Gary Prentice
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Be nice if you'd made the sort of profit to warrant that size bill!
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I was at myerscough too and admit I should have asked for more information on the branch attachment. But the workshop was about assessing forks. Don't take my posts as a criticism, they're not intended as such. I've read a lot of Duncan's work over the last few years and think he's bought an awful lot to the table using the scanning equipment he's had access to.
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Woodchip/timber tip site - Ellesmere Port
Gary Prentice replied to Gary Prentice's topic in General chat
It looks like this place has been closed down:thumbdown: -
Sole trader or Ltd company with out VAT
Gary Prentice replied to Capstankid!'s topic in Business Management
The worst? You flick a stone up that hits someone, they then develop a phobia due the sudden trauma, they can't leave home and give up their job, get panic attacks when they see or hear lawn mower adverts, need a care giver to go out and do their shopping. As time passes, lack of physical activity means that they reach 28 stone, health suffers and they need 24 medical supervision for the rest of their lives. All this is after they try to sue you for the trauma and PTSD. Are you sure you have enough insurance? -
But the ones who can't scale could probably run through 'em:biggrin:
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Speedos! Extra unnecessary baggage:biggrin:
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Tell the other owner to get their dog under control. P's me off to be told 'our dog is friendly' when it's winding mine up, running round them yapping:001_rolleyes:
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In total agreement with the leash thing. My mother used to have a terrier that would play with anything, but when it went back on the lead it would go for the dog it had just been running round with.
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I blame Brexit:biggrin: Seriously though, if the load was over-height, how did it pass under every other bridge on the motorway? Or had the wagon just joined the motorway and this is/was the first bridge:confused1:
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Not stupid at all. I think you get between fighting dogs at your own peril. If they,re seeing red anyone butting in is an aggressor and the enemy. I wouldn't think you need to muzzle it, just realise that when the adrenaline is flowing it can't distinguish between friend and foe. It might make it more aggressive if it doesn't feel that it can defend itself, if the need arises.
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Woodchip/timber tip site - Ellesmere Port
Gary Prentice replied to Gary Prentice's topic in General chat
Thanks Chris, I'll search that? Anywhere for timber anyone? -
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We've a rush job - ain't they all? - next tuesday and need somewhere local to Stanlow to tip some timber. This is mainly silver birch, one goat willow and some rowan. We may be able to chip on site, but in the eventuality that we can't we'd need somewhere for chip too. The QA don't work fridays so no-one can tell us about the chip position.
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Just pulling your chain Chris. I think it's funny, that the two standards that I've actually seen online were both on LA websites. Embarrassing if BS decided to pursue their rights legally.
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But, to be fair, it was a fork workshop and forks were well explained.
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Interesting but I had already read a lot of his papers and heard Duncan at last years conference, so not too much new. I'm still in two minds about the 'new model of Branch attachment'. I'm not sure that Alex Shigos model hasn't been taken too literally, then been condemned as being wrong. Duncan really didn't expand on his his model and the workshop notes provide no real answers- to my mind. Guess I'm going to have to do some reading to get my head around it.
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Where was today's? I went Tuesday to myerscough.
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If you want to look at Mynors (2nd edition) give me a shout. I don't think you're a million miles from me.
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We've a lot of sparse birch around Manchester, I think due to Melampsoridium betulinum.
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Lots of rusts on sorbus, Salix, birch and the like. Prunus foliage being devoured, atlas cedars with Sirococcus, Horse chestnuts with leaf miners/Guidnardia (sp?), hollies with leaf miners/phytophthora, oak mildew, tar spot on sycamores. Not many trees that actually look well at the moment.
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We don't all work for local authorities:biggrin:
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Mature hornbeam hardly any leaves some branches dying
Gary Prentice replied to Gmorco's topic in Tree health care
Bark lesions exuding dark exudates for phytophthora. -
Really?
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We're all doomed, I tell you, all doomed. I prophesise that within a few short years we won't be so sheltered and it will be a whole lot worse.
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Growing my own bareroot trees
Gary Prentice replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The proper airpots have 'egg box' profiled sides, the roots being guided to the exterior where the hole at the extremity air prunes them.
