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But this one goes up to eleven...
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First confirmed kill! 3.5m, from the kitchen window to the bird table, facing me head-on. Perfect.
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I remember you posting that either at the time, or during the previous reminisc. Very System D. If only they made holly stumps that big, eh?
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In the name of devil's avocado, why wouldn't you? What could go wrong? What holes could the pernickety pick in it?
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Absolutely! It was a long week for me, lots of interesting climbing and a few melon-scratcher windblown, I'm glad to see a whole week off now. I'm in the UK until Tuesday visiting my folks with wife and kids, then I'm in Austria with the mountain rescue team Thursday to Sunday for some winter training. No chewing sawdust for me until the following Monday!
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Yes, but it is interesting to see how the situation is framed depending on where you read it - just like every other Trump-centric story.
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Without seeing a picture of this supposed problem, I couldn't make a firm recommendation one way or another, but from the sounds of it... if it were my land, that I wanted to plant a little forest on... I absolutely wouldn't be burning it, I'd get a man with a digger in for a day, have him smash it up with the bucket, drive over it a few times, then flatten it out without being too fussy about lumps. Then he'd dig a nice big pond or two, a scattering of berms and swales, and maybe, just maybe, the earthwork foundations for a ring fort or something. Or at least a raised dias with a commanding view of the site for a picnic table. -
Felling of a ~160yr old 25m tall Copper Beech Tree - Chiswick, West London
peds replied to mikeypw4's topic in General chat
Dismantle whole-tree chipper, carry through to garden, reassemble. Chip tree as it lands, big limbs, everything. Cut stump at 4', go home. -
Blowing my freaking mind, man. I wonder if the same species that make the best gunpowder would also produce a measurably-superior biochar, or if it doesn't matter at all.
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Woooooaaahh...
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I found your comment so interesting that I ecosia'd it straight away, and found that ig might be alder... buckthorn? https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/alder-buckthorn/ I wonder if it could be both. I saw a mention that scots pine also makes fine gunpowder.
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For really thin slices I like to steal my daughter's ukulele 👍
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I use a mandolin, you can use a sharp knife but a mandolin just speeds it all up. I had just passed a pot of chicken stock through a sieve, so I dropped the potato slices into it and brought it back to a boil... just to bring the temperature up quickly, not even to par-cook them, but this definitely gets it cooking quicker in the oven. The potato slices lose some starch into the stock too, which helps to thicken it as it reduces down. I've done it before with raw potato slices, it takes a little longer in the oven.
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No, it isn't, sorry. I'm afraid I'm wallowing deep in a farce. (But you absolutely can grow pear trees from rooted cuttings, you'll not make much money though!) Others' prices are about what I'd charge, but I'd probably wander around in the garden for a few minutes while there to look at the job and suggest other things to make a whole day of it, as I work alone and tend not to do half days or quick jobs on the way home. Mulching and feeding is a great thing to do for pear trees at this time of year, especially after a good hard prune. I'd offer to do that. If you have any other fruit trees or bushes, I'd fill time by doing all of them.
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Yeah, but stick 'em all in a pot of gritty compost, give them a bit of bottom heat (oo er, missus), and they'll all turn into new pear trees! It's like printing money!
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Rooster gratin. Two rooster breasts, onion turnip carrot leek. Thinly sliced potatoes, hot stock, oven until crispy and bubbling.
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Normally I do prefer to graze instead of nosh out when I'm climbing, a full stomach takes blood away from the rest of the body, so little and often to keep the blood sugar levels up is better... but it's so, so important not to offend the customer. You might not be invited back.
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I understand Mick, but I'm capable of enduring unbelievable hardships, so I just about managed to soldier through.
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Knocked two (big) limbs off a (big) sycamore to make room to fell two spruce. Ringed it up, chipped the bits. Climbed the first spruce, left a rope in it, put the other end on the digger. Tea time, down tools, get called into the (digger driver) customer's house. His wife has made us breakfast. Back outside, fell one spruce, chip the bits and leave it in lengths. Climb the second spruce, slowly, following the hearty breakfast. Rope, digger, pull, chip, lengths. Not a bad day, to be honest.
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100 quid? One fifty?! I'll do it for the wood 👍
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No it isn't. Sure everyone would have a golden-hoofed goat made of $100 bills with your name instead of God's on them at their golf course hotel mansion if they could.
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Washing machine door, glass dome side outwards. Might not fit with the cottagecore aesthetic.
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Nothing special, just another few ash helped down to the ground instead of onto the shed roof.
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