Peasgood
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Mine is the rear handle too and yes it does run for about as long as a tankfull of fuel in a petrol saw. That is a good comparison I hadn't thought of before. The amount of noise difference would sway it for me, so much quieter. Not always an issue but time of day, weekends and proximity to houses etc can make the noise of a petrol saw a problem.
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I use 5amp batteries on my Makita 36v, it surprises me how much they will do.
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In my experience cuttings struck before Christmas always do significantly better than those done after Christmas.
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The resin on leylandii is just on the layer between bark and wood, once it has been left out long enough for the bark to fall off the resin falls away with it. There is no resin in the wood itself or at least none that you will feel, see, get stuck on your hands. Have run my heating/hot water/cooking almost solely on leylandii for decades, an excellent firewood and leaves hardly any ash. Only downside is it doesn't stay in overnight very easily, never found it a problem as it is so easy to light anyway.
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10 years max and that is optimistic but no worse than any untreated wood.
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Good idea, let him find out first. 👍
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Nice chunks of wood. My son made kitchen worktops the same way in his new build house. I think he put a resin coat on the top. It was quite comical seeing the woodworm beetles burrowing out through the resin once the wood warmed up. He was hoovering them up daily and didn't find it at all comical.
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High Hedges - killed if cut to actional hedge height?
Peasgood replied to benedmonds's topic in Trees and the Law
Leyland hedges never seem to host much beyond pigeons and magpies anyway, apart from a few robins perhaps. A hawthorn hedge would be easier managed for aesthetics and host a much wider range of birdlife. -
Yes, the amount of people that can't reverse a car 5 yards in a straight line without jacknifing up the wall/hedge never ceases to baffle me. (my missus is one of them)
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The minimum wage laws say you must top up the wastrels pay to minimum wage. Of course you won't so you sack the guy if it comes to it, now instead of the £40 he has nothing. This is one of the faults of a minimum wage system, it makes an extra section of society unemployable. The section that won't even try to get the £40 are already unemployable or work for the government.
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Let them eat cake! Local Shell (less than 10 miles from refinery) could have put a £ a litre on for all the difference it would have made, no fuel from first thing this morning and closed all day.
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That's about the strength of it, everyone topping up for £15 and the guys on empty can't get feck all. Wazzocks!
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That 35 hours will be the biggest waste of time in your life. At the end of it you will not be a better driver, you will be no more use to anyone than you are now. The best thing the government could possibly do right now would be to scrap CPC and let the drivers on the road, sack the "teachers" and get them driving too as surely as they know so much about the job they would be better out driving than in a classroom. What's that you say? the teachers don't have a HGV license?
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Dealing with customers and dog shit
Peasgood replied to JohnDeere7197's topic in International Arborist Forum
Up to and in through their door! Walk away, I cannot abide it. -
The part of the docks in Portland Australia that deals with timber is about 75 acres according to Google Earth. That is the biggest pile of logs I have ever seen.
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Many versions but none with a bass line like this one.
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It was my Grandfathers kettle. Still smells of coal smoke whenever I use it and I have used it a lot.
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Flogged her instead.
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If you feel insulted by my post you have misunderstood me, I certainly didn't call you or anyone else a sucker. I was actually commending you for being a trustworthy log supplier that didn't need further regulation. The comment about Arbtalk was a bit of a surprise to me too
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Exactly the sort of person these schemes are designed to sucker in. No doubt you would be horrified to have ever sold a log that was not fit to burn or had told the customer they needed seasoning before use if otherwise. Your customers are not going to benefit and you will be out of pocket. That is how these things work, be it driver CPC, Red Tractor assurance for farmers and any other of the multiple schemes out there.
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My mate snapped the overhead phone line in his own yard with his digger. Tied the two ends of the wire back together and reported his phone as not working. Denied all knowledge of how it could have possibly happed to the BT guy.
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When there are no leaves on the tree. And don't shorten the "spindly newer growth" remove it completely. Not all of them. Apples fruit best on 2-3 year old branches, the idea is to continuously replace them so you always have young branches. Biggest mistake I see is people reducing their length which just causes them to throw more spindly growth from the cut. Main objective is to make them look right so just cut out all the bits that don't look like an apple tree.
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No stoves though
