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A very long time ago on development sites we would dig and windrow them and pass over with a mulcher, the digger and rake then sorting out bigger stuff for another pass. Everything then put in a bund with topsoil for use landscaping at the end of building.
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How is this field maple still alive?
openspaceman replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
@Dan Maynard as an illustration of my point have a look at this photo I took today on a site where volunteers had done some control of laurel invading a woodland. The ring barking was done two years ago and you can see the tree has carried on increasing girth above the cuts but interestingly the tree above the cut is attempting to put down rootlets. There were no likely root grafts. -
I saw that earlier thread and It's why I got my cheapy grinder, fair enough leaving laterals, you can pull them up later if they are in the way, but not much you can do if the main stump is just lurking 6" down in a planting spot.
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It's still at half the rate of other IHT and as it is rate free it costs nothing to keep hold of. Round here it is so urbanised that very little land is producing food, the gain in value and "hope" make owning it worthwhile. It annoys me but both the farms I worked on in the 70s are gone.
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Co dom pine, sound union-ish options please
openspaceman replied to Twentyeight Trees's topic in Tree health care
I agree that reduction is pointless and won't achieve anything but the tree was topped long ago from the sight of the stub and I would not expect much rot at that point. If it gets felled a photo of the joint cross section would be interesting. What has happened is that two branches from below the cut have taken over and then fought for apical dominance. As such I would expect the union to be strong, not like a pollarded broadleaf where the union of adventitious shoots would be poor. -
Hard decision but the right one, I feel for you too.
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I very much doubt Jase had anything to do with the design but he does work for the firm that made it, if it is a Greenmech.
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That's not the best way to ask @Jase hutch for help 🙂
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MIG or TIG? Before and after photos would have been interesting.
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It's the way of business isn't it; sole trader vet sells up to a company, gets money and continued employment, without worries of running practice or employing staff but the net result to the customer is increased costs as the company has to pay his wages and a return to shareholders. Our excellent vet ,who helped us with three consecutive dogs, did just this for the last 20 years and finally retired a year ago. Luckily we know a new vet that has just started a practice, he seems very good and old school. His set up costs are frightening though, the scanners and other fittings cost would have bought two new forwarders and a harvester.
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Do you mean the drum has sheared from the shaft? I don't know how it was fixed but husky drums were brazed to the drive.
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They fall over each other and the tiny rootball of some ends jacked up in the air, I wouldn't have thought the roots could be so rotten and support any leaves
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@se7enthdevil
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Yes I am aggrieved but the other driver claimed he was indicating right, had not reversed prior to turning and my wife passed him without indication. His word against her's despite overtaking on a residential road is a bit strange, especially by a little old lady. The thing is insurers are just glorified bookies and fairness is not part of their remit. False insurance claims put up all our premiums but fighting them in court is too expensive, hence knock for knock.
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What was the actual charge and why were you on the pavement, many people on my street park on the pavement/foot way/sidewalk so drive on it to get there.
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Similar recently happened to my wife, I have fitted a basic nexrbase after the horse has bolted. She was driving along a residential road, a transit van was reversing, she indicated and started passing when it swung right into her. A plumber looking for a house had overshot the driveway, reversed and turned in without checking rear view or indication. 50:50 decision by insurance companies meant a £1300 write off payout for her followed by 90% increase in premium for both our cars despite protected no claims bonus. Kicker is transit drive claiming several thousand quid damages to his power steering via a no win no fee lawyer despite only a marked bumper.
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Surge in sales of used double cabs after Xmas?
openspaceman replied to richy_B's topic in Arb-Trucks
My thought is it benefits any self employed or small business owner who is VAT registered. Many double cabs with full hard top and no tow hitch used as big estate cars round here. -
It looks like mechanical damage and also the shape, or lack, of buttress suggests the ground has been made up, so it possibly occurred at the same time.
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presumably one needs a prescription for one, I know one older man who has one for wasp stings and a girl who has one for a nut allergy. What's the shelf life of an epi pen?
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Suet Shirley
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In the meanwhile; small Riko A frame pto winches had both a friction brake and a crude ratchet sprag clutch which applied directly to "teeth" cut into one side of the cable drum. I never liked it because if you winched in so far that the hook touched the fairlead when you left the pawl down inadvertently everything jammed up. You could try something like this spring loaded one way wire rope clutch to hold tension, it is a beefy mechanical prussic like device.
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I used to have an Hinowa manual with track mot0r diagrams, the final drive were an italian firm with a name like Bernouli but... I found this (forgive the chinglish): The swash plate motor and axial pistons circled blue provide the rotational power. The disc brake is applied by the springs and released when pressure is sent to the motor , a shuttle valve then allows pressure from either the forward or reverse lines to operate the brake piston to release the brake via a shuttle valve. The shuttle moves from the pressure side to block off the line to the other side.
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I don't have a lot of experience of the guts of track motors but the motor is often a swash plate piston motor driving through a set of planetary gears for the big reduction ratio. Once pressure is removed a spring loaded transmission brake is applied to the motor shaft, often a band brake.
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Why not? Hydraulic motors are torquey even the gear motors. What's the pull and can you get a photo of the face plate for the specification? The
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There will always be creep as some oil from the high pressure side seeps past the spool valve or to that drain line on the motor. On track motors a brake is applied if there is no pressure being sent to the motor. If it is leaking past the spool valve you could fit a check valve in the supply to the winch.
