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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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It could be the woodland across the road is fairly well stocked with them. They must do it when the dogs aren't about.

Something, probably a mouse or vole has taken out all of my courgettes and hollowed the stems.

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.

...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.

yeah it finally soaked in

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.