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She will? its £6.50 or cheapest courier!

Think you mean the idle screw there Spud! I know you know what your talking about but that just caught my eye.

Jamie, Do you think the new framework will be harder than the old way?

I'd be more embarrassed about not being able to spell.

+1 this stuff is awesome stuff. Another one- I had to stick some edging strips on worktops not long ago and I used trade strength evo stik contact adhesive which seems good stuff, but im not sure if it will suit what you are doing? I'd go with the foaming stuff that comes in tubes the same as silicone.

Thanks for the replies

Does anyone have any experience with this chipper? I have never been a fan of the round blades myself but the actual chippers seem to have improved a lot over the last 10 years. Has anyone got one/used one what do you think? thanks

Men who work for nothing and women who f**k for nothing, will always be busy.

Seen it before- it does nothing for my anxiety

It depends how much you use, I buy chain oil for work in 40 gallon drums- it works out half price to buying 25 litre drums.

This is a good thread! not an easy ID, It is hard to give an ID from pictures and sometimes even when its in front of you! , but in my opinion this is where we learn something- Getting the books out and starting a process of elimination.

Acer distylum doesn't have lobed leaves.

It was written by a plant scientist from Liverpool, just thought it was a very comprehensive answer!

To understand the potential impact of embedding a piece of copper in a tree trunk on the long term health of the tree, some basic plant physiology and chemistry needs to be considered. In order to kill a tree, a toxin must interfere with cell division in the regions from which a tree grows - root and shoot tips and the cambium, a ring of dividing cells inthe stem and roots. In addition, inhibition of a vital process such as photosynthesis will have a similar deleterious effect. Implanting a piece of copper in a tree trunk will only affect such vital processes if the copper is transported from the implant to the roots and shoots. There are two routes that copper could take. The first is in the xylem, the woody tissue that forms the bulk of the tree trunk (wood) but also forms the main transport route for water from the soil, via the roots to the leaves. Movement here is controlled by the rate of water loss from the leaf and this process is regulated by stomata on the under surface of the leaf. Materials move passively with the flow of water, although those with a positive charge will fix to negative charged sites in the walls of the xylem tissues. The phloem tissue (bark) is highly specialised and is responsible for transport of products of photosynthesis from leaves to shoots and roots. It can rapidly seal off any injured tissues. Copper from an implant would need to dissolve before it could move to roots or shoots and affect plant vitality. The pH of the phloem and xylem sap is slightly acidic (pH 5 - 6) so some copper would slowly dissolve. Copper binds preferentially to the xylem tissue and shows limited mobility as a cation. It readily forms stable organic complexes with small molecules such as amino acids and appears to move through the xylem in this form. These complexes are very stable and may not dissociate at the end of the transport pathway. If so, these will not easily pass across biological membranes and inhibit metabolic activity. Copper movement from leaves, via the phloem is very slow so the redistribution via this tissue from an implant would also be slow. The slow rate of copper release from a metallic implant would be unlikely to cause significant problems for a healthy tree. As the main route to living tissue would be via the xylem, the patterns of water movement within a tree would also be important in the subsequent transport of copper. These vary with tree species - in some water ascends straight up whilst in others, water movement occurs in a spiral of verying pitch. Several implants would be required to make certain that all parts of the tree crown were reached by copper. In conclusion, I would consider it unlikely that a single copper implant would prove fatal to a healthy tree; an old or already debilitated tree may prove to be more susceptible. Does this answer your question?

Found this while browsing the net, You may know this already but thought it may be useful. http://www.bartlett.com/resources/Italian-Cypress-Care-Recommendations.pdf

ha just had a look in my book, Italian cypress 'stricta' variety.

What Spp are the trees? J skyrocket? What do you mean by White Fly? Have they been watered? Looks like some kind of mite/lice attack possibly?

no bar and chain, no chain brake, no H&S stickers and probably no serial number Starts and runs as it should- yeah right. It amazes me who bids £100's on things like this. I would bid £50 tops

You tell em kid

The level 4 qualification is the old tech cert and the level 6 diploma is the old professional diploma. I have done the tech cert so it would be pointless doing the level 4 qualification, now I want to do the level 6. (I think)

Its a nice tree, a real asset for sure. I don't see why some light reduction work would be a problem.

Thanks Jamie, I feel a bit sick all of a sudden. What you describe is how I felt when I was revising my Tech Cert and my RFS come to think of it. I appreciate your input Did you pass? are you glad you did it?

Nothofagus

And mine

I am looking at doing it with tree life training, its £5200, inclusive of fees.