woodyguy
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They don't produce woody tissue so they're not a tree.
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I run a 20 inch on my 362 and it pulls fine in oak and S/C. Put a few holes in the exhaust and retune the carb with a tachy helps a lot. But yes it is a little heavy.
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Lovely new word to add to my repertoire. Thanks for asking!
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Wedges and a small winch would make things hugely easier. Nice oak.
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Many trees will self-graft where two branches rub together. It's easy. You just need to shave off a bit of bark on both branches where they cross. tie them together for a year and you've got your graft. Finding a couple of suitable branche isn't so easy though. If ash die back is in your area, then your trees are fire wood anyway.
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Billy, you're not a cowboy if you sell unseasoned logs as unseasoned and needing to be dried before use. People getting deliveries of unseasoned wood, unknown to them, at £120 a cube, gives reputable people a bad name. No offence meant to straight dealers such as yourself.
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I suspect the snobbery about hardwood vs softwood and ash vs everything else just comes from ignorance and the number of cowboys out there selling unseasoned wood. If you had a delivery of wet oak one year then next year paid top price for well seasoned ash, then you are going to swear by the ash. I burn mainly birch cause I've got thousands of them and I thin them regularly. It's all wood. Please don't anybody quote that God awful poem!!!
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If they're his trees and he's the one at risk then simply evolution in action. Why will it add to insurance when surely he won be carrying insurance.
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My experience entirely. Been clearing overgrown coppice and the 241 on 325 on a short bar will go all day without sharpening. Great saw and much better then the lowpro.
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Winter 2014/15, forecasts conditions alerts etc.
woodyguy replied to peckerwoo's topic in General chat
I find the Daily Express front page is a reliable source of information for the weather ahead. -
For many years I lived in a Victorian housing conservation area. It had mature beautiful specimen trees. People often moaned about their individual trees but loved the overall feel of the place which is why houses there were very sought after and went for inflated prices. So yes, we all love to hate TO's but in reality they kept that place special. To reality check that, visit many mediterranean countries with no real planning laws and see what a mess their urban trees are. Planning laws may stop me building that excessively large conservatory I so want, but they keep our selfishness within bounds to the benefit of all.
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I've got a 560 and all the mulching blades. A three blade alone just produces 9foot pieces of barbed wire (dried bramble) that last for years. The mulcher produces 4inch pieces that rot quickly. The Stihl or on-line rip off ebay equivalent is by far the best and I much prefer it to the Airecut.
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Felling licence and 5 cubic metre rule
woodyguy replied to Peat's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
So presumably you could fell 5cuM then put in an application. The only risk would be that you'd lose your extra allowance that quarter over getting it rolled up within the agreement? -
Felling licence and 5 cubic metre rule
woodyguy replied to Peat's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sometimes a pedantic anorak is just what is needed! Good advice. -
If you post the DBH figures for the trees then someone can advice.
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What do you mean checked shirts aren't cool... I'm a lumberjack.
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Sorry to hijack but what does it mean by "another tree of an appropriate size and species". To my mind that is a tree that will grow and establish. So I'd plant a 90cm tree rather than a 4m which will sit there not growing for years. Can they specify beyond the species and that you maintain it eg water, shelter, prune etc
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You're very talented!!
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We had an open fire in our centrally heated victorian house for several years. It felt warm in the room if you were in direct radiated heat from the fire. I suspect overall that it cooled the house though. We changed to a small Esse stove. We now burn perhaps 1/4 of the wood but are massively warmer. We open the doors to dissipate the heat around the house and have the central heating on lower. So to my mind it is at least 8x more efficient. I'm amazed that anybody continues with an open fire and personally would never touch one again.
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A recipe if you fancy the taste Yes or Noyaux? Using Stone Fruit Kernels in the Kitchen | The Kitchn
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"I think 20 to 40 in a blender would be lethal to a child.." We know what you think. Thankfully toxicology is a science conducted by grown ups who use evidence to safely advise on treating real people. I agree they are dangerous if you were to extract the contents of 100's of cherry kernels. The French use noyaux as a flavouring in many foods which is the kernels of these poisonous fruit. No, I won't be taking up your dare of eating 300 stones as that would be a nearly lethal dose for a child so have some risk for me. Thankfully science isn't conducted by the rules of the playground and who will take on the biggest dare. But enjoy your curry.
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my "equally ridiculous figure" was calculated from the published lethal dose and the average dose of fully extracted cyanide from the average weight cherry pip. So if it could be fully extracted by chewing (which is not possible) then a 10kg child would have a lethal dose of 384 pips. I rounded it down to over 300 so as not to be anti-alarmist. If a few pips could kill you then people would be dropping like flies and you wouldn't be able to buy pounds of cherries on every high street. As you rightly observe, peach kernels are rather more poisonous. I wouldn't normally reply to something like this but statements that two pips can kill a child are seriously irresponsible. Parents have enough real things to worry about without cherry poisoning!
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"A couple of crushed pips can kill a child" Don't be ridiculous! What is your evidence for that fanciful statement??? The lethal dose for a young child is over 300 stones (if they could absorb all of the cyanide). How many of us as children have swallowed dozens of cherry stones when eating them and are here to tell the tale?
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I suspect that we are getting confusion from across the atlantic. I've not heard anything about Prunus avium (our native cherry and the basis of fruitbearing cherries) being toxic. The american cherry however is an evergreen so like cherry laurel will produce cyanide. They also have problems with a non native caterpillar whose faeces are toxic to sheep and horses. Neither a UK problem. Or have I missed something?
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Totally agree about 325 vs pico. The lack of sharpening using 325 is liberating on the same length bar vs pico.
