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Reskinning the poly tunnel next week. Full plastic or netting to waist height? Probably potting bench with seeds starting in trays along one side and tomatoes growing the other.

Making a rather late start on compost. Two bays because that’s how much convenient material and space I had. Hay, some kitchen scraps and sawdust from the bin at the house and woodchip so far. It’s miles from the chickens unfortunately. Not the best planning but there you go.

Yes but no. Freedom, yes. Harmful communism (as if there’s another kind), no.

He’s not your mate. Anyone who when confronted with such aggressive idiocy doesn’t say, “I’m not playing your stupid game.” is an enemy of freedom and an enemy of you.

IMG_5181.MOV Dog thread overspill with a morning theme. Same thing as every recent morning here. Coffee and hot cross buns, occasionally telling the geese to quiet down or piss off.

Eggs is the unifying thing between the three dishes in your last post. Ten points please.

Have you got chickens? I don't think of them as a very Scandinavian thing.

Just a daily observation of Sailor acting like a crackhead for a bit of vibe context. IMG_5208.MOV He was on superb form this afternoon. He gets in the way like a ****************ing pain in the arse. Lethal anywhere near steps, stiles etc. You go to put your foot down and he's bloody there. I'd tread on him to make a point but I'm still going to fall over when he does a backflip with me affixed. I make do with dodging him by being a ninja basically. Anyway, we were mending a fence around a paddock. I was mainly clearing trees off the wire and throwing them back over. He was in his element. Sticks for days. Did a fair bit of getting under my mate's feet while he was tacking up wire etc. The pièce de résistance came when he (six foot, fourteen stone farmer) went to the trailer to get a fencepost, turned round and Sailor, the massive toothy imp nicked it out of his hand like toppling a toddler's Mr Whippy and trotted off with it. Big stick energy. Warms the heart and aches the sides.

Traffic management would be the cherry on top.

Basically no.

The capstan is lovely but too much violence otherwise. I’d tolerate said violence if it was productive but it isn’t.

The bark made me think of American cherry at first but plum is a much better guess.

Why of course I have photos of it as a tree. That's why I'm trying to ID it from a piece of firewood. Found at a tip site. How fresh? Old enough that it has those massive drying cracks. Three or four weeks down at a guess.

Oh give up, you bellend. A fellow can say something nice without wanting to hold his hand.

And modest to boot. I reckon you're quietly a pretty good climber from what I've seen on here.

Still good going for a man of your maturity and seniority. Four and a half hours for the whole thing would have been very, very good going.

Was that side still on when you felled it?

Don't think so. Bark seems wrong and wood seems harder. I've cut a fair bit of alder and wrote it off fairly early.

Assuming I was satisfied with legality, I'd have an operated hire picker drop a climber onto each stem (3x £500 for 3x hotshots with a 462/500/661 each) and then support them with saws/fuel or a bit of basket time as required. Boss on the floor for security and saw admin. If anything needed rigging, I'd swap the picker for a grapplesaw and use that to run climbers and gear around instead. Saturday morning: 07:00 ring bark it with a battery saw while people gear up and get up 07:30 start saws and rain it down 09:00 down to the splits 10:30 down to ground level 12:00 stump will be flakes Swap stump grinder for chipper while lads have lunch Chip up and ring up until close of play Locals will take the wood This all assumes you couldn't just make three cuts at 20 feet. Then it's even easier. £10,000 in advance, another £10,000 on completion. And I'd put boards out with company details facing every direction. Fabulous advertising to developers etc. Big tree gone and not coming back before the pubs are open. It's the regime of TPOs that causes this kind of nuclear option to be taken. The fear of your property being burdened. If there was no such danger, a lot more would get left standing. I'm aware they're leaseholders btw. My point is general, not specific. But I'm sure there's a reason they did it.

Yep. Like Mike Yardley with a side by side vs a firearms copper with a semi/pump with a big mag years ago. First ten shots the copper obviously stormed off in five seconds, then couldn't reload fast enough to keep up.

On car fuels, anything that adds a step, conversion, need to synthesise, refine etc is going to pollute. All the people driving to work to do those things and so on like someone up the page explained. Perhaps we should be using the rawest material available, like vegetable oil or heavy crude oil fractions? If I end up doing more tree work locally, I fancy using horses and carts for moving heavy stuff. They smell nice and I'm ****************ing sick of road tax.

I did think that as I was cutting it. Salved my conscience by observing the severe shrinkage.