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farmer rod

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  1. I planted some hornbeam two years ago, and although they look healthy and are growing, only a couple have made any effort to grow upwards. Some of the trees almost look like a weeping variety. Have I bought the wrong plants? or given time will they pick up and put on some vertical growth?
  2. They love saying things like that, gets people where they want them, but have you asked the lawyer if he will pay up if his advice is wrong??? Has anyone EVER got anything out of a lawyer
  3. ahem, luckily round here no ones looking, mostly, i hope:001_rolleyes:
  4. whats more important is how can we stop them!
  5. nit picking but in a good way typo "Vegetation management and weed controlM," and on the home page, I was trying to click on the "our services", but they are not links very nicely laid out though, and visually catching
  6. farmer rod

    fungi farming

    I had one of those kits with the plugs, Mr Fothergills or similar, got a few good mushrooms from some birch logs without too much hassell
  7. My boiler certainly wouldnt like it, but some of the bigger ones can cope. 15 a tonne sounds very attractive compared to what I pay at the moment! even if some of that 15 is buying water
  8. Also, Ash and a few other woods split better when fresh sawn, so get going before the rings are weathered
  9. cut a decent chopping block, or stack some rings so that your axe strikes at a comfortable height, aim to chop a log off the big bit every time, the hardest part is putting the ring back on the block, so work round and round, you will soon have a big pile of logs
  10. blistering hot here, sadly rain tonight
  11. so .... slightly less effective than just standing there with a cs and cutting the hedge
  12. with the addition of the sweeper collector you could get the clippings straight in the truck
  13. ours does 23 miles before you need to put it onto reserve, I reckon that is 2 gallons, so 11.5 mpg ouch!
  14. it is really heartening to find that so many people appreciate decent meat, we have ours hung for 21 days and we know that we lose weight over that time, but we gain flavour. The trouble is your average accountant dosent have a column to add up flavour so he assume you can manage without.
  15. brilliant!, what length chain for that job?
  16. would you buy that with shopping tyres!?
  17. Assuming the nut is with the hose side and the steel pipe has a male end, then as suggested above, wedge the sledge hammer underneath and welt it on top with the club hammer, use a drift if access is poor. If you can get the angle grinder near it, using a thin slitting disc split the nut nearly through, the heat from grinding helps so have spanners ready to go. Good luck, and I bet its in the most inaccessible place ! Being German the fittings might be JIC not BSP
  18. a fair way from you, but you could try Robert Wraight 01233 622 985. they have sorted me out with a few things and been decent to deal with. (Ashford Kent)
  19. more curiosity, what sort of reduction in output do you think for throwing in rings etc as opposed to chipping a stack of 3m lengths? Im slowly building up my pile, but I dont know whether to pay a bit for the wood in order to have it in lengths, Ill be wanting it chipped in August if you fancy a holliday in the sunny south!
  20. josy I am miles away, but out of curiosity what chipper do you have?
  21. you could weigh it in for nearly 500 quid, what have you got to lose, get it home and get the spanners out!
  22. whack a wedge in it and split it, it will dry out a lot faster, it splits really easily
  23. Are you serious about the £50k, we had 1.2 km of 32 mm put in and it didnt cost half of that?

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