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  1. Gary Prentice
    That’s right, the curved bottom of the rotor chamber is the top panel of the tank.
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    We've dogs ourselves, so I can appreciate the worry and concerns you are suffering. I'm sure that a positive ID would help, should the pup have actually eaten something. Some of the toxic species may take several hours before vomiting occurs in humans, by which time damage has already occured to the liver and kidneys, so the vets advice seems a little strange. I do hope that he hasn't eaten anything, and if he has, it isn't anything toxic.
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    If you PM him he 'may' get a notification on a phone that alerts him. Or may not. If you can't get a positive ident. on this very soon, do you really want to risk delaying? I've looked through some books and apps but can't identify with any certainty what it may be. Some toxic species may take a few hours before the effects begin to materialise. Can you induce vomiting, or get it to the vets just in case.
  4. Gary Prentice
    Sorry Tree77, my replies below were intended for Westphalian post about staining in his underwear and his drooping, withered trunk
  5. Gary Prentice
    Phone on the go, PC at Work, laptop at home and tablet if staying away from home. Long posts normally have to wait until I can use a proper keyboard. BTW Are these answers covered by your data protection policy Steve? Are we all going to get mailshots for new tablets or something?
  6. Gary Prentice
    Is that a pet peeve, OWC?
  7. Gary Prentice
    I don't think so!
  8. Gary Prentice
    Sounds like a plan...
  9. Gary Prentice
    I can't make out what the photos are meant to be illustrating. There's a lack of development between the buttresses in the 2nd pic. Maybe due to a damaged root in the past, although the adjoining buttresses seem to be well developed and are probably compensating. The block paving circle has probably caused some damage too. The cavity is, well, a cavity. A large wound in relationship to the parent stem, but it's in oak which has resistant heartwood. You'd need to be climbing up there to get an idea of its size before making any decisions. Has it had a big limb/stem removed above the bird box, to the left hand side? What's your concerns?
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    Must have been a pretty big box/vase/jar/beaver!
  11. Gary Prentice
    Are the props actually needed? Some of them look a little less than substantial.
  12. Gary Prentice
    Why does it feel like so many more?
  13. Gary Prentice
    Mick's already explained, for the uninitiated, that Pandora was never in the box to start with!
  14. Gary Prentice
    Her vase mate, her vase
  15. Gary Prentice
    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trolling
  16. Gary Prentice
    You're not taking this debate seriously, are you? We're getting up there, discussing ancient Greek mythology and you're talking about beavers
  17. Gary Prentice
    I don't know about elsewhere, but in West Yorks the grant aid to remove privately owned elms was only for those already infected.
  18. Gary Prentice
    Me too. If you can't blind them with science, baffle with BS
  19. Gary Prentice
    We can put a man on the moon, supposedly, but there is an awful lot about the natural world that we don't yet, and maybe never will, completely understand. "The tree will reduce itself if it needs to" - being pedantic, a tree will fail if external forces exceed its structural strength. Although there is some thought that shedding parts to prevent the loss of the whole in extreme weather may be an inherited survival mechanism/evolutionary trait.
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    A few local authorities used to give grants for sanitation felling of infected elms, Calderdale West Yorks being one. Brighton, I believe, carried on, giving help to homeowners to remove infected elms (keeping the vector numbers down). I think that they also got involved with trials for pheromone traps, inoculation/vaccines and the like. If you do a bit of searching Brightons website details some of the information on how they're managing DED.
  21. Gary Prentice
    I don't know, but you know what they say about empty vessels
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    You really need to understand risk management before spouting off. Have a look at the tolerability of risk triangle in H&S literature. 1000 people die annually by falling down stairs (recently published stats). Lets all live in bungalows. Have a look at A&E admissions due to accidents with wheelie bins, and don't ever consider playing any type of sport with a ball involved. The level of risk is so low that even the though of managing trees by felling them before they reach a certain size is incredible! Amey's PR department missed a trick in Sheffield, forget all the justifications for removing trees - they're simply too big and therefore dangerous! Jobs a good un
  24. Gary Prentice
    It's also a vascular wilt disease, like ash dieback which doesn't have an insect vector/carrier but has airborne spores.
  25. Gary Prentice
    Yeah, big trees are dangerous

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