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Morning everyone. First day off since time began (feels like it, anyway) and I have to wear a bloody suit to a bloody wedding instead of pottering around in the garden in my wellies. The catering had better be good or I'll not be impressed. Have fun, team.
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I wonder if we could steer conversation away from anarchist tapeworms briefly and back towards openable rings. The steel edelrid cupid has an external diameter of 70mm. Does anyone know of an openable steel ring that is smaller? I'm trying to cobble together an adjustable cambium saver with all replaceable bits, using bought sewn or spliced eyes or closed loops. In the style of this: The Petzl Ring Open is smaller I think, but aluminium. Which I'd cope with, but I'd prefer steel. Any ideas?
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MOTHER: Attention. Engines will overload in three minutes, twenty seconds. Attention. Engines will overload In three minutes. RIPLEY: Mother, I've turned all the cooling units back on. MOTHER: Installing updates 3 of 10, time remaining 35 minutes. The core has begun to melt. Engines will overload in two minutes, thirty-five seconds.
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Hang on, I can maths that. Give me a minute. 2oz per litre.
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There's a lot to be said for that. Edit: the jack of most trades part that is, not the pissing everyone off bit. That's only useful occasionally. Edit Two: I was born in the wagon of a travelling show... ...my momma used to dance for the money they'd throw.
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Don't worry comrade, it's been a long week.
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I flipping love goat willow. So versatile. Left alone for long enough they can grow into a pretty sturdy single-stem tree, you get straight-enough poles for the garden from coppice, it thickens up quick enough for a rotation of easy to process firewood, the skinny stuff chips so easily in summer for a high-nitrogen woodchip mulch that rots away into the soil in no time... ...and on top of all that they are a great provider of early season forage for pollinators, and the cracks left in twisted and half-broken stems can make a brilliant habitat for bats.
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I had to look up what "on the change" meant, that's a handy expression to have tucked away!
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How many years would you get out of an untreated leylandii 2x4 or 2x6 do you think? Edit: Best raised beds I've found are spruce offcuts from the pile at the forestry gate. 5 years in now, still going strong!
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I f*cking hate goldfinches! Is there some kind of spray or tweezing device I can use to get rid of them?
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Best treatment for them is to close your eyes, turn around, walk back inside and find something more significant to hate.
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Oh, don't encourage him. It's best if he just doesn't use them at all.
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Nice weather for it.
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Like I say, tiiiiny little thing. But it's still a genuine request. What's the point of having an ignore feature if it isn't fit for purpose?
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Staged replacement would be a great suggestion. Doubtful many customers would go for it, but it's clearly the winning solution here. I did three separate jobs today on my regular subbing for another fella, an unnecessarily-aggressive beech reduction that I suppose, technically, you could call a topping that I'm actually fairly happy with, a butchered birch "back to previous cutting points" that I'll just try and forget, and an old-school topping of another birch that should've never happened. Poor thing. Not my circus, not my monkeys, but my wallet is heavier than when I left the house this morning. Would I have done the same work flying under my own flag though? The middle birch, sure, it was someone else's mess to begin with... but probably not the beech or the other birch. There isn’t much point to this paragraph, so I'll end it here.
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More details needed, citizen.
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Ello, Tiny, tiny little thing, but is there a way of having ignored users not show up in other user's quotes? It's still harshing my mellow, y'dig?
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Doubtless. Picture 1 looks more sycamore to me, to be honest.
