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Goaty

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  1. Balance husky here as well. But as always your threads are inspiring. When I saw the thread I imagined saw chain coiled round and round in a beehive hat the and a scrawny model strutting the catwalk with it. No I've not touched a drop honest!!
  2. Goaty

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    Arbtalk is generally a brilliant source of information , help and good ideas. Its proved to me there is genuine good folk out there doing good work they care about. Admittedly my general impression of the industry was more cocky wannabe all action hero that walks around their imaginary football size testes. They do exist but you can choose to be disinterested in them. Somehow I seem to have a special face or something that generally makes people even half my age explain pedantic things, which I know twice as much as them about. Sometimes I have fun with it and play thicker.
  3. I have euro 8 type on a quicke loader, having a standard interface is handy if you borrow or hire attachments at any point. The brackets are a bit overpriced for what they are. I made some once to fit. If you got a few pairs made by an fabricator might be a bit cheaper. Do you still have the 3040?
  4. Real pay:thumbup1:
  5. Due to the various fitting specifics its best to select using saw brand then model number and so on, as an example i run husky 357xp but they are not listed in the husky bars, then I would look elsewhere to be more reassured of getting the right part. However i know 346xp is same fitment in this case. But we all have to start somewhere with knowledge. To keep it simple for you could research each bar with a list of saws and the appropriate fit chain sizes.
  6. They are the most useful creature at self survival. I've stopped a few times over the years and righted the dopey things. If they hadn't been domesticated so early in mankinds history makes you wonder if they would be around. The ancient Egyptians loathed them.
  7. I saw it. Preferred the last one. As it changed animals behaviour. Creatures went into bedtime mode then carried on a normal day a few minutes later.
  8. Daniel jiggins had one and a landrover last I knew. It could be a step in the right direction or myself and him eliminated. Two down a few more to go!
  9. You aint seen stihlbens thread "My new Groundie" then:thumbup1:
  10. Hard to see on the phone but rootstock maybe for peach or nectarine or plum. Would it make sense for a fruit to be in it's location?
  11. If you want to get the maximum out of any plant, feed it weed it and irrigate it and protect it as necessary. Commercial growers do. But trees do tend to be left to their own devices. They also succeed. To the original question I have seen the difference in a commercial enviroment. Leaf colour, Vigour and volume over the season. It does make a difference, if you can justify it or have the time to be bothered. Timber harvests of pine in New Zealand are ready in 25 years due to optimum rainfall, sunshine and temperature. Uk twice as long I think.
  12. To throw in another grenade to this lively thread. Bio char whilst I realise it's burnt in a controlled way to produce it, surely this happens in a small way when forests are decimated and burnt to clear land. These deforested area soon go poor in soil quality. This EA problem is just a symptom of selfish mankind. Not in my back yard. Me me syndrome. Look how long it has taken to do the half hearted recycling we currently achieve! All the green schemes are flawed, they are driven by greed. People talk about payback, units. Not living off the grid or self sufficiency. If we burnt everything that was waste and recovered the energy at power stations then buried the slag in landfill. It would go in sterile to the ground. Obviously invest heavily in exhaust emissions filteration. I was in Trinidad a few years ago. It's always sunny and windy there, day length is constant all year round. They produce oil and gas very cheaply. Not a turbine or solar panel to be seen. They could use these and sell more fossil fuels. But no the bottom line is costs now not long term I've followed green energy since it was odd and uncool 25+ years ago. The current attitude why many builders, plumbers, roofers etcetera are involved is primary selfish greed, with a token smile of I'm helping the planet. It's a government propelled diaster
  13. I can only speak from my experience, here goes.... My boards were a solid two inch thick 8ft long 2-3ft wide. I leaned them in a draughty Yorkshire board clad shed with block walled base 5ft high despite the size a couple did warp and twist a little, I turned them and kept an eye on them for a few months (3-4) before stacking them the regular way with weights on top.thr kinked boards did not straighten in my case. If look it up in the search bar sycamore seasoning drying. You will find otherthreads and comments.
  14. Round up to nearest full panel on straights, but charge metre rates I would of thought. Also keep offcuts tidy and they should come in handy for shorter bits. Pump up the profit, less waste. I assume you get matching lats to redo edges? Ive not done much of this. Varty is busy with this kind of thing.
  15. The boys that sort the ditches etc are fine in my experience, but no I wouldn't trust most of the management with their university ingrained Im wonderful me 1st attitude. Poncing around destroying the small fry for having a bonfire etc.
  16. I would avoid the use of battery tools. Unless you are calculating/writing off outlay, eg. It cost £20 to have someone cut your lawn weekly. Therefore a £200 outlay is paid for in 10x£20 plus your however many weeks of your labour/time and electric charging costs. Because anything with batteries, electric cars, Cordless power tools have a big achilles heel. Battery replacement cost, and batteries toward end of life are useless. You may only get 1/2 of your lawn cut on a charge.
  17. I fence, It's the last thing to need a qualification that I do. I will not be doing it if I can help it. Quite frankly in my opinion/experience education of this sort just ticks boxes. I've done cpc for large good vehicle, spent days doing chainsaw. I could teach a good student to use chainsaw safely and effectively in 2-3 hours. What works in the teaching world is too confined to world in the real world and fencing has to many variables to have set rules. Watch, do and learn, is the best way.
  18. As you may be aware sycamore is prone to fungal attack and the boards will need standing upright on end to help prevent this. Also they suffer saps rain if you sticker stack them. The first milling I did was 2-3ft diameter sycamore. I got around 80% success. I recommend only do it when you have plenty of time, to mill then stack properly and know you can keep an eye on the boards, and turn them if needed. If you mill then leave to stack another day they they will ruin quickly. My trunk was left in the yard over a year before milling propped off the floor. The end few inches did did fungi attack even though I painted them.
  19. It's a real frustration, you rarely get anybody that's any good. Everybody seems to think its them that's owed!!!!??? Or worthy of more, better job, higher income. I rarely operate tractors unless it requires a skill im not confident of them doing or I'm sick of watching them mess up doing it. If they are doing something with a machine, it's saves me being on the machine and going blue as they watch the world go by. Only yesterday I let the 'lad' 17 years junior to me drive the tractor whilst I pulled trees and fence up by hand. In this case if you continue to be kind and pay full nothing is learned. Behaviour= reward. But don't give him anything to bad mouth you. If he doesn't learn it's not your loss and you keep your name Impressive hedge laying rate btw.
  20. Only with a needle and thread. My mother is a professional seamstress, All I need to do is wear the garment concerned and "Would you like that repairing?" However a while back the all round professional Yorkshireman. Dean Lofthouse esq. Purchased a heavy duty industrial machine of some sort http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/large-equipment/57398-latest-my-arb-equipment-arsenal.html
  21. Oaks are notorious setback candidates in the nursery environment. I have seen 8cm-18cm girth circumference trees bought in and potted into containers. 1. They hate being disturbed 2. The failure rate increases with length of time out the ground(in days and weeks. 3. The tap roots needs pruning early in its life to form multiple major branching roots to spread the stress and improve recovery. 4. They will sometimes sit for seasons almost dormant, sending out little water shoots. But eventually tend to fail. 5. Best done early in the dormant season to inspire new rooting adjustments. Also as Billhook says equalise top growth proportionally by pruning. This is only my nursery experience. We have tried heavy irrigation, light irrigation. If they are that way out, they finished with.
  22. I remember being about 8 and riding on the pavement. The village I lived in had a narrow60mph main rd through it. Which is now a stupid 30mph with about half the traffic these days. But the neighbour who was a sergeant in the police didn't half ball at me one day Took it like a man, was upset but no tears.
  23. A potato with a aggressive frown and eyes with a speeding bar that swells toward the sprocket end coming out of it. SPUDWORKS or SPUDERIZED stamped in the bar on the logo. No exhaust clouds, maybe just a little chug of smoke with = sign out the back of the spud. I do it for free, but havnt got the time to practice my art. Then a "My other motor is ported" sticker to go in back of car/arbtruck. It would be masonic, only those in the know would know.
  24. Have you got a north facing wall you could heath robinson a shelter. It will be more stable. Polytunnel will only leave distorted inspirationally arty farty pieces, if you can market it.
  25. I would of used dynamite with all that room!

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