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Greens also stock the finest most-weather climbing gloves, the white leather palmed Cutter brand. Can also be used to direct traffic like a Japanese policeman.

My thoughts exactly. I need to find glaucescens specifically though because that could be a different kettle of fish if they need 25 years to get to final harvesting size but have already shit themselves at 15 years.

Got any pictures/data/anecdotes about any UK eucalyptus plantations older than fifteen years, J?

I know of a pair of those boot covers sat in the saw box at a campsite I used to help look after. One of our gang had been on a saw course through college and proudly donned them (and chaps) to demonstrate his prowess to the boss. He looked like a hockey goalkeeper, made half a cut and then fell over trying to get the saw out. Hopelessly impractical.

Inspired by something I saw Gordon Ramsay cook on his youtube channel. It's not the silly bollocks shouting at people etc, just him in his kitchen knocking out excellent food in about four minutes. Recommended. He cooks quite similarly to me. Probably better even. He did it by browning meatballs around the edge, piling spices and chilli, garlic and ginger in the middle and then quenching with stock and coconut milk. I did similar but used the perennial cooking bacon and a bag of Mediterranean vegetables in a full coverage and comparatively wet/oily fry (so less browning) and then pushed that to the edges to do the spice, heat and quench. Large diameter, flat bottomed pan for a nice waterline and simmer. My spices were turmeric, garam masala, cinnamon, black pepper and probably some cumin. Turmeric and cinnamon probably the most important to make it a bit oriental. I'd have put lemongrass in if I had any. I want to try it with scraps of lamb, rolled like fruit winders, seared on end then left pink as fvck in the middle and the broth will wick up them. No reason you couldn't do the same with beef. Or anything really.

Not remotely. The politicians who invent these schemes and the crumb guzzling dolescum who take advantage of them have a gun in my face and a hand in my pocket.

A quick being a rooted whip or a living offcut that you hope takes?

If you have a gap between living stools, do you bury and/or nick the middle of a pleacher to try and get new growth in the gap?

Everyone involved in this sort of thing should be put to death.

Where in the country are tractor pulling competitions held? I’ve been looking for a sympathetic locale to marry my sister.

Learn how to remove/replace/fix phone lines, fence panels, roof tiles, paving slabs etc.

It depends. If it’s 75 poker straight trees 600mm dbh and 200 feet tall on a flat dry site with great road access, they’ll sell standing. Then there’s all sorts of other possibilities. I’d take down 75 trees for free for my own firewood if it was local, low risk, I could do it solo, easy extraction, I could do it when I fancied, I could store some there etc. Or maybe it’s someone with no work on who has people he has to pay anyway so he might as well have them making firewood rather than nothing. Or maybe it’s a terrible job and the people who won it are idiots. Who knows.

The forestry industry.

It’ll work and it’s what I have. If the Inuits had loads of cherry trees, e make them out off cherry as standard.

And bents in both axial planes.

I’ve got several weird ideas for paddles just to be different. A single ended Greenland (I almost exclusively paddle a trad open canoe), octagon shafts, semi flat faceted blades (think Robocop mixture of curves and flats).

No but watching closely because I have a sliver of cherry in the kitchen reserved for this purpose.

I've got some game but I'm not especially burly so rig all sorts of small stuff a real man might cut and chuck. Don't think I'm closed-minded about wrenches btw. Happy to be proved wrong if they're really good.

Freehand everything above bicep height off for firewood and then appraise?

I looked into using an airship for arb work a few years ago. Not straightforward legally and the gas costs are frightening. Hot air better but still not easy. I’ve not totally written it off yet but the setup of tethers, launching etc is a lot of pissing about so you need to be on a big job. If it was quicker, you could do loads of little lifts dropping hot tubs and bags of aggregate into back gardens.

I'd typed a load of stuff about bar lengths but deleted it because it just wouldn't advance mankind much. Suffice to say I don't think rip-snorting fast cutting matters in arb. It's mainly rigging and the logistics of moving a tree from a garden onto a truck. Forestry different.

Interested to know your rationale for that, your uses etc? Just seems a bit similar. If I already had a 28, I’d want a 36. Like the op has a 20 so a 30 makes sense in my eyes.

As well as vibration, consider the ergonomics. The Stihl corded saw handle is fat and tiring to hang on to. The Dewalt battery saw dead man switch is very stiff and needs finger/thumb strength.

And the rest of the state.

On full comp 25” is sweet and 36” is OK.