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The one @TuscanPhil posted seemed too cheap to be much good but I've taken a punt and ordered one just so I know when to change the oil.

Thanks, Have you tried one?

Yes and as the bark remains intact but sunken it looks like it may be another case of heat damage from a few years back

Did she? So masks would have saved one Pole?

True but the problem with cattle is they make good ground contact and if a tree nearby is struck there is a current spike that radiates from the tree, causing a considerable voltage difference over a few feet and there are not many ways the beast can stand without the voltage between two feet causing a current to run through the heart.

I presume it does AC and DC then? What powers the spool gun? I've been wondering if my inverter stick welder would work for mig with steel wire in a spool gun even though I realise they are meant for aluminium wire.

When I was 22 I applied for several jobs like this, got to one interview and they decided I was over qualified. That's why I became self employed and never had a problem with litter picking, elsan emptying or drain cleaning.

My understanding is that the leaves become more palatable as they wilt so an animal that wouldn't eat them off the tree will eat the cuttings and the toxic effect is the same. I've read the same is true of ragwort, farm animals generally will not eat it live, horses however.... When ragwort is in a hay meadow it is most dangerous because it will get eaten when dried and in the bale and again remains toxic. I think birds digest the aril of a yew fruit and pass the seed whole but with the coat slightly changed and this aids germination. My mother called this fleshy bit snotty gogs and was eaten as a sweet when sugar was rationed. As a post script of course yew remains toxic even if unpalatable and animals mustn't have access to it, one reason they are found in church yards.

@Billhook

These are teeth special to the grinder and only available in sets so I guess it will pay to sharpen them Yes I saw, I actually used the machine to clean some faces prior to sawing some lumps off I did do some but it means bigger chunks get thrown back Yes but not too bad, the machine suffered a few teething problems, handbrake parted at a ridiculously feeble weld and one kill switch failed on.

Yep The local hurdle maker always burned his tops despite my telling him it was bad practice, he often had a fire on a stool which wasn't very sustainable, he only survived a few years after though.

I would expect so at 1/2 inch, it's fine on holly, bay and hawthorn and I modified it to shatter bamboo successfully fed in one piece at a time. I posted a picture but cannot remember the thread, I have been given a couple of B&S engined push mowers and two Honda engined so if one breaks....

It's nearly 50 years since I did any stump grinding on my own account, then it was a Myers-Sherman or Opico on the back of a tractor. I have used the Dosko 10 years ago when working and the Carlton 7015 and Vermeer 252 around the yard doing bits and pierces at my last job. I helped @Dom and his merry men fell a largish cedar for my brother and elected to grind the stump myself. It was half on a bank, 52years old and 4ft through at the felling cut. Having seen @Ty Korrigan's preparations and knowing I would only have a small machine available I followed his lead, I spent a couple of days on the job as the weather was a bit too hot to want to do full days. It took 5 litres of fuel and I shall have to go back and deal with any roots that become exposed when the area is levelled off. I was surprised at how rounded the teeth became and as I had a couple of 4" tile cutting discs that had lost their edge but still had diamonds on the faces I ground the TCT back with those and by the time I had got round the 9 cutters they were both basically only fit for scrap. Moving the grindings out of the hole was a bind and I had never needed to with the bigger machines, It would have been nice to have a leaf collector with a 5hp blower.

I run over my hedge cuttings with a 16" lawn mower and a freshly sharpened blade, reduces the bulk no end for little cost.

Wife's MGB GT owned from new, very tatty now and no pics to hand

The main thing is what problems am I likely to encounter by using E10 in a 50 year old car? Will it be simply gaskets and pipes leaking or perforation of brass and aluminium bits in the fuel system? Or something much worse? I have so far risked not having hardened valve seats and have retarded the ignition to prevent pinking without problems as I travel few miles and quite sedately in it.

I still don't know if he meant "conformation bias" or "confirmation bias" Sorry about the dig @Stubby

Can you confirm that it conforms to the bias, it seems all manner of things get talked about on this manor 😉

Yes I know but what makes the nest "active" i.e. is it active if they are not there, not building it or near it and there are no young present or returning to it? It strikes me as the penalty was derisory none of the above applied or could be proven.

Well @Metsaman doesn't seem to be with us any more but can anyone recommend such an hour-meter in UK?

That's another ambiguous remark, define active and breeding process. It's a schedule one bird I expect so reckless comes in to play if it is disturbing nesting.

I used to see a lot of trees in both gardens and woods where a fire had cause this sort of damage and I would say it was never intentional, just people, including gardeners and woodland workers, not realising the effect of even quite mild temperatures of over 70C.

Yup and our overseas development authority actively sought the use of coconut shells as a use of a waste product and to provide labour and income in poorer communities way back in the 60s. Shipping bulk products does have some environmental cost but this compares fairly with electronic tat from China.cost but I'm not sure about that but then if I need any I make my own.

but was it during the breeding season and was it "active" with birds occupying it or was it active because a pair of bird regularly return and use it for nesting? It looks to me that he wasn't prosecuted and paid the money over as a donation, though I have not followed the case. The bigger burden falls on the landowner who has to allow the monitoring of raptor nest on his land as a right. Reading between the lines I'm guessing the CPS decided there was little chance of a conviction under Wildlife and Countryside act and successor legislation and interpretation of "disturb" and "reckless".

What are the consequences of having a bonfire close to a protected tree such that it may need felling?