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This might be useful http://www.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=4797&p=0

Got my three lads completely hooked, they keep telling me to watch it.

Honey fungus is your most likely cause. Also the drip zone from the conifers won't help. Goodluck but act soon As its not going to go away.

Mine is a rear handle and it soft fell out side door of transit connect, landed flat on my boot and floor and case is cracked only minor . Used it twice, Nothing serious but couldn't believe that after such a short drop it cracked. Used a mix of superglue and arreldite to seal. Brilliant for snedding, pruning and used it to fell mature cherry.

Been looking at Woodster,scheppauch and Titan vertical log splitters both petrol and electric. Anyone make a recommendation please?

Cheers guys, that's why Steve Bullman deserves an OBE/MBe for bringing this community together to help and support each other. Once again thank you and have a great weekend.

Hi Mate its up in Lydiate Merseyside so its probably a stretch too far from North Dorset.

Sorry forgot to mention that I do have a budget for the work

Anyone interested in chipping this lot. Its plum and cherry mostly 2-3" diameter. Chippings can stay on site as its a school and they want to use the chippings to create a path for the kids. Can you please let me know if interested and pm me to discuss. Many thanks:001_smile:

Mice can also do some serious damage if they get inside the hive.

Big thanks to the guys at Skyland Equipment,really helpful and friendly. Great to have an arb equipment supplier close by rather than buying from the run of the mill lawn mower specialists.

Been a bumper year for blackberries, bought some cheap vodka from Asia and got the gin from Aldi (award winning stuff). Will check the album out cheers for the tip.

Sweet, has the ink dried yet?:

Haha that's awesome:thumbup:

Just making damson port using mackesons, damsons n sugar

It's wild comb created by a swarm probably in the warmer weeks earlier this year. Sadly as the temp drops the bees die off because the comb is in the open and not in the more usual hollow of a tree or other void. Being in the open they can't sustain a constant temp between 32 to 35 degrees and so the bees chill and die. In the hive bees keep the temp constant throughout the year, they use any honey to keep up their energy and so if they run out of honey as a food they die off, we have to give our bees sugar solution in the winter to help keep them going. These bees probably died off through a combination of running out of food and the exhaustion through trying to keep warm.

:lol: remember to drink water before you go sleep

These are really cool.

Probably not the right forum but I did buy the ms150 as a carving saw. Not used it to carve properly yet but it has been truly awesome in dropping a mature cherry, thinned a laburnum hedge And took out mature buddleia:001_smile: that had overgrown the hedge. Next week I'm using it to drop a multi stemmed mature plum tree.

Remember always wanting a table top version where you knocked the skittles by swinging a small wooden ball attached to a pole,it was great fun as a kid. Also played skittles every night down in Somerset when leading a hedgelayin course,again great fun. Hope you get plenty of orders

Quality work mate well done.

I put half the flags down for my garage yesterday. Been trying to get the garage built for sometime now.everytime I get stuck into it work gets in the way.

Today was a kickback day so I collected in the damsons, apples and greengage. Made 60 jars of damson jam, 30 jars of greengage jam, 4 litres of damson gin and 2 demijohns of Cizzer. :thumbup:Christmas is a coming.

List from RHS has proved useful ANNUALS Borage (Borago officinalis); buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); Californian poppy (Eschscholzia californica); candytuft (Iberis spp.); China aster (Callistephus chinensis); larkia (Clarkia spp.); cornflower (Centaurea cyanus); cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus); forget-me-not (Myosotis spp.); Gilia capitata; godetia (Clarkia spp.); heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens); love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena); mignonette (Reseda odorata); Nemophila menziesii; Phacelia spp.; poached egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii); sunflower (Helianthus annuus); sweet sultan (Amberboa moschata); zinnia (Zinnia elegans). BIENNIALS French honeysuckle (Hedysarum coronarium); hollyhock - single flowered (Alcea rosea); honesty (Lunaria annua); wallflower (Erysimum spp.). HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS Agastache foeniculum; Alyssum spp.; Anchusa azurea; Arabis spp.; Aubrieta spp.; bellflowers (Campanula spp.); catmints (Nepeta spp.); cranesbill (Geranium spp.); dahlia single-flowered cultivars; fleabane (Erigeron spp.); Geum spp.; globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus); globe thistle (Echinops ritro); golden rod (Solidago spp.); Gypsophila paniculata; Helenium spp.; hellebores (Helleborus spp.); ice plant (Sedum spectabile); Jacob's ladder (Polemonium caeruleum); Japanese anemone (Anemone × hybrida); lambs’ ears (Stachys byzantina); leopard's bane (Doronicum spp.); Liatris spicata; lungwort (Pulmonaria spp.); Michaelmas daisies (Aster spp.); oriental poppy (Papaver orientale); Monarda punctata; Persicaria amplexicaulis; Rudbeckia spp.; Salvia × superba; scabious (Scabiosa spp.); sea hollies (Eryngium spp.); Sidalcea malviflora; thrift (Armeria maritima); Veronica longifolia; white horehound (Marrubium vulgare); Verbena bonariensis.

Dean get some Agastache, very nectar rich. Also try some Buddleia Globosa, We keep honey bees and these are two of the favourites not only for our honey bees but also the bumblers and butterflies. Add in red clover and you'll be on a winner. I have a list of plants for bees that I can post or pm you if you need. Good luck