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Another monster macrocarpa . A big ugly bugger, 18' long and a full 6' at the butt. Needed to block up the frames to get high enough to strip off the top levels, but as this had all the large branch sites, I could whack them off in large lumps of waste to get into the premium wood quickly. Soon got sick of onto the ladder to flip the blade then step across onto platform, then up onto the log to cut, repeated for every cut ! 9x6" x 18' is a bloody heavy lump for 2 people to handle especially in todays 28° heat and with a recently fused ankle that I'm still learning to walk on.

Aren't the .404 and 3/8 both .063 guage so shouldn't 'slap' but less drive link depth may reduce the oiling efficiency, or am I mistaken. Should be an expert along shortly. Shaun

At moment mine still has a stable water level, but expecting it to be dropping any moment, the small mountain river keeping it topped up is drying, and the bogs that drain into it are also starting to dry. Worrying part currently is the river is our only water source both for our house and the farm. If pond dries will make it easy to pull out the invader though. [emoji848]

Thanks ( ! ) for finding the second article. I'd already depressed myself reading the first one. I think I'll just go and spray the shit out of my habitat and then dangle from a gibbett in front of the media ,as a warning to all others. Otherwise its back on with the waders for several more years till I've got every tiny bit pulled. We're a bit short of muskrats and some of the other moths etc here. Haven't I done enough damage?

It looks pretty dramatic if you catch one of those city underground telecom trunk lines. I was astounded when the engineer glued and stitched it all back together in a couple of hours, back in the mid 1990s when even farting near a service wasn't a hanging and profit making operation. [emoji12]

Born Rochdale, all schooling Macclesfield Cheshire.

It seems I've been misled, when talking with a local, self taught "environmentalist". When she first told me it was Frogbit, sure didn't I just accept it for the truth of her knowledge. But as I researched today about control in the USA , things in the desciption didn't seem right. Like flower colour for a simple and obvious start. Anyway 5 minutes with the observers book of plants and internet confirmation , and its fringed water lily I have. A known invasive in ireland, though surprisingly native and little threat in UK. I am still presented with a difficult task to eradicate now, whilst also not allowing any fragments to escape into other watercourses. Also teaches me not to accept everything I'm told unless by a qualified expert. - Should have been dealing with this 4 years ago. Bugger !

The european frogbit plant is considered as offensive to maby American states as knotweed is within the UK. Not every state blacklists it, so maybe there's something either climatic or geographic about it. Certainly its quite a coloniser of standing water here in Ireland. The place where I harvested mine from, later drained the ponds and sent in a team to spray plants and manually drag root material. Several years later it's returned as if nothing at all had disturbed it.

I think I've done enough damage relocating just one organism, I like the sound of a holiday somewhere exotic though.

Made a big environmental mistake a few years ago. Cleared a completely overgrown mountain pond on our farm. Hidden by sprawling willow scrub, didn't even know it was there. Worked on land drains to bring a flow of water all year round, created differing habitats around edges with planting and various water heights and marsh areas. All going well so far, newts, frogs, dragon and damsel flies, even wild brown trout moved in. Then my big mistake. Seeing waterlily type plant on a parkland pond, lifted a few rooted sections and set them in my pond. The culprit......- Frogbit weed. The bloody stuff took off like billy o , and kept on spreading, covering the whole 150m area pond in 2 years. Now each year ,waders on and pull as much as I can get out, but the pond bottom is laced with spaghetti lengths of roots that resprout in days. This year I'm trialing cutting the leaves beliw water with a sickle to see if I can starve it out, on half the pond, whilst pulling by hand the rest. I don't wish to use any chemical, being mostly organic . Any bright ideas out there ?

Yep , turtle's got my vote too[emoji106]

That would have been a far worse crime than watching splits occur. I tend to avoid slabbing work, a- because I loathe the slabber unit for it's tedious slow munching, both of wood and of chains, but, b- because the product is so temperamental and so easily damaged by poor client care, stresses in the log, and slab position within the log. As much as I can even for furniture wood I try to get the client to go for dimension cutting and then reassemble. The quality of jointing with the new glue technologies and the likes of biscuit jointers is producing far more stable and accurate slab like material. That said, it does give me a real buzz seeing a fantastic character slab emerge from the most ordinary looking tree. Splits either add character, or can with creativity, be worked with or around.

Can't see them on Android/ samsung. !

I'm telling my oak and beech customers to hold off processing until September whilst our current temperatures are so high, because of the almost guaranteed serious splitting risk. Especially when cutting beams and cants for resawing at a later time. Any who insist on milling hardwoods now I'm telling to wrap tightly to try to keep humidity in the wood. All my clients air dry, so I try to give as much beneficial advice and help as I can. Part of my job is to get the best possible timber out of the sawlogs for the client. This is currently giving my turnover quite a kicking , but I'd rather be known for a good service than a damaged product .

I have exactly the same thoughts watching my lucas. Often considered ( but never actually done) downrating the springs from 3.5 to 2.6t. Fine for the mill but poor for a good overhanging load of sawlogs.

Have you dualed the fronts as well or gone for wide profile? Never seen dual fronts.

Always phone for me. Any long passages to write I get mrs and her laptop on the case.

Theres a similar standard over here in ireland measured on de bolloxometer. - I'm still working my way up the scales.

What's pink and wrinkly , and hangs out ya undies ? Ya mum !

Says in our news here in Ireland, the tree was diseased and undergoing preservation works. Looks damned brittle the way the limbs have fractured off with little tearing.

Probably something like Crunch Scrape Smash Kipper Bang....... ........ followed by Bxxxxds Bxgger Bxxlox, fxxk it ....repeated several times over like a meditation mantra at differing volumes. As long as no one hurt.

? Is that how they do cloning ?

Thanks Steve ,from one of those die hard app users.[emoji106]

Ok guys, I'll give it a go and see what happens. As with most things once I'm used to it , I suppose the site becomes second nature. ?

On the app version I have it opening up straight away into the timeline of new posts or threads, whereas each time with the web version its a catalogue of sponsors or ads first followed by trending etc. as a list of 5 followed by another list of something else that I can't remember. Just take me straight to posts, - I'm both lazy and old fashioned I'm afraid, all I need is an easy way in, I've also got used to the reply / new post/ new thread commands of the app. It all seems very clunky and awkward by smartphone on web, maybe its better and more user friendly on a laptop or pc?