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  1. Paul in the woods
    I just replaced the seal on the flue blanking plate and it uses a gasket sold by the manufacturer to seal it or the flue. The gasket is some sort of glass fibre material so it might be worth checking the instructions for your stove.
  2. Paul in the woods
    Round here its the councils that fly tip. As for the original post surely it's a matter of what's burnt? Dry, seasoned wood or smokeless coal is fine but someone burning plastic, wet wood and god knows what perhaps not?
  3. Paul in the woods
    Looks like Hen of the Woods, Grifola frondosa.
  4. Paul in the woods
    Apologies if this is a stupid question, but can you not get your own fault code reader for the EFI engine or would they not show up the faults?
  5. Paul in the woods
    Which had a tendency to catch fire I gather. Easier to diagnose that a dodgy ECU but a bit more serious.
  6. Paul in the woods
    And any dried leaves will smell of toffee.
  7. Paul in the woods
    Have you picked off some of the white bits and looked to see if anything is inside? They might be wooly aphid.
  8. Paul in the woods
    I gather there are a couple of problems, at least things to be aware of, so worth reading through the licencing material. Don't trap or harm natives, don't release live invasive crays and don't use an illegal trap, i.e. one that may trap and kill other wildlife such as otters. (Same thing goes for catching sea crabs and lobsters, many traps sold are not legal and risk killing other wildlife).
  9. Paul in the woods
    Isn't this a problem with the council? Why did they grant planning so close to the tree and why wasn't the tree TPOed at the time of planning? You could door knock to see if anyone saw the people working on the tree but even though everyone will no doubt say they love trees they may not love that one.
  10. Paul in the woods
    Have the gills been pulled free when the piece of cap was torn off?
  11. Paul in the woods
    Depending on where you are in Devon the beavers will coppice it for you... When I've coppiced alder it produces multiple stems but after a couple of years it seems to thin itself and only a few dominant stems prevail. At least the deer don't like it. I like burning alder, and it dries quickly, but it also burns quickly so some don't like it as a firewood. Good for cooking over as it produces a flavoursome smoke.
  12. Paul in the woods
    This is worth a read: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/managing-ash-dieback-in-england Thats for England.
  13. Paul in the woods
    JKN will grow from the tiniest shoot so it would not make sense to sell it 'live'. If you forage it you should also take care, I'm not sure if there are even legal implications of bring some home for the pot in the uk. It does make a good wine I'm told, as you say like rhubarb. If you eat it you might wish to also be careful with its oxalic acid content. https://pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?LatinName=Polygonum+japonicum
  14. Paul in the woods
    Part of a staple diet. Actually, looks a bit like a Count Spuduler.
  15. Paul in the woods
    ... and macaroon biscuits only use the whites.
  16. Paul in the woods
    Click the 'follow' icon at the top right of your first post. Looking at the tree damage, is it not just wind damage? Round here we've had a fair bit of wind damage recently.
  17. Paul in the woods
    Free. Timber wise, possibly hazel.
  18. Paul in the woods
    Wood cut, split and stacked before we get our usual month or so sunny, dry and windy spring weather.(Guaranteed if youve planted loads of bare root trees). We also tend to get a month of dry sunny weather in September and then I cover the logs. A woodshed is on the to do list.
  19. Paul in the woods
    Yep, although to speed things up I stack single rows of logs as I'm only seasoning my own wood. Don't forget if youre using a cheapie moisture meter chances are it'll be reading dry basis so you want it under 25%.
  20. Paul in the woods
    If it was me I'd be tempted to try drilling and plugging with mushroom spawn. Although best done when freshly cut.
  21. Paul in the woods
    Would you not summer prune that at all, and if not can you explain why? I know you can summer prune trained apple trees but I have wondered if you could summer prune an old tree like the above.
  22. Paul in the woods
    Native hornets are great. We get them around here, queens often come into the house in spring and often get them nesting in our woodland. Apart from size the noise is very distinctive. I've never been stung by them and I gather they are far less likely to sting than wasps.I Not found a single wasp nest about our place so far this year and I normally find a few.
  23. Paul in the woods
    If you strim a nest or near one there's enough about at this time of year to go for you. But yes, you tend to see the bored workers searching out sweet stuff much later in the season. This is what I was alluding to, when I inspect my bees you sometimes have a wasp or two go in the hives after the honey. I don't recall many at all last year but already I've seen far more this year than last. It could be the dry weather down here, until the rain in the last week several things seem to have given up as there hasn't been to food for them. Blackbirds for example seem to have struggled finding worms. Sounds like it varies from place to place.
  24. Paul in the woods
    Are you Ireland at all? An image search throws up several very similar stoves such as: https://www.heatdesign.ie/product/firewarm-freestanding-stove/ and https://dgstovesfireplaces.ie/product/firewarm-freestanding-boiler-stove/ If that doesn't help try taking a better picture and searching for it on google images or google lens.
  25. Paul in the woods
    As a bee keeper I can only comment on bees. I get stung quite often and head stings do seem far more painful that say hands, arms or legs. Bees actually seem more attracted to dark colours than light, so will home in on the black of a logo opposed to yellow. You can get desensitised to bee stings so it might be worth looking into something for wasps if you are likely to get stung again. One thing I have noticed this year is more wasps about than previous years.

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