openspaceman

It looks a bit like a growth problem often caused by overspray of a growth controlling chemical causing the etiolation.

Yeah Bob's post nearly brought me out of retirement till I read that bit. Now about tomorrow...

Tell me about the engine dyno please Bob

Well if the anchor point is high enough it only has to stay long enough to deal with the smaller one. Many fatalities arise from felling a tree that is supporting another. It's a long time ago now but it wasn't unusual for me to hold a blown tree upright with a cable to make it safe to climb and section fell. I still drive past a house with the only telltale that a tree fell onto the roof being the faintly different colour of tiles covering the damaged roof. The tree was a 3m3 stemmed sycamore which a crane held off the roof just above the centre of gravity while I handballed the crown off the roof prior to "felling" it backwards whilst it was lifted out of the loft by the crane.

One could fix a winch to the larger one to make sure it stays

OK if the exhaust is off what does the piston look like? A picture would help. Has the flywheel been disturbed?

How are you deciding it's getting fuel? The 114 I had in my garage for 30 years was an absolute pig to get going but eventually ran with no stripping down

but would the deputy mayor have reached that position under Sadam's regime? He probably owed his rank to the demise of Saddam. I have no doubt Saddam's was a bad regime (wasn't he there because of US wanting a proxy to fight Iran?) but was the cost in life and instability a good way to do it?

No I meant that was the start of US flexing their muscles and making poor foreign policy decisions. As a nation they are insular but because of their history highly prejudiced about the dismemberment of the british empire (I have no problem with the british losing their overseas interests but it was done badly because of US influence). Their dogma and fear of communism was laughable were it not for the bloodshed it caused.

Has always been so in my lifetime, I became disillusioned when I was 17 in Finthen USAA Germany and since then realised the problem stemmed from way before then, probably when they first latched on to the Balfour declaration.

Yes this is the sort of thing I guessed, provoke the US to attack the regime and then take over

If it is the same collision then one may have been in the criminal court and this one a civil claim? My granddad cycled into a lady in the 30s, before my time, and was sued, paying the compensation just about broke the family. My gran, a matriarch, took in lodgers to make up, one of them being my father. PS I have just googled and the case with a fixed wheel bike was different and the lady died.

Agreed, I wonder if he would have done it if a cornish ex marine had been the protestor

I'll join you for morning break

Despite a quick search, you're still going to have to explain what 'solus' means My misremembered spelling: Unless the land for a road was purchased for that purpose most highways ran on somebodies' land, because the public gained a right to use it didn't mean the ownership was lost so often the two adjacent landowners still owned the earth (solum) under the highway even though a highway authority were charged with maintaining the surface. Often before the surface was metalled the right of way wandered over a larger area as traffic avoided pot holes or wash outs so the right of way extended beyond the currently surfaced bit of road and includes the verge. All irrelevant to your TPO query

Even if unadopted if there is a PROW it could be highway, the solus could belong to the property.

I'd say you are on a sticky wicket there, the tree has amenity value and the owner wants it removed for a reason other than the nuisance it is causing the neighbour. Still worth an appeal on the client's behalf but I'd probably want the tree to stay were I a local. If it dies from DED then problem solved and as you say the expense of rebuilding the wall with an engineering solution for a tree with limited life is money wasted. BTW the verge will be highway waste won't it. I dealt with a stump causing a boundary wall dispute where the neighbour made a claim for damages but denied it was a shared wall, pics in the stump grinding thread. Solution was simple, remove wall and no rebuild, case is ongoing even though no nuisance to anyone any more and the neighbour has no right to the wall.

Has the neighbour claimed for the damage?

@QuattroKev

I wonder if you get that sound out of a guitar, return to the alhambra I think.

Yes and it was all done by one gorilla of a bloke when I was there, hand balling a few thousand tonnes a year. There was an old school cutter locally called Joby who would tell me I was trying to run before I could walk. Striping cost me a pair of boots when the tool slipped, mind we never did it on sites we could extract immediately. Kent took birch, sycamore, alder 6" down to 2"and if pushed ash poles down 6" down to 3.5" Mere didn't like alder poles as I recall but also took beech sawlogs, Harris beech sawlogs only.

Yes, Peter Dunlop IIRC it was a long time ago. I also supplied Hill at Mere and Harris at Bromsgrove.

Could some of this be due to the late harvesting, i.e. the B&M rotation was only 25 years, so rot would not set in, leave them for 40 years and more chance of rot?

It's logical if you think about it, if you prune the butt to give 6m of clear stem for peeling then you'll have 15+metres of knotty top for pulp[1]. Before plastic peeled punnets were used for all sorts of vegetables and with the swing against plastic packaging in the public's perception it may be worth pursuing again[2] but the management has to be sustained rather than the crop being abandoned as in the Bryant and May case. UK needs to adopt the French long term view on timber growing rather than FC led short term grant getting. Let's not go overboard in decrying poplar it does have potential and I think @Billhook on here successfully built a cabin from it. [1]This was what was annoying in the 70s when paper recycling became the way to save the planet, it depressed the market for the poorer grades in the top, put more of the harvesting cost onto the rest of the tree and increased the diameter of lop and top left on site. [2]Actually the use of wood instead of plastic from fossil fuels makes sense for a lot of things, I started supplying birch poles for brush heads and even way back then the owner of the business said his fortunes were inversely proportional to the price of oil, if oil went up Addis brushes went up and so he sold more wooden brush heads, eventually even though the ancient turning machines owed him nothing the labour couldn't compete with the speed of injection moulding and the cost of oil pumped out of the ground compared with motor manual harvesting of small diameter poles.

I think the Poplar Timber Co were promoting poplar planting into the late 90s in the SW as the FC were still willing to pay grants even though the markets weren't there even then. When the firm I worked for were poking 500 tonne a week into the Slough Estates power station the maximum moisture content was supposed to be 45%, poplar and most softwoods couldn't meet this freshly felled so I don't know what happens nowadays, if it's paid on a dry matter basis it may not look so promising.