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Just dig it oiut with a spade, pinch bar, pick and axe -removed many an elm stump that way back in the '80s! May take a day, and not fun in the winter, but a good work out.

But the car still has a value now even with a fubarred engine?

As the rest of the car has already done 100k I'd let it go and put your money into something a little fresher.

It still made a good point though! Back on thread, up here it is not uncommon to drive through the forests past stacks of harvested timber which are literally years old. Most of these are the remnants of a previously larger pile which the wagons could not be bothered to collect as a part load. Bad news for the harvesters as they are often sold on to the general public for firewood.

Nope, I think Rosey has just bu**ered up the third page by making a point to Vespasian and TCD

Possibly one of the most famous trees in the world has bitten the dust: Pioneer Cabin Tree in California felled by storms - BBC News Wouldn't like to have to clear that one up

We have a mixture of approx 30-35 Douglas Fir, spruce and larch down the side of our garden - all mature trees, some over 80' tall and up to a metre dbh. The whole strip is used as a daily commute by a mixture of deer - predominantly reds but also some sikas. What with the red squirrels it can look like a scene out of Bambi or Snow White at times I've noticed in recent months that there are some decent sized hemlocks that have self seeded - all from a couple of specimens located at the southerly end of the strip. I've had to cut back the lower branches on the mature hemlocks for access etc, but there was no sign of grazing on the branches that we removed. Not sure how much this helps you, just an observation. It may well be that the deer are spoilt for choice and are moving through to a more tasty meal....

It'll depend hugely on ground conditions, whether or not the second plantings have been mounded and the volume of the dose. A (very) long time ago I used to do this at weekends with three pals on second plantings here in Argyll (I think against pine weevils). We'd carry 50l tanks on our backs and had to wear taped up pvc suits, wellies and full head protection etc. The 'spray' was actually a sheep dosing gun which was bl**dy hard work on the forearm and hand after a few hours. Typically we would do 10-12 tanks a day (each) when the plantings were buried in the brash, but could manage more than 15 tanks a day if they were mounded. Very hard work, but good money and I've never been as fit!

Can't help but think that if you plant the trees downslope of the garden area as your initial post suggests, then the nutrients will leach down the slope anyhow without the roots having to 'grow uphill' as you seem to fear. The moisture will certainly head in that direction unless physically prevented from doing so.

Surely just a Stihl bar cover on?

Only Fools and Horses gets my vote, followed closely by Porridge

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Love the fact he gets his man in to tap the wedges in for him!

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Just to pick upon the threads of a couple of days ago relating to the use of cordwood and cords etc. Yesterday we visited friends in Herefordshire who live in a house on the banks of the Wye. Their house is next to the site of a sawmill which has been in existence for more than two centuries. In their front hall they have an old school desk on which was placed one of the original sales ledgers - this one started in 1813! - a real thing of beauty with full copperplate script etc One of the very first entries was for '20 cords of cordwood', a term which regularly appeared throughout the rest of the ledger. Other uses included '61' of birch cordwood' (why 61? - I have no idea!) and 'x' cords of 'y' timber. My own understanding is that cordwood is roundwood which is not for milling, and that a cord is a volumetric measurement of this. The ledger contains repeated entries which confirm this interpretation, indicating that neither term is particularly modern!

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