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Who'd like to share their opinion on aesthetics? Colour of canopy versus colour of vehicle. Has to match 100%? Black or dark grey canopy on what colour body? White canopy on what colour body? What would you accept, what would you think is a crime against motoring? Predictably enough, this is an ongoing point of discussion between my wife and I, and I'd like to know exactly how misguided I am.

Eee, there's some forward thinking for you. Great plan. I intend to do this until about 45 then start growing drugs.

By God, I hope she's black. Or Asian. Or trans. Or all three. Edit: And in the interests of diversity, et cetera, and inclusion, I hope at least half of the dwarfs are taller than the national average. Edit2: just changed the plural of dwarf to the approved Tolkeinesque.

You should always be aware of what the weakest link in the system is, of course, but when you've got 6 ton strops joined by 6 ton shackles... in this specific scenario I'd say the hung-up twigs are probably the weakest link.

Endless strops shackled together. I've pulled down a few trees of similar size in recent months with six or seven loops linked together.

Morning all. Set to be blue skies here today. I'm off for a stroll around a farmer's land, blocking up an ash, two sycamore, and an oak, fallen since Eowyn. Easy day, hopefully.

I bet you'd be gamey and delicious.

It'd be like a dog eating a bee...

Djaknow how when you get a thorn in the knuckle you basically turn into a cloven-hooved beast of the field? I was chatting to a homeowner on teabreak just a couple of weeks ago (two day leylandii hedge removal pictured below, 36m³ chip; we were given tea, scones, fruit cake, apple pie with cream... bloody lovely customers), who shoots a bit of venison. Now, he was told, by some fella at some point in history, that if you take a beef roasting joint and stud it with blackthorns, in the same way that you'd stud a Christmas ham with cloves, then it pretty much turns it into venison. Ultra-traditional recipe, apparently. It's an intriguing idea which, let's be honest, sounds like total bollocks. But I wonder if whatever substance that causes the reaction to a blackthorn prick might tenderise your meat in some way... We don't eat much beef, but I'm tempted to give it a go at some point.

Oi, back on topic please you lot.

Took a few low limbs and broken branches from a beautiful big macrocarpa, and a load of deadwood from a corsican pine, overhanging someone's lane; then spent about 7 minutes rounding off a tiny little birch in the middle of town; the we had an hour or so to kill before the rain started, so we blocked up a trailerful of an Eowyn sycamore (stem off to the left there)... glad it wasn't my saw that found and powered through this buried nail, from a piece a good 15 feet up in the tree! The homeowner later confirmed that there was indeed a treehouse up there in the past, a few decades ago...