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Does rocksalt affect cherrys? Not a tree that grows well on the coast with salty winds. If road got blathered with salt for the first time this winter, there isnt a broad area to wash away is there?

I didn't feel convinced about the clipping on the top part where the rungs had only caps on the end. Can imagine someone in mast fab shop. "It'll b right, no ones going to climb t' top just tack em on, lets go for a beer!" It's not as though elf n safety are going to climb up and investigate is it?

Have you a bucket for that multione Dean? If you have hardstanding that drains not accumulates water. Arrange a simple shelter that air can get under and turn it over with the multione. In the early days of heap it will dry itself out alot. Preferably in the dormant season, no green moist material in it. I reckon with a little experience you wouldn't need to to test moisture as grabbing a handful and stretching out with your feelings, determine you shall. It will be light if dry and scatter easy. You could try a horticultural moisture meter they are designed to test potted plant moisture levels.

Just think of the zip slide you could rig off that. It would probably cross over into the next county!

Recession not reach Dunedin yet then?

Sometimes a graft or rootstock issue. Rootstock can die first starving the scion even in a mature tree.

Yes low grade waste wood can be and is used. Obviously more time consuming to handle can damage shedders due to foreign articles. Fire doors can contain large asbestos sheets. Old timbers lead paints etc etc. Pallets are a good source. The Problem of keeping dry and potential fire hazard as well. The local waste transfer stations here have a history of arson and bursting in to flames because of heat build up. If you can get hold of local arb waste and turn it regularly under a shed it will dry itself out. Preferably in dormant season to cut out green moisture material. (deciduous)

No they won't ship from that link.

I do it with time, its not been made metric yet!!!!!

I already contacted fiskars and got a worse email than the one I got from amazon!!!!! My reply from them was " We are looking at launching the 122500 X27 Splitting Axe in 2013. " Maybe worth waiting????? Then further on in the reply it recommends the x25. What??? Then it goes on to say you can buy the X27 from a european seller for around £130!!!!! My question is why does the whole world get to have this particular item before the UK? Its like when a British made film premiers and is released in hollywood weeks before elsewhere? Im not patriotic in the least,I worked right through the Jubilee as normal. Conclusion is I think you are right Bobh. Its a strategy of fiskars.

Its not a massive garden and you seem keen to get the experience. If you can't get a mini digger in.Depending on how big the incline over the whole plot you could terrace it i.e make steps maybe a foot or so deep however many you need and have a ramp at some point in it maybe a zig zag, and if the wheelchair user wanted to garden they probably would be able to reach from the wheelchair from the lower level. The terrace effect would also mean less distance to move soil for you. Also woodchip on a slope tends to blow or wash downhill. Just ideas. Hope job goes well. If you are self employed and paying national insurance, tax, insurance etc. At £6.25 you not covering any costs. People turn up at work, use works equipment etc for that. Its not the same as being self employed.

Very effective, but potentially dangerous have a look by searching the threads on this forum, "screw splitter" it should yield results as this has been discussed several times. As for firewood its worth a try but it is a commidity with vaue these days. The only likely solution is a newly established tree surgeon who hasn't got a yard sorted yet. Even then its rare someone isn't willing to buy it.

As agg221 says, contact a tractor club. Classic tractor magazine once had contact details of various people that sort this. They also can get age related plates on old plate e.g ARB21.

Cutting no! graft yes but takes years. Many Japanese acers grown in warmer climes then imported when a saleable size.

Well spotted Bob, but at todays conversion it is £29.61 plus the postage from amazon USA. When converted from dollars!

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Because he is a party pooper really

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Go for it Im behind you. The bag weave material will strangle or stunt most of the roots on rowan, they have little chance. Your complaint should tighten up planting for trees in the future. It looks like they deep planted to avoid supporting the trees. Street trees need all the help they can get.

Not suprised! one of our local councils comes to the Tree Nursery I subbie for, to collect container/rootball trees. They come with an empty iveco pick up with a twin axle trailer, (They refuse to reverse in lots of space) to collect four trees probably 15 feet high 14/20 girth. Four lads come always, in expensive chainsaw ppe, even in the height of summer (Image or H&S?) We load them by hand or with forklift. The council usually have up to 100 trees on order stood in the yard for months over winter. Why four come for the ride when we load is laziness, if they get 4 trees before 12 they will say "Be back 1st thing in morning" that is 10 o clock! or later. They are about 20 minutes away from the nursery. I have on my own planted 21 heavy rootballs and staked them in horrible clay soil in one day. I know a tree officer on the said council. He told me the holes are already dug for them by machine!!!!!!!! These guys are poor value of tax payers money. Hopefully other councils have more effective gangs. Back to thread, Rowans are weak in the root zone and are not the best tree by far for stable establishment. Being a pot grown and street tree(particular growth habit desired) the are almost guarenteed to be a grafted cultivar. The deep planting will of buried this and likely cause suckering of rootstock and other problems. Again due to root weakness the pot even if biodegradable it will hinder Sorbus (rowan) establishment considerably. Did you notice what kind of container? Woven plastic, not good. Paper fibre, acceptable. Solid plastic, very bad. Or perhaps due to them taking so long to plant, hessian wrapped rootballs, very late in season and high risk without irrigation.

I know you say online but most main agricultural dealers stock vapormatic, tractol or sparex and if they dont have the colour required can get it. Otherwise you are looking at ebay + p&p which is not the cheapest option.

Yes just check out Alba Trees or Cheviot trees they grow Thousands, I have planted lots of cell grown on tree planting schemes.

I left school in 1990 and that was during a recession. I did horticulture and heard all the "Plenty of jobs out there £20,000 a yr etc." Never happened to me yet, had to pursue other avenues. But in hindsight they only took over from the school system with positivity and good vibes. It leaves you all pumped up and feeling so worthy, then the real world meets you. Not to have a nasty dig or generalise but my lecturers were real world failures on a cushty number. In line with the thread Im sick of the rising costs of living and none rising income. It is a demoralising state of affairs. No one can justifiably tell you to shut up and get on with it. I have low overheads. Work all week, fix my own stuff as much as possible. Diy etc. I do not understand how some of my aquaintances afford to live in the sub £200 a week zone and get their car repaired at the garage etc.

Bumpty Bump. Has this tree shown its true leaves yet? Any pics available in leaf and a picture of a leaf.

I knew a chap that used Jeyes fluid on his carrots to stop carrot root fly. He didnt get carrot root fly, I did try some once......... But carrots with a taste of Jeyes, just doesn't work somehow!