Gary Prentice

And there was me thinking you'd made an archeological discovery

Now who's being pedantic? but all trees (of whatever size/age) are included in a woodland order. The lower limit of size (germinated seedling with 'true leaves?) is still a little sketchy, legally, after a recent court case!

Flint, or flint arrowhead?

Individual, 'numbered on a plan & schedule' TPO? Or included in an 'Area Order'?

Sorry to be pedantic , but everything is included in a woodland order (as I know you know), what's there at the time the order is made and what grows after that time. So Hazel can't be 'included' per se, it would always be included.

Well Mark, the only opportunity to disagree with the making of the TPO is in the first 28 days after it is made. If no one makes representation or objections, the owners are stuck with it. Saying that the last time I made an objection to a new TPO the LA didn't seem to have any process in place (that anyone I asked knew about), it didn't go before a planning committee and didn't get confirmed. We felled the tree!

But the ‘pollarding’ may have been undertaken without consent, and today’s condition is a result of that. With infinite resources the LA should review orders from time to time and revoke as necessary. meanwhile, in the real world...

Plug plants can normally be kept a while in a frost free place before planting, making sure that the compost/roots don't dry out or freeze.

I think crushing the chipper was the least of their problems

Round tuit! Could do with one of them. I’ve just realised that Jules thread is four years old. I’ve been meaning to get round to getting this since then

Nothing wrong with that... What did you used to use it for?

I decided on the trinocular because I think that it'll be easier to document/record with a camera, than to put a lot of effort into creating permanent slides. Once I get a camera sorted I can just leave it attached. You didn't, I think you showed Brunels bench microtome in use. You're really going to have to (please) continue with the original thread, cos none of the above makes any sense to me. All I want to do is prepare a slide and take a photo, but I suppose it's not quite that straight forward?

If you were my TO David, I'd say it was Fistulina......

They're disappearing all over the country as it is... In a year or two you'll be able to stick a piece of chewing gum on an oak tree, tell the planning officer that it's kretz and the tree is going to fall over tomorrow

I thought you were continuing in the same vein as Mark The modern instruments definitely lack the aesthetic looks. That one pictured is arriving next week, so I’m looking forward to cutting things up and delving into a new world

For the win

£80? that’s nothing! I lost three days drinking Stella once

Just don’t tell the taxman you’ve traded a load of logs for accountancy services!

Ply for the tracked machines and a thin, metre wide, conveyor belt type material for foot traffic across lawns and behind chipper if it’s on the edge of a lawn

I'd be more concerned about a) writing it into the RAMS and b) demonstrating the method to the site manager. Not sure that "I saw it on Youtube" would suffice. Maybe ask AAPaul to include it into the next ACoPs?

No Mewp, but I was dismantling a poplar at the bottom of someones garden, beyond which was a disused, derelict mill. The lower limbs were so far over the mill roof that I thought it would be easier to drop them carefully onto the roof and then climb onto the roof to throw them down. I lowered myself down onto the flat roof and unclipped from my harness, carefully securing my rope to something, threw the limbs down and went back to regain my rope only to see it sliding over the edge. One of the groundsman had got a branch caught up with it, gave it a good pull and off it went. No issue, I thought I could make my way down a couple of floors to the first floor, where there were lots of broken windows and then get a ladder put up to get out. Found a open doorway with stairs down a level to a firedoor. Opened that, then all hell broke loose. Burglar alarm started screaming, emergency lighting came on, the whole works. Exited sharply, sliding down conveyor belts between floors down to the first floor. Didn't even wait for a ladder, just jumped from the first opening window I could find. "Deny everything!" I told everyone. "We don't know why the alarms went off, maybe we knocked a window with a branch or something!" Funnily enough, no one turned up and after half an hour or so it all went quite. I still had re-ascend again, my prussic was nice and secure, set up fifty foot up the bl**dy tree..

Just for your benefit Mark. Your photo is of a device claimed to make things bigger. My photo is an instrument to make things 'look' bigger. If you need my instrument to find the object that yours is designed to enlarge, well you've some real problems

Ninja assassins.....

Think you’re getting a bit confused here Bolam!

You might be surprised at the interest if you search 'microscopes' Jules. All being well I'll get one bought this week, I'm just torn between a Zeiss binocular (German optics!) or a Wessex trinocular - for easy digital photography, decisions decisions... I don't think the budgets gonna stretch to an electron scanning one