Peasgood
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I would cut it too. It is the shaft for the saw after all, so may as well make it fit.
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Complete P.T.O. Shafts | Tractor Parts and Accessories | Malpasonline.co.uk Fill your boots mate.
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Yes you can buy shorter ones off the shelf, or off the internet I guess.
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I have sharpened my Gomtaro today for about the 4th time, using a £6 feather edge diamond file off Amazon. I did it while stood in the orchard, it took about 15 minutes and it is as sharp as when it was new. Don't be fooled into thinking you can't sharpen the ones that are impulse hardened. You can, just don't go mental with the file. Anyone thinking you can't sharpen them and you have to throw them away, please throw them my way. I will pay postage plus the price of a pint.
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If you are swinging it all day doesn't it make sense to get a hydraulic one? I have an old maul that I paid £17 donkeys years ago. Wasn't expensive but nor was it cheap back when I bought it (probably 25 years ago). Split an awful lot of logs with it but have not picked it up once since buying a hydraulic splitter. Swinging an axe all day might well keep you fit but it does wear you out, and I mean that literally.
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That distance is about 6 inches. My loft is proof of that.
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Christ on a bike!!
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You need to be fit enough to have enough energy left to be able to play with your kids when you get home. Use that as a measure and you won't go far wrong.
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Limes were second on the list?? Don't see it much in this area these days. There used to be a few old apple trees that I knew of with some in but the apple trees have gone now. I do know of a tree by Chester rugby ground with some in. If you go down the A49 heading south, as soon as you get past Shrewsbury there is loads of the stuff growing all over the place. Don't know if it has anything to do with the apple growing down there but there is certainly plenty about. Think I'm right in saying there's a mistletoe auction in Tenbury
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You can get a 12v "on demand" pump for £50. That would fill the cistern and turn itself off. Just to depress you further, you can get time delay switches for £1 off ebay. Other than that, well done. I am planning a rainwater harvesting system at the moment, all very interesting stuff.
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Thanks for the link, and for everyones replies. I would still like to hear from anybody that has actually done it, particularly re: the following
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I have managed to propagate some. After placing hundreds if seeds in my apple trees (11 acres of them) I now have two trees with mistletoe growing. They take years to get going but romp away after that. Both success's were through rubbing a seed onto the bark at this time of year. My original seeds were from a random bunch bought at Xmas. Main reason I asked was because I would dearly love to hear from anyone that has propagated it, what sex was the resulting plant? ie. did it have berries or not. Here's two of mine, one male and one female.
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Has anybody on here tried with any success?
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Of course, they got the bit that mattered right as far as we are concerned. Was just asking through idle curiosity really.
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That's what I thought. He said there were no newts so that's all I really wanted to hear.
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The reason I was there last week was because it was my 50th birthday. I don't like birthdays much and didn't want to be sat in the UK feeling cold and miserable because I'm getting even older. I chose to spend it in a nice warm place fishing on a beach instead. I took my son to Adelaide and we drove off towards the Great Ocean Road. We spent that day fishing off some jetty nowhere in particular just chilling. No great catches to report but did manage a big banjo ray on a cheapo Shakespeare spinning rod.
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I don't know much about these things but having had an ecology report done on some potential development land, the report mentions some Lawsons Cypress along one of the boundaries. These are 80'+ leylandii and possibly a hundred of them. What would you make of that mistake considering you just paid for this service? Or is it so insignificant I am being nit picking for even asking you? Just struck me as a bit odd to make the mistake, typo maybe.
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I very much like the place but not sure that I would actually want to live there. I like it here as it goes. Nice to go over there and just be where there are no people for miles upon miles, I love that. Not that I am amongst people in the UK much, my nearest neighbour is a mile away and I see very few people each day. Doesn't suit everyone but it does me. Stayed on a station not a million miles from Clermont Qld. Nearest shop was 60 miles away, 40 of that was unsealed and when you got to the shop it was only a petrol station. No nipping out for a loaf there!
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Ah yes, forgot about that one. I would be a multimillionaire if I didn't keep spending it on trips to Oz. Think I have been 6 times in 2.5 years.
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The pics don't really do it justice tbh. It was ginormous!! The big piles of yellow stuff are chip, they were mountain sized piles. It was in Portland, South Australia last week. On Google Earth you can see the mountains of chip, there are 3 of them and each occupies about 5 acres, they are damned tall too.
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Oh, forgot to say Good Luck.
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How did you get in if you don't mind me asking? If you have been self employed for 30 years you are older than I thought they "allowed" in, and if you have no work sorted either.... Are you a multimillionaire or summat? I only got back from there on Saturday, I still feel a bit floaty from the flying. Wide awake at 4:30 this morning. Oh yes, it was peeing down there too!! Been to Hervey Bay and Fraser Island, nice places. Flew over from the UK just to go camping for the weekend at Rainbow Beach a year or so ago. A bit eccentric but no regrets.
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I find footballers pay obscene, and I chose that word carefully. You do have to remember that they are also very good at spending it, so it does eventually filter down to us lesser mortals. Even if it is only through taxes. My brother does quite a bit of work for a famous footballer, so my direct family do have quite a benefit from the silly money they get. A friend of mine always used to bemoan the "snobby gits" driving around in new cars. I pointed out to him that if they didn't buy new cars there would never be any old bangers that we could afford.
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It is low down on the scale of "good" firewood as far as the heat per volume goes. It is right at the top of the list as far as price per heat unit goes. I have run my house almost entirely on willow so far this winter and it has kept me warm enough. Makes good kindling if you are thinking to sell. If it is for yourself, get it split and under cover ready for next winter.
