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Stere

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  1. Got stihl dynamic BEAVER EXTREME 😏 ones and they are good v brambles DYNAMIC trousers - With Design A / Class 1 protection and improved sizing WWW.STIHL.CO.UK Work trousers with certified cut resistance to BS EN 381-5, Design A. Preformed, double reinforced knee areas. Trouser...
  2. Not true for most expensive boots nowadays. 😏 Have a pair of theese Gronell D-678 steel toe work boots that have lasted ages though:
  3. I noticed I got more juice from the press when the apples were put through an electric scratter rather than a manual one as it seemed to pulp them finer.
  4. My personal opinions/local observations (non scientific): Ivy has increased abit overall. I think a mild winters have favoured ivy and also proabaly are less people removing it from trees. Also think some host ivy colonized trees might be weakened due to combination erratic climate, summer droughts etc and new tree diseases. You see ivy higher up on crown/trunk unions on, healthy ash, larch birch, any tree sp the cast less dense shade than say others like sycamore beech etc, theese don't favour ivy as much. Taken to the extreme, rarely seen it flowering in a holly or yew crown. Also more ivy on on single isolated trees, or trees with narrower crowns that cover less area. So its all due to light lvls... Ivy can cover the crowns of any tree if they are in poor health/decline...(as the light lvls increase due to a thinning crown) An increase of the amount of ivy in the unmanaged hedgerow tree crowns(more light than in woodlands), esp on ash (adb) & hawthorn/blackthorn trees. . Alot of hawthorn tree crowns, do seem to get covered with ivy then the trees fall/blow over. Some trees are still alive and some are dead when they blow/fall over... Unsure if death of theese hawthorn is due to the ivy or other reasons as if trees were 100% healthy doubt would ivy manage to cover and shade out the crowns? Also has noticed an increase of ivy in flailed hedges. Flailing annually to the same "knuckle" seems to weakens the hedges vigour and thus favours ivy. Cutting on say a 3 yr cycle instead would allow the hedge to shade out the ivy more imo. Ivy doesn't as often claimed doesn't throttle/girdle a tree like honeysuckle can, or tree guards left on do, though maybe in rare circumstances this could happen? Negative impacts on the "host" tree are only due to either: Competition for light. The increased wind sail effect.
  5. Previous one was sacked by boris for supposedly not tackling racists.
  6. Tree isn't too close to the house surely 😐 Its a tiny tree and 7 metres isn't wht I'd call close.
  7. Anyone watch the Ed stafford prog 60 days witht gypsys... They all had seemed to have chippers, at each camp he visited, was one in the back ground...
  8. But christian centric.... Nice to have a day that quiet though
  9. You could just get an EA4300FRDB makita as basically a very similar spec saw? Or that new echo CS-4310SX, chain saws | ECHO | ECHO WWW.ECHOTOOLS.COM The ECHO CS-4310SX is a mid sized, professional chain saw with the best power to weight ration in its class.
  10. Stere

    Arthritis

    Remember Alice Roberts on telly is always looking at skeletons and saying can tell they did certain manual jobs from the distinctive way it f**ked up bones. 😐
  11. Stere

    Pricing

    Read through the the old threads: pricing+arbtalk+site:arbtalk.co.uk - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM Might be useful....
  12. I tried a combi no spill spout on the green can same as the one above as an upgrade. It didn't fit has a different thread.
  13. K-Pegs - My WordPress EXQUISITESCOTLAND.COM Stainless steel clothes pegs with a lifetime guarantee Avoid the frustrations of plastic and wooden clothes pegs that... Here.
  14. Another useful thing modern houses don't have is a cool larder/pantry to keep food veg/fruit fresh longer. Know someone who build one into there house a walk in cuboard ventilated to the outside well insulated walls, & an insulated door from it to the rest of the house. Thought it was a great version of an old idea.
  15. I was annoying a the poor quality of washng line pegs that only last less than a yr got some SS ones that will last virtually forever
  16. Bike powered electricity generators are not sustainable WWW.LOWTECHMAGAZINE.COM Pedaling a modern stationary bicycle to produce electricity might be a great work-out, but in many cases, it is not... One way to solve the large energy losses of pedal power generators is not to produce electricity at all but power devices mechanically, whenever possible. Pedal powered water pumps, threshers, blenders, tile makers and more WWW.MAYAPEDAL.ORG Maya Pedal is a Guatemalan NGO based in San Andreas Itzapa. We accept bikes donated from the USA and Canada...
  17. Cupressus nootkatensis
  18. Tom Clancy fan? Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/fee.2266 Like the word “lianification”
  19. They recommeded celox on EFAW + F as the MOD use it... & thoose israeli bandages stretch tourniquets things
  20. Interesting never seen that.... Even spiral hazel girdled by honesuckle usually survives? Yet ivy doesn't seem to girdle hazel like honeysuckle does? Willow plus honeysuckle....
  21. Any guess-timate calcs of how the payback time of a PV system with the addtional battery storage compares to the same one without? Ecomony 7 also could charge battery?
  22. Wonder if being right/left handled might of over time of favoured filing one side more than the other?
  23. Stere

    Regional styles.

    Geology of Britain viewer | British Geological Survey (BGS) MAPAPPS.BGS.AC.UK Just looked up this map the limestone matches well where most hazel grows here.
  24. Stere

    Regional styles.

    Locally in N Wales alot of the hazel is on limestone think N Yorks/ cumbria has alot of limestone....

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