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    All the young ones are at tree planting.
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    Personally I find "should" can be a trigger or underlying cause of depression. The burden of "duties not done" can really wear down one's satisfaction with oneself and life.... One strategy that works for me is to not give a ****************. Literally, just look at the falling apart shed or whatever, and stop caring (don't do this with motor vehicles in current use). Interested to hear if you ever try the mushroom therapy, what the results are. I heard if you get down on your hands and knees and graze the mushrooms direct from the ground, without "picking" them, then they're not illegal. Maybe try one mushroom for starters and see what happens.... I've experimented with them in my youth, a few times.. no interest anymore though. Nothing to be afraid of, if you go easy.
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    They should catch the male deer and squirrels and give them vasectomies.
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    We did that once. Mixture of peat moss and horse manure, in bags, with salt on top. Raked it into the lawn... Few months later the lawn was growing huge breakfast mushrooms. Grew them for a couple of years before they died out.
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    Just had a feed of shiitake mushrooms. Really nice. There's a story behind them.... A few years back some neighbors got into mushroom farming on a small commercial scale. I did some work for said neighbors, lopped some branches off an oak, and they kept the branch logs for growing mushrooms. Mycelium pegs etc. The were growing oysters mostly, indoors on loose substrate, but wanted to try log piles as well.... Anyway, the mushroom business eventually folded due to outside factors. I was there today, helping to move some furniture, and was given some shiitakes from the log stack. They were still fruiting several years later.... Just wondering if anyone here grows for themselves? As tree people we are in uniquely good position to aquire fresh oak logs, which is apparently what you need for shiitake. Fresher the better, they say you should inoculate the logs the same day they are cut from the tree.
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    What if you shake the container before use? Does that mix the additives back in suspension?
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    Missed that. Yeah, at one gallon a year Aspen is the way to go, no question. Even three gallons a year. Cheap insurance.
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    Cos it's three times the price.
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    A few months isn't gonna make a difference. Stabilizer is for stuff that sits for a year or so, I think like boats. Just would be nice to have it built in as insurance.
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    Well that sucks! I just bought 5lt of ultra. Gonna have to buy separate stabilizer now. Although I never used stabilizer before and not had any problems. Checked the JASO ratings, C (Ultra) is the same lubricity as B (Super) but produces more smoke. Weird. I wonder if it's because Ultra has a caster oil base, which would allow it to biodegrade and Super is a mineral oil base? "Synthetic" defines the additive package, I gather, rather than the base. So could a "fully synthetic" oil be a plant based base, like castor? I was told castor oil has yet to be beaten for lubricity by anything man made.
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    This says Ultra has stabilizer
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    @Bowlam - wakey wakey matey, upstarts are encroaching on your territory.
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    Sometimes these things happen for a reason. If you hadn't been let go, maybe an accident might have befell you inna few weeks. We just never know, and the universe works in mysterious ways. Synchronicity and all that. Could be for the best...
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    Back to the original post - Does weathering affect the integrity of a climb line? Here's the video of the break test of 19 year old rope. He starts with a piece of relatively new rope, and the old rope and the history of it, behind at about the 50 second mark. It was hanging in a rainforest canopy for 17 years, then in storage for 2 years. He breaks it in different configurations. 17 years in a rainforest canopy vs 17 years in the desert sun is obviously apples vs bananas. But one would assume a UK canopy in winter wouldn't be much more UV than a rainforest canopy. Whether we believe this guy is another matter. Personally I see nothing in his chanel that would make me doubt his honesty.
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    Be careful! Steve does Muay Thai... I heard back in the day, they called him "Raging Bull-Man"😳 Sorry, my little joke a bit late to the party.... With regard to ropes in trees, there a YouTube vid of a guy doing a break test on a polyester clime line that was stuck in a tree for 19 YEARS. It failed at just under it's rated brand new strength.
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    A family member has a 5.5hp petrol one, Jensen I think. It's fast on straight grained stuff. Not so hot on knotty. He rates it highly, personally I can't, as never tried it. Vertical electric hydraulic for me. Cheap, reliable. Slow, but there are ways to offset that. Use a wide wedge, build a bigger deck, modify the handles.
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    This one really annoys me. And it's always the uber-greenies. People who petition against roadside hedge cutting, burning, etc. But when it comes to their own hedges, the birds can go do one.
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    There should be one in the back pages of the instruction manual that came with your saw. If your manual is gone, google (name of model of saw + user manual) and it will be there as a free pdf...
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    I read BJ promises to sack 90 thousand civil service drones...
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    Weirdly, this is actually true. Our bodies do produce endogenous ethanol. At any time, the average adult contains around the equivalent of a shot of spirits, diluted in their fluid (we are 70% water or something)... People who eat a lot of starch contain more alcohol. There's a rare condition that makes sufferers be affected by this natural alcohol and can become impared, through no fault of their own. These people have to carefully limit their starch and sugar intake.
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    American Family Planning organisation was set up by a white supremacist ungenicist to keep the black population under control. That was their stated goal, back in the day. More black babies are aborted then born, these days.
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    Roe v Wade was terribly bad law. It was based on a lie. Jane Roe confessed later in life that she lied, and felt bad about it. High time it was scrapped.
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    Definitely?

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