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Anyone got any experience with smaller grinders or shredders, capable of processing things like small tree and shrub rootballs, dead pot plants, end-of-season hanging baskets, compost and all... and I guess the odd bit of arb waste too, but not much. Doesn't necessarily have to be mobile. Googling it turns up loads of options for people cultivating cannabis and needing to process their trim, males, clones, and other waste... for silly money. Definitely tempted to diversify into that market, too!
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Jesus, lucky they got out of that. I used to see Fay in the lift lines every now and then back in Chamonix, nice girl. Glad they made it.
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I'm surprised, I'd have thought you'd quite like Packham.
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Yeah we have stakes hammered in in a few places and a few bolts drilled in to the good rock here and there, we also bring extra stakes and rock gear if we need it. We double the ropes and abseil for retrieval from below if needed, but on the grassy slopes we tend to just send the client down, then most of the team using the rope as a handrail, then two people stay back to tidy the rope away and walk down without. No big deal if it's ground you are comfortable on. A few of us in the team are up and down it all the time in trainers and shorts, no problem. That cave, highest in Ireland, is definitely one of our busiest spots. It was in that film The Norseman with Nicole Kidman and Bjork a little while ago I think. Popular destination during covid, we had a lot of service users then! Then when the pubs opened again it got nice and quiet again.
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EDIT Just saw we are actually talking about salmon sperm tonight instead, please disregard the following. Case in point... Just got home from helping two young lads down from the cave mouth, top right of this photo. Look carefully and you'll see our little white helmets scattered about under the cliff. They got up themselves just fine, decent clothing, proper boots, big bags with food and extra layers... but the weather rolled in whilst they were exploring the cave, and getting down seemed risky. They toyed with the idea of spending the night in the cave and descending in the morning after the wind and rain subsided, but in the end they swallowed their pride and asked for help. And, as we said to them, we'd rather help them walk down from above than scrape them off the rocks at the bottom. A few hours of dragging ropes around and giving two young fellas a crash course on how to milk a prusik, and everyone gets to go home to their dinner.
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Could be a birch seedling there on the right already.
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Eh, close enough. I'm doing a 21st century repollard (customer's words, not mine) in a month or so (my red lines on your photo). I might suggest something a little less drastic to him, but... they're his sycamores. Oh well.
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Proper pollard!
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Merry lunchtime everyone. Bad weather coming over here, orange warnings for wind and rain all over the shop. Batten down the hatches!
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He's one hell of a guy!
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Ah, that's a sliding scale really, and even people who know what they are doing can be caught out by their own silly mistakes. We all make mistakes from time to time. No matter what the skillset or wardrobe of whoever we scrape off the floor, I'd rather be there in the mud with them than reading about them in the news the next day, and I do my best to withhold judgement... and I'd say most people in the mountain rescue community would say the same thing. We tend to leave it to the Facebook crowd to do the pearl clutching.
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Haha, every team has their occasional dog rescue! I remember hearing about this one, 55kg isn't a problem on a stretcher like that but it's a hell of a lot harder if they don't lie down and stay still. The masks around the stretcher suggests this news is '20/'21, though. I remember those days! Training with covid masks in horizontal rain... funny stuff. Here's our latest dog rescue, 2 years ago now I think: Broken leg, poor old thing. Emotional support dog or whatever the term is for a girl with autism. Some people ask what the validity of risking human lives is to rescue a dog, and it's a fair question. The specifics vary from case to case of course, but in this particular instance, I would much rather have carried an injured 30kg dog down a mountain at 3pm than two hypothermic humans and a dead dog at 3am.
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Ah, well hang on. By my understanding steel does not like to be dropped, and is prone to micro fractures as a result, whereas aluminium doesn't mind it quite so much... and according to some vague anecdotal evidence I recall hearing years ago, actually strengthens after one initial drop and bounce on a hard surface...
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Codominant lime tree - is it ‘fine’?
peds replied to evajo's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
There was a great photo on here not long ago, I think, of half a failed co-dominant stem, showing the area of included bark really well. To be honest, I forget if it was here or somewhere else, but it was a great example of what can happen. Anyone else remember it? -
Yeah, but apart from that... what have the Romans ever done for us?
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Let's play devil's avocado here, decide we aren't buying anything, and instead streamline this device. What can we do?
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God DAMN it, management!! Why wasn't this actioned?!
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Now, I'm sure others will disagree with me, but I wouldn't be using a bowline for that attachment. Fisherman's or barrel, cinched up tight. Bowlines are of course a safe attachment, but they have a habit of working loose when weighted, unweighted, left alone, dangled for a bit, weighted, unweighted, ignored, etc... as might happen with a lanyard.
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I've found there's two kinds of people on such courses... those who don't need to be there, and those who desperately need to be; and as a result I've shifted my interpretation of the course from how to operate around these "potential hazards" as a member of the first group, towards how to operate around people from the second group whilst they deal with the hazards. So it might seem pointless and banal, but I think there's still the potential for picking up some life-saving information.
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I'd agree with tarmac to be honest, not a massive space and I think you'd see the benefits of it. Anything loose while the concrete is still there would piss you off, you'd have to take it up first. Which could give you loads of fill to claim some new space, maybe pop a new shed down somewhere. Or smash it in place, cover with a 50/50 mix of poor quality topsoil and loose shale-like gravel, and sow with scrubby herbs and alpines. Phlox, aubretia, wild strawberry, creeping time, that kind of thing. Dot bigger boulders around it for interest.
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I wonder if this will embed?
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Sounds logical enough, I choose to believe it as gospel truth.
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QUOTE MODE Yer man Alex up there said: "What will that do? Surely it’ll just wash away?" END QUOTE MODE Not at all, it sets solid as anything. It's mostly to fill in the bigger gaps in some patches of the lane where the bigger bits of 3inch-all-in are at the top, instead of the smaller bits. Our digger driver is going to scrape the lump in the middle of the lane flat the next time he's with us, then says a few loads of dust dropped with the truck moving and the back door on chains, then a nearby farmer with a levelling bar on his tractor would leave it exactly how we want it. It's not really dust, it's anything 3mm and down... so it binds together brilliant, especially if it's layed on top of a more open stone beneath it.
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Brewdog are going to dig a big lake in the middle of, turn it into a seal sanctuary, then club them all to death.
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Ah, it's a 200m laneway, not a drive, and it was chosen because it was 30% the cost of a load of quarry stone! We could only get 8 loads unfortunately, everything else had been spoken for. I'll get some pictures of it later, when I get home, but it's just your average country lane... grass starting to grow in the middle, a few potholes in it after we had to dig the water pipe in next to it... We hope to put a thin layer of quarry dust or something on top of the whole 200m of it at some stage, it isn't top of the To Do list right now though.
