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Phil Corbet at Cool Temperate lists Populus nigra whips (60-90cm) but not sure he can do specific .var or sexes, might be worth sending him an email he's usually very helpful.

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I'm sorry to disagree with some of the face value attitudes some people seem to have in accepting this as "part of a harsh reality". I for one value my personal reputation, I would never intentionally rip anyone off, or stab an undeserving person in the back, let alone someone who considers me a friend. I expect most people, certainly those within my circle of friends, to have similar personal integrity. Of course I have been let down myself, some people have no integrity and don't seem interested in the value of their reputation, but I will never stoop so low. To me, avoiding this sort of thing it is a matter of due diligence. I also think people of integrity have a duty to other kindred spirits to cut off the low life, never deal with them again except to return the favor in spades, and report their lack of integrity to all and sundry, it may help prevent someone else from being ripped off/stabbed in the back. If someone stabs me in the back they can expect to get stabbed back, at every opportunity, for life. Accepting this as a "harsh reality" is part of the problem IMO. Do people want to be part of an industry with this reputation? Is it not up to those within the industry to change this? It is not acceptable in my book, never will be. Pumpy.

I think you'd have to sell a lot of "posh firewood" to recoup the 20 GRAND outlay, plus pay for the fuel (or account for the fuel) to keep 1 ton of wood at 200-300 C all day, plus account for the labor to fill/empty the thing... If one of the selling points is to provide a "cleaner" fuel, are the "volatiles" kept out of the environment during the process, or just burnt off on site? One of the selling points is to produce a product containing more energy per weight unit, this does not seem to count the fuel used in producing it. Seems like it's just "part burning" the firewood for the customer, and charging them for the privilege! But I may have the wrong end of the torrefracted stick:confused1:

Ayup Col, hows the weather in Germany? a picture paints a thousand words (if you embed it right) I reckon it's karma, revenge of the portacabin :lol: Shall I post pics of the portacabin with your Crack Willow print on it

You and me both mate, you live and learn nat - I remember stressing over the install, biggest plumbing job I ever did with 6 rads also coming off the boiler, wife saw me stressing for a few days so she got me a book that saved my bacon (which if I'm honest I thought would be useless) "Plumbing Heating and Gas Installations second edition by R.D. Treloar - blackwell publishing" invaluable book as it turned out, has all the regs in, how to work out boiler size, rad size etc.

to add to difflocks info, presuming it's a new build and not connecting to original plumbing, it's not the hot water tank that has to be high as possible, it's the cold water header tank... which provide the pressure to the system for showers etc, so the hot water & cold water are the same pressure, your mains supply feeds this cold water tank via a ballcock. As in your standard "Airing cupboard" you have the hot water tank at floor level upstairs, a storage space above it with lat shelves up to ceiling height, and the cold water tank directly above in the loft. You need another (smaller) header tank (usually in the loft) for the boiler circuit - this is the "open vented" bit. This is also mains fed via a ballcock, so both tanks need overflows!!! Having installed a similar system, I found it helped to draw it out in 3D with red and blue pens for pipe runs, I used 28mm for the whole boiler circuit, you also need a radiator in this circuit (usually in the bathroom) which has to be open "on" all the time i.e. must not be able to turn off, (this is to dump heat and prevent the system boiling) I came off the 22mm with 15mm to the rad, one for the feed and same for return. The boiler circuit must also have a drain valve at the lowest point of the pipe run to enable you to drain the circuit should you need work on the pipework etc. (I put mine behind the boiler on the Hunter stove) I put stop valves in the CW feeds to the tanks, saves having to turn the water off to work on the system. There are additives you can get from a plumbers merchant, one to clean out the boiler circuit from flux etc during install and another to leave in the system to help prevent boiling/calcifying, don't add these until you've tested the circuit hot, two of my boiler connections had slight leaks and I had to drain the system to fix them (doh). I could take pics of the pipe work if it'd help edit: Think about forward planning with the HW tank, will you be wanting solar hot water in the future kind of thing, or HW from another logburner on the same HW circuit, if so it'd be worth getting a HW tank with 2 coils so it's an easy add on later rather then swap out the HW tank

Do you know what the Purple fungi is in the 3rd pic? I've got the same one on some willows, also on nearby blackthorn after laying a hedge, I've also seen it on chestnut in the log yard, but couldn't ID it.

A pertinent thread for me! We have a Leyland 270, did a lot of muck shifting with a 3 ton trailer over the last 5 yrs, never used the pto until last yr, then did about 15hrs with a big rotovator and maybe 10hrs with an 8" chipper. First time I used it this yr was with the chipper, after 20hrs or so chipping <4" crack willow the pto shaft coupling/clutch (front splines in the tube) disintegrated, found this is a common problem on older leylands ( think ours was 1979) having got some info from some restorer type chaps if it was worth fixing, sensibly it'd need 2 new clutches as well as the pto coupling bits, £800 in parts alone, so we're scrapping it. Having found the issues with the pto drive chain on Leylands, I wouldn't have another. Getting a fully restored Ford 3000, just had 2 new clutches, 47HP should run the chipper, splitter and the rotavator. Supposed to be a good workhorse. Replacement parts are available, cheap, and they're relatively easy to maintain. Ours is costing £2700. I looked at MF's, read people recommending 590's and 290's on here. Some advice I got from the restorer chaps (which sounded good to me) was not to bother with anything newer than 1980 as thereafter just about every tractor needs to be plugged in to the dealer’s interrogation and reprogramming box whenever anything goes wrong. These boxes are made for a particular model and local dealer apparently has shelves stacked with these black boxes. So, expensive and not user maintainable. HTH

Blimey, if you add in digs for 10 days, it'd cost more than I paid for my 16ton Hymac.... ... and I have to wonder wtf they can teach you about a dumper good luck with that!

I think it's called "propellar" there's a post on tree-care.info saying it's available from from Evans Chemical Supplies - 01209 213643 try searching on the different spelling might find a more local supplier Pumpy

I would have thought a decent flail would remove the sward off a well compacted gravel path. Second choice would be a mini digger, push it off with the blade, level/move the piled up stuff onto the verges with a ditching bucket, if it ruffs it up too much follow with a vibrating roller.

I'll take it foc at Woodford NN14 4ES

I'd be asking the teacher how many 6 year olds need maritime logistics skills in the bloody first place!

what about a copy of your invoices detailing your daily rate?

check his feedback, you can see he bought it Aug 08, check the 0riginal 08 sellers feedback and see this guy only paid £2500 for it, and then complained when he blocked it up "through misuse" so the seller had to come round to unblock it if he couldn't unblock it after the "misuse" could he do the service? You'd need to see it up close and personal IMO.

A steel hawser went on the Royal Yacht in the mid 1980's when it was leaving harbour, the Bosun heard it going and rugby tackled Princess Ann to get her out the way! It was on the BBC news at the time. We were taught to listen for the cable "singing" or the block "complaining" for signs of impending doom.

Could you have a equipment checklist for each vehicle, responsibility of team leader to fill in daily and sign before going out and before leaving site, put a disclaimer on the bottom they have to sign saying any missing kit will be paid for by assignee. If you know any good actors you could tell the boys they will be having an interview with an expert psychologist trained by Derren Brown who can spot deceit in body language, give the actor a list of questions to ask similar to a lie detector, the thief will be bricking it and stand out a mile from the honest boys

I got a single roller version of one of these 8" chippers brand new for £1500 last year, turned out to be a lot better than I thought it would be for a chinky import. Can't find the single roller version on ebay, but it might be worth ringing them to see if they're still available. Pumpy

If you're heading home along the A14 you can drop it at my place just off J11 for nowt PM for details if interested.

good job mike, looks solid

Thanks for that mixedangased, can you give some details of your home made jobbie, pics would be great

Don't know if anyone follows the scientific literature, but recently Nature Climate Change published a letter by Bain et al on the psychology of climate change "deniers" titled "Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers" which caused a bit of a furore, Bain defended the letter in the blogosphere which caused more furore. In response, Dr. Robert G. Brown (a physicist of Duke University) wrote what is probably the best summation of climate science I have ever read, it's well worth a read, especially for anyone convinced that the "science is settled" or that 99% of scientists prefer CAGW whiskers to any other brand of cat food. A response to Dr. Paul Bain’s use of ‘denier’ in the scientific literature links to the full story within the linked article Pumpy

Sorry if this is thread-jacking, I had a similar idea to make a vertical splitter from a JCB ram to fit my tractor (Leyland 272) anyone know what sort of valve I'd need to to do this? Does the return from the valve go into the top of the block on the tractor?