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Haironyourchest

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  1. Stihl Autocut 46-2 tap-n-go head. There is no argument here. Get a tap-n-go head. You won't have to stop to change the cord. You won't have to cut the cord. Your cord will always be exactly the right length, or nearly so.
  2. An elderly client dropped by to my house yesterday to pay me and chat, as she often does. She got out of her car, mask in hand but didn't put it on. Clutched that mask for twenty minutes, like a magical talisman! Nowt so quare as folk....
  3. Bolam's on fire this evening.
  4. Jaysus... (shudder)
  5. It's quite expensive getting set up for climbing. Then you have to get all your gear checked twice a year, which costs (if you want to be compliant, for insurance etc).
  6. Ireland for the win!
  7. This it it. Healthy canopy, not much light for the ivy, and not much water either, in the dry spells, as the tree will out compete it. If the tree is poorly, the ivy will have a larger share of water, nutrients and light. At some point, the balance will shift in the ivy's favor. So it's fine, it essentially hastens the demise of genetically or otherwise sub-par trees, and also replaces them as habitat. Probably helps them rot quicker too.
  8. The reality of felling and crosscutting twice the bar length is a bit different. If your chain is filed slightly off par, or bat rails unevenly worn, and you're cutting tends to "curve" then your cuts don't line up and it's a serious pain to separate the rounds. The bigger the diameter the more hassle it becomes. Everything has got to be bang on, which is hard even with a new bar and chain setup. If you can easily rotate the log, or work around a standing stem, its a bit better. But a bar a tad longer than the diameter of the tree is by far the most forgiving.
  9. Cyclone flex rods, dill powered. Can sweep from inside. Bit of a hassle to set up but easier and safer than messing around with roof ladders and risk breaking slates etc .
  10. Golf this Sunday, he'll be telling his retired professor pals how beastly we were.
  11. It's delicious. The young shoots. I've had a knotweed version of rhubarb fool a few times, and in a crumble. Very much like rhubarb in flavor, but nicer, less tart.
  12. See my commentary for explanation. It's an open secret in Ukraine apparently, his whole inner circle of ex-entertainment people are cokeheads. See, the meme conflates Z with Scarface, getting high in his office while the feds close in, his final hours, in other words (here I am, explaining the joke, jeez).... The video, popular on alternative media, originated from Z's own Twitter or something channel. Made by himself, of himself, out of his gourd.
  13. A little home brew head-swap with the photoshop phone app. There's a selfie video doing the rounds of himself langered in his office, rambling, under the influence of something, with what looks very much like lines of coke on the desk.
  14. Wifey got a chuckle out of it. She's quite enjoyed bits of this thread I've read aloud to her.
  15. Something along these lines. Just spitballing....
  16. The only way to purge the scourge from Albion's shores is mobilize the general population. Get everyone and their uncle out there, cutting three inch sections out of ivy stems with wee saws. Make the swiss army knife with the wee saw out the symbol of the campaign. Encourage people to get compulsive about it. "See something - sever something". Get the greenies on board and agitate for a high profile media stunt - motorway glueing etc. I'll get to work on a graphic for the campaign and a slogan.
  17. Goats love ivy. My pal who I used to help out a lot, with tree stuff, has pet goats. Any time a bit of ivy was involved, we had to save it and bring it home for his goats, in the trailer, or tied on the back of his pickup.

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