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  1. wrsni
    Bird cherry (Prunus Padus) will sprout from a stump quite readily but as far as I know it's the only one of the cherry family to do this.
  2. wrsni
    If he's strong willed, determined, and sticks to his principles, might that not point to the fact that he's actually NOT a prick? Those seem like fairly worthy (and increasingly rare!) attributes to me.
  3. wrsni
    Well judging by the previous eight pages, the majority aren't! Thus the use of the word "most" as opposed to "everyone".
  4. wrsni
    "We"?????, does everyone here post with a collective voice? Didn't think so! As for you, don't know and frankly don't care. But I wasn't commenting on something you said so why should it matter!
  5. wrsni
    That sir, is a terrific post. Probably totally over the heads of most who read it but still a terrific post. Well done.
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    6 Nations 2015

    wrsni replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    The other thing about Irish rugby is that the international team always takes priority. At club level you have the four provincial teams, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught but the international coaches at any time during the year can ask for a player in one of those teams to be be rested, taken off early or even played in a different position to see how he copes with it. All upfront and accepted by everyone involved as being how it's done over here so no bluffing necessary!
  7. wrsni
    That's what I always done in the past, but with age I'm getting less fond of wrestling a track back on at all, also the Kubota spends more time around the yard and on lanes and stuff so I decided to get a manual and check it out. Firstly I never realised how much variation there is in the sag of the track depending where the join is. Then I never realised that the join is marked on the track itself and lastly I never realised when you have everything else right just how much variation in tension is effected by one pump of grease. So now I keep a wee block of wood in the cab which is equal to the sag and on a fairly regular basis spin the join around to the middle of the top run, set in the block of wood to check the sag and adjust accordingly. Short term it keeps the tracking as smooth as possible on all surfaces, long term should maximise the life of all drive train componentry.
  8. wrsni
    Do you tension them as per the spec in the manual?, it makes a big difference!
  9. wrsni

    6 Nations 2015

    wrsni replied to Stubby's topic in The Lounge

    I stick by my statement, it just so happens that they've managed to get three wins so far without risking too much. He had no hesitation today at pulling both O'Brien and Sexton off at the first sign of any problem. Meanwhile it was also made known this past week that Andrew Trimble and Paddy Jackson will play no part whatsoever in the remainder of the 6N to ensure they're fully fit for the world cup. The wings will probably be OK for the next two games but without Jackson to cover for Sexton the out-half situation is going to be crucial.
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    Rugby

    wrsni replied to wicklamulla's topic in General chat

    Lancaster sat at Lansdowne Road all afternoon waiting for his guys to turn up as well!
  11. wrsni
    Ugh, is that all. Sure you're grand then!
  12. wrsni
    That sounds like a post from an angry man who sat down at the computer when he should possibly have stayed away from it!
  13. wrsni
    "A life is like a garden," he wrote. "Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory." It's a timely thought. In this day and age of seemingly everything having to be preserved on camera by endless selfies, photo bombs, posts on facebook, video on youtube, whatsapp or whatever. Is there not something to be said for just quietly savouring the moment, taking it in properly, and remembering.
  14. wrsni
    An aunt of mine had lockjaw (which I think is the same thing) about 10 yrs ago. It was a serious do, several weeks in hospital, and quite a number of months for recovery, some of the time in hospital was in intensive care and she was seriously ill. Was put down to a wee scrape she got while gardening!
  15. wrsni
    I never manage to avoid A&E long enough for it to lapse. Got the last one just under a year ago when this was being sorted.
  16. wrsni
    The young fella is heading down to Kent tomorrow to race a kart. I told him confidently that Kent is the driest county in all of the UK. Forecast is to rain all day!!! I'll say nothing in future.
  17. wrsni
    I think that's a pretty good assessment. No doubt the "experts" would point out all the flaws in your theory but given that the "experts" weren't smart enough to prevent this happening in the first place I think it's in order to ignore them and apply some common sense to the problem as per your post. Thus I'll continue planting out all the self seeded stuff I can find about the place, on top of which this year instead of trimming all the farm hedges down to the same level, I've eyed out a few ashes along the hedges which are going to be allowed to keep growing. Even in worst case scenario and a certain percentage only survive there'll still be a tree or two out there that wouldn't have been otherwise.
  18. wrsni
    How about a variety of heights, say ground, 2ft, 4ft, 6ft, done in whichever way suits your site/machinery, etc. Then over the next two or three years you can give us the results of the experiment, I mean, tell us how it worked out.
  19. wrsni
    Good post, a bit of reality for once. Three saws here as well part time plus two strimmers, a leaf blower, three walk behind lawnmowers, and a petrol engined fairway mower which work all summer. Pump petrol is all that's ever used (with a top quality synthetic two stroke oil if required) and there are no fuel related problems whatsoever. Son is a greenkeeper, anywhere he's worked so far has done the same and fuel related issues are unheard of in the petrol machinery. I know a few guys who work at small machinery and anytime you're talking to them it's always the same thing, quality of two stroke oil being used, fuel never mentioned. Aspen seems to have many other good things going for it and plenty of people may consider it worth the expense on the basis of those alone but the "cost of repair" thing based on NOT using Aspen I think is at best disingenuous.
  20. wrsni
    .............and me!
  21. wrsni
    I take it the oaks are about half the size of everything else?
  22. wrsni
    The smaller places have very, very, limited stock and any of the larger places don't seem to want to be bothered with a smaller order or deal direct with the general public. Conservation Volunteers used to be a terrific supplier but they've hopped in to bed with the Woodland Trust now and no longer supply anything directly. If I'd been over there i'd have had my pear trees in the ground two months ago, as it is I don't even know if I'll get them this year or not!
  23. wrsni
    Mistakes can happen, are you sure you cancelled the order and made it plain that you had done so when they said there'd be a delay getting some of the stuff? I suppose I can see both sides what with running a shop, but now whether as the shop-keeper or a customer I always clarify such a situation before I leave it. It doesn't always prevent something like this happening but at least you know in your own mind that you made your intentions plain to the other party and can then approach it accordingly. On a slightly different note, I can only dream of living someplace where trees can be obtained so easily!
  24. wrsni
    Plant trees for your children, plant oaks for your grand-children!
  25. wrsni
    I had roughly 2,500 oaks in my planting area, mostly pedunculate but several hundred sessile within that. Noticed at the time that the sessiles were a bit scraggly whereas the pedunculates were very straight but many of them nipped off with side shoots, like your second photo. Run lots of things through in my mind about it at the time as to how it happened, how detrimental it would be to the development of everything both long and short term, should I be refusing them as sub-standard, how would you manage them in future, etc,etc. But now two years later, I'm not bothered in the slightest, as long as they live they'll be grand, and happily the vast majority of them have so far. I imagine the only person it should annoy would be someone who wants perfectly straight lines of perfectly straight vertical trees for whatever reason.

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