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Goaty

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  1. I have this in a pdf format if anyone interested it was a free download.
  2. Mulch with black plastic what you dont manage tony and plant sweetcorn, courgettes, pumpkin and many other things. It will make it much easier in the busy summertime and next season the weeds should of mostly rotted off.
  3. I only just bought a silverside 346xp from Cleator last week Hodge, It was on ebay hardly used. £300. Not to rub salt in wounds but they are out there still.
  4. Im thinking up to 16-18cm girth at 1m as a general idea, as for bareroot maximum sizing if good nursery practice is undertaken where transplanting is undertaken during nursery production and subsequent post planting tlc is well maintained. this is based on my own observation in container tree production, were bareroot plants are much larger than this and potted. Failure rate is very low and recovery is within a growing season. I think an advantage of rootballs is they are less susceptible to windrocking due to solid anchor in exposed locations.
  5. :sneaky2:Tony must be a man of the world and move in many more circles than we realise.
  6. At present it seems rootballs are poplular despite their increased costs in these tighter value times, whilst I understand that certain species suffer less transplant shock, pyrus, conifers and evergreens such as taxus(yew) when rootballed. Personally I see little if any real advantage to plant rootballed bareroot broadleaves of most species. I reckon the landscape industries and associated treecare sectors would benefit more from education on improving bareroot planting success and offsetting the costs of balling in this way, such as quicker nursery lifting to plant times, site preparation, post planting care balancing of root to top pruning prior to planting, perhaps if the nursery did this would it be worth paying a premium? The tree has been ripped out the ground by machinery and lost a significant portion of its finer feed and water root system Disadvantages I can think of are. 1. Increased costs in tree and haulage & handling. 2. Safety issues due to heavier weight involved. 3. Slower productivity. 4. Greater chance of introducing invasive weeds and other contaminates/diseases to site, 5. More difficult to replace failures. 6. More reinstatement work on site needed due to handling equipment tracks and ruts, soil displacement or disposal. 7. Metal baskets/nets that fail to corrode, restricting root development 8. Some rootballs are actually lifted bareroot trees, bundled into a hessian and basket with soil and are not lifted rootballs, so no real gain. 9 Damaged by being rolled off trucks and the impacted root system can be severely damaged but not seen. 10. Shrinkage or waterlogging of the ball post planting due to soil differences, e.g clay ball in sand. Whilst I realise this is only a one sided view I would like to hear your pros and cons or either. I also realise some companies do I fantastic job of moving large trees and supplying excellent stock this is not intended to discredit this kind of rootballing. Im thinking of mainly 5 metres maximum or less in height. Pot grown is often of better quality as it has had tlc, root pruning and formative pruning to make a better transplant. I personally think its been read or taught to those in managerial positions as a generalisation. Because everybody else does it they dare not risk or challenge the convention. I would on a individual merit according to tree type and site.
  7. Arbtalk!
  8. Magnetic boots and egged on by peers all under the age of 13. Aye I knew about the cross I though Kev was putting it up for teasing. Nice out the ordinary thread though, the things we were allowed to do years ago. I did feel more free, then.
  9. Errr.. Just trying to encourage professionalism on this forum Tony. Maybe in a field at the back of the woods in a quiet area. But wouldnt want a clipboard holder seeing it.
  10. If it was pursued at a scientific and academic level, we could learn maybe, its a bit like testing on animals and nazi war medical torture/testing. Science gained, all be it brutally. instead we have the wholesale deluge we are getting from certain quarters, much of it unknown I reckon. Only to look at horsemeat scandal, if it makes profits and you can get away with it, do it. I will be drawing my big fat pension soon mentality prevails. A relative of ours was a farm worker and saw a helicopter applying pesticides crash on the farm he worked. Both in copter were dead but he went to help got exposed to leaking chemicals and months later, dead from cancer. Was a healthy chap until that point. Rapidly deterioted. My point is if we had genetically altered him to be resistant yes he would still be here perhaps, but he would of carried everything poisonous inside him and excreted it to poison other things. There is an excellent chapter in Bill Brysons book "A brief history of everything" that has a chapter on how lead was first embraced in fuel, paint etc. Worth reading Tony. Fantastic informative book with pages at back of reference sources. Personally I don't trust it (GM) its mutated just like cancer and cloning which is a failure at the dolly level that brings weakness. which is all GM will do long term. You have again put a topic on the forum that may come back and bite you, if some gung ho chainsaw wielding primates come at you Tony take it on the chin. Many wont care about this subject until it has affected them, then it will be so bad.
  11. I have done similar in the past, but these days that would be putting the Berk in Berkshire assuming location is the same as avatar.
  12. Cut from here:lol:
  13. It is common practice and in the uk telehandlers by quirk of law are classed as mobile cranes ie plant equiptment. Even if the have hydraulic brakes fitted. It is dangerous due to transmissions on handlers not being built for it and visibility is lopsidedly poor. You also meet them coming down the road with 4 wheel steer engaged fishtailing a trailer, or with a large bucket on front with a trailer behind with handler steering set out of true alignment. Best time to spot them is at harvest with an old condemned artic trailer on a dolly with large bales stacked to the max and no straps or ropes. As for me knowing it was going on the road, it was a logical assumption I deduced from the facts that 1. The firewood was advertised on here so it wasnt likely a case of the farmer next door coming across his own field. Because that would of most likely been dealt with without forum advertising. 2. There must be a little distance involved as the taker of wood would of brought a tractor and handler leaving the handler just to load and tractor to cart and tip. I dont know a farmer who has a handler and not a tractor. Whilst this would not stand up in court, that is the reason I put "Highway" in original comment, because on your own land you can put what you like behind a telehandler. I was clarifying. Im not trying to be pedantic or troublesome. I realise things are quite different down there in Dunedin, a personal favourite place of mine. I hope it helps to explain.
  14. I reckon he used all nine lives on that job. The vid also includes the evolution of ppe. In the next episode he probably wears a trilby and stands on the remaining bit over the fence ringing it.
  15. I reckon he used all nine lives on that job. The vid also includes the evolution of ppe. In the next episode he probably wears a trilby and stands on the remaining bit over the fence ringing it.
  16. :001_tt2:Has this item got used yet Stevie, hope it wasnt an impluse toy purchase?
  17. I would probably go with ornus the manna ash you will soon know because the flowers are a mass of white everywhere. Also it is a pig to try and grow as a straight juvenille tree. Raywood is very brittle and has a different rattle when you shake branches. More like a dead twig rattle.
  18. Tyres are normal way round Cog is centre of gravity.
  19. second this, one stop shop.
  20. Excellent the power of Arbtalk, everyones happy. Thanks dave.
  21. Someone asked me if I could take felled tree away this coming friday, I can't so its up for grabs, but believe it has to go this Friday 8th March 2013 Is a 40ft tree if that helps contact Neil on 07968773495 Its at Elverley drive off Westella rd
  22. Doh! ive seen others fail to notice original post date, Now I have gone senile. Failing in a bigger way than I thought:w00t:
  23. Young of heart and mind Rob, Im starting to give up and fail at 38.
  24. As would be poisoning their crops if you played by same rules, you would of thought the being guardians of natural things a mutual respect would be gained. But its more of the conquering empire thing of the 60s up with the hedges etc.

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