Gary Prentice
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Everything posted by Gary Prentice
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Might be best keeping you sexual peccadilloes to yourself!
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Bacon will probably be found to be worse at some point in the future
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But we don’t have much chose, we want to drive we have to buy fuel. For a lot of log buyers it’s not the only heating/hot water option but more of a luxury purchase or there are other fuel choices. If the playing fuel was level, you'd be right but increasing log prices properly in line with input costs would probably reduce sales below a sustainable level (as reducing the profit margin will also do as its starting to do)
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There was a question to start with?
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25 litres of derv in the bucket of a L200 ain't to be recommended either.
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You're probably better with a different search engine for that Mick.
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What is wrong with this apple tree?
Gary Prentice replied to Roberto Stockley's topic in Tree health care
Edwards reply was spot on. Transplanting larger trees without a lot of preparation over a long period of time usually results in poor results, so 3 out of four is excellent. I think that the crown symptoms are more a result of transplanting them the stem damage, so improving the rooting environment would help to improve that. Then, if the tree has increased vigour it can adapt to deal with the stem damage better. If it puts on good annual incremental growth, around the stem, the ratio of dead cambium/dead phloem & xylem to living will alter for the better. If it's a decent tree with a good structural form, apart from the problems identified, I'd give it a chance. Oh, and everything that Edward suggested would also benefit all the other trees. If you're mulching with wood chip, try to get cherry or hawthorn - the sugar content encourages mycorrhizal fungi that create an important symbiotic relationship that helps trees. -
You'll go blind... allegedly!
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You'll have lots of friends at £35 That's rough, but if you can't change your set up to be more efficient/profitable to reduce the impact of rising material costs, what can you do? Could you try marketing the softwood more, promoting it due to the rising H/W prices.
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Two sticks, as long as one's a match
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That's what my wife says about shoes! Women have shoes, 'real men' have axes (and wear a beard & a checked shirt, can fell a tree and light a fire, etc)
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And backs are over rated!
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Gary Prentice replied to Coletti's topic in General chat
Just join the AA, couple a quid a week to get the journal and all the other benefits. -
Fixed that for ya! Nostalgia blurs the downsides?
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Can never have too many axes
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Who are you trying to justify the purchase to? If it's the missus, you NEED it. If it’s yourself, you deserve it!
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That's the beauty of walking the dogs, no stress and time to actually observe little changes in things, even if you don't comprehend the causes. The fires were annoying (arson) but even watching the herbage layer starting to regrow and how the trees are responding is educational. I'll see what the spring brings.
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Lad was lucky he didn’t get skua’ed on those rocks.
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Has anyone any details about an upgraded clutch for this machine. There's some mention of one on some other American forums (from a long while back) but hitting a brick wall here in the UK
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He sleeps in the bathroom.
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Chipper major mechanical failure, warrant???
Gary Prentice replied to sihart100's topic in Maintenance help
So you're homesick? -
Food for thought, but that suggests that a high nutrient store over-rides the genetics that says oak leaves are this size. If you gave a young tree a big dose of the correct liquid fertiliser as the leaves were flushing you wouldn't expect a lot larger leaves. I don't honestly know. I've seen some defoliated trees (by insects/drought) that have flushed again later in the year, but can't recall that the later leaves were particularly larger than average. Anyway, it's good to hear peoples thoughts.
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Looks well ventilated to me.
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Watching the responses to recent wildfires I came across this oak sapling. With much of the foliage lost to the fires, the new leaves are quite extraordinary in their length and width, compared to the surrounding foliage produced in the spring. The arrowed new leaf is twice as wide as a 'normal' leaf and almost half as long again. Just posting it up cos I found it interesting and I'm assuming that it's the trees attempt to create the largest photosynthetic capacity possible from the limited number of buds still available. Ain't trees wonderful?
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Wait until you're a bit older, get up and then can't go. Then you'll feel like punching something/someone just out of sheer frustration. You should have tried harder
