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  1. openspaceman
    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
  4. openspaceman
    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.
  6. openspaceman
    That looks like the worm drive gearbox off a roller blind door.
  7. openspaceman
    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
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    CASB13Z - 13mm Shaft Collar (Single Split) - BearingBoys WWW.BEARINGBOYS.CO.UK CASB13Z - 13mm Shaft Collar (Single Split) (Single Split ) at BearingBoys - Â2.90 exc VAT. Inside Dia : 13mm, Material:... Bosch 13mm Brad Point Drill Bit (96mm W-Length) 2608596310 WWW.KELVINPOWERTOOLS.COM Bosch 2-608-596-310 brad point wood bit (13mm x 96mm x 151mm). Shop our Bosch drill bit range today for great prices... You can sharpen the bit and move the collar down. Not that I approve of ecoplugs but you can do the same with a suitable herbice and a dowel to plug the hole.
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    I cannot remember it's about 60 years since I read it.
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    Reminds me of brave new world where foetus' brain development was curtailed to provide manual workers
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    OTOH K deusta rips through limes
  14. openspaceman
    I think even 2 star had lead in it back before unleaded was available. I believe the lead also acted as a lubricant and two strokes benefited from that. By now I would have expected to see a study showing how much better kids were growing up without as much lead in the environment twenty years after leaded petrol was removed from sale.
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    I've never driven slopes that steep apart from short steps with agri-based forwarders. I would consider it with a purpose built forwarder but not if I was depending on that cage for braking the rear bogie.
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    Is unleaded avgas available in UK? I thought it was all 100+ octane and leaded here
  17. openspaceman
    Sylvestris and nigra are the only common ones with 2 needles but some of the 3 needle pines can exhibit just 2 needles. Scots has the bluish needle and smaller cones.
  18. openspaceman
    I thought scots pine
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    At this rate he won't be climbing any trees, BTW my bete noir is ailanthus altisima for snapping unexpectedly
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    I only thought copper sprays were to combat fungal infection and didn't realise any such products were still on the market.
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    It's a shame our more erudite members haven't chipped in, I am no plant pathologist nor expert. If it is fireblight, and the fact the whole crown is not yet infected points to this rather than a root problem like honey fungus, then it is a bacterial infection, the lesions, (splits) that show in the stem point to this as the bacterial exudate pushes out through the bark. Also despite your view that strimming hasn't caused an entry wound that basal wound and swelling does look like damage done a few years ago and is the trees way of growing over the wound. On a you specimen like this standard advice is to start again with a less susceptible species. You could try to cut the dying bits back to sound wood i.e. to the point were the cambium is bright green all around the cut.
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    That's not true about spiking every tree. The old school utility arbs are still out there, boshing off limbs at the stem without a care, but less so these days. Distributors now insist that work is carried out to a decent standard, you aren't allowed to spike retained trees, and works are to bs3998 where possible. Tree work is subject to checks and auditing. Distributors have got environmental policies with regards to tree and vegetation work, biosecurity and all that, and their arborists or subcontracting arborists will have to adhere to it. I'm glad to hear that, you must be a better than average UArb, my experience with rail and utilities arbs is that they attract the worst sort of tree hackers but I retired form this sort of work 4 years ago.
  23. openspaceman
    not great pictures but it does look like fireblight and those vertical lesions on the stem also look like symptoms of bacterial infection. It often enters through strimmer damage at the base.
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    When you check this you may find it is an easement rather than a wayleave and this will show on your deeds, easements are a bit more onerous for the landowner.
  25. openspaceman
    Utility arb work is all dependant on the proximity distances between the tree and live wires and the qualifications of the people doing the work. Sometimes any work requires a shut down . There is provision in the legislation for a landowner to do the necessary work and charge for it but you would have to comply with all the safety requirements of the Distribution Network Operator, Electricity Northwest in this case. They will want to remove all branches from near to the live wire and a bit more to allow for "resilience" for the next five years.. You are better off asking that they do the work to British Standard for tree work 3998 as was and not allow the use of climbing irons if the tree is to be retained. Utility arbs have spikes permanently attached to their boots.

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