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  1. tree-fancier123
    So Brickell, writing about pruning pear is being overly cautious, missing out perfectly good pruning time in April. Between spring and autumn I suppose spring has less pathogenic fungal spores being released
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    Some of their number probably read these pages. They dont care if their victims hate them. They don't care if theyve cost a person months or years of earnings. All they care about is getting money without having to graft honestly. They probably think people with bricks and mortar are the capitalist pig enemies.
  3. tree-fancier123
    I would have thought this summer the fruiting spurs could be thinned, see e.g Brickell RHS Pruning has photo guide on spur thinning pear. On apple I have picked off new apples to leave fewer big ones. I read somewhere growers will pinch out flowers, but its an act of faith, if tree not pollinated thoroughly
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    If the scientists could come up with an ethical means of removing just the adult males
  5. tree-fancier123
    It says about good and bad times to prune in the books, I can see you want to impress your new employers, but surely if most advice says, winter, summer, avoid spring then whats the rush? The tree isnt going anywhere
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    the post above this shows how easy the door locks are and can be replaced with one that has no pick on sale, but the Vehicle is still vulnerable even with the door lock changed, the on board diagnostics OBD port below steering wheel allows starting of the vehicle by bypassing the immobilizer - companies are marketing devices to block the port. eg here. Search Transit OBD blocker. there seems to be 2 sorts a metal box that covers it and a sort that plugs into the port, not sure which is best, but the one below requires a matching tag for the blocker to start the vehicle, presuambly the steel guard boxes could be removed by a determined thief a few minutes googling Transit OBD attack, or Transit OBD protector shows how common this method of stealing vans is, there are no doubt dark web tutorials for the criminals to learn this miserable retarded trade. It's a shame it isn't legal to hunt and kill these criminal primates that ruin people's livelihoods
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    “Fusion is a major challenge, but one that must be tackled. We believe that with collaboration, dedication and investment, fusion will be the best means of achieving deep decarbonisation of the global energy supply in the 2030s and beyond.” I'm not convinced, but the amount of wires and gadgets on display is impressive. Uk private effort big experiment coming together in France A US one with algorithm work by Google lots of components in the quest to make an artificial Sun
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    Soldering iron and flux capacitor to tune?
  9. tree-fancier123
    so you've booked the flight and packed the Unicender
  10. tree-fancier123
    I get where you're coming from, but surely there is a psychological element where people don't want to believe in man made pollution and climate change purely because they don't want to feel personally guilty about their own activities? I've got two old smoker vans and I don't feel guilty, because I know that the universe is infinite - so if we cause an apocalypse here there will an be infinite number of similar planets elsewhere that other peoples can enjoy, nothing special about this one, apart from it being ours
  11. tree-fancier123
    Well I for one am not voting Labour - they would compassionately let just about anyone in - if the trend in the figure (from Oxford, not some right wing think tank) continues that is an extra 2m every ten years, a far greater increase than earlier decades. Energy efficient houses with airlocks etc will be the in thing if this news item is to be believed shock horror - no more natural gas in new homes from 2025 wtf. (except hobs, big deal) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47559920
  12. tree-fancier123
    I liked the quantitative analysis and you do have a point about the impact of having fewer people per house, but when you talk of population decline - it's like you're recoiling in horror at the thought of it. What are the dangers of population decline? Not enough money to pay pensions etc? Danger of being invaded by a more densely populated nation? So I was exaggerating saying the population has nearly doubled since 1911, but it is still an extra 24m. Quite some acreage of building been going on. Can you extrapolate the growth into coming decades without tower blocks on the village green?
  13. tree-fancier123
    I did learn the knot - handy for tidying a lanyard. I don't doubt BigJs ability to build a superior dwelling to what the PLC builders offer - what I am pessimistic about is the idea of taking less profit and offering a bigger garden. You can do that locally, but the idea can't be scaled because of the sheer number of people coming to live in the Uk. If the figures are right net migration since 2000 is average of a quarter million per year, so surely that means another 100 000 new homes approx, just to house new arrivals. Now the issue is with the size of plot for these new arrivals. The countryside has no say in it, only humans do.
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    The declining size of a houshold does add to the problem, but the Uk poulation has nearly doubled since 1911, wouldnt have been anything like that without immigration. Graph shows just Polish, let alone all the Romanians, Bulgarians and others from far away lands. Those 400 odd thousand Poles even if packed in 20 to a house is a lot more land gobbled up
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    The Times article I linked to says otherwise and I beleive what Migration Watch have presented. I would like to see a similar article, using national statistics and not just guesswork to illustrate your point. The sheer number of new arrivals and their offspring once settled must account for whole cities by now. Look at Birmingham for example.
  16. tree-fancier123
    If the figures are right and the population increased by 6.6million between 2001 and 2016 that is a lot more rabbit hutches
  17. tree-fancier123
    No. And yes. You may call it propaganda, but article linked says 82 percent of the population increase due to immigration. People living longer adds to problem, but lets see figures. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/migration-linked-to-82-of-growth-in-the-population-t8tr99f6v
  18. tree-fancier123
    If a hard right party came to power with a commitment to ban immigration that would also help in the quest for houses with bigger gardens. Sure you will have some success in your area making a few nice homes, but the overall picture is bleak. 'Net migration to the UK, the difference between immigration and emigration, was estimated to be 282,000 in 2017. This is down from a peak of 336,000 in the year ending June 2016, immediately before the EU referendum' Of course land is going up - more than an extra 2 million people here now, compared to 10 years ago. If the politicians can't manage to cut immigration right down, then what we need is a plan to make the UK land area larger. For example a few trillion tonnes of rocks and soil from some far off land brought here on a big sailing boat and dumped around the coastline
  19. tree-fancier123
    the reason private services don't always come cheaper than state run is shareholder dividends
  20. tree-fancier123
    considering both above points - here is a set of photos showing someone using a combination of chains (I don't have logging chains, so would use a several wraps on a 5 ton endless ratchet strap) and the cut he calls the T cut, is like box hinge or Coos Bay. Personally I don't think the snipe is doing anything much. So he cut the sides about a third diameter parallel with expected lay, and then cut the back until it came away. You can see how far he got with the back cut before it went. of course this method just flops the leaning tree, so not a good option if it will severely damage retained trees. If the heartwood is badly decayed the box hinge/ Coos Bay type cuts would not work. Whichever cut, seeing as the tree is going anyway a test bore with a long drill would give an idea about what holding wood there is
  21. tree-fancier123
    Soz, not knocking your can do attitude. What about a ratchet strap round it as a bit of insurance?
  22. tree-fancier123
    Barber's chair, crematorium, done
  23. tree-fancier123
    with a single span going through trees to be cut between two poles, would it be any protection and feasible to string a length of rope between the poles and tension just above phone line, so if any branches were droped or went astray the rope would protect?
  24. tree-fancier123
    It was silly talking about shooting them. What Matty said about the police being scared I can believe, another post I remember on here some thieves caught redhanded at a yard pulled a shooter 'its not worth your life is it?' . Still, no where near as bad as being alive during a full blown civil war. I still think some variation of removing a wheel one side could help. Battery wrench, torque wrench, cheap bottle jack. Possibly some way of making it difficult for theif to fit their own wheel to tow away, one larger stud so a wheel wont go on unless a hole is drilled out, funny thread patterns etc. Any mechanical way to disable a hub
  25. tree-fancier123
    If you ever win the lottery you can buy ten TW125s and use them as bait for a sniper rifle

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