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GarethM

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  1. You get one free pass what with it being on the bosses orders, but wouldn't they take your hard Scottish passports away instead of the wussy Man card ? 😉. I thought they put central heating users on some form of questionable watch lists, their version of the American communist kinda thing?.
  2. What's the weight of the Jensen ?.
  3. As you being arsey, I said "Anything over 8". For the simple fact a 10" chipper with just an engine is going to weigh what 2ton plus the 7.5 ton hgv to drag it's arse around ?. Plus tracks etc, Vs a 10" PTO at what less than a ton with a nice comfy tractor adding say another 4.
  4. Return your "Man" card immediately!. It's that warm & sunny outside I'm actually sweating on the log pile. That's from a man that gets called nesh sleeping in a god only knows how many 15+ togg winter duvet all year round and still feels cold.
  5. I just picked a brand at random, I've no skin in the game regarding chippers. Just an old TP tractor mounted, a lifesaver in my woodland. In my mind a 3 point mounted version for use deep in the woodland avoids have one more engine to maintain and fuel, tracks to replace etc. Plus I have somewhere to hide when it's break time or more likely downpour time, about 50/50.
  6. Surely anything over 8" is getting into tractor territory as it'd probably need 100Hp. An 8" Forst is what pushing 50HP
  7. From using in a big boiler, decent bed of embers and small scoops, once done don't open the door until it's disappeared or you can get a flare up.
  8. A hiding to nowhere.
  9. Obviously a spare, as you always end up dropping one when you're doing something important. Unless you can do that string on each end thing you do with children's gloves ?.
  10. I'm not spoiling for anything, I've better things to do with my day. I've 300 of the bloody things stacked up and drying
  11. How the hell did you get a two car sized shed in the garden.
  12. Or you just buy an IBC cages, modular off the shelf and infinitely stackable for £25.
  13. Why am I picturing morris moss. I've come here to drink milk and kick ass & I've just finished my milk.
  14. Would it be a change in the sugar content of the cells. Higher sugar & less water in winter to resist freezing as one would assume you couldn't just drain a living cell and replace it with air without it permanently dying?. I had a similar theory about ADB, harsh winter seems to help the bacteria spread through the cells due to sugar, mild winter and the tree doesn't hibernate as much, so less sugar storage and slower ADB growth.
  15. Did that with a mink the other week, the grass looked like one of those murder scenes in Dexter/CSI.
  16. Never really had any trouble dispatching from a cage trap, it's just a case of keeping really calm and not spooking whatever is caught until you have the right angle of dangle. Rifle is easier than pistol due to the distance as your not looming over them, but definitely prefer Fenn traps whenever possible.
  17. South of the border it's like £60 a hectare and 80% of the trapping costs. But these schemes have hefty requirements for paperwork, wildlife plans and such. They were talking of £100 for 100m of watercourse to control mink but that never came into existence. Paperwork just isn't worth the time, so most of us do it off our own backs. Any trap usually has a entry hole restriction plus a few sticks or wire to make it hard for a hedgehog to enter.
  18. I'm sorry officer it's my 1st day, isn't this your name in huge letters on the van. Yes officer, erm.
  19. How are you going to factor in the British weather on the moisture of the already wet woodchip?.
  20. The drain paddle is on the opposite banks, with a culvert running under the bed of the canal and towpath, so it had somehow found a hole in the bed of the canal into the culvert. Draining the canal causing a whirlpool, so they dumped the clay in the bottom as a temporary repair to plug the hole and stop the leak that was going into the park/tennis courts.
  21. There's a few videos on YouTube. Leak in the bed of the canal into a culvert used to drain down the canal. They ended up dumping a few tonnes of clay to keep things open until winter stoppages comes around.
  22. 3" steel gong at 60 Yards.
  23. Very true the historical officers can be a bit hit and miss in terms of the way it's restored. Guessing you missed the whirlpool at bollington a few weeks back then.
  24. Isn't it missing the iron wear strips tho?
  25. Green cross code if memory serves, with a west country accent.

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