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  1. woodyguy
    Q.Cerris is much more sharply lobed leaves than this. I grow a lot of it and this isn't one but.. not sure what it actually is.
  2. woodyguy
    Santander has the worst customer services of all banks by a huge margin(see Which? reports). I banked with them for years and ignored the fact they were a bit useless. I finally left them after accidentally paying one business cheque into a personal account and instead of telling me, they froze my assets for a week with no explanation. Although they knew me well and I had several accounts with them I was clearly now a major drugs dealer laundering money. I withdrew all my money and closed all my accounts straight after. Bank with them at your own risk!
  3. woodyguy
    Which? reviewed them a while back and I bought a Ryobi LCDI18022 One+ which is brilliant and has great battery life. Fair price too.
  4. woodyguy
    Well done. You must be very proud.
  5. woodyguy
    I share your general scepticism. Even the sustainable schemes generally allow quite a large percentage of non-sustainable wood! In reality sustainable means having a plantations with 70 years to maturity and taking less than 1/70th each year and replanting. So some of the Scandinavian forests comply but I doubt whether much does from tropical regions, and forget sustainability for the hardwood stuff you buy from B&Q.
  6. woodyguy
    As Oliver Rackham explains (and others) in the middle ages we had very few large trees. That is a modern situation. Timber for building was carefully controlled and owned. Wood ie coppice, was vital and used by local people for almost everything (think, no plastic!). So wherever there was smelting, there was more woods ie it was valued and managed. Industry didn't "use up" woods, it created and sustained them.
  7. woodyguy
    Cheap ones like the Stihla are less accurate than picking it up and saying, that feels light! I tested my cheap one against drying to zero and it was totally useless. A good one however can be within a few percent. You pays your money....
  8. woodyguy
    I've used Bowhayes and they're good.
  9. woodyguy
    For small numbers the postage will kill you. Small-leaved Lime / Tilia Cordata Small-leaved Lime / Tilia Cordata [] - £3.12 : garden hedges | tree nurseries | hedging plants is very good and £6.99 for postage. Excellent trees. I've bought from about 8 nurseries this year and he takes a bit of beating.
  10. woodyguy
    Correct me if wrong but I thought that it was a chimera rather than a normal grafted tree. This means that the Cut leaf cells are dominant but hardly ever get overgrown by the rootstock. I've got two growing that seem fast growing and beautiful (still small) but I'd be interested if anybody else knows more about this.
  11. woodyguy
    The second one, you only have a contract when they send it out. Annoying but clearly a mistake and they don't have to honour the price.
  12. woodyguy
    I've bought all three sizes from this buyer. Get three in a set and arrive very quickly. well made and seem to last. Pack of 3 Diamond Chainsaw sharpener 4.0mm | eBay
  13. woodyguy
    Made me laugh but is a serious point. We could also add, works without insurance and fly tips the waste!
  14. woodyguy
    Rather than dremel, I've been using diamond files that fit into a battery 18v drill. You can get them off ebay and three for about £9. I've got the three sizes I need for my chains and they're really easy to use on the saw and in the field. Same concept as dremel but the diamond doesn't wear and change diameter. Also as I've already got an 18v saw, the outlay was minimal. Don't take off as much quickly as a bench grinder.
  15. woodyguy
    Can't be a cockspur as the thorns are 3 inches long and v obvious. Could well be a hybrid cockspur which has glossier leaves and few thorns (so pretty close!) Fairly common tree in parks so quite likely. S Folgneri has much longer thinner leaves. Only my thoughts and I don't grow either so take with pinch of salt.
  16. woodyguy
    if you've got tree guards on then using roundup is straightforward and safe if it's not windy. You don't need any certificates to buy Roundup.
  17. woodyguy

    Growing trees

    woodyguy replied to IanW's topic in General chat

    Squirrels. I had sowed a load of acorns and ended up trapping 8 squirrels before the damage stopped.
  18. woodyguy
    How very pleasing! Thanks for posting.
  19. woodyguy
    I had a cheap one off ebay (similar to stihl). I tested it against fully drying wood by weight and it was totally useless. Generally read at least 10% out from true. Got one of these from link below and it is a lot more accurate. You get what you pay for. Wood log moisture meter, measures water content of wood.
  20. woodyguy
    Good price, well done. Now the fun begins!
  21. woodyguy

    What gloves?

    woodyguy replied to ThrustSSC's topic in Chainsaws

    Chainsaw gloves are pointless. Cutter gloves are great and not pricey The gloves up close - Cutter Gloves
  22. woodyguy
    I've been delighted with the growth rate of Italian, red and grey as well as the usual black. Very versatile tree and grows well where it isn't as wet as A Glutinosa demands.
  23. woodyguy
    I didn't think crude advertising and trolling was allowed on here? If these things worked then publications like motoring Which? that publish genuine tested mileage figures for cars/vans would be very interested. None of these additives work. And please don't tell us that it's a conspiracy from the oil selling companies to suppress this brilliant work.
  24. woodyguy
    Wet would point towards Aspen, white willow(or others), hybrid poplar, grey poplar, Italian alder, red alder, grey alder, black alder, acer platanoides, hazel, cherry, Acer saccharinum, pterocarya fraxinifolia or wych elm. In reality people mainly use willows or hybrid poplars but others can put on a good attempt and a mix is easier to live with.
  25. woodyguy
    Sorry, notice above that I've put P Speciosa when I meant P Fargesii. My mistake.

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