Stere

I bet majority of the goverment  atm would be  the same.

Sometimes the stupidity or ignorance still surprises me also.

One thing iv'e noticed recently is some people who have no concept of the interaction of plants with weather/seasonality. Still watering plants when its just being raining and the grounds sodden because thats whats one does?  No concept of grass growing faster in spring than winter so might need cut more, &  that plants & veg  are controlled by seasons. Wondering why  tomatoes or apples etc aren't  ripe now etc if they can buy them in tesco?

Not a good deal for you but maybe a very good one for the guy with the Farm Boss, when he sells the Dolmar...

Heres alot of them.

But the whole thread is a wind up?

No as chainsaw not the right tool for pallets imo

Recip saw plus

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So how much was it?

Active italian make the biggest one you can buy 3.3KW called the "brutale"

Also kaaz or echo from japan both do them

Think thats about it with regards to quality bruschcutters

How about pedestrian flail mowers?

Nice gaff

Yeah willows hybridize so much all seem to  look slightly different

Some goat willow have smaller leaves.

https://www.wildlifebcn.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/Salix_key expanded v2.0 2017.pdf

Because it looks like one 🙂

The bark and leaves shape /grown habit.

Its the same for trees can also tell/guess most times  at a distance speciees  ID sometimes just from tree outlines growth habit location colour of foilage or bark in winter etc.

Some do have catkins not paided much attention to them , maybes this ones  having a yr off?

Wonder if the other tree you ID'd was really a willow got a picture?

Many other trees also have catkins.

goat willow

Defo look the same to me

Tarp will have to be top quality ones to last that long

The lorry sides type 600gsm etc.

I posted this before a strimmer with a rotarty engine. Selling them in japan

Gonna be used on flying cars apparently! 🙂

https://www.kaaz.co.jp/en/Spec/VT740(W)KZ-CK1.pdf

purple monster

I use my green waste bin as a water butt

Alot better than most water buts as top is wide enough you you can dip a watering can in, unlike most others that are too narrow.

Also thoose cheap plastic taps at the  bottom of bought butts are totally useless imo as they  takes ages to fill a watering can and break easy as the plastic gets brittle.

Having say 10 or 20 bins daisy chained etc  would be even more useful to store more water.

Reuse is more eco than recycle

From reading up on the internet limewash seems traditional.

Also seems some german companies make special paints

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Etisso-Alsam-Trunk-Protector-White/dp/B07B26DCPF

https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Paste-Against-Frost-Damage/dp/B004QBBKYY

Lac balsam one  mentions  it will last 5 yrs

Old thread on sun scald

In the USA they sell a choice of different winter and summer bar oils etc

Or this place  has 5  different viscosities.

Magnolia i think.

Has canker might of ring barked a branch hence blossom falling off etc.

If possible prune out all affected parts

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/apple-canker

School used to have a nit nurse who did all the infected kids in one go with a special comb & some foul smelling stuff

Solution using no chems just shave there hair off? 😉

They  white wash alot of trees in some countries  I assume against sunscald or pests or both.

I dunno how effective it is but doesn't seem to be harmful.

Loads of white washed trees in France & Greece etc both street trees and orchards.

Population increase but also...

The large number of second homes etc increases each yr

Also there are  less council houses available  every yr,  right to buy etc...

Homelessness increases....

Where will it end no idea but maybe gradually get more like USA where they have huge homeless shanty towns in some places.

No UK politcal party seem willing  to tackle the issue.

Get a few more quotes imo.

3rd tree looks like a silver birch?

Its what  happens naturally with pines  esp if shaded

If you like you could trim the dead branches off it won't regrow ever at the bottom

Im sure I remember Alice Roberts on telly on about stone ground flour  wearing teeth down

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And yet many teeth were worn down by medieval bread.  Starting in the eleventh and twelfth centuries,  most grain was ground by big millstones, powered either by wind or water.  These replaced the old hand mills, something closer to a mortar and pestle.

It would take one person essentially all day, doing nothing else, to grind enough grain into flour in a hand mill to make enough bread for a family for one day.  Back in Roman times, a slave or two would do the grinding.  With wind mills and water mills, however, unknown to the Romans, one could grind a 50-pound bag of wheat into a 50-pound bag of flour in fifteen minutes.  Not surprisingly, this technology spread very rapidly and was adopted nearly everywhere.

But mills grind grain by rotating two big millstones against each other, with the grain in between, and what emerges is both flour and stone dust.  The stone dust would be baked into bread along with the flour.  Stone dust passes through the digestive tract without any problem, but it first wears down the teeth, not a lot with each bite, but the effect builds up over time.

Archaeologists can tell when a particular community adopted mills and millstones by looking for wear on skeletons' teeth.

Made me wonder about the flour the local windmill sells?

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Llynnon Mill is the only working windmill in Wales producing stoneground wholemeal flour using organic wheat. Visit the Iron Age Roundhouses and the reconstructed Old Bakery and then take a stroll along the Mills Trail.