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My own observations suggest to me the collapse of the insect population is closely following the collapse of the small scale family livestock farms.

I have an extremely helpful suggestion, use a single piece of plastic to skin the tunnel. I have been doing the plastic on commercial size tunnels all my life, I know a bit about them. Anything other than a single piece will not work, it is a waste of time and money and will look a complete bollocks within no time at all. I think the most we put up in one year was 5 acres, have nothing like that now and just my own tunnel that is 18 x 64 feet. I do that one on my own usually although my son did help last time as I wasn't up to it at the time. One of the most important parts of the job is stretching the plastic lengthways, that is the first bit you do. How you are going to do that is a mystery. @AHPPI know you say you have already bought the plastic etc and I understand you feel there is no turning back but you really do need to rethink.

Best of luck but I am expecting it to be nothing other than a complete disaster.

Mine is netting to waist height and I often wish it was full plastic

Shown the door I think.

OK, I pinky promise.

Stihl 2 N 1 Easy File

Only me that uses it so not worried about it. Very complicated (to me) how the setup works because you can have the table at 3 heights. Very well thought out by the designers and made so you cannot easily bypass the safety features. Well that was until this daft farmer came along with some water pipe and zip ties. 😀 Works a treat.

That's a Buzz dual cab pickup btw

I found pear splits quite readily, especially if you are using it for knife scales and after spending a lot of time of effort carving and shaping etc you think the brass pin could do with just one more very light tap.

Since when has that bothered them? Knowing the road, if it was rush hour the traffic would be mostly going the other way on the very seperate part of the dual carriageway. That's assuming it was pm rush hour rather than am but they never seem bothered in the slightest about such things anyway.

It is definitely not a spectator sport and it would certainly introduce a whole new set of potential disasters with all those folk on site. I do pull things with chains, steel ropes and a big ships rope I have but not when there are any spectators in range. A difficult thing to organise with this situation as I expect there was nobody there in overall control. I also expect each person there assumed the other people there were competent at their particular job and therefore less likely to step in. ie. the tractor driver probably never even noticed where any of the climbers anchor points were, just as the climber wouldn't be checking the pins on the tractor should they have been used.

The tractor is strong enough but I would be surprised if they had a rope strong enough or long enough.

Not my area of expertise at all so can't give anything other than a non professional opinion. Do I think you could have safely got the tree down without climbing, yes I do. I don't think the issue was entirely a climb/not climb thing. If he hadn't tied himself to the bit he cut off events would be very different and there would be a tiktok video with lots of views for a completely different reason. Top and tail of it is he completely ****************ed up and is now sadly paying a very high price.