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I've found Bob Watson's book to be about the best entry-level publication on trees. I relied heavily on it while doing my Level 2. Whatever you end up doing, this is almost a 'must read' for anyone with any professional interest in trees! [ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1861268858/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0RKDKNE10W7J7J7DE330&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294[/ame] Hope that helps!

Looks like common sense has prevailed!

Would you mind posting a link to this? I can't find it... and I love a good internet row!!!

It's lack of air. Tree roots live (mostly) in the top 18 inches of the soil; change this by much (even a foot) and you pretty much cut off the air supply. Game over.

Is this what you're looking for? Welmac UK Ltd: Urban Branch Loggers

We play with ISO containers a bit - they're really easy for anyone with a portable angle grinder or a pair of bolt croppers to break into. I'm sure a few folk on here use them and may have sucessfully modified them to make them more secure.

Have they at any pont had the lawn spiked? A friend of mine did his lawn with a hook-aerator - pretty much did for a small rowan and a couple of apple trees that were surrounded by the lawn.

Like it! I'm nicking that idea for next time.

Do the job on a day when the wind is blowing away from the houses - I live in a village and once upset the neighbours burning fresh leylandii brash! I started doing it when the wind took the smoke away over the open countryside and had no further problems. THEN I discovered that if I propped my leaf blower up so that it was blowing into the base of the fire on idle the resulting inferno burned so hot that it kept the smoke down to a minimum!! If you can make a wall of bricks around the fire then it's even better. Don't have your leaf blower too close though... check it regularly to make sure it isn't getting hot and if it is then move it further away. Doing it this way meant that the fire could keep up with me regularly adding brash too...

Can you post a picture of the base of the tree? Looking at the grass around the bottom of the tree, I'm guessing there may be some mower damage too....

College tells me that after the leaves have dropped and all those lovely carbohydrates produced in the summer have been stored in the woody tissues is the best time... ...but what does college know? ;o) Seriously, if these are disease-free actual English Elms then they are potentially quite important. These could be the ones that are immune. Maybe. Can you post some pictures?

At these sort of speeds your being wired/wireless is irrelevent; this is slow. Speak to your provieder, in fact complain. You may not ultimately get anywhere as a lot of areas in UK are just slow. You could have some wiring issues; Check to see if you've got your filter connected correctly and also see if you can find the 'Master socket'. It's bigger than any 'extension' sockets you have and should be where the 'phone line comes into the house. Plug your router into this using the filter; your house 'phone should go into the filter in the appropriate socket. You might have some issues if you've got 'phone extensions, even if nothing's plugged in. Have a look at this; thinkbroadband :: BT Master Socket Identifical Tool for BT Broadband Accelerator / BT I-Plate And this Tips to Speed Up Your Broadband If none of this applies to you (or works) go to your provider; they usually try to blame BT and they're not always wrong! Sometimes, your connection to the rest of the world is just pants and that's that... Good luck!

Well... your firewood is from a renewable source and while it isn't necessarily carbon neutral it's a lot closer than fossil fuel. So there's some of the additional cost 'justified'... the amenity value of the woodland is something that some might say can't have a price put on it, but I know there is a system for putting a price on the amenity value of trees in the built landscape. Can anyone comment about valuing woodland, considering all the benefits to man and the environment? Might it be that it's not firewood that's too expensive.... maybe it's that fossil fuel is too cheap? I realise that anyone who has to fuel a vehicle or piece of machinery is going to have something to say about that last comments... I'll get my coat.

They're great. I've got one and it's transformed the way I work.

Thanks guys - very helpful!

Hi All, I've got a Makita DCS5000 and need a top cover for it. Does anyone know where to get spares for them? Ta!

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This is fantastic. Makes me want to mill. )

Try copying them. If the disc is so scratched that it won't copy then get the scratches polished out... our local video/games/phone shop does it for a pound a disc. Like has been already said, copy it when it's still good and put the original away - play the copy.

Seem to remember you're exempt from fitting a Tacho (if you otherwise would have to have one) if you use LPG. Up to 7.5 tonnes... within 50Km of base... ohhh... I can see this getting complicated... https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hours/exemptions-from-eu-law

Drop [email protected] a line; they'd given me some pretty competative prices on new ones before the one on ebay came up. Seemed like they were offering them discounted so that it was the same as full retail without the VAT. It was £3897+VAT for the CS100 - 18E and £3385.20 for the CS100 - 16. They were doing the Trailer for just over a grand, but a lot of people on here have mentioned using a pedestrian road roller trailer as being a much cheaper alternative. I saw a tatty but functional one of these on ebay for £300.00. Hope that helps...

They were the answer. Thanks Jonsie.

It's really good! I haven't found anything I don't like about it yet. Loving how it turns what was previously an all day job (carting off the brash to the tip in a trailer!) into a two hour (or less) job. Am still at the stage where I'm loving feeding conifer branches in and watching it spit chip out! Such simple pleasures!

+1 on Bob Watson. Top book. If you're after Shigos stuff, have a look on his website. Last time I looked they were a lot cheaper there than Amazon, etc...