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the Smurf's house looks like fly agaric - Amanita muscaria. Poland - good place for a climate conference, as they are about 80% reliant on coal fired power stations
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The one I linked to says dispatched from Buckinghamshire.
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I'm not sure if this one listed on ebay by Briants Ltd is a mk3 or one of the earlier ones where the links crack. you could google briants ltd for their phone number and ask them, maybe quicker than emailing through ebay. Looks like they only have one left. PETZL D22A Zigzag Mechanical Prussik **CLEARANCE PRICE** WWW.EBAY.CO.UK The linked rings provide precision and fluidity when moving around. The pulley is mounted on sealed ball bearings to...
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So sometimes a Leonardo da Vinci or a Mozart is born, but also plenty of these types, just so we don't forget nature can be cruel. Take the rough with the smooth, or start a civil war. No police photo of main attacker
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Hemp would set my asthma off, this time of year every protester worth their salt will have a saddlebag of magic mushrooms for their altered states
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If he'd have taken his climbing gear, and a flask he could have got higher up beyond the reach of the old bill and spent the whole weekend, got more news coverage, helicopter team trying to pry him off etc
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Cost to install root barriers
tree-fancier123 replied to Woodwanter's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
If a root barier is impermeable what is the difference in terms of ground water between installing and felling? If the barrier is long and deep enough , far enough out from the walls I mean. -
What about asian farmers?
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HGV
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I haven't read all the latest research - so I don't know. Back in 1993(AA research note) Lonsdale was a bit anti autumn pruning 'Despite the complexity of the seasonal changes, it can be predicted that, contrary to tradition, autumn is a bad time to prune trees. Components of the tree’s defences that depend on cell growth are clearly less effective than in the growing season. Also, wood moisture is at its lowest in many species in autumn. A high moisture content in wood equates with low oxygen content which limits the activity of decay fungi, even though some can survive such conditions. Finally, autumn is the time when a high proportion of decay fungi are releasing their spores' Interested in the latest, if anyone can recommend an article or review @EdwardC @Gary Prentice
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do you think there is anything to the seasonality of pruning, where if at all possible hard pruning in autumn is to be avoided due to all the fungal spores being released? People have to fill their diaries and earn money, but it strikes me that September, early October would be the absolute worst time of year if given a choice. I suppose if the customer is unaware it doesn't matter, if the wounds do attract gano etc, it may be decade or more before it caves in, by which time the 'arborist' may have paid off his/her mortgage and retired
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this is the only one in the list that bothers me - some of the richest people in the country have got there by having lots of low paid workers to staff their businesses, I'm thinking the likes of Phillip Green. So the government have had to subsidise their businesses by topping up the income of shop workers with tax credits, housing ben etc. Ill gotten gains that should be plundered by inheritance tax. I'd like to see JRM lose a slice too - he reportedly look a 1M divvy from the fund he cofounded, no mention of him forfieting his salary, even with that tremendous wealth. Scrapping inheritance tax seems like making sure the hard working pure greed can always trample the thickos underfoot
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have to agree with Stubby - what a drama queen, certainly no need for 3 exclamation marks, one would have been more than enough
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Also if it's hawthorn, yes a polesaw helps, as it's not really doable from inside
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an ordinary hedge cutter won't cope, but the Stihl single sided R type were made for it, mine is old model HS 86R good for upto an inch, I have that and a battery topper (from inside as Pete says), except today I had to leave part of it, almost mangled it, they need to be told - nothing after the second week of June
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Not how I interpreted it. Sure there is finite carbon, but it's only CO2 that is thought to trap heat in the atmosphere, like an insulating blanket. Australia has just passed legislation to mine a coalfield the size of UK and China have approx 200 new coal fired power stations in planning, or under construction. A few thousand vans and chippers is not even going to register. People like Greta who give up their time to protest get my respect. Australia and China need to understand how badly their actions will affect the whole world. They are like 'doesn't matter to us, we don't have beautiful glaciers anyway'.
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you won't get volume reduction, but buy a field and dig a massive hole (by hand of course) and transport the arisings to the hole by horse and cart, then thow them in,. When one hole is full, dig the next one. If the field is big enough the stuff in the first hole will have rotted by the time you run out of space
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buying a battery chipper won't help - lithium mining is turning the world into a toxic wasteland. The apocalypse is coming, no matter what.
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I've been using the Vactan rust converter, then a 2 pack epoxy mastic (Jotamastic 87). I got the idea of epoxy mastic from Arbtalk someone mentioned it, then I googled it and saw Rustbuster used it to treat a Ranger for the RNLI I figured they had the choice of products, so there must be good reason. Rustbuster seem to have made a trade out of it and their prices - if I paid myself what they had wanted, could have gone on holiday anywhere. https://www.rust.co.uk/product/rusty-s-technical-details-em121-epoxy-mastic-326 Jotamastic 87 was cheaper ebay than Rustbusters version I've only brushed it on, not messed about buying the proper thinners for it to spray it. There is summer and winter hardener, the winter hardener the paint goes off too quick if its warm.
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what we want is a book on how to trim big trees to fit into small gardens, not so it's good for the tree, but so it looks good and minimises the chance of the tree dying. I couldn't write that book, I don't have enough experience, but you do. I will suggest a cumbersome title "Everything you need to know to become a successful tree person in the UK, including how to change the bearings on a chipper" My only suggestions for the first draught - prune Walnut July/August. If customer asks best time to prune oak and beech say December/Jan after fungal spores have been released.
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I thought it was just a stock photo they used, as the damage is in yellow paint
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It occurred to me a while ago the use of thinner plate around a rotor housing so young people don't have to take a trailer test is not exactly helping safety in the event of a problem. Problems seem extremely rare given the number of machines in use - and given the volume aftermarket blade manufacturers do! If manufacturers wished to build a machine that didn't split open like the ones below, I wonder how thick the rotor housing and first part of chute would need to be? My guess is 3/8" plate for rotor housing and first part of chute. Maybe the increased thickness would mean towing around an extra third of a ton. Maybe good for hire machines where punters perhaps more likely to pick up some woody crap with a bolt in it and chuck it in the hopper.
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He jealous of him . BJ 55 all ambitious and well paid, shacked up with his 31 year old chick. I think fewer people would call him a liar if he put the age gap in mrs favour and started cohabiting with a 79 year old
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Backtesting is a term used in modeling to refer to testing a predictive model on historical data. Backtesting is a type of retrodiction, and a special type of cross-validation applied to previous time period(s). (def from Wiki) hindcasting is used as a similar term in meteorology Obviously some of the scientists will make things up 1 to further their careers and 2 because they believe passionately in climate change and a little fabricated evidence is for the greater good to help convince the public. However, there has been fairly rigorous backtesting of predictive models against observed data. Personally I don't think they are just guessing. screenshot from this article on backtesting climate models against observed data https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming
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Hmmm I expect there are arb consultants with L6 diploma not earning as much as the savviest tree cutters and landscapers with no quals that took more than a week to pass. Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, both dropped out of their degree courses. Some people are smart enough to find their own way.
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