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Been loads of sightings this year for round here of the black adder. Dont get me started on pheasants! Think about the woodlands where phesents are. Only thing you will find is pheasents, corn and rats and not a lot else. When it rains, mud and pheasent shite running off into tributarys.

Low wage people in work but need wages topping up, record people in work is all we hear from this government.

Lots of momentum now with regenerative ag. Change is on the horizon with regards to payments for farmers. The conservatives are also making it possible for the land owner to get the payments and not the person farming the land. Make of that of you will. The rich looking after the rich imo. If you stop payments then you run the risk of people going for max production. Hedges out, no margins etc so could be counter productive to the environment.

Was trying to get an idea of the weight of the chippers i have experience of. Will have to get down to the local weigh bridge and see what the entec is packing kgs

I'm not too convinced by the vegan thing myself. A lot of vegan products are flown in and thus are incuring a lot of air miles which are obviously not great for the environment. Thinking of monoculture cropping which is savage for biodiversity. Not all farming systems are destroying the environment, their is quite a bit of hype about regenerative farming at the moment which focuses on biodiversity and working with nature rather than against it. Too much fake news with regards to uk farming with US feed lot facts being quoted. Not saying all farmers are great but their is some good stuff going on. I thought that aforesting the uplands would be a good idea but, thinking more round me, you would loose the heather moorland which is a habitat in itself which would presumably have knock on effects. Silvopasture is the pinnacle. Getting the grazing right with in fiels trees i think is where the most carbon can be sequestered.

Perhaps my terminology was not on point thur my man. Perhaps if i said it doesnt hold a hinge as well as some of the other brands of trees. One things for sure when adb branches hit the floor the make hell of a mess! Need to purcahse a road sweeper, did have one by chance go up the road i was working the other day saving me some work!

I think the main problem when rigging die back ash when compared to elm is that ash is pretty brittle to start with so that even in the early stages that is exacerbated. We are working on die back ash here in West Somerset and trees a varying a lot. Definately noticeable that even in the very early stages that when doing directional hinges in the canopy they just dont hold. Personally i have been trying to advise land ownera to catch it early as if it progresses it can not safely be climbed and of course costs will escalate! Absoulutly tons and tons of roadside ash that has die backbround here. Dead standing trees, even if you didnt know about die back they should have been picked up as dead and dangerous trees!

Grazing, in the right manor, helps sequester more carbon! Grazed Silvopasture is the pinnacle

Not the lack of power i worry about its the lack of grip that worries me. The transit has been bomber in terms of being fully laden, no hill it wont do in first gear! Did have a 90hp cabstar once that would not go up a hill in first, that was a worrying reverse back down!

Yep many many benefits of trees for animals and the land. Nourishment BOOKS.GOOGLE.CO.UK Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues has debunked this myth. Their work shows that when given a choice of natural foods, livestock have an astoundingly refined palate, nibbling through the day on as many as fifty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet their nutritional needs with remarkable precision. In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body's nutritional and medicinal needs. Provenza explores the fascinating complexity of these relationships as he raises and answers thought-provoking questions about what we can learn from animals about nutritional wisdom. What kinds of memories form the basis for how herbivores, and humans, recognize foods? Can a body develop nutritional and medicinal memories in utero and early in life? Do humans still possess the wisdom to select nourishing diets? Or, has that ability been hijacked by nutritional "authorities"? Consumers eager for a "quick fix" have empowered the multibillion-dollar-a-year supplement industry, but is taking supplements and enriching and fortifying foods helping us, or is it hurting us? On a broader scale Provenza explores the relationships among facets of complex, poorly understood, ever-changing ecological, social, and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future. To what degree do we lose contact with life-sustaining energies when the foods we eat come from anywhere but where we live? To what degree do we lose the mythological relationship that links us physically and spiritually with Mother Earth who nurtures our lives? Provenza's paradigm-changing exploration of these questions has implications that could vastly improve our health through a simple change in the way we view our relationships with the plants and animals we eat. Our health could be improved by eating biochemically rich foods and by creating cultures that know how to combine foods into meals that nourish and satiate. Provenza contends the voices of "authority" disconnect most people from a personal search to discover the inner wisdom that can nourish body and spirit. That journey means embracing wonder and uncertainty and avoiding illusions of stability and control as we dine on a planet in a universe bent on consuming itself.

It amazes me that LA, to my knowlage, doing anything to notify home owners and landowner about the risk of die back. I have knocked on a few doors and caught a few people to notify them that the big tree over the house has die back. I just tell them to get a tree surgeon to look at it as i dont like cold calling but i almost feel like i have a duty of care!

Yep does take a while but you are not using a carcinogenic chemical. I am involved with a trial with the rootwave machine and my first thoughts were that this is going to be slow going! Certainly suited more to situations where you catch an out break early rather than being presented with a vast stand. I did think a welder would do the same job! Obviously a lot has gone into research and development of the machine to ensure effectiveness and safety.

Sorry got to add it is electricide. Lots of current through stem and roots to kill plant

Rootwave. Been using it recently, only just started using on knotweed. Theory seems good. Zero chemicals, if your going chemical free this kills the root so deals with the plant underground rather that most mechanical methods only dealing with above ground.

Have they ever thought that permemant pasture also sequesters carbon. Infact i think that you can do more with an extensive grazing system carbon wise.

Used to wear on years ago. Was an old jacket hence started using it for work. The outer material didnt last long at all.

I have got my trailer ticket so no worries on that front. The limiting factor here is the 90 horse transit and the hills round these part so my inquiry is mainly to see how much heavier the chippers are in comparison in an effort so gauge if i am going to be going bavkwards down dunkery. It is already a second and first gear job

I would have thought that the entec would weigh more than the later tw150 as there is a a few more metal parts present on the emtec that are not on the 150

Hi guys and girls, contemplating a new, new to me, old chipper and am wondering about weights. For reference would any one know the weight of Jensen a528? entec ch35 ? Had the jensen and currently got the entec but considering changing and am looking at either the the jensen a530, which i know i will be able to tow round yer okay, and tw 190 but wondering how that in compares in weight to the old pencil sharpeners i have had/got. Any help much appretiated.

Its the bit circled that i want to service. Works but i think it is a bit worn.

Hi all I have a 98 entec twin feed, old style agricultural feed controls. The valve block, excuse the crass terminology here, control job feels like, after 20 years, is getting a bit crunchy and or loose. So I thought I would do something about it before it lets me down and therefor was hoping I could just overhaul it. Is that something that can be done easily. Can attach pics if necessary Many thanks Mark

Naff idea imo

I have worked with a chap who has one of these winches set up on some pallet forks for the back of his tractor. Winch is on a remote. I used it for felling some trees off a bank and it wad a pure breeze. Very quick and has a fairly decent pull! On a digger it would be a weapon. Shame a drone hasnt been made to connect cable to the timber yet.

All comes at a price... may be better looking for a machine with it allready installed.

Old entec antistress can not be sourced any more. The tw 150 antistress can be supplied but i think you need to upgrade to the feed control box above the hopper. If you have the feed control on the stop bar i recon it is easier to fit the jensen antistress.