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Have you tried Astrak?
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It's not only willow and poplar that strike roots from setts. A couple of years ago I reduced a privet hedge for a neighbour and decided to use some as stakes in a vain attempt to keep the dogs off the courgettes.
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Why not? by the time you add in the period for earth to become habitable and life to evolve humans the odds get much longer. Given also that the earth will be too hot for most life within a billion years we're only a blip in time.
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First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
not to mention polecats or hedge hogs iyou use lethal traps. The perceive wisdom in the mid 70s was it was only worth control in the early spring to july. -
First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
You said thinning not clear fell. 😀 Anyway you may decide to coppice then store some of the damaged trees. -
First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
It will be worse after thinning -
That's my understanding too, Conservation area is a notification and the time is six weeks. TPO is a planning application and the determination period is 8 weeks, after which you may appeal, not carry out works.
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You may be right
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Happy Birthday. Club is getting bigger we will probably outnumber the youngsters soon.
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Not any mink farms left around here, still a few feral mink from releases though, we had them in the stream at work., I wonder what they did with the rest of rendered mink, probably fed them back.
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Pricing standing Ash some with Ash die back.
openspaceman replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
There's slightly more air space when stacked on a lorry because of the edge effect up against the pins, in a large stack these empty edges would be filled by a bit of log. Also the 55% figure for hardwood would be more for branch wood cut from large sawlogs rather than whole ash stems cut to 8'. Average diameter makes a difference too as smaller poles have more air space yet a mixture of smaller and larger can pack better. Ash is a light wood either way so sale by volume makes sense if it has been lying in the stack for a while. -
My maternal grandmother died from it when she was younger than I am now so I am grateful to have had the scan whenI was in my sixties.
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Pricing standing Ash some with Ash die back.
openspaceman replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Yes work back from the roadside value and remember an artic carries 29 tonne, with a loader about 2 tonne less and an 8 wheeler about 18 tonnes with loader, any part loads cost more to move. If it is firewood then you have the luxury of delaying extraction till summer (sell by stacked measure), conservation sites often don't allow summer access (conservationists ruin woodlands). A tractor and trailer crane can extract 30-70 tonnes from stump to roadside if the round trip is less than 1km, on a shorter route a modern forwarder will do 150 tonnes in a 12 hour shift but can make an awful mess at this time of year ( and cost a few hundred to low load to site}. I could go on but I'm 15 years out of this although I have done a double extraction of ash off a hill by winch then conversion then forwarding recently and that was extremely slow. -
Initially add a small amount of beeswax so it is mostly liquid and can soak in the *dry* leather, later you can add more until it has the consistency of a paste. It will then buff up to seal the surface but I never bother. This thread has reminded me to make some more.
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Timberwolf 18/100 g coming out of long term storage - spares.
openspaceman replied to cazeroo's topic in Maintenance help
I doubt it will need spark plugs, oil and filters yes, I'd probably just empty th old fuel out and see if it starts okay on fresh. I would check the manual for the oil specification and filters ans use a local car motor factors or ebay rather than dealer prices. If you can read the numbers off the belts then a matched set from a bearing supplier. -
I made a concoction of beeswax dissolved in some hot, very old neats foot oil (left from when my girls had ponies 40 years ago), it seemed to work.
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I'm nigh on half Doug's life in front of him and haven't suffered that indignity yet.
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Yes, it doesn't explain the square but the texture of the younger bark or the difference in age of the bark over the wound wood?
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Not even sure what OG is in this context. Yes it was a strange assortment of bits but not as big as the last computer I used in 1972, that was a DEC PDP8, even then they did not hook it up to a CRT screen but I had seen pacman type games played back on a TV. It did prompt me to buy an Amstrad 6128 and write some basic programs for producing invoices. I gave that up when I finally got to see a spreadsheet program.
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Tree fallen over and uprooted due to storm
openspaceman replied to SJ1982's topic in Trees and the Law
As the tree has fallen naturally it has not been felled, killed or uprooted in contravention of a TPO and therefore no reason for a replacement under the TPO. I would advise doing only the minimum work to make safe or gain access until the council have had a chance to inspect. -
I was wondering if Putin had orchestrated the Hamas attack on Israel to divert resources from Ukraine and the US reaction was to then foment trouble for Assad, again to put Russia under pressure. Are any conflicts on this planet not proxy wars between more powerful nations?
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What I meant to add was it wouldn't be human to do such a thing, history shows us that the dominant have always pursued their desires at the expense of the untermensch, without the surpluses of production being so used we would not have had pyramids or other wonders of the world etc.
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When I started harvesting, in about 1976, we cut pulp in the grounds of a cottage occupied by a load of hippieish avant-garde musicians. They were composing synth music for a theatrical production of HHG. It was the first time I ever saw a floppy disc or a wood burning stove (a Quebb IIRC). Basil still apparently plays locally. It was my introduction to Douglas Adams and what I took away from it was that humans are at best a sideshow in the scheme of things. Basil explained to me they recorded the sound of burning droplets of plastic falling, he called the sound zorch which I think was the name of his band, and the sound was what was fed into his synthesiser.
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Me too. We think of humans as intelligent with forethought but we are still going to pickle ourselves in our own waste much like yeast does in apple juice but there is no other apple.
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I always chose to keep old vehicles going, even now I have a 24 year old Vitara, bought 4 years old,and a 14 year old fiesta, bought 5 years old no dpf, because they are simple and I can fix them. The trouble is when you come to replace a vehicle the prices have increased dramatically and there is little value in the trade in.
