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I suppose it's mostly council depots that have the facility to compress the gas into the tank? I wonder how many litres of compressed natural gas you would need for a litre of petrol (about 8kWh)

Good question, we used to pre bait hoppers with maize/corn, as in like uncooked pop corn, to see when greys had started visiting, then the warfarin (now banned for squirrel) coated and dyed wheat was put in the hoppers. The thing is the squirrels never ate the whole corn kernel, the indication of their presence was that the germ had been eaten but the rest of the kernel was left.

We had this topic a while back I took the pdf off google drive as running out of space but I can hunt it out again if needed

Yes, for the second time around in UK the number of stations has dwindled, I had a V8 LR110 which I converted and ran from about 1998 till I stopped contracting in 2009, I could drive home from 3 directions and pass a filling station, all three are gone and I wouldn't know where to fill up now. It worked well for me as the cost of the vehicle and conversion was about half what a lr 110 tdi of the same age (1990) would have cost and it had a fraction of the miles (actually km) on the odometer. It did 14mpg on LPG ( I meant to fit high compression pistons which would have increased this efficiency but never got around tuit) and 19 on petrol whereas the tdi would have done 25mpg. The kicker was that the diesel needed an oil change every 6k miles but the on lpg the lube only needed changing at 20k and even then the oil was still golden. I seldom worked more than 20 miles from home so didn't clock up many miles, 80k IIRC, but as the range on lpg was only 150 miles it needed a couple of fill ups a week.

For buildings they seem to set the posts on stones with a locating spike or galvanised saddles but I have examples of sweet chestnut and oak heartwood posts that have survived 40 years in this sandy soil, not set in concrete though, just back rammed with stones and soil.

Advice can be written or oral, both are verbal. It is easy enough to phrase a suggestion in a way that it does not constitute legal advice or cause any liability and for a normal contracting business professional liability is not necessary, it is in the domain of consultants.

Yes, I will be on blood thinners for the rest of my life, bleeds do take a bit longer to stop and some bad bruises occur with the slightest bump but no affect on working, albeit at a leisurely pace nowadays.

I agree that a MS181 would be adequate for harvesting sub 5" material but I wouldn't want it to crosscut those poles into logs, preferring a circular saw bench or to try a branch logger.

Maybe worth a punt if I get a wide hedge to do.

How do you plan on getting it out? Generally it is easier to get poles out than logs, then for these small sizes a branch logger may suit. I still have to get to try one myself.

I stripped the gears on my Stihl HL75 long reach, probably my fault for bashing it into stuff that was too big for it. I currently have the head off a ryobi multi tool on it but it's pretty hopeless. I'd like to know what other heads would fit it as the original is not available anymore.

Yes, first the moss came then the sedum years later

I don't know. I was savage with mine and topped it but left the stem and the fork with no buds, all the regrowth looks fairly healthy, no blossom of course. Note the self seeded sedum on the corrugated asbestos cement roof

I had to look that up

A late friend used to reuse old tubes and for those where the cable tie had pulled through he would simultaneously pierce a new pair of holes and feed the cable tie through with a tool he called a McCloud, named after the guy who thought it up. I made one from the small diameter aluminium tube from of a TV aerial, one angled cut to produce a sharp end and bent to curve back out as it produced the second hole, cable tie then passed into the sharp end fully and the tool withdrawn , leaving the tie in place.

A long time ago I decided I would use a secondhand tracked dumper if the firm did it again.

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Yes Sir

That's right, one of the frst jobs I had in forestry was pruning the first lift to 8ft on poplars and removing spiral guards planted under the Briant and May match scheme, new planting had stopped by then but as the cost of this first pruning was sort of 98% tax relieved EFG pursued it. No further work was done and I saw many of the ones visible from the road buldozed and burned about 20 years after. Yes knotty poplar is pretty worthless because the whole point was that poplar could be sliced green with no wastage. A local market garden where my mother worked in the war years planted poplars for punnet making to package their vegetables. Unfortunately we went down the route of plastic packaging, which was more attractive to large scale capital investment, so they never got used as intended and were felled when a racing car manufacturer took over the site, the coppice regrowth is still to be seen. Yes it is the wax that keeps the flame going but the reason for using poplar for this was as above but also that it doesn't splinter.Similarly for its use as wagon flooring. The one and only wood drying kiln we built was used for drying 2" boards of poplar that had failed to reach the grade, these were then cross cut, split and packaged in cardboard boxes, covered with polythene and sold in Sainsburys.

Reminds me of me in my last job, rug being pulled from under my feet regularly.

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I Have no experience but it seems a likely candidate, bacterial canker.

Not pinnate then and definitely cherry family. Not as I have seen silver leaf which is where the leaf surface has sort of de-laminated to give a silver sheen to the surface

25 years ago I was trying to get to grips with new fangled common knowledge crane controls on a forwarder working a clear fell for open cast working of old mines. My mentor said he watched as the top layers of soil were carefully removed and as they got to old galleries the surface opened up like a zip to reveal trains of old coal wagons still sitting on tracks.

They are pinnate leaves but holed, so a leaf eating bug is having a go. No idea on tree identity.