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Le Sanglier

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  1. Le Sanglier
    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!
  2. Le Sanglier
    That's often the case, you can spend so much time doing crap work you snatch at the glamourous stuff and underprice it.
  3. Le Sanglier
    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.
  4. Le Sanglier
    Fair enough, clever and tasty!
  5. Le Sanglier
    I am unsure of the verity behind the demonisation of them. Impact sure but magpies jays etc also, I just think they are a convenient pantomime villan. I come from West Sussex with acres of mature Hornbeam, loads of greys in the canopy and no discernable loss of trees. I am not suggesting they are all good but maybe it's time we re-assessed them. Rabbits, brown rats, fallow deer, sika deer, sycamore the list goes on. I find this obsession with native species being "good" and all introduced "bad" a bit daft. As if the fauna that was left here after the last ice age was in some way "perfect and right"
  6. Le Sanglier
    Worse than Zombies then! certain there is no deer damage there?
  7. Le Sanglier
    Thanks Gnome, I was just googling it myself. I will forward some info to the client, he's not paying me for it so after that it's up to him. I just thought it might just get me the Poplar takedown.
  8. Le Sanglier
    There we are! lot more meat on a grey than a red:thumbup:
  9. Le Sanglier
    Looks a good shout, cannot find any information regarding Laurels though.
  10. Le Sanglier
    an ipad, I borrowed my brother-in laws when I was in hospital..brilliant! Oh and a compact loader.
  11. Le Sanglier
    Careful Ty, Reincarnation and all that! Maybe Krishna's on arbtalk
  12. Le Sanglier
    Well pine martens and golden eagles are in rather short supply.
  13. Le Sanglier
    Well some interesting views there, loads of bird feeders on the market that are squirrel proof. So they take some eggs or damage some trees, they've been here 60 odd years and no extinctions yet. I like 'em and I say more power to their elbow!
  14. Le Sanglier
    I had never seen a Red Squirrel until I moved to France, A real thrill to see the long since disappeared 'Tufty' However they are not like the Grey. they are timid, and stay in the woods rarely if ever coming into the garden like its bold cousin. This set me thinking just how bad is the Grey? they give us many laughs showing their intelligence at bird tables and are an asset in towns bringing real nature to the most built up areas. Maybe it's time to value the much maligned "tree rat' !
  15. Le Sanglier
    Ok, I'll await with interest:thumbup:
  16. Le Sanglier
    Silky you're sooo Money Supermarket! (you don't even know it)
  17. Le Sanglier
    Students, no of course not, an experienced climber in order to remove it, yes (as long as he was happy to do so)
  18. Le Sanglier
    Can we have a bit of clarification please, I have a feeling later on this thread may have legs! is the question "would you (a climber) climb and work on this tree?" or "would you let other people ie students, climb the tree?"
  19. Le Sanglier
    I would (sorry Paul!) just rig the bits down smaller, and don't do it in high winds. The way I see it it it has been receiving wind pressure for a few decades a few stone of climber won't make much odds.
  20. Le Sanglier
    That google street view is amazing! as for the tree, I cannot really see a future for it where it is; It makes me laugh when they put 100 yrs old, because that is a big number. 50 or 60 I reckon
  21. Le Sanglier
    All the above make fair points, for me it's the spelling, on a cv it matters.
  22. Le Sanglier
    I went to quote a poplar takedown this morning, he asked me as an aside if I could tell him why his laurel hedge was dying. Here are the facts. This started 6 months ago and the problem is spreading fast both ways from the outbreak. The small Pops in the hedge show no obvious sign of problems. The client pointed to the cow field next door (visible in the pics) suggesting a overdose of slurry might be the cause, cannot see that myself, as it's just a field with a lot of droppings around the trough. It is in two places although only one is visible in the pics. Laurel is usually very resilient so I think it's a pathogen of some sort. No obvious fungal activity. Any theories or disease ident?
  23. Le Sanglier
    Oh and it was such an important and serious thread, you like an ad....discuss
  24. Le Sanglier
    If your going to start quoting Jurrasic Park....well who can argue with that!
  25. Le Sanglier
    Anyway I prefer the Huey Lewis and the News version.

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