openspaceman
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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".
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What are the consequences of having a bonfire close to a protected tree such that it may need felling?
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It works out at about 20-25 cube a day, cut and extract. 400-500 trees. The machines can consistently do 80 an hour or so. That's a politician's method of not answering a quetion
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I also have a boundary that is jointly maintained but the ownership falls either side of the boundary, the OP was discussing a jointly owned drive. I'm not saying it cannot be jointly owned just that IMO it is more common to have one owner and the other property having rights over it.
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Yes it must be uncommon for it to be jointly owned, more common for the further property to have a vehicular right of way over the first owner's land. My parents home was in a similar situation where the developer owned the drive, when they went out of business my parents and the neighbour bought the freehold and split the strip in half with each half retaining existing vehicular rights over the other's half.
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The first stage of the fungus spreads throughout the tree, even into the root system, and it definitely stains the wood and must take something from it. The secondary invasions by rotting fungi are the ones that weaken the wood structure and ash will lose strength and become liable to short fracturing from them. I would hope that felling followed by rapid conversion to boards then drying would minimise loss of strength. The main thing is not to transport any leaf litter as this is what sporulate in the following year.
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Trouble is even if the claim for injury is voided it still brings the whole RIDDOR crap down on you. Not being trained in traffic management I still don't know the rules for closing a sidewalk for tree work. We do still do it but stop work to let people through. The reasoning being the public are probably more at risk crossing the road twice to avoid our working.
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It could be the woodland across the road is fairly well stocked with them. They must do it when the dogs aren't about.
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Something, probably a mouse or vole has taken out all of my courgettes and hollowed the stems.
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With birch if you cannot split it soon after felling it rots before it dries because the bark is so oily it won't let water out. When we were harvesting birch poles for turnery if they couldn't be extracted to the mill straight away they had to have stripes cut out of the bark. Sycamore was not accepted if it could not be in the mill within days.
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...and the customer is always right. I'm with @doobin though, the woodlands have been felling big trees amongst smaller ones forever and we'll see more of it if continuous cover forestry takes hold and of course it has been the case with coppice with standards anyway. Woodland continued to exist in the face of clearance for agriculture because it provided an economic output, since timber prices have declined in real terms for best part of a century they have been bought up by various entities whose failure to realise it was harvesting of timber and other produce that conserved them and management by green welly booted graduate ecowarriors is destroying what they wanted to preserve.
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yeah it finally soaked in
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One of the larger tree work firms in Sussex managed to kill off a part of the leylandii screen around their yard from leachate from their chip store.
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Hatz uk at Hinckley will supply direct but they were not cheap or particularly helpful when I dealt with them 7 years ago.
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No, saws with purge bulbs are better should be able to pull some cooler fuel through. My main worry with this happening is that when hot and running it could over weaken the mixture so not starting when hot may be protecting the engine. I have noticed something similar with the 346 I rebuilt when logging in the hot weather last week, so I gave up.
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Dare I ask? but I need to replace me wee 1997 026
openspaceman replied to difflock's topic in General chat
I can't see it being worth it myself. I might cannibalise o broken saw for its crank and put it in another for the hell of it but throw £200 at it... -
It looks like this is little more than a requirement to keep spares for a number of years and I've not found a problem with that. It falls down with stuff with fancy electronics which cannot be reprogrammed. Even with cars and their OBD2 ports there is much on a modern car that isn't covered.
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I don't think so, it may only extend a few inches a year unlike privet's 3 foot but it's not that bad. I talked with John McHardy at Longleat when he was planting the yew maze and he said it would be established in 12 years but I have never been back to see it.
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I think it's box that smells like that
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I believe the HETAS engineer can only self certify his own (tautology alert) work
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I imagine they are much the same as we used to produce as woodwool. 5"min-14"max 2 metre softwood that are peeled then passed over an automatic planing device to produce shavings for animal bedding.
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That looks like the worm drive gearbox off a roller blind door.
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I never did enough milling to experience a band snapping but in 1974 I was assisting Eric on the forestor horizontal mill and he was explaining how a band jumped off and sliced a chap in half so I kept my distance after.
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Hell no I much prefer to see the ladies, talented family Timon
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How many ecoplugs have you inserted? I didn't do a great deal, probably about a thousand, but the brad point works well on the (now obsolete) BT45 drill and clears the frass better than a HSS drill. It is also the bit supplied for the purpose.I did service the 3 BT45s and re sharpened the few bits that the uarbs hadn't tossed into the cess when they got blunt. The collar works better than a welded washer as it is easier to fix at the 30mm depth as you re sharpen the bit
