openspaceman

Recent research sees to suggest a tree grows up with the propagules of various fungi within it, just like we humans have more microbe cells in our bodies than human cells. These propagules then become active rotters when the tree is stressed or dying from an onslaught of spores like we see with chalara. Whether it is these fungi within or just secondary infections you are seeing I don't know but previous experience from windblown beech some 35 years ago suggests there is a significant loss of strength within a couple of years even though the wood looks white still. Mature rees with dieback symptoms may have been repeatedly infected over a number of years since 2012 to give opportunity for secondary infections to take hold. Also I do not know if chalara itself affects the wood.

I was thinking it might go down first now the grub screw is out, dislocate from the top hinge and then lift. Else use more oil and screwdriver under the bottom hinge pin mushroom head I would leave well enough alone and glue the rope in with the door on, maybe with a clamp or two starting at the top.

Generally the heather survives if the cut is above a growing point, a bit like a conifer hedge. The problem is where the material gets dumped, it really needs taking completely off the heath. A chap that used to work for me called it a tin sheep. Here we see bracken invading, worse I suspect due to climate change. I have a theory that, with height set above the heather, cut and collect even the dead standing fronds would gradually remove potassium and favour the heathers again. Of course a high cut in August would benefit most but there tend to be issues with bird nesting, I would still go for it in dense stands of bracken where its alleopathic effect meant it was a monoculture I devised a simple means of turning the arisings to biochar that could then be used off site having a similar effect of removing minerals as common grazing of cattle did in the distant past.

My mother used to feed a red squirrel on the kitchen table in the mid 1920s here but they have been gone all my life, I have only seen them in the lake district.

Is that a cut and collect on heath in the last frame?

Perhaps you should edit your post to mansionette? Got through the last couple of years but a bit battered, I must visit some time when the weather picks up in the spring.

Little cottage, have you moved? Gum tree (eucalyptus)

If it doesn't snap with a shallow gob it will just sit there leaning, or worse, barber chair.

In a mast year they fill out and are viable, I used to eat them but some claimed they were bad for you. Little white nuts. Wrigleys used to sell chewing gum called beech nut but I doubt they had beech nuts in them because mast years were a lot less frequent. This last summer I noticed a few beech cotyledon leaved seedlins in the wood far from any beech trees and wondered what transported them that far, grey squirrels I guess.

I'm a bit challenged when it comes to recognising social situations such that when I first saw "The Office" midway into an episode I couldn't assimilate whether it was reality and I begin to wonder about this.

Yes it looks like it had been fractured before. I guess that is weldable steel hopefully they have access to a line borer, it's doable but probably expensive. Let me know how they manage.

He doesn't run it lean; by screwing in the HI needle the engine revs increase just to the point you can hear the limiter cutting in. Enriching the mixture 1/10 of a turn then causes the motor to start four stroking before the rev limit. This way the mixture will be right at full power a few thousand rpm below the rev limit or four stroking, just as you mention. I find tuning rev limited things, like hedgecutters, quite difficult compared with chainsaws where the load can control revs more easily.

The OP is a bit far from E Grinstead; I used their euro therm seconds for my shed, they add a bit of stiffness as well as insulation, which also fends off condensation.

Yes two overlaps should be enough, I have an extension with a low pitch, about 2 degrees on my bubble meter, it has clear PVC corrugated sheets and if one gets partially blocked then in heavy rain it can dribble over. I have attempted a sealant on the inner ridge overlap but sweeping debris off (mostly moss from the adjacent roof) is the most effective. I think the PVC has 5 or more years life and if I am still around will replace with corrugated polycarbonate, like on my log store, and two overlaps.

Lucky you managed to put it out at all

Looks a good shout. As it is a street tree it will be a variety, probably magnifica.

Just showing my age, 50 years a dad today. Mitchell says there is one variety that has 2 needles but that's no excuse 🙂

2 needles, fast coarse growth and the cones tight in makes me think so too.

honey locust is gleditsia not robinia

Bark looks more honey locust

I thought a County was wasted with a Boughton. The 1NL was heavy and you couldn't skid a big log as it was too low and out the back, you were limited with what you could add as front ballast lest you broke something and I know a tale about that.. The Farmi 6 tonne was better and safer but the bottom pulley soon got bashed about so we just skidded off the lop pulley. I still have a tatty 1164 with the Farmi (except a mate has borrowed the winch and not brought it back). The original James Jones Highland Bear conversion had the 80002H winches and they were awesome but actually didn't do much better than the 40002 as they didn't have ground anchors. I'm tempted to take the 40002 winch off the 1124 and put it on the 1164 because the brakes need doing on the 1124. I can manage them alright but young people may get into a pickle. I don't know any mechanics that would do the brake job, Tom Osborn used to fit external disc brakes on his Shawney Poole dumper conversion.

Typical of a saw that's drained fuel into the crankcase and left.

Mine was fitted on the 1124 some when before 1978 when I bought it, used hard for around 40 years and still pulling on an outing today. Mind it is a 40002 which is considerably better built than the 30002 on the Holder.

Yup that's where I first remember him from but I only remembered Dinenage

Heat the tang to a dull red and straighten it. Most good billhooks seem to use a washer before bending the tang over or peening it flat.