Le Sanglier
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God help us from "Educating tree surgeons" As someone said this one will disappear into the ether soon.
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Dead right, why can't life be more like "The Darling Bud's of May":stupid:
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Just an uneducated thought, surely if climbers were using spikes (as everyone used to in the past) this phenomena would have manifested itself by now?
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Again, thanks for finding that Albedo, that really articulates what I was trying to say, (plus you did not just put up a link!)
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Part of it, yes, thanks.
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Huck and Ty are never happier than when "having a heated debate"
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Oh yes! I agree I have spent many a saturday morning utterly utterly wasted by some awful time wasters. TBH he did not insult the client he just called his bluff. Makes me wish I had been a little less "professional" with some of them.
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Different strokes for different folks.
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in fairness to the squirrel if you feed any wild animal from your hand you are asking for trouble! However look at the pleasure the children are getting from seeing close up these animals in the park. Clutching at straws a bit I know but I think, on the whole they bring more than they take. And I am unanimous in that. (apologies to Mrs Slocombe)
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Probably a bit bigger than I gave it credit for on the streetview:blushing:
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Broadly, yes I agree, people get too hung up on a single specimen and it becomes a "cause celebre"
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Nothing in for today, planting trees in the garden, walk the dog, you know "living the dream"
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Lot of people on here rate them highly.
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You know a few people who have been bitten by squirrels? What sort of circles do you hang about in? how did these people come to be bitten?
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Too much information........way too much.
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Bowtie Risk assessment for top handled chainsaw
Le Sanglier replied to ben-jammin's topic in General chat
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On some trees yes, on others no. I daresay I will be decried as a heretic (or worse!) but why cut back to some growth on say a crack willow which is going to frith up in weeks anyway. Whether you leave a twig with 10 leaves on the end or not. It's dogma that's all.
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No, Limes, pops, willows there is no need, go for shape. What point is there going to live growth on 'frinstance a Lombardy? Top it flat and watch it go!
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Well that's probably why the client felt short changed then.
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25% leaf volume? is that a widespread definition of reduction? Does any one else define a reduction in that way?
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Ok, here's another similar case, American Mink, I worked on a carp fishing lake in a previous life and the boss would trap and shoot them. Presumably as there are European Mink here on the mainland they lived in the UK and just never made it back after the ice age. An absolutely beautiful animal, ok so I sure people will have stories of mink killing all their ducklings, chickens etc just like any other predator (stoat, rat, fox) but to me they are are real treat to see. Now the water vole question, here's my answer, so what! If it was a choice between the two I'd rather see a mink than a vole on the river bank. But the vole is a native see! one of the holy 21 mammals that came back after the big freeze so no expense should be spared to save it. I just wanted some out of the box thinking on these "aliens"
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Hi there, Would be nice to see some reds in my garden but alas! All my figs get taken by the dormice out here, birds nick my cherries, etc we've all gotta eat!
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That's often the case, you can spend so much time doing crap work you snatch at the glamourous stuff and underprice it.
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Quite wrong actually, Squirrels don't spread diseases harmful to humans or damage property (to the same extent, yes i know Dean!) or spoil our food stores.
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Fair enough, clever and tasty!
