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You can't leave us yet, we haven't discussed householder's insurance!

So on the minus side you have an old garden tree which has had generations of family activity with children swings, nailed and chained, maybe remains of an old iron fence inside, fence nails , wire. A few of these items coming into contact with saws can soon become expensive. I would have expected a much bigger root ball if the tree was fully alive, but it looks as though it has rotted The black water mark coming from the hole seems to indicate that the main trunk is rotten inside There are no nice straight lengths that I can see for milling You will have a big expense repairing the neighbours damage and making good her lawn and tidying all the brash without wheel marks and footprint trails You may have problems with people concerned about bats, replacing with another tree, or having to leave a certain amount of dead wood around for the birds and the bees and other life that benefits from fallen timber It looks as though you will have to employ a tree surgeon anyway to assess the situation if the tree is protected. Damage to trees protected by a TPO or Conservation Area WWW.SOUTHAMPTON.GOV.UK Easy access to key online services, news and information from Southampton City Council Access looks as though it will be a problem Meanwhile on the plus side..................

Thanks for that good advice

I was strongly advised by the NFU to put up signs saying "Private Land, No Public Right of Way" and warned that failure to do so may lead to someone bringing a case for a public footpath if they could show that people have had unchallenged access for a period of years. I allow polite people in the village to walk through the woods if they, a, pick up litter, b, have dogs on a lead, c, report back to me any suspicious activity, d, report any interesting wildlife. So far it has worked well and people seem to appreciate the lack of "Git orf my Land" approach. But we do have a low population here, away from major town and mainly elderly retired and more responsible folk.

Being in the East Midlands too, I know how very wet it has been these last two years. Very hard to dry anything and the yard here is like the Somme. I had some green mould on some Oak logs I posted some time ago which I thought were Elm and queried whether it was the DED fungus coming out until someone corrected me.

Sorry that was a bit boring! I was interested to see what the line was going down one side of the tree. I thought that it was rotten on the inside and had split, but it turned out to be sound i was wondering if it had been struck by lightning as the root was blackened where it had broken off

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Poor old trees, as if they did not have enough to suffer with dieback, the ground is so sodden now that it does not take much of a breeze to tip them over i was expecting this one to be rotten in the middle but it was fine The frost coming out and the snow melting has left the yard and tracks in the worst condition that I can remember IMG_0805.MOV

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Not round here it hasn't

We always used to measure grain by grinding it in a coffee grinder then compressing it in a small chamber on top of the actual meter. I think that modern combines can do it fairly accurately without having to do all that but I am not sure of the process

Just bought what I thought was the usual litre of milk from the CO-OP and was pleasantly surprised to find it was two pints. Or 1.136 litres Pounds shillings and pence next then!

I think you are right, on second thoughts. being a day after Valentines, they came out smelling of roses!

Possibly, but on a more serious note, are these NO2 canisters nearly a kind of date rape drug as somebody told me it has the effect of completely knocking out some girls.

Finest honey!

I have a trail cam..........

Knickers! A hedge full of them! Near a lay-by at the edge of one of our fields. You would have thought that it has been plenty cold enough. There were a number of those little shiny cylinders also on the ground which I am told are NO2 or laughing gas.

Only just realised how appropriate this video is in the current climate ” Yorkshire Airlines takes off from Leeds International Airstrip, touches down twenty minutes later at Leeds International Airstrip , cos if it’s outside Yorkshire it’s not worth bloody visiting!”

I know , you’ve probably seen it before but I can watch it again and again

It seems to easily pull above its weight on some steep grassy slopes with a load and trolley. on the road it should easily cope and as Toad says its registered as agricultural and will not go faster than 25mph.

I don't know about money's worth, for if you added up all the money I have spent on woodworking equipment on one side and the savings from using gas and oil and sales on the other hand, I think I would still be in negative equity. It is just that I enjoy the work and do it for free as it is out doors and healthy. But if you start to charge my labour £15/hour then it becomes really expensive. On the other hand these labour saving tools might help me to stay healthier longer and prevent bad back ,hips, joints which may take a lot of time and money to sort in the future as well a causing a lot of pain.

Slight modification today to improve the turning lock by extending the drawbar on the Arb Trolley. The Mule tow all is so close to the axle that the handles on the Trolley foul on the tail door of the Mule even in a moderate turn. This mod also means that I can put longer lengths on the trolley Another problem surfaced going down this steep and bumpy hill. The narrow track of the trolley combined with the weight of the logs stacked high made it unstable and it tipped sideways twice. I intend to solve it by fitting a bar at right angles to the trolley possibly with a couple of small wheels, just like a child’s bicycle stabiliser . Just needs to be easy to fit and remove

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The Matbro has enough room in the battery compartment for another similar sized one ( 960 If I remember) so I now like the split charge relay idea ( thank you Openspaceman) as I am generally doing a lot of work with the Matbro, carrying logs, pushing brash, supporting hung trees and releasing trapped saws. The Matbro has quite a big alternator as well.