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Some guitars have basswood bodies, which I gather is lime or similar.

Spring has definitely sprung. I earlier this evening saw the first Argos garden furniture delivery of the season. Cans in paddling pools within a week. Council estate in the North East of England. Set your watch by it.

On scree, steel toecaps and the full rand (Airstreams) are an advantage in my eyes. The rand’s an advantage anywhere.

I walk/hike in my Airstreams. Bear in mind they’re heavy (it’s often said that a pound on your feet is the same as five on your back).

Melts some fabrics. Beware.

Permethrin?

LOL

Istanbul but not Istanbul? That one in Cumbria with Rigg in the name?

That’s a horribly good point.

You can swap it and (£200) for my excellent working condition 250.

The people of Birmingham have my greatest sympathies. Londoners might visit.

Nah. If it needed doing, people would do it voluntarily. It's a shuffling of money from taxpayers' to a few who profit from the contracts (with the important footnote that the politicians and civil servants get paid in the middle). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Eat both. A member of this forum makes fabulous venison sausages, into which I believe he mixes some pork. I'll be near his house in the next few months. Just on the off chance he sees this post...

Looks fine. 7.5% reduction. £4900.

I’m pretty sure I remember you saying you didn’t like poles because they make lazy climbers! I’ve upgraded mine to a telescopic one but buggered up the coat hook position so it’s harder to loft a rope with now. Still useful.

I agree with everyone above. Remove is most sensible decision by miles. If they really really really want to keep it: Leave it alone and you might be lucky or a dead bit as thick as your arm might smash a gutter or some tiles if you’re unlucky. But they want it safe so dead and hangers (and the potential for future ones) won’t help their peace of mind. Top it at ladder height and condemn it to regular re-topping but at least you won’t have to climb very high or use big saws (will make ongoing maintenance viable for them). A nice bit of silky or 150 work every two or three years but bear in mind if the regrowth is over the house and gets too big to cut and hold, you’ve got the serious pain in the arse of a weak tree with basically no tie in or rigging points. Edited to add: Access looks good though so a relatively small cherry picker from road or garden would be a relatively cheap get out of jail free card there. I definitely wouldn’t cut the top third or half off. You’d be creating shit unions at a height that’s financially prohibitive to get to and therefore with bigger wood that has further to fall. All shit options though. Remove it.

What would Soloman do?

It's written as much for (non-pro) firewooders. Equal if not more likely buyers. The aforementioned helpful fellows on facebook had enough time to point out I'd spent too much time writing a thorough ad. I know, I know... I've also just sold an eighteen-year-old MOT failed van. Imagine those negotiations.

I've got a good 250 for sale for £200. Private message if interested. Here's the advert I've currently got up for it on facebook. Only interest so far is from some very helpful fellows on treebay.

They sound delicious.

Good thread.

I like his suggestions.

Just because they say they own it doesn’t mean they own it.

Employer NI/pension contributions?

Yeah. Looked again. I think I might change my answer to rigging more of the branches (with groundsman with a tagline/pole+hook). If a rigging rope comes in horizontally ish from another tree , you'll be putting the trunk in compression relatively nicely. Or just keep the guys and rig from each stub. Fishpoling or trunk wrapping might make a tiny difference to the bowing or might just make you feel better. Or a rigging line from another tree could be used as a cradle so you're not lowering over the building. That might even stand the tree up under load. One of the branches looks to go off more vertical than the others and might take a redirect from another tree or even a main point on a base tie, either set with a pole/throwline? Like the rigging line coming in horizontally, a climbing line coming in horizontally from another tree will put a reasonable compression load on the branch/tree and you could make it a bit of guyline if you're happy with your climbing line taking that (pretty static) strain. That's a bit of a ramble isn't it. Hope something of use in there. Hard to say from pictures obviously but it looks doable. I've done similar. Not elegant. A lot of straddling etc. Put the ply over the Velux windows. Khriss might be right of course.