Matthew Arnold
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Not strictly tree related but countryside related
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
Todays shots of one of our hill sites known as Woolland Hill. We have an ancient Yew in the woods with an active badger sett underneath and a very large splayed out Hawthorn. No idea of the age but it obviously splayed out from a central point. -
This is what it used to look like. pimperne - Google Maps The reason for the heavy handed "reduction". Armillaria "present at base". No sign of it anywhere on the tree. Said tree from the air. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Pimperne&hl=en&ll=50.884187,-2.137361&spn=0.001174,0.00284&sll=50.85596,-2.164337&sspn=0.018801,0.045447&t=h&hnear=Pimperne,+Dorset,+United+Kingdom&z=19
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A local HC that we were working near by today.
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We have a DR mower. Its the 13 hp model and it copes with our needs. We have a rough deck and a 42 inch lawn deck. We use a smaller fine cut mower for the nicer areas and use the rough deck for the tougher stuff. The lawn deck is designed for lawns and very light bramble/dock/nettle. If you try and use the lawn deck for taking out 3' + high nettles and bracken the belt will let go fairly soon. So it would pay to get a rough deck with it so you can take out 2" trees. After you have gone over everything which is rough with the brush deck you cant then swap to the lawn deck but slowly lower the cutting height every week or so. DR may have sorted it but the problem we have with our lawn deck is one blade is lower than the other but only by 1/4". Other than that it is a cracking mower.
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If you want something super agressive they do a tyre called the special track which is basically big lumps of rubber stuck to a tyre. Very agressive and noisy on the road.
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Insa Turbo Dakar are BFG Mud terrain KM1 remoulds. Dad runs them on his 110 and are 85 a piece.
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A couple more of Alex Clare's songs. I like his music its Dubstep but easy listening dubstep. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4wiPneqVyU&feature=BFa&list=HL1338236083]Alex Clare - Treading Water - Official Video - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boOG4pUR83Q&feature=bf_next&list=HL1338236083]Alex Clare - Up All Night [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]
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Well today was a good laugh. Started with 4 vehicles and finished with two. One had to go home early as he was on nights last night and the other got a puncture and had no spare. Got very very muddy and got a bit waterlogged on one puddle. The two videos of going through a 2ft+ deep puddle. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDERMW69VRc]Ox Drove Lake 1 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJARO9cDQ0]Ox Drove Lake 2 - YouTube[/ame]
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A small Hazel failure from a section of hedge to be laid next winter.
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Cutter is fine when warm and runs absolutely fine when it is up to temp. Had the exhaust off to see the piston and rings and all looked good on that side. Replaced one of the exhaust bolts as one of them had loosened and falllen somwhere along the line. Just a duff decompressor luckily. Put the new one on and tried it from cold with no problems. No lack of power and picks up fine when put to full throttle from idle.
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How big is your big mower?
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Is it hydrostatic or differential driven?
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Will be having the FS450 on the bench tomorrow afternoon as having problems with starting. A few colleagues start it with the decompression button pressed in and thats when the problems start. If you pull it with the decompression button out it starts first pull. Will be changing the decompression button tomorrow and if the problems persist may plug the hole all together.
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We looked at a Ferris as a fine cut mower. The main issue was weight and length as we want it to fit in the back of the van and as a bare minimum have the tailgate closed. How was it coping with the heavy stuff? Is it similar to a Scag?
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Not strictly tree related but countryside related
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
Some shots of the sites recently. -
Thats Common Hogweed. Still got photosensitive chemicals/poisons but not as violent at Giant Hogweed.
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Do you use the reccomended mix for the machine?
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Is it a two stroke or four stroke engine? How much fuel was in the tank?
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It might be Phaeolus schweinitzii with Armillaria in attendance too. Strange with the very localised dieback on that one branch normally it would be in the crown and farther branches/stems from the trunk.
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The Internet Explorer song [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYXjLbMZFmo]Alex Clare - Too Close (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube[/ame]
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Anyone else want to join us on Saturday?
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He was a bit of a muppet. He shot back towards the picker ups which were acting at back back guns. He said the pellets wouldn't reach them The ground in front of one of them puffed a cloud of dust up. He apologised but still. If its not safe to shoot it then don't simple as. Or the saying we use "If you wouldn't want to eat it after then don't shoot it".
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I tried to get a picture of one at the end of the season tucking into a pheasant which had just been shot. It didn't mind the gunshots, it just flew in took the bird and sat and ate it on a hay rick whilst the drive went on. Alot of people were happy to see it including the keeper. There was just one bloke who was stuck in his old ways and wanted to kill it for taking the bird. He was promptly sent home and told not to return to the shoot.
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I have been keeping a personal record of Red kite sightings and been putting them on the BTO database. Saw one this morning munching away on a roadkill badger just outside town. My colleagues said it was a Buzzard at first but when they saw the red colouring and the forked black tail they realised it was a Red Kite. They had never seen one in the wild before. Although they are making a slow come back it is still special to see them. We have 2 breeding pairs on an estate i shoot on. Despite all the negative hype the gamekeepers and shoots get we shall be leaving them well alone and don't mind them having gamebirds as it is only natural for them to hunt despite them being scavengers.
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My 13 month old pup Floyd. He has got all of his dads traits regarding picking up. He has fantastic hearing, eyesight and a brilliant nose. He is very very fast and will stand up for the other two dogs i have. Very much like Bramble was. When we look at pictures of him and his dad at the same age it is scary to see how alike they are.
