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Replacing gorse with something else
ArthurBottlesworth replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
They used to chop gorse for winter stock feed Better than nothing I'd guess....... We've cut down gorse years ago and top it each year...nothing like silver underneath it....and the bugger isn't dead yet..... When we bought place we had some butterflies ( either pearl washed or pearl bordered fritillaries) at that point the one we had wasn't considered rare so no money forthcoming, but apparently they live on the violets under bracken, don't know if they are still here but the bracken is.... -
Saw guy like this in Tal Y Llyn opposite a friends house He had ladder on top of old dry stone wall Ran up a gable at an angle of about ten degrees out of vertical And finally he was STANDING on top rung of ladder painting .....the house was about four stories so a long way up I have never been so scared for someone in my life ........ But he survived..........
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Sounds like perfect life to me...
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I'd like a politician to explain how a political party helps democracy? We'd have non of these clowns in power if we had 600 indpendent mp's electing the best of the 600 as cabinet ministers Nor would we have killed 100,000 iraqis for no purpose, and Cyril Smith etc would have gone to jail Party politics stinks
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Beautiful at 6am overcast now 8:00am
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I've never been in the business ....so like a nutter I feel free to comment If you can get £1000 a day why not? There are allways people who think if they pay more they get better, so encourage them But a day rate should cover costs + a profit But the wood is surely your cream, not the bread and butter If you take it away you can cut it when business is quiet to keep your team productive No down time There is a worry that the ultra cheap guys are keeping costs down by cutting corners No insurance, no qualifications, ( hooky tackle?) so what happens when he drops a Big ash on your house? He'll be gone.....
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Bottom line Why would anyone want anything other than a working English Springer Spaniel ? Perfect dog in my book.......
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Should say In front of the mad house
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Next door neighbour had to film Maggie Thatcher at Blackpool pleasure beach He reckoned if he could have filmed her in from of the "MAD HOUSE" he could have paid his mortgage off But it was v carefully managed ......
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Off-road capabilities of two wheel drive vehicles
ArthurBottlesworth replied to j.symonds's topic in Arb-Trucks
Rac man in village has 4x4 transit which he rates very highly -
It was great job, incredibly interesting, but couldn't make decent living ...... Read book about criminal liverpool in 1980's and what was going on..... Saw a lot of it..... Manchester Scrapman using £1500 of heroin a week ( in 1980's!) apparently his house was a 24:7 party Ferraris with their sills stuffed with ecstasy etc etc
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Ifor williams had problems with trailers being knicked and fitted with "new" chassis plates Got round it by welding chassis number on trailer before it was galvanised Criminals very clever .... Eg They enter zero in chassis plate as O ( for orange) results in " no match" In days when car stereos being knicked they found if you stored them in a freezer it reset the stereo password .....we had freezer full of stereos recovered in Liverpool .....going rate for a dodgy stereo was one fix of drugs .....
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Don't they use walnut rootfor gunstocks? Is there a market there?
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Looked at Birch Sap few years ago Very watery so need lots of heat to maky syrup But with sap costing £20+ per litre perhaps worth another look? Dukan Diet Organic Birch Sap, Detox treatment
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Replacing gorse with something else
ArthurBottlesworth replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I wonder if switch around from putting bracken first in wales and gorse first in surrey is due to level of rainfall? It's certainly wet here And pretty dry in Surrey ( comparitively) -
Replacing gorse with something else
ArthurBottlesworth replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
There is welsh saying Gold under bracken Silver under gorse And poverty under heather -
Torrential
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In previous life my missis was electrical engineer , they put electrical substation in near you ( Kirkby) , they specified one that was bombproof, because of Kirkby reputation Phone call 3 am from police " can you come and make this substation safe" They had nicked whole substation, just big live electrical cable sticking out of ground, they reckoned they must have used truck to drag it out whilst concrete still soft.....
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Ditto Santander My son worked in Jakarta for 18 months EVERY. Time he bought something I got automated phone call querying payment, I'd authorise it over system and then eMail him .....pain in the arse He bought iPhone in Jakarta and DAY AFTER. Warranty expired it failed, really obvious APPLE are putting timers in their stuff so it fails when warranty expires ......wifes iPhone failed three months after warranty expired .....
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Mate had big bad dog Came in one morning and broken glass with lot of blood around it ...obviously failed break in ... Dog 1, thieves 0 He cleaned up mess, went straight out and repaced glass Later in morning police arrived as there had been complaint he had a dangerous dog! No signs of break in so police left Dog 2 thieves 0 Dog was lovely, unless you tried to break in....
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There is statistic something like Being hit by a mini doing 150mph is same energy as being hit by fully laded artic doing 3 mph Which would you choose... Its really about how much energy passes into your body.... So a large bullet moving slowly = small bulet moving fast Hoe tat akes sense
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I used to occasionally go to thatcham to watch the crash tests When they rear crash tested sierra the back chassis crumpled and "locked" the two back doors, and the fuel tank fell off Premiums doubled overnight....... Apparently old rear engined skoda was great in tests, built like a tank..... Rumor was Crash tests are at 19 mph ( might be kph) because mercedes started testing and their cars crumpled at 20.....
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It's like they are trying to hold back a flood ......
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Bmw cars have similar problem Apparently so many electrics battery will go flat if ignition eft on inabout 20 mins Electrical fault turns ignition on in midle of night ----
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I believe American Police cars are the only vehicles designed to protect their occupants in 70mph rear end impacts Presumably why they use them in so many films .......
