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Paul Cleaver

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  1. agreed - and working keeps you healthy if its physical
  2. looks like a greater black spruce bark aphid
  3. Yes they do damage spruce trees, they are sap suckers. With such a heavy infestation they could kill small trees and weaken the larger trees. You could spray the small trees with a current approved pesticide, the larger trees will just have to sit it out and you can hope their predators can control the infestation
  4. Oh yes - following on from Big J post - I got a surveying job back in 2013 thanks to you
  5. And you got the Arb Associations equivalent of the nobel peace prize young sir!!
  6. I suspect you had a relatively mild winter around your parts, the temperatures were not low enough or consistently low enough to kill most of the overwintering aphid eggs.
  7. I was thinking possibly wind scorch from that really cold spell 15 months ago, but you would expect other edge trees to have similar damage
  8. I looked at this but you are 100 miles from my home
  9. looks more like a moth caterpillar to me Mick - im not 100% though
  10. Hi Gary - so you think the problem has started from the branches and not from the roots. I would be tempted to peel back some dead cambium on the trunk
  11. George benson made it as a guitarist before this singing nonsence
  12. Soil aeration would achieve instant soil compaction relief, then add much afterwards
  13. If you are in to RnB old school and blues you have probably heard this - if not you are in for a treat
  14. I cant get this on you tube - one of my fav Hendrix improvs https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2
  15. I have an eclectic taste in music - this one is an old school guitar master class from Ritchie Blackmore
  16. it was just a thought Stubby -There is a lot more shock absorption in a regular tyre compared to a solid one. perhaps science has brought us along way since yesteryear
  17. advanced shock absorbers needed for all cars ?
  18. following on from Mr Training above It sounds like your nearly level 4 as it stands so not a big step for you. Level 4 would make you more employable for sure
  19. forgive me - its perfectly safe not to use a tool strop!
  20. ive had one come off a twist lock crab !- without a strop it would only take a snatch from an ill behaved branch and its gone - as we know
  21. fair comment . Is it planning dept initially giving planning permission, then the Tree officer doing his bit? If so there should be some correspondence between the two?
  22. good cut - good example for the inexperienced - get a strop on ya saw though dude
  23. Is the property a relatively new build - say in the last 10 yrs or so? If this is the case I can understand the councils feelings on this. Tree there long before there was a house built

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