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ARS japanese stuff is very good quality I have a shorter version of this: ARS Telescopic Pruner - Niwaki WWW.NIWAKI.COM Telescopic secateurs for getting at those out-of-reach branches. Light weight aluminium arm easily adjusts from 6'... But for thicker stuff - loppers diameter etc- I use the wolf garten string pulley pole one ... Also a tripod ladder to use the pole pruner from if you don't already have...

Never understood the sense of charging £300 or whatever for the BS booklets etc. Hardly encourges best practice?

Any info on the new cordless X series DCS-3500 v the DCS-1600 you mention above

ms180 is very gutless even with a 13" bar esp is crosscutting any larger logs. If hes only going to be using it for cutting up firewood logs at home with mains nearby a 2kw corded saw would be a better buy.

Makita EA4300F38C 43cc Petrol Chainsaw (38cm) WWW.FASTFIX.CO.UK The Makita EA4300F38C chainsaw features a 43cc 2-stroke engine that provides 3hp and is ideal for landscapers and... £100 over but worth the extra.

Thought you could just divide the cordwoods delivery load total weight by how many cages you have filled when its all processed.

Any decent new biodegradable mulch mats/ tree spats yet? I see they sell jute ones but they are expensive. Farmers getting nothing atm for wool always think felt mats would be good? Mattock is good for small bare root whips.

What is the weight in each cage approx?

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Nature is dynamic always changing Thats a mistake alot consevationist practice makes imo always trying to artificially hold landscapes in stasis.

Does alot mean 10 or 1000?

You can set then to do that but its optional There is even a a choice of several different beepy "tunes" 🙂 Never noticed the fan being that particularly noisy but not compared then other chargers etc.

Not heard anything about there batteries tech being behind/worse got any info on that? Theres is a digital display diagnostic gizmo availabe to test them not sure why it has to £250 quid expensive...... Seem easy to use from watching a youtube video Something dealers should have (or maybe they do have) for the expensive stihl & husky batteries?

Agree with alot of stuff above but..... I don't think thats so much the case with makita as once you buy into there battery range you only will bin individial "bare tools" if they break and can't be repaired or the repair is too pricey to be worth it..... Makita 18v 5 amp batteries are only £65 (were £50) . . Off brand ones cheaper. Are cordless generally any harder to fix than petrol? Why should the parts be more expensive than petrol if the retail price is similar? When ther bearing went on the makita cordless trimmer there was a full parts list available from online sellers and it was a cheap fix a standard sized bearing. Granted some other of the brushless motor parts listed were alot more pricey..... Parts are always often way over priced V new for both petrol and cordless, better buy 2 or multiple of everything strip the parts or get the non runners off ebay etc for any spares. 😏 All thoose binned ones should be kept & harvested for parts like scrapped cars rather than just binned. If there is an increase the enviro issue of a throw away culture, its mainly the companies policy and dealers networks responsibility as they should have schemes to encourage the reuse of "reconditioned" parts from the old machines & all new product designed with ease of servicing in mind.... ?

I put several tonnes of fresh woodchip and alot of grass mowings mixed in mulching over 6inch at the base of raspberries in a approx 10m2 plot it has all completely dissapeared into the soil after 1-2 years.

UK has the 40v makita chainsaws etc in now... Toppers 1.4kw and rear handle 1.6kw

What is that tarmac yard going to be looks like a carpark?

BPS is supposedly being scrapped for some new enviro sub scheme ELMS. Maybe tate & lyle won't get 600 million a year in future? United Kingdom | FarmSubsidy.org FARMSUBSIDY.ORG FarmSubsidy shows who gets subsidies under the European Common Agricultural Policy

Also black polypots are cheap Polythene plant pots by Hadopots WWW.HADOPOTSONLINE.CO.UK Polythene plant pots for growing vegetables, fruit and shrubs, made from recycled polythene. New oxo-biodegradable...

I had a small tree nusery yrs ago similar amount of trees approx 1000 at most mostly oaks grown as a "hobby". In the end just gave them away hardly managed to sell many... Time taken to profit there was was no money in it. Was more of a good deed thing thinking some of thoose tree got planted and will be prospering etc. I think you have to be industrial sized to make any money as most tree nusery grow on a industrial scale with 100,000 of trees etc? How about carboots sales?

Can't see shooting trapping greys doing much help longterm as they just move back from surrounding areas. Its like a bigger version of thoose seabird roost islands that have rats. The only way its to get every last one otherwise its a waste of effort .....back to square one...... Isle of wight greys are locally kept extinct etc. Like in Day of the triffids they stop any getting over...... As many other animals have being hunted to extinction historically is that not possible for greys with a one off big effort? A one-off large cost for longterm savings? Suppose it would be alot harder for a fast breeding numerous species than it was for others.... The NZ policy is: “Our ambition is that by 2050 every single part of New Zealand will be completely free of rats, stoats and possums,”

£3000 plus for one tree? Pull the other one.....

Re-introduce pine martens.....though they may evole to deal with them.... The lack of anti-predator behavioural response in the invasive grey squirrel to the native predator, the pine marten, may only be temporary. While prey species typically develop anti-predator responses through coevolution with predators, prey facing strong selection pressures can develop anti-predator behaviours within a single generation e.g. moose (Alces alces) developing hyper-vigilance in response to wolves (Canis lupus) [60], or within a few generations e.g. ring-tailed possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) responding to olfactory cues of alien red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) [19]. However, the development of effective anti-predator responses is not guaranteed, and many naive species have become extinct due to introduction of novel predators prior to the development of effective anti- predator responses [6,19]. Thus, the long-term lack of behavioural response observed in grey squirrels to pine marten remains equivocal. https://pinemarten.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Twining-et-al_2020.pdf

Its just asexual. clonal vegetative propagation its what some plants do. Theres an aspen tree in the USA thats suppose to be the largest living plant on the world Pando (tree) - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG In 10,000 yrs maybe you will have a massive cherry forest. Yes But I wouldn't bother taking any futher action.

Grey squirrel damage maybe combined with drought.