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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Seen Swallows, House Martins and saw the first Swift of the year today. It was way up though.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Our little job first thing when it was honking it down. Then some annual maintenance clearance.
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Some pics of a very big storm cloud making its way across the south coast and the Isle of White in the distance from Badbury Rings SAM.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    This years sitings. We have the full family this year. 2 mothers both with 2 cubs each and one dog who stays further down river. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mN3H5qkUeQ&context=C479be50ADvjVQa1PpcFNVbPY4zOazxBc4wbHMA567thKP8bLbhTY=]Otters at Stour Meadows 21/4/2012 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ofXNOQ0dY&feature=context&context=C479be50ADvjVQa1PpcFNVbPY4zOazxBc4wbHMA567thKP8bLbhTY=]Stour Meadows Otters 21/4/2012 - YouTube[/ame]
  5. Matthew Arnold
    And yet more benches only a little bit more rustic. The legs are 3ft long and were dug in with a combination of auger and by hand.
  6. Matthew Arnold
    I would pollard it to the lowest growth point. I know it would either kill or cure the tree and would look horrid until it greens up but the young lateral just above the hedge looks healthy.
  7. Matthew Arnold
    Oi big ears!!
  8. Matthew Arnold
    Dad and i use Rimmer Bros for pretty much everything. Very easy website layout and the majority of the codes are britpart codes.
  9. Matthew Arnold
    How easy is it to replace a fuel purger/pump on a Stihl FS480? As we have a split bulb and need to replace it.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    Got another mans knee ligaments in my right knee (knee turned 180 degrees when i hit a tree down hill biking). Partially disclocating right hip when getting out of the back of the work trucks, tennis elbow when spraying long distances or large areas, damaged left shoulder rotator cuff caused by a previous colleague letting go of rope when tree went the wrong way but would have sat in another tree. Only 22 as well.
  11. Matthew Arnold
    We have a 1994 HS75 with the original blades. We sharpen them once a month as we use them for everything. From neat hedgecutting to knocking out a patch of snowberry to ground level. The only thing we have had to replace on it is the air filter, spark plug, fuel filter and coil.
  12. Matthew Arnold
    That must have been one hell of a shear bomb crack
  13. Matthew Arnold
    Just taken on a new site in town. Its got a fine Hornbeam pollard which was hacked last year and some nice old hedge Beech Pollards.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    We sell by the ton. We have a private weighbridge directly outside our store so we can measure it out to within a kg.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    One finished bench and another bench ready for slabs. For the second bench we had to clear a large hole in the bramlbes ready. We stopped a farm worker topping a cover crop which was riddled with our friend Japanese Knotweed. We are spraying it next week with Timbrel to give it a good knock back.
  16. Matthew Arnold
    Cheers. We normally work in 2 teams of 3 at this time of year as it can be a bit cramped with 4 on a stile job ha ha.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    A very fine bench replacement. The wood is Iroko so is more rot resistant. We are putting it in as a memorial bench and will hopefully soon be replacing the steps with a ramp for wheel chair access.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Had a good day despite only having two vehicles (dad and i's and a friend of ours). Got beached on the second lane. No lasting damage just a pair of dented egos. Next day out 26 May and shall be doing the same ones we did in the winter day out (except the plains).
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Got some good shots of a feeding queen White-tailed Bumblebee.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Almost had to cancel the day out thanks to a garage muck up. The R-O-S spring hadn't been seated properly and had been rubbing againt the wheel when dad was bringing the 110 home. Glad i spotted the black mark on the tyre or else it could have been extremely expensive. But it is still on tomorrow. So PM me if you can make it.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Found this on my local stretch of trailway. The rabbits had dug around it and only about a third of it was showing. I am guessing it has fallen off a train at some point.
  22. Matthew Arnold
    Nope it will just munch on the deadwood and won't affect the tree. Might be some good spalting from it though.
  23. Matthew Arnold
    A hispidus induced failure. The parkland we were doing some rights of way work on had several massive trees fail during the january winds. If i had more time i would have got pictures of the failures. There were two 5ft diametre HCs both with australe on the deck and a big dead beech covered in kretz to about 8 ft up the stem. I shall try and get out there next week as we have a few more jobs to do.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    Trametes versicolor. Is the tree in decline?
  25. Matthew Arnold
    Yet another footpath cleared. It was put down on the sheet as headheight brambles making footpath difficult to use. You couldn't use it before we cleared it and put a new stile step at a stile at one end.

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