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  1. Gary Prentice
    Huh!! Everyone knows what colour 'Mycomans' boxers are.... Red!! And lunch was probably fungi
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    Gary Prentice replied to sime42's topic in General chat

    Debating the merits? I was waiting for you to write something to tell me what to buy? I'm waiting for some Toluidine Blue atm
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    Only one ‘r’ in Gary
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    A marriage thing
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    Sorry, writing on my phone. I meant don’t underground guy, just above ground support - maybe a couple of posts and a low crossbar to stabilise the rootplate. i do kind of agree with you, but it’s up to owner to make the decision. If the OP thinks it’s pointless, by all means say so, and provide information on the options. I’d get a cost on a big replacement, then say it will be £x to winch upright with a 25/35/45% probability that it’ll die over the next few years or replace with a new tree for £x. With luck, the owner does both.
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    The soil looks pretty heavy, I wonder if a high water table and anaerobic conditions have killed the root which has then succumbed to colonisation? Its not the advisors job job to decide though, only to advise and give opinions. I’d personally discuss the concerns that the colonisation will probably lead to death, but if there’s a lot of emotional attachment to the tree, give it a go. I wouldn’t recommend underground guying due to cost and the integrity of the root plate. Improve the rooting environment with woodchip as much as possible and see what happens. No guarantees, a couple of hours work but let the client accept the risk of failure. just my two pence worth
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    Gary Prentice replied to sime42's topic in General chat

    I wonder how common sunscorch actually is? Living up north, I’ve only ever seen it in literature and can’t remember any personal experience of it.
  8. Gary Prentice
    Googled ‘Felixthelogchopper and friends’
  9. Gary Prentice
    Probably more Marks. Apparently he's a little used pair he's grown out of, with a rather fetching blue stripe Mods please remove if deemed inappropriate
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    Yep, if I want to debate with someone who is never wrong, I can simply sit at home and talk (listen!) to the wife Im beginning to think that behind that avatar is actually a women.
  11. Gary Prentice
    Only taking the mickey.... Agree about the mogs when the bottom of chipper’s buried and you’re up to your axles you’ve got problems.
  12. Gary Prentice
    So you're only 'stuck' when you have to engage a third party or third party vehicles I'm calling you out on this one. My definition of stuck differs. I.e When the vehicle can't move in it's normal manner, without being towed, winched, pushed or other-wise assisted. If you need help, you're stuck. (a bit of digging/woodchip for traction/tire cleaning is acceptable in my book though) "When I used to use a mog that was a different matter nd needed to call in some heavy duty assistants a few times because they are either travelling or proper stuck!" We'd get ours stuck because we'd always try to get it into stupid places, because it's a mog and you can (well we couldn't). The front mounted winch, and a number of pulley blocks, always manged to get us forward and eventually out though.
  13. Gary Prentice
    Just reviewing my BS5837 Appendices master copy (I know, sad, it's New Years Day) and at 4.4.2.5 g) the standard gives both early and semi-mature as example categories - just to help confuse things even further. And I think the 'reliable source/good authority' was from here http://www.tree-care.info/uktc/archive/2010/msg01701
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    Not anymore
  15. Gary Prentice
    Forgot about the shaving. I’d been asked to before attending hospital and not being too sure exactly where the cuts were to be made, shaved everything. The resulting few days of itching and shaving rash sure takes your mind off the surgery.
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    2018

    Gary Prentice replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    Did I miss something?
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    I find the easiest way to do anything like this is to have a clean hi-viz jacket, clipboard and camera - then direct someone else where and how to dig. I've never suffered back ache this way ever
  18. Gary Prentice
    Nice photo's David. Would it be possible to add the dates when they were taken (not meaning those above) as it would help to start associating the identification with the time of year they're fruiting. Many thanks Gary
  19. Gary Prentice
    It would be an easier decision if we actually got regular continual snow. I went out Friday morning and needed four wheel drive to get 500m to the main road, ice under fresh snow. For my three mile drive over slush, with icy patches I stayed in 4WD. Returning home a couple of hrs later, the roads were just wet. we probably only average 4-5 snow days all winter.
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    Many years since I had it done, but I can’t remember any issues. I drove myself home afterwards and started back climbing after a week or so. Saying that, I might have still been using a troll sit harness without leg loops at the time. Everyones a bit different, a guy I knew couldn’t climb a gate for six months.
  21. Gary Prentice
    Now I wonder who the American Arb was? Having lived in Enfield, Stansted and Cambridge, I don't envy your commute nor the travelling around London.
  22. Gary Prentice
    And the Royal Mail call the Highlands and Islands remote
  23. Gary Prentice
    Didn't do my last laptop much good either..
  24. Gary Prentice
    'Le Git' isn't for moving on, is he? I feel for you, It's wrong when people enter into business and then when it doesn't work out, for whatever reason or whoever might be at fault, can't move on. You don't have to remain BFF but the acrimony is harmful to everyone. Hope it works out Gary
  25. Gary Prentice
    Pretty much everything seems to come now with built in obsolescence or is 'uneconomic to repair. One of the bike mags costed the parts for a 600cc bike - £30,000. You could buy one new for eight. It's all the same thing, designed to make you buy a new one, whether it's white goods, vehicles, computers or phones. We're now a throwaway world.

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