Mick Dempsey
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Gets there in the end. Two more days of this! You can see the emptied lake on the right.
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Awkward bit of jiggery-pokery to load it.
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Couple more of the oak/ash blitz on the damaged dam. Got the timber lorry in to get some sticks away. Had to use a chain to get them near enough to the grab.
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Regrows almost before your eyes, doubt if it has any calorific value. Edit: apparently it does, I wouldn't bother with it though.
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Interesting technique paddy.
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I spent some time in co. Wexford recently and saw loads of biggish, crappy wind blown Maccys like that, was there some sort of fashion for them in the 70s?
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By "scotch" I meant disprove, ensure that no inference of this is on his employment record.Scotch | Define Scotch at Dictionary.com
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Yes, scotch that then on your bike.
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I got to a minute, did anything happen later?
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Garden sheds, garden sheds everywhere!
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Yew damaged by leylandi
Mick Dempsey replied to Chapelboy's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
IMO no, the removal of the Lawson will benefit the yew enough. -
Sure, more pics tomorrow.
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They seem to fall a lot, often staying heathy afterwards and producing lots of nuts. Those aren't good pics but I'd bet that within a couple of years that ones is on its way over.
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Yew damaged by leylandi
Mick Dempsey replied to Chapelboy's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Not that it matters but I think that's a Lawson cypress as opposed to a leylandii, plus that sort of yew is commonly known as an Irish yew, again, not that it matters! IME the yew will regenerate, but slowly. Worth doing though. -
Winching them up the slope to within reach of the grab lorry.
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Quint getting all Duane Dethleth.
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Pita job Steve. Getting a bit more destructive today, getting rid of the line of oaks and ash from this dam. On the right you can see the emptied lake, the trees had compromised the dam resulting in all the water disappearing, so they all have to go. All leaning the wrong way so have to be felled behind into a 5 mtr drop. Tractor winch stuff. Plus a bit of pulling the cable over fallen trees a la Axe Men.
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Good question, I think it's that point in the job when you know for sure you can get it done in the time allotted. Maybe mid afternoon, trunk ringed up and off site, I'll be doing a chip run whilst the others are doing the final rake, and I'm looking forward to a stolen hour dozing on the sofa before washing up the mugs and looking busy as the wife pulls up the drive. Plus a nice cheque stuck on the fridge door with a magnet....bliss
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The very same, I've just seen the vid for the first time, Ronnie did have a point about the moped rider being in the middle of the road when turning right.
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Maybe not, but I am Ronnie Pickering.
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Winch.
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We were due to start an interesting job clearing some mature oaks off a dam that has sprung a leak. I had brought in a forestry contractor to help with his big Ford winch tractor. It had been sitting around for a while and the clutch wasn't working so he had to call a guy and split it. Job will start Wednesday now hopefully, will provide pics, it should be Armageddon. Sorry for the poor picture of the winch.
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I just can't get my head around the whole "work unpaid to show how good you are" I've had many many blokes brashratting etc for me over the years, I would never ask anyone to work for no pay, and I'm a capitalist pig. It's not marine biology or an internship at The Whitehouse, it's dragging and chipping. 50 quid in your hand maybe but unpaid?
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Fair enough, what machine are you going to use?
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My thoughts exactly. Poison it and come back in ten years.
