Gary Prentice
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...One day ..All street trees could be like this..... ;)
Gary Prentice replied to Khriss's topic in General chat
They look like Alms houses, there’s a couple in Halifax built just like that. I think they were built for war veterans in the late 1800s/ early 1900s Or for the well heeled who had fallen on hard times, charitable anyway. i noticed some young limes in a supermarket car park last week, two rows that were being preached/pollarded. The laterals were more horizontal and it looked like the intention is twist the shoots together to encourage inosculation. Be interesting to see how they develop, I’m not sure the owners have considered how much effort managing them will actually entail to create the effect the landscape architect was after. -
I wonder what the feasibility/legality is, of having a fox for a pet? I did so one on a lead, outside Walthamstow Job Centre, many years ago
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It’s a bit of both, containing something to make you think and the bawdiness of the language of the joke. When I first heard the telling it was a young bull and an old bull.
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Did you keep it? one of our dinner guests last night
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That's interesting David, I took this photo late last year - an alder with what I thought were developing Ganoderma FBs. Maybe I misidentified it. I'll try to find a photo of the FB
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One our regular foxes came visiting early last night. One of the cats was hiding and as the fox passed, the cat pounced on it and smacked it on the head Fox scarpered with its tail between its legs & the cat strolled nonchalantly to the foxes bowl and started eating its food. We watched for a few minutes, the fox came back into the garden, keeping its distance until we called the cat in, then it cautiously came down to its own bowl to eat.
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Mitsubishi canter...6.5 tonne... cpp...??? Help
Gary Prentice replied to Harry_L's topic in Arb-Trucks
Are logs a different thing though? As opposed to hauling timber and woodchip back to the yard. our local authorities legal dept told the Arb team that, as they understood it, they didn’t need CPC. -
I think the one on the left might be a bloke
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Landowners responsibilities and Liabilities
Gary Prentice replied to drinksloe's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
The National Tree Safety Group website has a couple of downloads explaining landowners liabilities, it’s worth a read. -
and just about everything else
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Works for polar bears apparently
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I have used buffalo type tops (pile and pertex) for climbing in the worst possible weather, with nothing underneath. Only issue is that you get cold as soon as you stop ‘doing’ & generating body heat. Mine was a bit short, so a nuisance riding up. Probably best used on emergency type jobs where it’s full steam and then done, then get changed. Paramo is the dogs danglies for outdoor wear, I still have and use one I bought over twenty years ago which is my go to jacket for wet weather. I’d be tempted to buy and use a cheaper one if I was still climbing, as I’d think it would retain its waterproofness even when quite worn and damaged. I like good gear that works, my wife tore my Rab down jacket and commented that it didn’t matter as it was twenty five yrs old! It was still bloody expensive when I bought it, I’m not tight, just careful with my pennies
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That's a how long is a length of string question. A tree growing with good vitality will have a fairly decent amount of energy reserves and will keep trying to regenerate. Planes pollard well, so I assume that they will coppice well too. (depending how much vitality the tree has). It may mean removing new growth a couple of times a year, for a few years. Could you expose the major roots/root buttresses and carefully sever as many as possible, preventing water uptake? Sorry, probably not much help.
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once? Now I get it!
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Good one. I don't get it
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They've just been pulled off of ebay, not available etc
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But this is a bargain from (I think) the same seller https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greenmech-Safe-Track-150-woodchipper/173128448150?hash=item284f427896:g:6MYAAOSwuQxab3nP Strange that the seller has gone from selling womens clothes to all this plant and machinery.
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Never even considered that!
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Or get another wallet & divide the folding between the two
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Don’t ask me It goes back to proving a negative. I have a clean licence, does that mean I never exceed the speed limit or that I haven’t been caught?
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Fixed that for you
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Makes for a sad, distrustful world. And how do you prove a negetative?
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Wood pellets instead of road salt
Gary Prentice replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Tree health care
AFAIK, lots of LAs have looked into how and where they grit, to save costs by not gritting roads where the temperature doesn’t get low enough to freeze. Can’t remember all the details, but they identify the colder roads (due to the geography) and calculate at any given predicted low temp, Which ones will get iced up. Smart gritting, but still at the mercy of weather forecasts/predictions. -
Or no one else had anything dry?
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Haven’t seen that, I’ll try to find it. It’s funny, JS is someone who, when the truth comes out, isn’t particular surprising because of his public persona. Always struck me as an oddball. Ive known three blokes who have gone away for sex offences with under age kids. All of them were jack the lads, appeared to have plenty of success meeting women of their own age and probably the last people that anyone would have suspicions of. I find these sort a lot more worrying.
