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A heap of fresh woodchip on there for a couple of months will cook it then the fungi take over. Customers alway like instant impact though! The way I see it nowt will grow there until its terminated. Might as well have the cheap solution for the interim.

No Dunedin is bottom SE corner of the south island. I love it there, quite scottish in style. Dunedin is the old name forEdinburgh. Auckland is ok for a holiday but too many people in a small area. For NZ that is

Its not rare to acquire a full bike licence. Its a bonus. It cropped up with a few HGV drivers on the cpc course. Bit of a pig when they take one off though:thumbdown:

Yes to break it up. Chickens do a similar thing but shake side to side, its things that are elastic that bend alot. Incidently the pigeon is the only bird I belive that can drink continuously.All other birds take a drink then have to tilt their heads back to swallow.

A 24 year old is returning from 2 years in Australia early August and looking for work in the Durham area when he gets back. Would like to do fencing ideally but hands on maintaining engines, machinery and operating various plant machines. Comes from engineering background. CV available. Has own van and able to travel. email [email protected]

Stevie Blair will be disappointed when he reads this, he will be expecting tumblers and other toys. Good find I was only think though where be the bats actually roost? I've never seen them come out or go away. I've never come across them in trees or house roofs.

If your driving in Italy the first thing on your mind will be self preservation. We did it last September. I rather be 60ft up a tree without a harness or support working over 3 properties all having greenhouses and sheds under it!

Volume illustration. When you buy Jenga the game with blocks it comes neatly stacked in box. Tip box out then lose fill. Can you get them all in? No. The same principle happens every time you spilt a log and don't stack it as it was. This far out ways the gaps between the rounds. I recently sold a 1.2 m of Unchopped rings for the customer to chop, he got a bargain!

Crop circles and bamboo cane ideas are the way forward. Dogs can actually be trained to do it in a special location. Just too many domestic dogs on the planet in the hands of people that don't bother with them in the right way or spend enough time. I don't bother with risk assessments but I write off dog bombing ranges and go elsewhere to work most of the time.

All very noble and well reasoned, I don't disagree with any of it. but I suspect when it does become regulated. It will come at a price to the seller and passed on to the consumer. Issues involved could be. Sustainably sourced. (registered forestry sites only probably) The carbon issue. Volume, Weight. KW per weight or volume. Change of tax rate. (Anything that shifts well is noticed. You only get a honeymoon period) At the end of the day, we have the internet as a broad easily accessed resource to research anything from the rash on your backside to buying a car. If a customer cannot be bothered to look in to it do they deserve decent woodfuel? If you buy a car because you like the colour and never researched what you need/want and the car is useless, who is at fault. I sell firewood in a relatively small way and have finally got a number of them round to buying it to season themselves, It saves me double handling they probably season it better in small stacked piles. They get good value. Everyone is a winner I think. I do know of characters selling any old wood freshly split as seasoned logs. The buyer has two choices. Buy elsewhere or season it. Many tree working enterprises are providing a fantastically efficient quality product on to the market. Where else could cheaper softwood leylandii etc be sourced for stoves, garden braziers etc? Many waste companies have made a crude missinformed mess of it. Or what forestry enterprise can cost effective grow/harvest beech, oak and other high quality firewood in the local community? Every year thousands of tons of aging failing trees are being put to good use, if a paper trail sets in hard much of it may instead be left to rot and waste. It currently is good for the economy as Tree gangs process it in quiet times or bad weather. If they didn't treeworks would cost more to offset this. I didn't set out to compete on essay length:blushing: but I've seen many good things wasted due to regulations, the different authorities seem to arrive as a strike team these days.

I've tried a few. The cold weather claims them all. I had nicolli up to 15ft tall. Its no more:thumbdown:

I like to come across old railway platforms overgrow etc. Nice find.

But really, seeing the state some public toilets are left in would you do it for £9??? Attitude and work ethic should be rewarded. Laziness also paid as deserved. In 2 years time £9 will be a lower rate of pay anyway £270 for a 36 hr week. Which many work them hours.

I've not reviewed all the budget, but some people buy to let for a pension, due to pitiful pension performance and disappearing state pension. Other Landlords own their properties outright already, so I assume Its unfair from this angle. As they make lots from having got there through buy to let. I am politically oblivious and neither rent a home or buy to let. But Every policy will have unfairness in winners and losers. Personally I've never noticed any real life effect from budgets, except for vehicle related taxes. But eventually we accept them after the intial uproar.

Yes got to agree, get basic tickets then employer will be able to use you with a saw legally. Its a lower cost route for you to test the water. It is hard work physically day in, day out but rewarding with its challenges. I would offer yourself to where they want experienced trainees. Do a free Saturday morning trial. You get a taste of the job and they get to see you in action. Giving away free labour for a morning is better than commiting in other ways which may not work for you. If it works out someone may ask you back and build it from there.

Jon is a chatty social man that needs to share, his plethora of interests. It means he runs out of time to do them all.

I don't have a clue who or what in tennis. But Britain is usually runner up at best in every sport.

The tree in my picture was a sentimental tree . The lady had it reduced a few years back. She complained about the person who did it previously. I told that he did a good job considering she wanted it lower and keeping. We reduced it and brought the shape in to contain it a bit more. Greenhouse waiting underneath it on neighbours side. My thoughts on birch are leave well alone Only take out narrow angles forks any damaged or dead bits. If you need to touch the leader you may as well take it out completely or leave said totem pole for habitat. Because it was planted in a stupid non long term location if it needs touching. Harsh maybe but it's just a money tree for those that do the work. The tree in the picture had more rot lower down some releasing ooze. If I get the job next time I will be recommending a rope at top and cut at bottom.

Did a leylandii recently. It was a high rise communal establishment of collared doves and wood pigeons. Went 3 times to look. Managed to to time it right I thought, then in the very top was a pair of eggs. I would never of found them without an MRI scanner. You probably never win with pigeons. Their lives are one big breeding cycle.

A birch I looked at recently

Here is a path through the wood we manage . It's getting up to 8 passes with a compact tractor and indespension plant trailer a week and almost daily walked by one person. Never been mown .

Welcome, liking the avatar name, it conjures images of a young lad bounding up a spruce with a spring in his step. I realise it's a play on the boss Bruce (for the benefit of pedantic arb talkers) Personally I would go with the Scandinavian option, they seem to get on with it more. Have a can do attitude, whereas in Britannia these days there seems to be a million unreal reasons why we can't do it. Health and safety to an excess, everybody else's rights . Etc. I'd go for Sweden though I've never been and then maybe spend a month in the uk before going home. I'm sure many on here would be glad to have you usefully tag along.

This has been discussed before on here, try pampas in search.

If he gets desperate you could demonstrate your rapid drying/disappearance technique:lol:

The principle of my floppy v pieces should do this. It's getting the geometry right. To open wide to take tines then release when bag lifts. Or maybe hinge pivot the legs at the floor a little or all the way and the stubs that rest the loops angle upwards. When you lift they flick out the way. I got rid of my tractor with a loader a few weeks ago. No time or incentive at the moment. I might draw ideas if I get chance and upload. Between a few of us this is achievable.