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In the same way that Myxomatosed rabbits and these VHD rabbits are left alone to die by foxes and other predators and the fact that most people would not feed their dogs on a myxy rabbit, I think it would be wise to steer clear of them On the other hand the buzzards around here seem to do well feasting on them and they are still flying!

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Bren, I just had a visit from a wild life expert and that is exactly what he said it was. Started in Southern Europe and working its way North. Mucks up the stomach and seems even more cruel a death than Myxomatosis. He said he had seen them wheezing and having great difficulty breathing so perhaps it constricts the throat as well and prevents them both from eating and breathing properly. Some have an immunity so they will probably do what rabbits do best and recover their populations.

A couple of years ago were had a plague of rabbits on the farm, pre war numbers and I employed a ferret man as well as setting about them with the .22 rifle. From January tp March 2012 the ferret man caught over 300 and I shot over 1400. A lot of them ended up at the local hospital, probably on the menu as chicken pie! Probably a lot more healthy than chickens on processed food diets and antibiotics. Anyway this week we had a request for some more and I went off but after half a day managed to shoot only four, which was four shots and all I saw. One of them was hunched up like they are with myxomatosis but on inspection its eyes were normal. But its nose area had been diseased and the flesh had fallen away and it looked as though this had prevented it from feeding for when we picked it up it was skin and bone. This was the case with one of the others although that one was not showing the external symptoms. I shot another today to put it out of its misery and it was emaciated. Someone told me the local vet had over sixty cases of rabbit virus with domestic rabbits around here and a neighbouring farmer says he has no rabbits where there were hundreds a couple of years ago. This is in the Lincolnshire Wolds, has anyone else seen a similar rabbit disease?

My father started in the war as he was training to be a pilot in America where everybody smoked and cigarettes were a dime a dozen. I remember when I was a boy a carpet of half smoked butt ends lay on the ground outside the office. No filters but only half smoked so perhaps saved his lungs a bit as he was nearly ninety when he died. But although he did pack up overnight when he was about fifty, he always said he was one away for the rest of his life. He had a couple of "one aways" when on holiday looking out across a bay at a beautiful sunset with a glass of wine when the guy on the next table lit a Gauloise..... I think the trouble is not so much the nicotine but the habit by association. This is true of dieting as well. You stop for a break, cup of coffee means there is a huge feeling of a need for a ciggy or a few chocolate biscuits. No break for whatever reason means no cravings for either. Same thing driving on your own,ciggies and sweeties or down at the pub with a beer in hand. Out come the crisps nuts and ciggies. I know how hard it is as I was a very occasional smoker in my youth. I would buy a packet of ten on a Saturday night and wake up with a terrible throat on Sunday morning. Swear never to smoke again and I would then go through the next two weeks maybe without touching one, never smoked at work, but the next time I was in the pub and someone just bought a round and everyone lit up and offered me one.....just one away.

I would like to nibble away at the top branches, then have a go at some of the limbs, all the while conserving my energy for attacking the main trunk.

SATICHE - 0695 Here are a couple from this link which made me smile • get the new employee to "get a long stand"...send them to a friend who tells them, "You want a long stand? I'll get one. Wait here." ...and leave them. When my mother was a nursing student in England, they had a number of standard jokes. One that I remember went something like this: Nurse: "Go and ask the Ward Sister if I can borrow her fallopian tubes." (Sometimes, my mother relates, the answer would come back "Sorry, they're in use at the moment.")

The old favourites like sending the lad round to the workshop for a tin of elbow grease still seem to work amazingly. On my first day as a student on a dairy farm, the manager introduced me to the cowman who held out his hand to shake. I jumped about ten feet in the air because I did not see that his other hand was gripping the electric fence firmly. (this you can do with a battery type fencer)

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Your guess is just as good as anyone's guess at the Met Office whose chief executive is on £220,000 a year for guessing. £80,000 more than the Prime Minister. My advice to all is to forget about slaving away in all weathers with your back breaking, dangerous and unrewarding woodwork, and join the met office where you will have a nice cozy indoor job on a comfy chair looking at computer screens, having cups of coffee and biscuits brought to you by some dolly in a short skirt, massive pay and huge pension and job for life. They probably never even look out of the window. You can make any prediction you like and if your prediction turns out to be wrong there is no penalty.

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I thought that I put the right link in the correct box but obviously not. On very close inspection the girl is ever so slightly too big seeing that I am nearly six foot and fifteen stone and have size eleven boots. She must be six feet two size fourteen feet and thighs like a prop forward!

OK The Kid, just to keep you all amused! Don't be too hard on me!

Rumbled! I cannot put the pictures up as I would never be able to show my face (words) again on arb talk without being a target for all you wits out there! But to go back to Morten and your very technical answer which only puts my mind at rest a little, again if I just re photographed the image with my standard camera even using an old analogue film, would the experts still be able to see into the image that it had been doctored.

Went off for a boys holiday to the Med in the summer leaving wives behind. Just gastronomic and alchoholic without frolic (we are all too old and ugly!) Just had a reunion and one of the guys gave me an envelope with half a dozen A4 photos. Opened in front of my wife whose expression should have been recorded. All pictures of me with scantily clad dolly birds, but the pictures were so well doctored that you really could not tell they were fake. In one a gorgeous lass is standing next to me on one leg the other leg wrapped around my middle, kissing my neck and her arm across my body and her hand on my shoulder. My hand is on her thigh and even the shadow of my fingers are there. On close examination there are no anomalies to be seen, it looks perfect. My friend who created this (still a friend!) said that experts could tell in a court of law that it had been doctored because of the type of file but he had no answer to my suggestion " what if you rephotographed the doctored photo?" Or are there other ways of telling it is fake? Joking apart the implications of this are horrendous. Much mischief could made if someone had a grudge and in our world of trees if someone had illegally taken some trees down and chipped them leaving the stumps, he could avoid prosecution by doctoring photos he took before felling to show dangerous limbs, rot or disease. If you wanted to prove you were out of the country at a certain time to avoid a crime you could doctor a photo of you reading a newspaper in Paris with the headlines giving away the date.

Down to earth with a Bump today. My definition of reaction wood would be the time in seconds it takes to make a brand new saw chain blunt. I had a go at another piece of Ash today from a big tree which had become damaged at about a foot above ground so that only a third of the circumference was supporting the whole tree. My reaction was predictable after sharpening the new chain to see it blunt again in about twenty seconds! I don't know about lignin and cellulose content, more like a mixture of iron filings and flint!

I am sixty one Stubby so you have a year's more wisdom! I used to use grandfather's old axe and found it hard work, especially extracting it from a recalcitrant log. So I bought the Palax Combi which has worked well for nearly twenty years without fault. Did not think you could teach an old log dog new tricks but having read the forum here I bought a Fiskar's X27 from the web at around £60 Irritatingly I see my local hardware store is now selling them for £49. Also have mounted a large car tyre on a block at knee level. (Courtesy of YouTube video) The explosive power of the X27 together with the ease of use of the tyre/block combo, and the ease of pulling an X27 out of a log has made the axe work both healthy and enjoyable. I had some four foot lengths of straight ash too wide at fifteen inches for the Palax and the lad who was helping bet me that I could not split these logs. I amazed even myself. It took about three blows but it did it and no way would grandfather's old axe have even looked at it!

I think I will have to wait for the Spring when the sap is more active

The mortar is definitely old and soft and lime and the bricks are sixteenth century and also porous. I will try the stem cut method as it sounds like an easy plan. However if it is drawing nutrient from tendrils in the brickwork it will probably bypass the roundup. The plant is huge now!

It is a bit of a difficult one in these days of litigation and compensation. If you found a lovely tree in a quiet wood and you did not damage anything or peer into anyone's bedroom window, then I cannot see any person complaining if it was just a one off. (Even with ropes) If you start to use the same tree regularly with a group of friends that is probably different. It might seem sensible to ask the woodland owner for permission, but it opens up a whole new problem because now the owner has knowledge of the activity there are liability and insurance implications.

Thanks for the replies. A clean cut is unnecessary for the firewood, and speed is preferable. I would understand multitooth blades being used on joinery quality crosscut timber. I just assumed that the Palax came out with the 100 plus tooth blade as a good compromise, but perhaps it is because it mainly deals with pine in the Scandinavian Forests. The fifty tooth blade is stunningly more effective on the ash and it does not grab at all I suppose that it a case of suck it and see but that experiment can be quite expensive!