Matthew Storrs
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It’s absolute filth- hate the stuff! Customer of mine loves using it and I’d really rather not do the job than suffer from creosote burns etc- particularly in summer when it oozes out. Not too bad if just doing stick fencing but post and rail where your handling the timber a lot… Have you got a post peeler Harry?
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Some from my last visit. The house was my father in laws country house (now sadly sold). That sold for £70k with 1.5 acre garden and a large barn also ground source heat pump etc. Kick myself we didn’t buy it but does take 4hrs driving to get there from his home town.
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Those pics are the dream!
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Fair play J. Takes a bit of gumption to make a move like that- particularly as you have kids at school etc. How is your Swedish coming along? It’s an idea I often think about too- strangely I’m more keen to move there than my Swedish wife is. She reckons the long winters and early darks can take there toll a bit. But by my reckoning the summers make up for it and yes the winters might be cold and dark but they’re probably far drier and less depressing than the continuous rain and dampness we get in this part of the world over winter…
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where’s that J?
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That looks lovely J. I haven’t been to Sweden since 2017 now. My wife’s dad had a lovely country house just north of Karlstad, Vanern, absolutely love it. He’s since sold and lives in Norrkoping. Enjoy!
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Guess it could have been worse- Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees perhaps…
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Yeah midlands is easy street as far as the weather is concerned! I used to live there and rarely recall a time In 4 years where weather conditions put a stop to work like it doesn’t on a regular basis here. My sister still lives there and her garden looks like something out of gardeners world this year
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Where abouts in the country are you Gary. I’m simply shocked at your success. I’ve put so mu chi work into my veg garden this year and the results are beyond depressing. Guess growing at 1300ft above sea level doesn’t help with 2000mm of rain a year!
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Nor me Doobin…
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No. The upper mount will be far too far up the dipper- the brace/link bar would be extremely long and easy to bend. If it’s closer then the thumb won’t close. Once you have a thumb, I found the need for a fixed manual grapple became completely redundant. If I was doing a mix of work. Keep the thumb on for day to day handinesss, and get a proper rotating timber grab if you have plenty of timber work. I love my thumbs!
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Well I like you charcoal Beau. Was very pleased with the stuff I got from the yelv garage t’other day. It’s like meat- a lot of people just don’t want to think about where things come from. As long as they can get 3 chickens for a tenner they’re happy.
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Even if it can do it, it shouldn’t do it! That geometry is just wrong! I’d walk away from it if I were you. If it stretches your funds just buying it there isn’t going to be much contingency for when it all cracks apart!
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I’ve tried nematodes this year for the slugs. So far so good but will see long term. I had big problems last year with the buggers.
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Don’t worry- it’s not just you. My courgettes look identical to to yours at the moment. Sickly looking and unpromising. I compared a pic of the same date last year and the courgette plants were about 2ft diameter with massive green leaves and already getting courgettes growing well. Been a funny year this year for veg I think. I planted out onions, leeks, squash, courgette, beans and peas over 3 weeks ago and I don’t think they’ve hardly grown since. My new veggiemesh tunnel/cloche is looking promising though and the cauliflowers are coming along nicely under it plus carrots and parsnips sowed under it germinated far quick than ones sowed outside the cloche.
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Why not look into clippex fencing system. Perhaps not the nicest to look at but Easy to install by hand and combined with the use of gripples a relative amateur should be able to get a decent enough fence up.
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If you can get a quad to it then you can get a digger and knocker or tracked machine. I’ve had my digger fencing on ground so steep the only machine they could use to flail it was one of those robotic tracked flails- I really don’t like fencing by hand!! As for price yeah £4000 labour for 400m is most likely them quoting for a job they don’t want to do! Unless it’s bedrock or something?
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Depending what you want to tow. I think it’s only the long wheel base and commercial that a rated for the full 3.5t.
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Yes I’ve heard that too- I say they’re growing but whether they actually develop into a decent cauliflower is another thing. I’ve just got a large aluminium Cloche tunnel with enviromesh/veggie mesh which I hope will deter caterpillars etc.
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Looks great! But makes my own effort look depressing in comparison! Nothings growing at all! Except cauliflowers and sweetcorn.
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That’s the 2.0liter. The v6 would be a different beast. Still I think they are overpriced for what they are.
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Anyone have problems with Sparrows? Just planted the french beans and peas out yesterday as had outgrown pots in the greenhouse- the sparrows have destroyed the lot in 24hrs!
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I have sweet corn, courgettes, peas, various squashes, cauliflower and onions all chomping at the bit to be planted out. Think I’m going to take a calculated risk and plant out this weekend. Tomatoes and cucumbers growing but depressingly slowly- just no real heat about despite being in a greenhouse.
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Not strictly children but Anyone who is 18-39 might be worth opening a Lifetime Isa (LISA) I opened one on the money box app and it’s pretty good as gov add another 20% up to £4K a year. You can access funds when you 60 or you can put towards first house...
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Mine does have the idiots tensioner. But it’s been fine really. Haven’t had problems with it going loose and on the odd occasion I have a chain derail it’s nice to be able to put it back and tension without having to walk to the truck to get tools etc.
