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Goaty

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  1. Nowt wrong with the budget store stuff, check regularly if you can, and get fresh early in season, I got Honeyberry, Aronia, Blueberry, Tayberry, Loganberry and the Kiwi fruit all at the range last Year, all are in good health. The prices are only what the growers sell em for. What you pay £6-8 for a 2 Ltr pot in a garden center for can be less than £1 from the grower wholesale!
  2. O dear, its really started today, went to poundstretcher bought 2 patriot blueberry plants for £4 and a packet of Mushroom spawn to use on 6 bales of straw that have been out all this wet winter. The range also do cheap around £2 plants got a kiwi jenny from them last year. Had a look at Aldi fruit trees at £3.99 each bearing in mind fruit is bought to produce not look good as a feature. These are excellent value and look healthy. Didn't buy as got all trees my garden will cope with for now. Just waiting for weather now.
  3. I have been veggie for 35 years, soon suss any flesh in my grub. What abouts Tesco and all the stockists of Findus "Beef" products.
  4. Bought these today, after reading positive review online. Will help with making saw cutters equal, claimed to be accurate to 150th of 1mm ALDI - Sunday Special Buys 10th February 2013
  5. Popular in OZ NZ and Japan, they are a refridgerator run in reverse simply put and as said ok in warmer climates than ours. I was told the running costs are a quarter of the costs of other energies per KWh but electric is only going up.
  6. There is a thing about using a vehicle as a mobile workshop, whether it be a van or truck. Unless they have changed this.
  7. Hope this helps watch and see what happens Stihl Chainsaw Logging Mill with Three Powerheads. Mill Timber | eBay
  8. Send it to spudulike on here, he will bring the best out of it. Make it better than new.
  9. I got some of them from NZ, spiny sappy things. Took days for my hands to heal and the sap to go. Has that got to that size in the UK?
  10. Fair enough but instead of O license hassle could work towards it with MOTs 1st. For some reason farmers are turned a blind eye on, with operating weights, vehicle speeds, kids driving far bigger than legally allowed, rebated fuel, working hours etc. Fert bags swinging on front of telehandlers on dual carriageways with no beacon.As mentioned many times O for a level playing field. Thats were the fix it when its broke mentality is plentiful. No disrespect to the professional farmers that operate well.
  11. Goaty

    346xp problems

    Thats the words of a good tech:001_smile:
  12. It creates work for a jobsworth, whilst bleeding the workers £££s and gives the powers that be more nooses to lasso you with.
  13. We did a job for brother in law who lives a long way from us. I have a bearcat 8inch pto chipper. We rang a local hire company for a similar self propelled machine, they got very mixed up and delivered a small petrol gravity thing, it could of been an elliot or similar name. It was painful after an hr we rang them and they took it back. Moral of the story it was quicker to burn. I wouldn't bother, if you pay £100 for someone to chip every year thats 20 years for 2k. Plus fuel wear and tear. The secret to burning green is to burn it as you pile it. Leave it on floor where its cut until a dry day with breeze right way, start fire with good dry stuff cardboard etc. scatter on lightly to pre dry it then keep it fed but don't choke it so its all water vapour. Rake outer stuff on now and then. If its a big heap lift and shake with a handler if you have one. Whilst you don't want it gappy with air neither do you want it airless.
  14. Only used my paslode 350 nail sizes between 51mm -90mm which suits our fencing needs. Which is mostly agricultural. I would replace mine if it broke. If you are only doing domestic fencing in short lengths maybe air type would be better. I wouldn't want to drag a compressor around on a few hundred mtrs of fenceline. My wife does the nailing with the paslode, I bump out materials and saw up ends where needed. If that gives you an idea of how easy they are to use. No disrespect to the wife but she would struggle to use a hammer for long spells.
  15. To clarify that. A concrete pump lorry is up to an 8 wheeler LGV with a gross weight of over 30 tonnes driven by a person on a car license with red diesel no tachograph or usual HGV rules, capable of 56mph that beats me. Probably without MOT as well Recovery trucks are MOT exempt as well! For OP I cannot see the VOSA dude knowing what he is fully on abouts. Yes they are clamping down on plant on the road such as a dumper, telehandler carrying materials on highway, Looking forwards I would get a waste license and an O license, its going that way. Maybe if you talk it out with him and "Ask his advice" With written proof so you can understand it. These people can tend to be power hungry failures from the real world that enjoy bullying. They did it to an operator I drive for, they looked at his tachograph records and chased him for months because he was a speeder, he went above 40mph like every trucker nearly does. They asked him to download to digicard and couldn't do it. So they asked him to call in to do it. He had to go twice because they didn't know how to do it! They talk the talk, doing it in the real world is harder for them. Sorry for slight derail but hope it shows what you are dealing with a bit.
  16. Did you get sorted Typsey?
  17. If you are talking about Acer platanoides (Norway) They are pruned throughout the winter in nursery practice. This is only up to around 25mm diameter usually in this case, like us, yes they bleed but not to death. Its natural. However larger wounds may not be so good. Also susceptible to coral spot, so prune well then the collar will heal quicker.
  18. It depends on how interfering your back stabbing local community is. As long as its in their favour such as next door rents your grass for grazing etc.
  19. In field grown stock on nurseries it can be smooth or fluted. Wildly varies in the same row, It seems random, another possibility is it a grafted union, though hard to tell. There are several forms of grafted field maple for street trees. Several nurseries also sell their reject plants with poor form for hedging or as multistem specimens, which means occasionally you will get the rootstock and grafted form on one plant. A close up of the stem in the contrast region should help.
  20. Yes nice shots blue skies green foliage. MMMhh a distant memory here.
  21. Let us know who and how you get sorted, japanese parts are a pain in their special sizes!
  22. Has anyone had success with watermelons. I have tried fresh fruit abroad and its so much better than the supermarket offerings. I did try blacktail mountain from real seeds a few years ago but the season didn't seem long enough?
  23. Aye plus once we get home we can't be bothered to go out anymore. But pubs are good firewood customers.
  24. Thats because you are waiting for someone else to start it:001_rolleyes: You need to sort it, I'd be curious as would other alternative independent thinkings, we are all of the regular grid here:001_cool:
  25. I delivered to these last yearhttp://www.agriweld.co.uk/ They said if they had the pattern in their computer they would cut the hooks for me for a reasonable price, I asked about the new quicke style euro 8. Oxdale also make them and sell on ebay.

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