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armchairarborist

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  1. no slugs are cool, they clean my patio every night, after the dogs have eaten raw meat they take away the sticky patches.. i agree not nice when you pick up a log thats been on the ground overnight and squish one with bare hands, or under the lip of a plantpot when clearing for a fell..

  2. the first one is a mushroom, very edible, the last few i found happened to fall into my fryingpan with hot oil for 30seconds per side, i tried in vain to rescue them with a fork but they fell one after the other into my mouth:thumbup:.. mmm, eat on day of appearance and check for maggots by removing stem, peel before cooking..:thumbup1:

  3. Clutches going everywhere. Is it their migrating season? I've had my car done in the past 2 months and we've just had two trucks give theirs up two weeks on the trot!

     

    If there was accommodation and wages at the right price I'd do it. Would be a nice break!

     

    had disco clutch done this year and 110 lastweek, i'll bring the caravan if you can find a tracked chipper rob.. think we will get away with towing caravan behind chipper on trailer?:thumbup:

  4. i guess standing on a scaffplank between two wheelie bins is beneath you?:thumbup: saw someone doing it once next to a main road on a slope, the bins were a good 10ft apart and plank was fit for snapping:thumbdown:

  5. oh yeh, does kinda look like a blower now:blushing:, im still buzzing from spud cannon, metre long drainpipe sharpened at one end, other end has an expansion chamber thingy with a threaded rodding eye cab, gas fire ignition starter with two wires nearly touching inside, glue and tape all joints, two second burst of hairspray + spud = halfmile spud gun.., get all the bits from b+q for £45:thumbup:

  6. slowly working out how to get pics off a memory stick.. here goes, ash cut high as there were rocks jammed in lower down and a footpath circles the stump,(they get slippery you know) shallow gob into decent wood to create hinge in best timber at sides, followed by bore and release..

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  7. felled a weeping willow today with phytopthora just starting to show under branch unions and under the bark layer, the woodchip all went back to the yard as usual, but.. am i transporting a problem that hypothetically could cause a problem if dumped near unaffected but already stressed trees?:001_huh:

  8. sure would ,you cant get a landy thru a 3ft door way can you ,i can get my jensen thru & save loads of dragging :laugh1:

     

    good job i didnt put money on that, i never do really well because of the pathetic steering lock on the landy, i was thinking 'no way will a jensen go down that quarryface on the last trial' haha:thumbup:

  9. didnt get chance to nip under bonnet but found the logbook and.. well.. its the worst news, 3050kg:thumbdown:. now im really interested in getting it re-plated, anyone know the thread from this week where this was discussed?:blushing:

  10. Hi there theocus when did you get the roof rack as it's only in one pick , is it diy or made to speck , im looking for a small one to place me spare on to free room up in the back . No bonnet mount for me had bad luck with them

     

    by bad luck do you mean you got 'eaten', where the bonnet falls on you (the wheel is really heavy) its happened to me once so far.. :thumbup:

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