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    A friend has an inside tree that be currently has in a wooden square pot. 4ft square by 2ft deep. He wants rid of the tree but wants to keep the pot. I want to take the tree and hsve been looking at pots available. Is there a rule of thumb about how big the pot should be compared to height or crown spread. The tree is about 10ft tall. If anyone could give me a guess on species it would be great too, we think some kind of fig. I have attatched a picture where you can just about see the pot it is in. Thanks for looking.
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    Not beech. Something tropical is my guess. Seventh Devil will healing to give his opinion on sure.v
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    Ryobi are a lot better than they used to be. Not as good as makita. My friend runs a old style hardware shop and he sells ryobi. He has one of a lot of the tools. Over the last two years I have been helping him one or two days a week with a barn conversion. I've had my makita stuff out and him his ryobi. Makita wins on impact power drilling speed etc. But ryobi passes. He has 3 ryobi battery chainsaws and the key is putting a really big battery in them, then they cut well and reasonably silently. Slower than petrol but inside they are ace and outside for little bits they are easy.
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    Speak to a planning consultant. Let him deal with all future correspondence. Don't get back to them until they get back to you. If they get back to you they will likely give you a short time frame to deal with so best to organise now. If other people have sheds, you are not in a conservation area or an aonb then definitely don't apply for planning.
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    I would go 5 or 6 mm
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    No point in asking you the point your making as it's the same point you've made in every post.
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    You need to make a gasket out of nitrile rubber. Things like Petropatch work as well but not that suitable for gaskets. Nitrile rubber is available in small sheets on ebay for a couple of quid.
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    How much land will the birds have access to?
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    How much land will the birds have access to?
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    J. Your mill is a beast. But its largely immobile/illegal to tow. I nearly always mill mobile unless a local wants something small doing. I usually turn up somewhere in a back garden, woodland or muddy field and cut one to five logs. Cost of extraction and delivery to a mill and haulage back, would well outweigh the savings in sawdust on these logs.
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    You can indeeed.i have a double ended 3.5ft mill on two stihl 051s. It cuts as fast as the lucas. 3 weeks or so ago I did two days straight cutting 2 and 3 " beech slabs. 10 to 16 ft long and 3 to 4 ft wide. When I was finished I felt great. A day in the Alaskan and I feel like I've had a day on the Alaskan.
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    Chain sharpening and set up is key. The bar needs to be set dead level and true. Mine needed a fair but of shiming. The chain needs to be exact in tooth length and angle. If you can try to cut down hill a little bit. I just park my bum against the carriage. Give it a gentle lean. Listen to the radio. Jobs a gooden. I can point you in the direction if some helpful set up internet pages if you wish.?
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    This is a surprise to me. I love my lucas slabber. It's pretty effortless for me. Just park my bum against it and give a gentle lean to push it along. I timed myself cutting a 4ft plane tree last week and a 4m x 1.2 m cut was taking around 3.5 to 4 minutes. Chain sharpening is easy with a granberg precision grinder. If I'm slabbing clean wood all day I change chains once or twice and always sharpen in workshop. Took me quite a while to get my slabber set up to cut like this but it is possible . I accept the kerf is big but the portability and ease of setting up on a 5ft log negates this for me. Takes me 15 mins to change between the two blades. I guess it depends how you cut. Most of my contract milling is mobile so the lucas is easy. Most if my personal milling is dimensional for construction so the lucas wins here too. Horses for courses I suppose but I love my lucas slabber.
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    Can't really help with your question, but would be interested in why don't rate the lucas slabber. Is it just the kerf or something else?
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    My main concern when considering my countries future should always be people who left 20 years ago! I feel for them. Only 60 acres and not allowed to move to Spain.
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    Beautiful hedge mate.
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    I'd have the shavings all day long.
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    I have quite a large stock of timber for my own use and maybe a bit of a retirement fund. I sell a fair bit without trying. It's a good bonus income but i don't try to make a living from it. Can't cut oak quick enough mind. But I dont seem to get offered that much oak.
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    If it's really 200 links. Which It doesn't look to me . You may want to try the 27rx 5 skip chain that Rob sells. But Oregon ripping chain in 404 is the usual..
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    Not taught in schools anymore as only correct sometimes.
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    I agree with your sentiment exactly. And apologies for making it look like I was calling you naive. I too have little understanding of costs of running beaches and I'm sure there are many more. Any busy public space is going to suffer running costs. I assume beaches will be higher as they are generally more dangerous places. (Gangs, muggings, rapes etc excluded) Charging cash in hand businesses to use parks might make them have to pay tax, although I too doubt a profit will ever be the outcome.
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    I think it's rather naive to think that there are no costs in running a beach. A lot of beaches have flora to maintain, lifeguards to pay, a small fortune in erosion management. Path maintenance to beech, possibly steep and dangerous if not maintained. Car parking as you mention for parks but this should be self funding in both cases. Litter picking needs doing on beaches too. I would say there are potentially more costs in beaches than parks, depending on the beach.
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    app.
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    But not as much fun
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    I get lots of duplicates on android. I scroll down then will get 3 or 4 of the threads ice just seen before more scroll in. Not too much of a problem though

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