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Thank you from a British Soldier to a War on weeds
matelot replied to EnglishSheep's topic in General chat
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Tbh, I'd be very surprised if you got any money for a single pine... At the moment a tonne of top spruce sawlog is worth about thirty pounds...
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How many trees are you talking about? What type of pine are they? Are you sure they are not spruce? the growth rate indicates a spruce to me. tbh, if you are talking a few hundred spruce trees with massive side branches (because they were next to an open field) you might be disappointed...
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it looks like he is staring at your bum?
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Did you undertake trial holes? Perhaps you did and you were unlucky enough to have missed the pipeline? Have you photos that shows the depth was likely to have been 220mm at installation? tbh, I would probably play the "I'm very sorry but I undertook a cat scan and trial holes and nothings showed up, will you let me off this once?" game. HSE says this: "A gas service pipe should normally be laid with a minimum depth of cover of 375 mm in private ground and 450 mm in footpaths and highways." Pipelines: frequently asked questions - FAQs NG could still argue it was 375mm when the pipe was laid. I was working on a motorway where a contractor had to pay £400k for shutting the motorway down - all due to an unrecorded gas valve.
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It's funny how we're all different. I'd love a garden with a couple of rotting tree stumps, I think they look like pieces of sculpture. They are also good for insects.
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it looks like a wound that has been there for years? is there an actual hole? can you stick a pencil in?
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I wouldn't have any tree two foot from my house... Could you transplant it?
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I'd vote for a 1.5 tonne mini digger with concrete breaker. I've come across "expanding grout" at work, you drill a hole in concrete, pour this grout in and it slowly expands and breaks the concrete.
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The guy was clearly running at 26 seconds. An ideal worker! He'd be running back from the chipper.
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About ten years ago I went to Cambodia, one of the tourist things out there is firing guns. I fired an ak47, m60 and a m16. Seemingly there is one range where you can shoot a cow with a rocket propelled grenade.
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My brother used to work on a golf course. Some of my favourite memories are of going out at 2am in the morning in a golf cart with a rim fire for some lamping Nothing beats a bit of shooting. I love shooting grey squirrels
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Don't get me wrong, I think anyone that steals a workman's tools is absolute scum that deserves 20 years in a Siberian gulag. However, our society generally values human life over material possessions. That's why the police put more time into vehicle safety as opposed to stolen goods.
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how many acres are you talking about? what do you want to do with the land? if you want to turn it into woodland why not plant some trees and remove the bracken around the tree until they are above the bracken? you can also plant trees like beech which are shade tolerant. my dad owns about 25 acres of the thickest bracken you can imagine. cutting it down by hand is a fairly thankless task (and as others say it recolonizes). I'm planting trees on it and removing the bracken by scythe/pulling.
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amongst other things they caught 12 uninsured drivers & 14 vehicles with no MOT. I don't understand why the police are being criticised here....
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That was literally the best 31 minutes of my life!
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Is sewage sludge/cake used to make horticultural compost?
matelot replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
it was always my understanding that sewage sludge couldn't be used to fertilise fields used for food production due to heavy metals in the sludge. I wouldn't have thought they could put sludge in compost sold to the public. -
that would p1ss me off no end. if the guy is acting like that it's probably because he's not going to be working for them much longer...
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I use "CutePDF" I understand it's a free download. You press print and select "CutePDF" as a printer.
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A simple test to see if water comes from a sewerage system is to throw a stone into it. If there are bubbles it's likely to have some sewage in it (bubbles due to soaps etc). With the blocked pipe in my parents garden they had no idea it was there (they had been in the house for 40 years).
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I work in construction. All our PPE is yellow as it is more visible. To wear a high vis jacket in summer is torture - you sweat like a mad man. Best have a vest in the summer and jacket in the winter. We have special Velcro high vis vests. They rip apart if they catch on something (ie branch going into chipper). It's the type of thing H&S guys love to see on a risk assessment. If I was looking at a risk assessment I'd much prefer someone using a chainsaw had chainsaw trousers as opposed to high vis trousers.
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My parents had a really large puddle in their garden beneath a sycamore. It turned out there was a blocked pipe causing the puddle. Perhaps a pipe was damaged when the tree was taken down? You can buy "drain dye" to put in toilets/pipes to see where water goes to. I don't see why the roots of a tree would still be pumping water 6 months after the tree has been cut down...
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If you want to get technical look at the first two drawings in this document. This document says the trench width should be pipe diameter + 300mm http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/mchw/vol3/section1/f_series.pdf I've always assumed there are 2.2 tonnes of stone in a cubic metre of gravel. What do you actually want to drain? is it surface water or sub surface water? If it's sub surface water you don't need to have the stone to the top of the trench. If the area to drain is not that big I would use "waving coil".
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LOL, I'm sitting here in a yoga position with a cup of dandelion tea.
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When I was a kid of about 7 we were allowed to light fires in the garden and have a knife, but to give a toddler a machete is asking for the kid to be taken into care. is that Park Circus in your profile pic?
