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Years ago we were roofing a two storey outhouse round at a friend's house and left the ladder leant up while we had a brew. When we went back out my friend's son who was only a couple of years old was just trying to get off the top of the ladder onto the roof about 24 feet in the air. Friend was up the ladder like a shot and carried him back down like a fire rescue. I like the way the kid in the picture climbs better than he walks.
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You'll probably notice bees going into the curled leaves after the honeydew secreted by the aphids, we have it on our tree. I usually just cut the infected part off and throw it in the bin.
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Next door brought a strimmer for me to look at last year and it wouldn't fire. I put some fuel down the plug and pulled it over and it ran but was clattering nicely till the added fuel ran out. I took the plastic off and pulled and the bolts were loose and the piston was lifting the pot up and down with it. I tightened them down and it fired straight away and ran nicely. This had been to a garden machinery centre to be looked at and they charged him £30 to tell him it was broken and had made no effort to fix it.
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Yes it's part of the natural cycle for them and helps to clear the dead material from the heart so the new shoots can get more light. My next door neighbour tried cutting his down and burning it and it thrived on it.
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Only once ?
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What's this thread about ? When I was a lad I worked at a woodyard and we were fetching some timber in for cutting. I slid a length onto the wagon and the boss was supposed to get the other end and pull. I let go and it was not far enough on so it lifted and hit him causing a severe graze on his old man which he had to have bandaged for a few days causing him great embarrassment ans us much amusement.
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Not a customer but next door but one neighbour asked if I could help him erect a shed he had ordered from a local wood sales who build to order tongue and groove construction. We laid some blocks to level the floor and set it up then felted the roof and it was a really solid good looking potting shed which cost around £400. Next door bought a shed from a catalogue and her and the bloke put it up, ship lap walls and OSB floor and roof, cost £450 and the roof has sagged, floor is split and there are gaps in the sides with knots falling out and it's not been up a year yet.
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I dug mine out with a spade just by undercutting it then I had to cut it in three pieces to be able to lift it into the barrow. There was a lot of dead stuff in the middle and it had all-sorts living in it at one time or another including hedgehogs. It outgrew it's situation or I would have left it there but my wife wanted to grow vegetables so it had to go.
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I bet you don't look that good out of it either
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The difference is H and E ? H has heated grips don't know what an E is, probably electric start
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I keep looking at these, I'll get one one day.
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Who's joe king and why does only he use breast milk ?
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No but he'll have blisters if the pipe bursts
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You can take pictures with the iPad
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I haven't got a toy any more but this was my Locost I built in 2000. Built and SVA in a year from a Haynes book, fabricated in the shed with trusty mig welder.
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Maria-warwick has one and was quite happy with it last time she mentioned it.
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pressure wash the soil off and sell them as art. [ame] [/ame]
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They're not going to get knocked up though
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That OPSA place is about 3/4 mile from here on a trading/industrial estate on Bridge Street and I've never seen it.
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My mate had a cherry tree pollarded last year and was chuffed to bits when they let him tidy up with the leaf blower afterwards
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I thought it was going to be something exciting from Terrahawks [ame] [/ame]
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Even more so when they put it in yours
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If you've checked the bar groove hasn't pinched anywhere and the chain is oiling it must be what Stubby is saying, make sure you are lifting the tip of the bar when you tighten the nuts on the side.
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It doesn't spread by seeds it is purely vegetative reproduction by sections of rhizome. RHS site describes it here. I have some growing over the wall from me on land belonging to the local Chinese and they are not really interested in it so when it gets close I go over and chop it down but this year I got some Rosate glyphosate from the local allotment and am trying spraying at 20% and injecting neat into the stems of the nearest ones. It seems to weaken them within days.
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We used to use the airstream ones in the foundry I worked in and they didn't cool any more than the ambient temperature there is a filter at the back and a further tubular one over the top of your head to direct the air down your face so you don't breathe dust.
