge has been topped a while ago so it's all thin regrowth

Darren they were all nice playing trees. The pic of me holding up my silky I'm 30ft out and there's still a bit left. Nice big limbs everywhere. Couldn't climb that tree the same twice. The sycamore we anchored the zipline to is one of the taller trees we have. When shall we have the next one? I think after Christmas is my next bit of free time! The upside down lunge is in the facebook album. I stuck them all up so I didn't miss any. I think robarb had a few pics we don't possibly?

Ed I love that one of me with my silky up in the air. Rec climbs are good for a chat and just mucking around generally. I'm knackered as I've not climbed so much in ages!

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heres all the vids, anything named arbtalk climbing day is from today YouTube - rainyrain90's Channel

thats a bit low really, i would feel guilty trying to explain the pictures to anybody else, as i wouldnt know anything about it, i struggle enough with my own photos!

ive got all the photos and videos, give me a bit more time this evening and ill link all the videos on here and attach a few photos. Ill make a new thread so its easier to view, may need a few posts to get everything in. Cheers for coming down lads, had a smashing day weather was perfect. plenty of lunge poses and some general horsing around!

Well Ed has the pictures of some great mid lunges from the last one. Mine is charged and ready to snap some daft photos!

Well I've been and bought supplies for tomorrow. Raided asda and got a good haul. Feel free to bring whatever you want. I'll provide lunch and there's a good amount of liquid here

wa105qg is to my yard, if it asks you for a house number put number 2, we are just after where it takes you. the first farm on the left. there will be a little christmas tree on the driveway outside

Free Hand for quickness and a little touch up. File guide if I want to get a good edge. I've made a chain cut straighter using a file guide than it was brand new. Cut faster too!

mines coming from a southerly direction oh you meant outside, yeah its wild! i might have to go and put a brick on my car to stop it blowing away!