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Stere

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  1. Like the before & after:
  2. Flame weeder
  3. Where are the trails or are they cheeky ones? ?
  4. Which dolmar is that? Like the wedge hammer I thought of getting a holster like that, but then then thought its knacking enogh just carrying the saw alone after several hrs Have you seen they sell thor dead blow hammers as wegde hammers? https://www.landmarktrading.com/tools/tree-and-hedge-tools/levers-tongs-wedges/dead-blow-nylon-hammer.html
  5. Can't recommend any perticular one but looked into them before alot mtb'ers use them clear trails also firefighters https://forums.mtbr.com/trail-building-advocacy/show-me-your-chain-saw-packs-722783.html https://www.google.com/search?q=trail+clearing+rucksack+chainsaw&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CXK8dJ4FCnGyIjhmnkd7qIf9r2rr92Ob6e3NTD68RVT1swsEIcirGDGNR3hPVe4yhUAnM0tiOCRWNK33R8ypHVECtCoSCWaeR3uoh_12vEWtyK92zrr26KhIJauv3Y5vp7c0RH0GrsMBPeYAqEglMPrxFVPWzCxHAbzUxC1C-qyoSCQQhyKsYMY1HEXQSaSkK_1EKWKhIJeE9V7jKFQCcRP6w7V33lp80qEgkzS2I4JFY0rREP5xbvZGKJoioSCfdHzKkdUQK0EcZzYPyJAC7o&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6pp35vvnfAhWPmBQKHbrTCiwQ9C96BAgBEBs&biw=1680&bih=917&dpr=1 https://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/products.php?mi=21731&itemnum=35927 EDIT This one looks good: https://shop.freeworker.com/hercule.html
  6. Saw this might be too long? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weaver-Leather-Silky-Ibuki-Scabbard/dp/B00VO0L1DK Actually think it would fit the sugoi 390-36 is 360mm....?
  7. https://www.radmoretucker.co.uk/shop/garden-machinery/chainsaws-tree-care/petrol-chainsaws/husqvarna-550xp-ii-petrol-chainsaw/ The infos wrong surely its not less powerful? Says 3.0kw https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/new-550xp-mark-ii.328395/ & some bloke cutting up a fake tree in second vid ?
  8. Stere

    Petrol mix

    Stihl has 3 grades of oil so by decent do you mean Ultra the expensive one?
  9. Stere

    Best axes.

    Stubai & mueller both have a good range of axes alot of different patterns. http://stubai.com/index.php/en/forestrytools http://www.mueller-hammerwerk.at/en/categorie-forest-axes.html
  10. So £200 pounds for a one day course to learn how to talk to others on a job? Not sure this is something a course can teach more down to peoples personalities?
  11. Im impressed by how sharp his tools are, billhook one swipe to go though the hazel stakes The bit where he is cutting the hedge at the end with the slasher looks nearly as fast as a petrol hegde trimmer...
  12. Why not timber house on stilts/pillars? To expensive?
  13. Hygeine hypothesis, maybe east german kids played outside more so exposed to more: "infectious agents " https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/growing-up-with-a-dog-reduces-childhood-asthma-risk/
  14. How about theese bonfires: ?
  15. Will the ebay one bend like a banana? Haven't used one since did the c31/c32 This bison looks fancy: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bison-Profiline-Felling-Lever-With-Cant-Hook-Prefessional-Made-in-Germany-/223283400391
  16. I think this a simple 30 min job. Step ladder, silky, pry bar, & loppers, cut all ivy round trunk, just leave rest above & it will drop off on its own eventually or am a missing something? Try this first & if it all doesn't die then so what though probably 90% will, & you can always go back to the tree again etc if some rogue piece has rooted in a hollow & stays alive or just leave that.... Or if you want to make big job out of it spend ages removing it all...... Beware ivy dust can be is nasty/itchy or maybe thats just me ....
  17. Never heard of them before anyone use them? https://gabrielhemery.com/how-to-use-a-wedge-prism-relascope-to-measure-basal-area/ https://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/products.php?mi=13911&itemnum=59018&title=JIM-GEM® Rectangular Cruising Prisms
  18. Is it not possible to cut though the ivy abit higher up trunk than shown in pic above the butress? Pry bar sometimes very handy to lvr it off trunk
  19. There are ways to better flail hegdes that don't produce a knuckle/stresses the plants so much. Cutting every year at same height stresses the hedge. Varying the height cut, not cutting so low, cutting a V shaped top.... http://nigeladamscountrysidemanagement.co.uk/pdf/hedgelink-hedgerow-management.pdf I actually do cut a section of roadside native hedge row on 3yrs cycle in the garden. It looks untidy but since I stopped the yearly cuts & started doing it every 3 yrs hedge is alot healthier than before. Previously I cut it the same height every year for so long then the hedge started to look like the picture I posted... Now it looks untidy but healthier. Neighbouring farmers probably think im just to lazy to cut it. Some are cutting there hedgerows 2 or even 3 times in 1 year? Whilst others are never cut at all for decades then they sometimes eventually flail it when its this stage: Why do hedges have to look tidy its still doing its job marking boaundary if it looks untidy or tidy. Allowing 3yrs or 2ys growth won't encroach on fields much & is only a problem on very narrow lanes with no verge.
  20. I remember them there was a lovely avenue just along the road from where I live trees like in this pic on both sides of road for nearly 200 metres Alot of hedgerows used to look like this, now the whole countryside locally is more barren/bleak and windswept in comparison with miles of flailed hedges with alot fewer trees. I think people have forgotten just how dramatically the whole landscape has changed because they have got used to how it looks now, as being normal. Next to go will be the ash which is the predominant hedge tree left locally. Enviro schemes encourage new woodland planting & hedgerow planting but few seem to consider hedgerow trees. Also best practice is to flail hedge every 3 yrs not every year or even several times a year which seems common....so you get more hawthorn berries etc for wildlife etc Alot of hegdes look like
  21. Seen some sycamores worse than that. over 2ft diameter cuts they ended up looking like muntant a baobab trees. Cut to the "homeowners spec", & repeatedly cut every few yrs. Now some have died after the repeated abuse.
  22. Isn't the current increase in homelessness directly linked to goverment failure with regards to affordable housing. Also alot of the benifit payments now go to millionaire slum landlords, as council houses were sold off. Also most benefits go help the working poor nor the unemployed as minimum wage is too low too afford a place to live.... Rise in homeless https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41241021 Working poor: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/04/four-million-british-workers-live-in-poverty-charity-says Or if your a tory its beacuse there all feckless workshy drug addicts who get what they deserve. ?
  23. I think a hydro turbine need a higher head or water than traditional water wheels to be worth while.
  24. If you are really fond of the variety you could take a cutting from the tree and graft it onto new rootstock.

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