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198 mature poplars to fell Coalville.
Goaty replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
What is the long term plan. Why stump grind? It will hike the price alot and poplar will rot out relatively quick in forestry terms. Roots sucker without stumps. As said a digger of destruction will probably best for cost effectiveness. -
I've got a split hydraulic cap on a bearcat chipper. The local hydraulic repair shop tried to get me a replacement, but its some daft size thread and dimension. I emailed the local dealer twice and have not had a reply in over a month. Any ideas, because if its stupid price, I will replace tank including cap instead. Its only around 10 liters.
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Alder is supposed to last indefinitely under water. Assuming its Alnus glutinosa. Its above the water where it will decay. If you made an underwater structure of that with holes prefabricated to attach upper structure it will save full replacement and less disturbance next time.
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Fall guy on TV. I remember getting a watch with a calculator inbuilt and not being allowed to use it at school!!!! Gliding on a washing line pulley out a tree on a boy made nylon rope zip line hanging upside down with legs over the handle bar made from elderberry branch. Playing in fields after harvest, damming a ditch. Homemade go karts. Home made bows and arrows. Which we fired at each other from about 15 mtrs. Going down a spoil heap in the back garden after the house had been built at45 degrees in a pedal car. Fatty out village cracked it in half.So my mums cousin who was a fitter riveted steel bracket to it. It worked but flexed. We honed survival and life skills. No wonder we like our predecessors moan about. Young uns. I'm only 40
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But would they want to be???? if you can't do it in the real world.... Teach. I've done my 3rd day today. 21 people @ £58.95+vat. Cheapest I've found. Overheads pens and paper, biscuit. Beverages. TV cpc costs. "This time next year we'll be millionaires Rodney!" I have almost come to terms with there is doers and reluctant realisers, they talk it. But daunted by it.
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I know just how you must feel. You can now do just what you did before with the added privledge of been patronised for 35hrs Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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They have to sell them eventually to someone. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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+1 I have booked In my 2nd day at the last minute for tomorrow. Frustration, anger, and more hours of my healthy life laid to futile waste, I've heard lots of stories from drivers. None with a fond smile" ou it was really good" I always lived in hope it would be junked. My next hope is that a huge shortage of drivers plagues the continent for years to come. I want my £1000+ back cost plus lost of earnings! But why should my employment providers pay? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Probably 13 this year down from about 22 last. All chainsawed and split with fiskars x27. Not had the opportunity nor the tree work as much in the last year. Have turned a bit if work away due to other work commitments. We enjoy firewood. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Rowan drop berries even messier! A birch is a more reliable tree for different soils and situations, Rowan go cankerous, suffer dieback etc. Probably a sentimental reason for birch, but you could always plant a more distinctive tree. Personally I would get a small 6ft one and watch it go. Resolves transport issue. It probably will outgrow a bigger planted specimen. Also if customer waits 8 weeks then get a cheaper bareroot plant. I reckon I could get the pot grown for £70 in the size spec wanted then delivery on top. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Crowders nurseries is in Horncastle. Go through the trade section rather than retail
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As a truck driver I cannot believe the lack of roadside vegetation control on some busy roads in East Yorkshire. The hedges and trees encroach beyond the tarmac edge and buses and truck mirrors whack it. Or oncoming traffic if prefered! Cyclists give it a wide berth. At least its farmer season now. Big bales stacked high on condemable artic trailers snapping trees out. Would be a good time for authorities to follow the trails of straw attached to vegetation, all narrow poor clearance stuff is well decorated with straw. I would of thought in line with highway bridges all under 16ft have to be marked, so surely if routes are not marked as such ALL the route should have 16ft clearance. Thats 4.87 mtrs. With a little more for droop or when branches are wet. 5.2m sounds a good minimum.
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The pattern looks like a squid. Nice.
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A real mans pine cone collecting session. No ropes used. Just shorts and t shirt to wash afterwards.
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Oh and sloe gin, need I say anymore!
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I've never had that on my alaskan. My smaller saws I tend to run chain tighter than most people. A tree surgeon did once tell me to run bigger bars 30inch etc alot slacker. It didn't work for me and I find long chains stretch more when warmed up anyway. My expirence which is limited milling, tells me slack chain wears the drive links and shoulders of the chain and widens the bottom of the groove in the bar out. whilst making a mess of the timber. Im not preaching, Im curious as to what others do or reckon.
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The much maligned elderberry. The flowers can be made into a syrup which dilutes as a cordial to make a posh but very tasty drink with lemonade. Freeze the flowers until you need em. The berries which are about ready now make another super syrup to dilute with lemonade. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Would you do the ladder chassis in this stuff though? I would of thought an industrial marine coating would be best like shipping container paints and available in many colours. Do the underneath of cab with underseal. My thinking is HGV chassis is always paint. Rot and rust is a pain its what kills all our vehicles in the end. Barring accidents and expensive mechanical failures.
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These "skywalker" stilts are around £200(inbuilt liabilty insurance?) to buy but I picked up a set at a farm sale in good condition for £12 with hedges in mind. Lots of practice is needed just to walk because the extra leverage on the knee is weird. You need a hedge to fall in to because the wind really catches you high up with a high center of gravity. I gave up as when I fall, if I do normally I roll with it. Its a long way down on these with them still attached to your legs. rolling isn't likely to happen. My 16 year old nephew can stride with them pretty well. Maybe a younger mans skill to learn. Maybe a competition to do at Arb fairs/shows. I would want to be confident of a user with powertool being able to still wield it safely when they went down. The tiny footprint is unstable as well if off hard flat surfaces and a pebble causes alot of twist angle by the time it reaches your knee.
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I didn't know he had been a naughty boy. Maybe what many of us don't know won't hurt. Didn't he start the arbtalk rumour thread and other on the forum boredom killers?
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Any result yet?
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Im veggie and have been since 4 years old. Personal choice as I was sensitive! I have no issue with leather products as a byproduct of the meat industry. Obviously I enjoy other byproducts to eat, eggs cheese etc. If its a personal choice fair enough on the OP. But if its a woman pressuring you even I agree with Bolam, its sound reasoning. Plus substitute leather products are rubbish in my experience, look at the trash they make trainers out of these days.
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I assume the fun bidding means fake seller gets stung with real ebay selling fee.
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Any arbtalking veg growers in da house?
Goaty replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in The Lounge
I think my slug problem is because the garden is quite sheltered. A shaded shelter belt behind it coupled with it being a corner location with grass in abundance on the other side. If their is a Tony Croft of slugs he would love my garden. I think we have every type of slug. I plant pot or cell grown veg. It's eaten within a week, less if it rains. Leeks do well because they grow over winter. P.s your poly tunnel may have the special coating that prevents insects. It's to do with light transmission and they don't thrive. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk -
Any arbtalking veg growers in da house?
Goaty replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in The Lounge
This year has been a though veg disaster. I gave up big time by June. SLUGS!! They are a problem normally. Next year I may try barriers. Wood ash from the fire in rings around the plants helps alot. However the fruit has been very good. Raspberries, rhubarb, blackcurrants and blueberries. Strawberries practically wiped out by vine weevil. All of them grown in containers. So Im chucking them to the chickens to peck over. I have done torchlight searches and terminated over 200 adults. Nematodes to follow. So hopefully will get it under control. i.e extinction. Another success is 1st ever watermelons fruiting decently in the polytunnel. Tried several varities over 4 seasons and Jubilee and red star F1 are yielding.
