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    Thanks guys. As I remember, there's the road, then crash barrier type fences, then the trees on what I thought was our land, but might in fact belong to the highways agency! Oh, and the house is in Wales if that makes a difference...
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    Hi all We're looking at buying a house that includes a few trees in a bit of land. All very nice, but one stretch of the land is next to a fastish road. If a tree on my land falls into the road who is responsible for damage / cleanup costs? Me? My insurance? Local council? Highways agency? I assume it's probably me! And also that I'd have to prove the trees had been regularly inspected etc. (even if just by me) in case they fell on a car or person? To make it worse, the land is quite steep and on the far side of a river, so not easy to get to, and not an area I'd want to be felling trees in either. To be fair, they're not huge trees, so it may not be an issue for a bit. And I suppose if it does look like becoming an issue, I could pollard them or replace them with pollards? (Not sure what species they are offhand). I wouldn't want to lose them altogether as they're a good screen from the road... Thank you.
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    Awesome bug house indeed, and a great log store! I'm jealous. Also, JPAJS, very little wrong with your English!
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    Not at all helpful, but I like your profile pic! Classic song.
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    I was in France a couple of years ago, and the villa we were staying at had chickens. Normally fairly slow and docile birds, these would hunt the little common lizards, catch and eat them! I've never seen a chicken move so fast...
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    Post 2 is spam, there's a link in the text.
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    Visited a cork oak forest in Portugal a few years ago as part of a university field course. Some lovely old trees, harvested for hundreds of years in some cases. I believe many of the cork oak forests are suffering now, due to reduced usage of real corks in wine.
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    How long since that birch was planted / last coppiced, AM? Hope to be able to do something like that soon. Looks good.
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    Looks good, and just down the road from me. However, I'll be abroad then. Bad timing!
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    Grapes, apples, plums & pears all grow outside for me, and well - apart from perhaps the grapes, which do fairly well. I use my greenhouse for tomatoes, chillies and peppers mainly. Toms will grow outside down here, but the greenhouse gives them a hand. The big old houses around here managed to grow citrus fruits in their orangeries (old fashioned conservatory type things) with some success, but I'm not sure if they heated the orangeries over winter...
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    I don't see my Spear & Jackson special on there! ;-)
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    Looks a good solid store. Did you leave a bit of an air gap against the barn wall, or will the logs lean on it directly? How did you ensure the beams were straight and true, and plumb with each other / the barn? Plumb line?
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    Looks like it could be useful, nice find...
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    Reminds me, I want to get tickets for Treefest.
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    Good firewood when seasoned. I've never had much trouble splitting it with an axe, as long as it's not gnarly? I suppose if it doesn't split green it might split more easily when it's a bit drier?
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    Right! Maybe white spirit or something less flammable then?
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    Yeah, that doesn't sound good! Before putting on the new bar, try revving it a bit and see if oil leaks out of the oiler hole, near the bar mounts? If not, try petrol in the oil tank, as above...
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    I've always found that my Titan doesn't oil a great deal - you can't see the oil coming off the chain when revved next to a clean surface for instance. But the oil level in the tank does drop slowly, and the bar seems to remain cool enough. I also find that cutting a big trunk makes it oil more than lots of short bursts. Are you sure it's not oiling slowly rather than not oiling at all?
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    I'd just open the flaps and let nature do its thing - it's free, it just takes time. I think heating them would be a difficult and potentially expensive way to try and speed things up.
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    Nice to see there's still an orchard or two left in Kent. I grew up there, and in the 20 odd years since, virtually every orchard I knew has been grubbed up. Impressed too with your long term pruning planning! I really must get around to having a go at my overgrown plum tree.
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    I've seen bits of this being built too. Will be interested to have a look at it when it's open. Mind you, looking at trees from the ground was good enough for my granddad!
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    I can think of worse ways to go!
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    That's already planted, plus some laurels, which aren't big enough yet to do much. Still pretty noisy though!

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