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Are you saying these trees died of autism?

Both ideas with much greater mileage than the cone yoke. Cheers.

Makes life interesting, for sure. Keeps the groundies on their toes! Yeah, looks good. Out of stock with Douglas Forest and Garden now, I'm keeping it in reserve to pip me above the free postage minimum at some point in the future. I have the little stackable wedges from Notch, handy to have. If going the all natural route... I've carved a wedge at height from a branch stub a few times, them auld long-dead spruce limbs are surprisingly tough.

https://douglasforestandgarden.ie/products/jonko-cone-wedge

Thanks for that. Probably the same reason it's reduced from 65e to 50e!

Will do skip, thanks for the professional advice 👍

I'm imagining it purely for spruce and conny tops. Lots of those for me to do after Eowyn, people are scared! So that one that you had to get the rope up into after making your cuts... I wonder if that little cone could have fixed the problem instead of rope juggling. I'm sure we've all had a top or two like that, you think it'll go on it's own but then the wind shifts slightly or whatever... it might just be a good backup plan to have available. If you are doing a dozen tops, say, it might make the difference between tugging 6 of them with a rope instead of 9... depending on lean and wind. Djaknow? But I've never seen anyone on here raving about them, so maybe they are a dud, and I'll spend that 50 euro on chicken necks and hashish instead.

This is the official avocado husbandry thread as well.

Steven (if that is your real name... we've still not seen a scan of your passport or driver's licence as proof...), you are just so god-damned patient. Where did you get all that patience? You obviously have children.

There was a brief mention of this thing in a thread a while ago, but no discussion. I was wondering if anyone had any strong opinions either way to share on it. "No more dragging and hitting with heavy hammers! Jonko cone wedge especially designed to use in a tree and to fell small to medium size trees with a slight overhang. Due to one year of field testing different prototypes and different threads we managed to design a good functioning cone wedge. Jonko is the result and can therefore be used in a broad range of applications." Seems like it'd be handy for knocking the tops of spruce and cypress that aren't quite leany enough to use a rope and a groundie... or for overcoming a little bit of a breeze coming from the wrong direction, but not much... I think there's a narrow band between getting a rope out and not needing one in which this would be a useful tool. But is that band too narrow for this to be worthwhile? (It's reduced from 65 to 50euro at the moment, I'm just debating whether or not to drop it in the basket!)

You know what? Fair f*cking play to them. Hope they get rich. I'm going to start offering stumps too.

I don't think so, no, but if they'd brought themselves over 10,000 years ago instead... yes. So there must be a cut-off point somewhere on that timeline, for me anyway. How long does it take for a species to become naturalised? Of course, Irish and British flora, fauna, and feather are so similar anyway, does it really matter? Can magpies here be thought of as invasive when the same species have to deal with them just on the other side of the Irish sea? Big questions that I don't feel particularly equipped to deal with at the moment.