Peasgood
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Try the local non genuine spares shop. Had one for mine, still dear but not as ridiculous as genuine. (genuine was over £80 for what looked like a pushbike brake cable)
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Lightning was so bright you wouldn't have seen anything here.
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I wouldn't want to use one with a cage but can understand why they are there. I know someone who lost his front teeth when a log fired out. Probably worse for small domestic fires as I find the shorter logs much more likely to shoot off in all directions on a splitter. My usual logs are 15" or more and hardly ever do it.
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Next door chipped a load of Leylandii for biomass, By a load I mean Stobarts were running 3 artics and didn't come close to keeping up which resulted in a big heap left here. That caught on fire, brigade was out all night messing with it. Don't really know why as there were no properties near it and remote enough not to matter.
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Leylandii dying 18 months after planting
Peasgood replied to William Clifford's topic in Tree health care
Best guess is lack of water but they do suffer from phytophthora. Poor choice of plant for that space anyway. -
I much prefer the baskets. 3 milkcrates ziptied to make a table and you don't have all that weight hanging off your shoulders. Picking Hods - RBSM WWW.RBSM.ME.UK Heijmul picking buckets have been produced over 45 years and used all over the world to harvest fruit. This long... I have some old rigid picking hods if you are interested, not as posh as the one in your pic though.
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If that is true I wouldn't bother. Tractor won't be revving its nuts off anyway so noise not a major issue.
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A bit early isn't it?
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Make it a standalone machine and just connect the pipes. Much easier and cheaper.
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Everybody knew about it, even the BBC Coronavirus outbreaks in city and at meat factory WWW.BBC.CO.UK Leicester sees hundreds of confirmed cases in two weeks, while an outbreak in Yorkshire is reported. Said to be centred on "religious houses" set up by Shia and Sunni sects in the 60's in terraced houses. Still actively used by the now elderly Asian folk as meeting places. Told to me by someone that would know more than most on the matter.
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I’ve got some that haven’t been trimmed and are doing that
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Looks like a hover fly to me
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Building control are almost insisting that I do just that on a new build. Even when I say I intend to run a drain away from the site and into (my) land drain system.
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How are you going to get your firewood down to 20%?
Peasgood replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Who do you think is going to police and enforce this 20% rule? Just carry on selling good quality stuff and stop fretting. -
They can put some big cats in there too and clear out a few of the damned dog walkers all over the place.
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Offered them my orchards I haven't grubbed yet. Less than 10 miles from them and plenty to go at.
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Oh I don't know, I think making "stay alert" compulsory could be beneficial.
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I think I paid £60 for mine off eBay auction. Haven't used them in anger and they are stupid heavy
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We used to buy Codacide in 200 litre barrels to mix with glyphosate, it almost doubles the effectiveness of the glyphosate, Codacide is nothing more than vegetable oil and was sold specifically for that purpose. All legit, all as per label. It was used more when glyphosate was expensive and vegetable oil was cheap, these days it is more econimic to just up the glyphosate rate. Diesel is also a recognised sticking agent, I have even seen that as a label recommendation too (admittedly not with glyphosate). I very much don't advocate its use on any large scale but enough to paint three Giant Hogweed plants is hardly going to give Greta sleepless nights. I will also bet £1 that they aren't Giant Hogweed either. Probably a hogweed of some description and any of them will cause photosensitivity but Heracleum mantegazzianum are fairly uncommon. (no disrespect to the OP intended).
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I would paint the leaves with 50:50 Roundup and water. Or replace water with diesel to make it stick, or mix the Roundup with cooking oil before adding to water. All will work and the weed is more harmful to your dog than Roundup ever would be.
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I'm a fat 56 and prefer my scythe to any strimmer. Austrian style with ally shaft, pretty effortless and completely silent.
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Do I need planning permission to cut down 25 yr plus Leylandii?
Peasgood replied to cessna's topic in Trees and the Law
it is what electric chainsaws and early mornings were made for. Nesting birds are your biggest issue. -
Difficult to put an exact time on it as it seems to vary. My limited experience says lots of small cuts use up the battery quicker than steady sawing. I will go with 45 minutes ish. Not a saw to be sawing all day long but very useful for pruning and jobs where you do a bit and clear away.
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I have a Makita 36V saw, very impressed with what it can do on a couple of 5amp batteries. Plenty of comments re absence of noise and fumes but nobody ever mentions the smell of the bar oil. Reminds me of how the smoking ban in pubs revealed the stench of sewers, BO and nasty cooking that had previously been masked by cigarettes.
