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People have been warned to be on the lookout for these containers and must not open them, ever.
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Yeah I saw that, specifically at a location in Cumbernauld. Radioactive waste seems to have been further distributed from this point but is contained in an orange fluid held stored in small metal cans.
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Propellers started spinning backwards and leached all the elecky out the wires.
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I think this one has been in negotiation for a few years now.
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Turned up to a private job yesterday to reduce some shrubs but there was a collared dove on eggs in the nest. Did the other shrubs but left the nested one to do in a few months.
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If you cut a small stem, perhaps around 1-2 inch diameter, smash the stump with a hammer, it will explode if alder, as alder is made of gun powder. If you have a sudden urge to have a bottle of Corona after beating the stump, you have a lime on your hands. Wear safety goggles.
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Good stuff.
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Yeah that's the only concern. Surely they can just dump it in France or something.
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Distance and time come into it. You will probably need a trailer license unless moving only smaller animals in a small trailer.
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I am still very much into nuclear power. It's different fuel to Chernobyl and with far superior safety measures. The radiation levels are high in the immediate area and well below legal limits outside of a few miles. I wouldn't worry.
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If you have the facility to mill it, haulage companies might be interested in it for dunnage.
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Whether contractors are coming to my house or to my work, I'll always offer tea/coffee. Never batted an eyelid at it, just thought it was standard. On private jobs, we get coffees about half the time. Always best to bring a few cans of Monster though just in case they aren't so generous!
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Burning elder is supposed to bring death innit?
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Yeah, we erred on the side of mega-paranoia. It was only a small amount of it so we had the time to do it piece by piece.
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BS 3998: 2010 Tree Work - Recommendations IN STOCK NOW
APC replied to Xerxses's topic in General chat
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A nice maul will give you that nice satisfying "clopp" as it slides through ash.
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Monsanto - Japanese Knotweed That's helpful. I took on a small area of knotweed 3 years ago, on the edge of a woodland. Perhaps 30m2 of it if I remember right. I cut each stem individually. Couldn't burn in situ as directly outside a school, so sealed in dumpy bags, covered them in tarp so none could fall out and put them in my yard (50m away). Spent an afternoon getting a good fire going in a drum and slowly burned the lot. Then went back and filled the stems with 20% roundup biactive and sprayed the smaller plants that were too small to fill their stems. Treated again the following year in the spring then late summer (although there was chuff all left to spray). Pretty much killed right up now. Glad I didn't have more of it.
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BS 3998: 2010 Tree Work - Recommendations IN STOCK NOW
APC replied to Xerxses's topic in General chat
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Surfer's ebay auction telling it how it is for good cause.
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I like his ankle banging off the kerb. Bit I don't like is matey going up to him at the end, presumably giving him more grief. He should have cracked on and slammed him too.
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Donkey rhubard isn't it?
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the old style of cert in arb required the nptc units to be achieved in order to award the "full" rfs cert. You could still get a cert in arb by just doing the theory component, by passing the exams. Now though, I understand that there is no requirement to do the nptc tickets. I am doing my cert through Horticultural Correspondance College. I started it in November last year and registered with ABC awards before the change in syllabus. HCC no longer offer the distance learning lessons as part of the "real" award, but do their own qualification which they refer to as "degree level". This isn't accredited by ABC Awards though and I am not sure on how useful it is and how it will be percieved by industry.
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gob cut in direction you want it to go. cut a quarter (pizza slice shape) out on compression side. bung a felling lever in. go around to tension side, line up saw so tip undercuts the horizontal cut by about an inch and engine end of bar sits at or just above level of hinge. cut from back, keeping bar parallel to hinge, keep at it until you get to your hinge (don't go through it though!). use lever to push it over. that seems to work for me and is what they teach on cs31. There will be limits to what you can put over with it, mainly you won't get a back leaner to go opposite way to lean in most cases.
