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Are these for sale?
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Before I buy any, wondered if anyone local has some rampant variety I could propagate? Can swap for osier cuttings
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You people have some odd holiday plans
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Arboriculturist Didn't have time to film it, once I'd done the risk assessment, got the necessary permissions, set up the rigging and actually began the epic struggle of truck vs. tree, a good 5 minutes had passed and my coffee was getting cold...
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Had a grey willow growing close to the foundations of my house and it needed to come down. Rather than pay one of you fat cats to deal with it, I took matters into my own hands and pulled it out with the Hilux... Reckon the base must have been at least 3" in diameter, a real monster
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I had an old Mule. It was knackered when I bought it (fool & his money) but amazingly useful. Nearly bought a new Chinese brand as they're high spec but unknown quantity & still quite a lot of money for what they are. Ended up buying a Suzuki Jimny - maybe a bit heavier off road but I feel smug when it rains! It's also heavy enough to hold a decent winch without needing a ground anchor
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I can see why you got confused. You're an idiot SC leaves when young look like smaller SC leaves - spiky ovals. Wish I'd planted a few more now
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Best protection for newly planted trees from a horse?
spandit replied to Sharpy92's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I think you can buy longer tree guards but otherwise you might have to look at fencing the area off -
Is that seaberry?
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Bamboo - thick, evergreen, virtually impenetrable...
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Rigger boots are pretty good and really come into their own when you drop a big log on your foot
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I like Tegera 17 gloves - more for handling logs than chsinsaw protection - they're cut resistant but that's more for thorns etc.
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How many & where?
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I'll get a photo of my father's mistletoe tree in due course. There's a bit of apple in there somewhere but otherwise it's completely covered. Reckon the apple tree is about 60 years old - I used to climb on it when I was younger (over 30 years ago ) so it must have been a reasonable age back then (to support 5 cousins at once )
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I do take your point about brambles. The ones I have aren't specially high, about 2' but it does tend to get tangled in them rather than chopping them to bits. If they get in the way of the blade, then there's no contest, especially as I've just sharpened it (it may "cut through a brick" but it doesn't like it very much). There's a bladeless cutter attachment available - turns it into a giant trimmer. Would this be any more effective against brambles, do you think? Might get one anyway as there is one area that I suspect is full of old bricks/rubble etc. and it should stop me wrecking the blade again - there was a lot of filing to get the nicks out of the edge!
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Just to clarify, I'm not offering a free log splitter. I was boasting about my own good fortune, sorry for any confusion
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A friend of ours gave me his father's 10-tonne manual log splitter because it didn't work. The release valve was leaking but shoving a rubber O-ring in there fixed it and although it's not terribly quick, it went through a really gnarly hornbeam fork I'd been using as a tyre chock. They're about £130 new and this one looks virtually unused
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The 25 tonne splitter I hired was about £40 a day - depends on what kind of wood it is
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Just leave it. They'll find their way in
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I've got a rotating NATO hitch anyway but without an adaptor, I can't fit it to the Suzuki or Hilux
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6x4 flat bed metal trailer with removable sides?
spandit replied to sandspider's topic in General chat
Having a flat bed above the wheel arch would make it very tall, even with tiny trailer wheels, which would probably limit your load. What kind of things were you envisaging carrying on the flat portion? -
That needs a four hole mounting plate & the Jimny only has two. The Sankey is a bit heavy anyway and we have a larger twin axle trailer for bigger loads. Looks like I'll go for the first type, thanks
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I want a ball and pin hitch for the back of the Suzuki to provide a recovery point and a means of towing trailers with eyes (although unfortunately, none of the normal ones seems big enough for a NATO eye so my Sankey will be up for sale soon - not that the Jimny is probably suited to it anyway ) There seem to be 2 types, ones with a separate pin and ball: and ones where the ball forms the end of the pin: Wondering which type is best
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6x4 flat bed metal trailer with removable sides?
spandit replied to sandspider's topic in General chat
If you can find a suitable small trailer, could you not make something yourself? Maybe not from metal but plywood is pretty strong. An issue you might face is that you are limited by the wheel arches so removing the sides might not actually give you more capacity. Fitting greedy boards is easy enough for carrying logs, wood chip etc. A standard pin hitch on the tractor will be fine. -
Interesting. The leaves don't seem to match black walnut now I've looked at pictures
