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Enlighten us.
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Mine are in a polytunnel but I tend to leave one door open overnight because I can't guarantee opening it early enough the next day that they won't cook. I think this is why people dig those semi subterranean polytunnels/greenhouses so the beds retain heat and the cold wells in the bottom of the footway.
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I've got several varieties. No patterns that I can remember though.
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Some of mine look like that. Total mix of potted/in ground, mulched/not, underwatered/overwatered.
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I went on a little freebie bat seminar at the APF a few years ago. 90% of the attendees walked off as it progressed. I stayed to the end, thinking, “He must be getting to something actually useful soon.” Soon never came. Total waffle. Met a few bat twats since. None struck me as much different.
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I have an uneasy relationship with planning consultants, ecologists etc. They help you fight the state rules but they wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the state rules. Some are quite happy the rules are there to give them something to do. Same as when I put that trailer towing instructor on here in his place years ago. He lobbied the government to keep rules tight so he could keep selling the cure. Then you have the revolving door between poaching and gamekeeping. Planning consultants often boast they used to work for the local planning authority. They get their former colleagues to nod stuff through so when those colleagues come out for a stint in the private sector and they’ve gone back to government, they can repay the favour. Tax consultants do it too. And indeed consultants for any activity the state meddles in (so everything then). ****************ing murder them all.
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Bloody climbers and their need for overengineered gear.
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Hey ho, silverback. Must dash and apply my pubescent frame to an axe.
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Notionally 48” then. Must have looked smaller because you’re so grand and imposing. If you haven’t met him btw, you look like a fat Steve Bullman. Or since he stopped climbing and became a web developer, just Steve Bullman.
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Insurers all are. Arb insurance is just insurance with tree packaging. I’m viewing a smallholding later, marketed by an estate agent firm comprised entirely of gilets. Same thing. Phone shop staff with labradors.
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Is that a 42” bar or does a 36” just look unwieldy because it’s on that monsterbastard?
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Nice. I’m finally getting round to go getting my much smaller Yamaha back together. Carb needs doing on that. Float was stuck or holed or something because unless you’re consuming fuel at a fast enough rate, it leaks out of an overflow onto the engine. Either fix it or fit a fire extinguisher. Needs the boot either fixing (cracked) or replacing too.
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fkn snakes hun its just me and the kids from now on
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First thing this morning, I dug the mouth parts out of one behind Sailor’s ear with the end of a knife. The tick card broke it in half. It gets the grey ones but the red ones are tougher. Anyway, he stood there biddably for long enough to do him a small tattoo. You want to get yourself a harder dog.
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He asked.
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It’s quiet but you’re getting nothing because you’re foreign (or you’re the only Anglo Saxon called Hakeem I’ve ever met). Most tree blokes don’t like foreigners.
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Yes ish. I had the top end 18v one, which is probably a lot of the same parts as your 40v one.
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Les’s laughing reaction speaks volumes. I bet his chisels have overmoulded rubbed handles and he buys new ones when they’re blunt.
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What Mick said. I’ve just had the most boring, peaceful and happy day of tree work you can imagine. I did everything right with great kit and looked really professional and handsome all day.
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3x much more reasonable. I'd have got one of those if it was available when I bought the Pard. All this tech is passing me by. As it will do anyone who doesn't upgrade every six months. There'll be full on Eraser rail gun scopes available by the time I need something new.
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36" bar. Lose 4" in the dogs and cover. 2" stickout. Double bar with a 16" 230 (small dogs) just about meets. Won't be bigger than that will it. Unless you have some longer bar I wasn't aware you could get? He'll have a laugh rolling it over though.
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Half an IBC flask on top of the bag and strap that? Keep a bit of rain off too.
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Nah. Do that with a 230. It'll just take longer. What is it? 30"?
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Another one for client psychology.
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Progress moves quickly in chick town. They’re playfighting with each other, not as scared of me and the dog, scratching for food. Also eating full size grain kernels, which is handy. Glad I only bought the small bag of crumb. They still sleep with mother in the broody box in the pavilion but they’ve been mixing with the other chickens in the main run and free ranging close by. What’s the next step for getting them fully integrated? Move the broody box into the coop? Feels a bit too soon to be honest but thinking ahead. Several photos because they’re delightful.
