AHPP

Very similar to the NHS Litigation Authority or whatever they call themselves this week. They defend everything, including the utterly indefensible (amputating wrong arm etc), and run the fees up. Why should they care? It’s not their money. The tax cattle will pay up.

In which case you can be assured the terminology was either wrong, so absurdly niche as to be effectively wrong or 200 years out of date.

"[Vaccinations will be the end of it.]" Previous examples of British state issued vaccinations include small pox blankets and chemical castration of harmless benders.

151 (I prefer a backhandle) with a 12 or 14 for pretty much anything in a tree 201 backhandle with 16 or 18 for general ground use and occasional use aloft 500i with a 25 for everything else Replace the 201 with equivalent electric if the weight is comparable.

A cheerful national icon, sadly now replaced with some shit platitude about the state healthcare monopoly. Extinction rebellion have done the other side btw.

A friend near Durham wants a bit of something for a mantlepiece. 2"x10"x6' ish. Private message please.

Got it. Cheers.

I don't follow what you mean. Can you explain or post a sketch please.

At the risk of being a clever dick, both. Big bar for the gob (or possibly only the first cut) and small bar for the rest. I like to letterbox and plunge and am not above plunge-halving gobs now and then.

What’s regulating, Bob?

He probably can’t be arsed to move it. Offer £50.

My 500 went back to Stihl when it wouldn’t start. I suspected no fuel. It wasn’t coughing a fuel cloud out of the spark plug hole like a working carbed machine would but then again I don’t know if a working injected machine would do that anyway. Stihl said it was an ECU fault though they replaced the injector as well. It’s been fine since. Pukka saw.

His neighbours probably hate him. See.

The only thing that’ll kill willow is communism. Hack away however.

Can't tell 100% from the video but looks like a direct tip tie? Any merit to running the rigging rope to the tree further in the background and letting the cut tree down on a V?

I use the Buckin Billy Ray Smith method. Rounds on the floor or in a pile, kick them vaguely upright and flop/flick the axe off to one side as you strike. If the axe flops left, a split piece will kick off right and the axe will end up safely flat on top of the left piece. Or golf swing through rounds lying down. Watch Buckin's youtube videos and it'll make sense. Suggest watching them with the sound off and/or sped up.

Samantha. You're an old woman wanting to break into a profession dominated (for largely good reason) by young men. It's very competitive, most people make shit money and many people hate it after a while. You're at a further disadvantage being on an island with limited employers. Then consider we live in interesting economic times where bold career moves are risky, especially ones with significant money outlay for training that you might need to use to buy food with in the coming months. And as if all that didn't make for a steep enough hill to climb already, you're annoying, closing yet more doors. Now anything's possible of course and you may delight in proving me and the world wrong but you're starting at several large disadvantages. I'd ordinarily not care what you try to do but in this instance I must strongly encourage you to not give money to the absolute wasters who constitute the majority of the training industry in this country. Their undeserved dominance is making the industry shitter for the rest of us and I want them starved.

I was going to post one of those. Unspeakably crass. I'd sooner purposefully shit myself at a dinner party than wear one. Has anyone seen one in the UK?

That’s a good point but only just. If you’ve got the wherewithal to pre tension a piece, you’ve probably got the wherewithal to hold/run the piece. Maybe you’d be glad of one for something like tensioning with a truck tow ball and you don’t have a portawrap/bollard on the truck but even then you can make a portawrap with a cut crotch or something and it’s straight back to not being an issue. I remain open minded but I reckon 95% of the time I used one I’d be cursing it or going up to unhook the wrench.

Adds a bit of friction at the rigging point but the friction disengages when you pull the rigging line back up the tree so no struggling like when pulling the line back up natural crotches. I’ve not bothered getting one for the reason mentioned above, too much friction for small pieces and if you get it wrong, you have to go back up to it to change it. You can add friction wherever with a crotch, stub, biner, figure of 8, wrap etc, which is more versatile for different sized pieces and you can quickly slack/grab stuff in the tree if you can see something the groundsman hasn’t or you’re just rigging it yourself. Nice idea and I’d like to think useful if you’ve got big enough pieces or a slick enough wrench but I won’t bother unless I find one very cheap or I fancy making one. Would be delighted to hear from people who use them whether my appraisal is correct or whether they are more useful than I imagine.

Thorough answer. Thank you very much. Is the staggered/offset planting pattern to set you up for weaving it each side of stakes at the first laying?

What’s your ideal species mix, order, spacing etc for a functional stock-proof hedge?

I use it, usually for bits on the tail of my climbing line now but have used it loads for bigger stuff. Never had a problem. Don’t use it for serious chunking just because the tails dangle in the way of stuff. Being easy to untie is a huge plus.

Come on, someone. I hate buying new.

If anyone’s on the fence about taking Rob up on his offer, allow me to possibly help. I want to buy a second hand chainsaw mill. Sell me your old one and use the money to buy yourself a new one.