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Googled it. Identity confirmed, it may grow to 15' in the right conditions.

So anyway, I now have another plant in my 'Simply Must Have' list. Thanks for that...

I'd go with charcoal. It burns hotter, and because the production process removes the volatiles from the wood, it doesn't taint the food. The poster who used eucalyptus got lucky. By using wood, you are basically trying to make the charcoal yourself, before you can even get cooking.

Then, as has been mentioned, there is only a short window of opportunity for cooking before the fire dies too much. If using charcoal, just chuck some more on and keep cooking. If using wood, remove the food and repeat the initial procedure to get a usable fire again. Put the food on too soon, and be prepared for it to be covered in soot.

So by all means try it...

I think that even if it did break the stump apart, you would still have to get the roots out. I don't think it addresses the biggest part of the job.

Yes there is a left handed chainsaw. According to elf and safety a left handed person cannot use a normal saw. It to do with where you are working in regards to the chain. A left handed person using a right handed saw would be working over the chain. Think how you use a saw then swap hands

No, left-handers just have to learn to work right-handed.

Tried to report the item, but eBay's system doesn't appear to have a category for this sort of thing, so there's no way of doing it.

Why not get a lighter trailer and save some fuel?

If you can get into such a pickle with two ice lollies, I dread to think what could happen if anyone let you get your hands on a chainsaw.

Look in Yellow Pages under 'Lawnmowers'. They will often do chainsaw bits as well.

That's not a review; it's an advertisement!

He's a bit off the mark speculating that the Chinese guy who made it got paid as much as 3 quid (or 3 euros). The pay of the workers is a tiny fraction of the final price, most of it being middlemens' markup and tax.

Also, it is just me, or is he really really creepy?

basing your life on a book some people wrote a several hundred years ago is a tad silly....

So "Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber" (published 1662) is also out.

I once found about 50p in small coins down the back of a sofa I'd been given. Half of it was too old to be legal tender.

Nothing spectacular in the car, I'm afraid. I'm one of those boring people who keeps pens in their shoulder bag or pocket, though the carpet is disappearing under sawdust and twigs.

Cherry laurel and mixed conifers? Chipping is the best thing for it.

They were sold at the Christmas market here in Bristol.

The reason they don't revert to their flat form when filled is that the basket hangs from the handle by pivots, and the base has a rotating cross-piece to stop it falling over.

A bargain for 4 euros in Spain; they were £10 here!

Buy from a retailer that normally does trees, or at least plants. The Tesco trees will be overpackaged to compensate for the neglect they will suffer in-store and it just takes trade away from proper nurserymen who actually know what they are doing.

It's probably a case of relative numbers. Thousands of ramblers compared to a few dozen motorists. That explains why you saw 13 lots of walkers, but no motorbikes or 4x4s. It takes an awful lot of boots to do the damage done by one set of off-road tyres.

There's something funny with that website. I have the devil of a job getting it to advance from one picture to another, and theredoesn't appear to be a 'slideshow' function.

Also look up Tony Wrench, as he uses roundwood, but to a totally different design.

My thoughts on felling when the sap is up is that it will make it very much easier to de-bark the poles, as any squirrel would tell you.

Metasequoia has the unique characteristic of having axial buds below the leaves, not above. On the twig pictures, I either can't see the leaf scar clearly, or can't work out which way is top! The outside pics look like it, though.

Howling gail wolk me up last night, I was very pleased that all the trees are naked!!

Was Gail naked as well?

Not a very elegant system; there are tractor-mounted jobbies where the splitter is automated and the log is cut with a circular saw protected by a proper guard. (Why am I telling you lot this? Half of you probably have one!)

Anyway, it might save the user's back not having to wield the splitting maul, but he has to start by getting the whole log on top of the machine four feet above the ground.

Imagine a chainsaw listing in the style of Andrew Bryniarski (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

I haven't actually seen it; someone else will have to do it for me.

That grafting union is awfully low. Make sure you don't get it in contact with the soil, or you'll have the scion taking root and you'll lose the effect of the rootstock.

Also, take some of the fruit to an Apple Day if there is one round your way. That way, you'll get a positive identification. Mind you, they tend to be in October, which is about two months after Discovery finishes.

Third pic actually looks like the silhouette of a mobile phone! But he said its' not metal, so that's out.

That's planning for the future, that is. Thing is: a. doesn't seem to have been much aftercare, as the rest of the trunks are going every which way, and b. does pine make good boat keels anyway?

Get 'Down Under' by Bill Bryson as background reading. He has a knack for sniffing out the interesting bits missed out by the travel books.

The buds appear to be on stalks, which is characteristic of alders.