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This is something I'm trying as a sideline, see how it goes. Renting a small plot and buying in seedlings and my own collected seed. Sweet chestnuts rarely set viable nuts round here, got one nut local and bought a bag of Spanish from grocers. Big nuts need to be sown straight away, it's very visible how conkers rapidly dry out going from a plump bright shiny seed to a shrink wrapped effect around the embryo. Seeds with tough shells do all the shrinking internally. Beech Hornbeam Birch I'll buy in. Got Conkers, turkey oak, holly oak, mockernut hickory, the bought sweet chestnuts and birch seed I've collected. Been collecting leaves from a gardening friend to compost for leafmould. I acquired an excellent native species catalogue from appletons nursery in NZ a few years ago and they incooperate decomposed tree material, shredded puffballs and composted wood chip to their seedbeds to stimulate the forest effect in the seedlings. I would like to grow rarer species but for now need to grow to sell, to start with. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Not toxic but full of nutrients, microscopic life forms etc, which if not utilised (maybe watercress a la cow clap) leads to algae bloom which snuffs out the light, then subsurface life. I was reading about rainwater harvesting for horticulture it went like this. Wanted to store water. Went stagnant. Oxygenated it. Houses nearby and mosquitoes started to thrive. Got Rudd to eat larvae Rudd population boomed excessively. Got rainbow trout to check young Rudd numbers. The web of life is complex!

Lack of general helpfulness I find often on construction sites. Zombies! The let you drive by in a sign written company vehicle. They are expecting you. You don't know where abouts they want you. Or who your looking for. It's all down to idiots, selfishness, ignorance lack of..... planning, team effort and poor communication. I'm the other way. I will help someone who is lost etc as it helps them, gets them out the way then everyone can crack on. But there's another problem. Who wants to crack on? They are paid by the hour whatever they do mentality, their days drag though.

I would get it refaced. As said will be good as new. What are the bucket pins like? It's only half a job if you reface and pins have an hourglass look

8 wheeler is 32t gross I imagine probably nearer 14tare with a crane as well leaving 18net. I've seen tippers with payload 19-21 depending if alloy or steel body etc.

Prices for cord went up with the greedy grabbing government schemes. Biomass rural heating incentives etc. Then many wanted a piece of it, bought the gear subsidised. Undercut for the sales volume. Now the business is like that ancient torture/execution practice of quartering were someone was pulled apart in four directions by horses. I didn't do firewood this year and I have little financial incentive to do so.

I don't exactly know. It depends soft or hardwood as well. The hook loader waste skips are around 40 cubic metre. I imagine less with logs.

Sorted now.

A friend has asked me if I know anyone decent in arb near Weymouth. That's all I know so far. It's a job to look at/do.

The older tractors had poorer view of road with air cleaner and exhaust right in front of you. I know my side mounted knocker is heavier on the mast side even though it has a counterweight, it's only the equivalent to the hammer. I'd definitely make it industry standard hitch. Safe and time saving. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Yes I wasn't thorough, it was top of the Google results😳

Might be missing something here but wouldn't local be possible https://www.farmtrader.co.nz/spec/detail/ihi-20vx3-45175

I think this was realised a few years ago, just a media stir. If they get overexcited about it some organisation will spend £400k on saving it and kill it in the process. At least several clones of it now exist. Mr Kipling won't be letting us down with his deep filled sugar pies.

Typical of many a care home. That focuses on budgets that they overlook things then have to spend more. As said hit it when it's dry or a persistant wind. Shame gate cannot be altered. Could you get a local farmer or builders merchant to drop a ride on over a wall in slings with handler or hiab . It's probably worth £40 for the time you will save. I've done the rake up and collect and then do it again it's a real demoraliser.

I tend to avoid herbicides as much as I can. Definitely try to not to spray before April assuming you know your forest floor botany. I suggest be patient now and wait until January when the vegetation had died back then go in and bash it back. You will be able to see what's what and keep warm on cold days. Just start with s small session and work your way up. Killing yourself with a full afternoon session to start with will take away the joy maybe. A woodland we work in bursts forth with lots of growth at ground level in spring which dries out and withers away in summer.

Typical. People are planting trees in hope of a crop and this beauty is giving abundantly. Someone on hear buys applewood for smoking food. Might be near you or another taker.

Cut off date for prunus species(plum family is to ideally have it pruned before frosts and the wound dry to prevent silver leaf fungus. Apples can be pruned in summer. This is a major part of the lorette pruning techniques. It is based on regular management involving smaller material. It's aim is maximum fruiting.

I've done my first bashing this year and the results are better so far than glyphosphate. Which I've learned needs to be sprayed in August when the sap is going back to the roots. Not pushing upwards. But that's too late for the trees which are shaded out by then. Afraid I use a tractor though. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Saw this today on a new house building site. Reminded me of this thread

Don't let dean loft house know. He will want a play and then modify it.

I'm a fan of bolt on rather than weld for attaching to original equipment. If it had been a tractor I would of probably used U bolts through axle and round the barrow legs. I always like to think I can change it back to how it was. Or if the idea doesn't work nothing is spoiled. Neat idea hairy, I'm impressed. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Try it, you should get the feel or breaking point, sooner rather than later as greenwood will soon be hardening. Then will snap too easy. Those that break cut back and see how they go. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

My experience with alders is they do get top heavy and buckle with green growth. Speaking from nurseryman experience and what I do in plantations is skin them up with a hard prune. In this case just leave 6-8 balanced young shoots near the top. This takes the weight off and then the wood hardens, leaving a firm stem to grow from. Encouraging upwards growth. Alders are short. Lived pioneer trees that are among the first to establish a new woodland. They benefit from close spacing to compete for the light, hence your "fat layabouts" Yes you may get away with a hard fell. But really the trees in the picture could do with a couple more years really to ensure vigorous regrowth, alder can grow from a piece of root that is cut off and left in the ground where a tree has been lifted on nurseries. Oh and rabbits aren't to keen on alder bark once it starts to mature. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

Firms to try, even if they don't have they may source one. Barchams as mentioned. J.A. Jones Majestic trees Wyevale nurseries (not garden centres) Wykeham mature plants Johnson of Whitley Green mile Also shortly in dormant season tree transplanting companies such as ruskins maybe able to get a rootballed specimen which will be nearer the height.

I would get a inventory of the parts or a photo of the dead saws he has. Let spud or someone else evaluate the feasibility of rebuilding a good one. Yes your dad may fix up saws, but if spud does one and ports it for him your dad will smile for days. Even if it costs the price of a new saw to do. For someone who uses a saw full time it's a sound investment. Out of curiosity, how long does a saw last your your dad in that environment? Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk