spandit
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I use it on top of a membrane but once it dries out, it tends to blow away or gets dug in by animals. Does work for a bit, mind, mainly keeping the membrane weighted down
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We have a well and I've bought a hand pump for it. In Winter the water table is so high it nearly overflows. We've also got a big concrete sump that collects all the water off the barn - I've fitted a hand pump to this too and an overflow as I think it was supposed to soak away but doesn't.
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You could use something like a Billy Goat mower to open them up but regular footfall is what you really need to keep them open. Compacts the soil and crushes new growth
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I put an Ecoburn 7 in our old house. Certainly packed out the heat but the top air vent is flimsy. In our new house we've put a Morso 05 in - more expensive and it shows, although the baffle has already warped and one of the firebricks is cracked (this is from one season of burning)
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Hornbeam No, possibly a cherry of some description
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I'm told crushing it is better than cutting, but within a woodland getting machinery in could be a problem. That said, cutting it down and covering the area with carpet and mulch should weaken it. I'm planning on doing something similar with a sort of seed tray that I can plant other species in, which will hopefully take over
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Tegera 17 - brilliant and cheap
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Great stuff, thanks
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My field needs topping/mowing and a chap down the road has just bought a tractor and flail. I'm not expecting him to do it for free but wondered what the going rate might be as there are other landowners locally without enough land to justify buying a tractor and it could be a good little money earner for him
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Bought a couple of Wartec chains for my Stihl MS181 as they were only cheap and wanted to see how they compared to the genuine Stihl chain I had. First impressions pretty good - certainly sharp and fitted fine. Whether it will last that long or not, I don't know but it got through a lot of logs today that my Stihl was struggling with (admittedly, it's not a new chain and my sharpening file is a bit blunt, I think)
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You're not aware of the meme here then? There seems to be an unwritten rule that someone must declare "hornbeam" in any identification question. Stems from an old thread. I know it's not really a hornbeam
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Hornbeam
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There was some TPO'd woodland sold near me recently. Spoke to one of the owners and he said they just needed to submit a management plan to the council, rather than just chopping down willy-nilly. I'm sure you'll be fine getting permission even though it's a pain submitting the forms
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Let me know when you get your PhD (post hole digger)...
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Didn't plant anything resembling this
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Tree Identification pictures
I'll let nature take its course... quite surprised the alder made it at all with the leaf coverage from the birch. -
Didn't plant anything resembling this
spandit replied to spandit's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Mystery solved with one of them - it was planted as an alder but a birch has grown through the same tube - it's about 8' tall now... -
His work yard is next door but we're on pretty good terms. Might not even happen this year but it needs to in order to control a lot of the water that is otherwise flowing down where we don't want it
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Won't ever know which one I am until I try! I'll be hiring one through the landscaper next door & he's seen me operate the smaller digger. I know some of you think I'm just some bloke who thinks he's the world's best digger driver after 2 days but I'm pretty realistic in what I think I can achieve & doing a lot of planning work before the bucket will hit the mud! Sorry if I've rubbed some up the wrong way - the Internet isn't always the best medium to communicate on but thank you to all the genuinely useful advice
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Thank you! Think we were posting at the same time...
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Fair points all but I'll never get any better without experience. I will be hiring out a small digger sooner to dig some ditches and I'll be practicing some grading with that too. I'm not expecting to be perfect straight off the bat but as I've said before, I have a professional who will be around to help/guide. Would rather achieve something myself rather than just buying it in
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I think we're talking about the same point. In the same way that I wouldn't hire a tree surgeon to cross cut some logs, I feel I can do the big digging myself, learning all the way. For the fiddly, precision stuff, I can get an experienced operator in - there is a professional landscaper next door. You seem to assume I have no respect for anyone and yet you judge my abilities without having seen me operate machinery. As you say, it's my money, which isn't unlimited, and doing a load myself of the less challenging work, will save a fair bit which means I can spend more on the details
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I have an experienced digger operator next door who can come in for a bit to do the fiddly bits. The bulk digging is the easy part and apologies to those with degrees in excavation but I'm confident that I can do a decent enough job. Have to learn somehow anyway and if my calculations are correct, it's going to take a long time for the lakes to fill up! Thanks for the idea regarding the fuelling. I'll ask around...
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Worth bearing in mind, thought 15 tonnes was big enough!
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I am the customer! I'd be leaving the drums elsewhere on the property, on a hard standing, so I could drive the digger to them. It's creating a new lake so no marine wildlife to damage, although you're right in as much that I don't want loads of diesel spread over the ground
