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I echo all of the above. Dogs aren't gerbils, they shouldn't be left locked up all day. Some breeds more than others, of course. Mine come to work with me, I walk them whenever I get the chance, they get a good spin at lunch, and depending on what I'm doing they are often able to hang out with me. I was clearing scrub from around and between polytunnels last week, a load of self-seeded birch, alder, sycamore, etc., the dogs had great fun dragging them all out of the way. Or into the way, sometimes. They don't really understand the intricacies of the task, but they are happy to be involved.

Ah right, I see. Yeah, 540 I think. Let me double check with the guy, I could have sworn he ssid about 25hp off the PTO when I was chatting to him, so I guess he's mistaken about something... What are your specs, what have you got on yours?

Is that rpm?

Bump! What chipper could you put on a lovingly-restored MF 178? I'm asking for a guy I'm doing a job for later in the year, I said we'd need to hire a chipper for 2 days, he said he'd been thinking of buying a PTO for his new toy and would rather put the money towards that. I told him I'd ask a bunch of experts, so here we are! He's able to go new or used... what would you recommend? Tractor data suggests PTO of 62hp... TractorData.com Massey Ferguson 178 tractor information WWW.TRACTORDATA.COM Looking straight away at Greenmech for example, where the options are the Chipmaster 220 for up to 80hp, or the Eco 150 for up to 45hp... but can you not put an Eco 150 on a 62hp machine and just not push it too hard? Or does it not work like that? Chipmaster 220 TMP - Tractor Mounted Wood Chipper | GreenMech Ltd GREENMECH.CO.UK The Chipmaster 220 TMP Woodchipper is designed with a high tensile steel chassis... ECO 150 TMP - Tractor Mounted PTO Woodchipper | GreenMech Ltd GREENMECH.CO.UK The ECO 150 TMP Woodchipper is used in landscape, golf courses &...

Zionist.

Don't be so humble, easily Post of the Decade.

Outstanding. Bit cloudy up by us, I missed both nights this time around. Was up the hill with the dogs until after 10, but doesn't seem to be clearing.

I, for one, am shocked! Shocked!

Ty Korrigan said: You recall Brexit? The loss of the automatic right to live and work in the 27 member countries of the E.U? Well that doesn't sound very helpful, does it. Who's bright idea was that?

Hm, they don't really look right do they. Where did you buy it? I'd say the tree was mislabelled.

When you say green tinge, is this as well as the pinkish flesh you'd hope to see in a Discovery... or instead of? Could you show us a photo of the graft, as if there's no display of pink at all the graft could quite well have failed, and you are just growing the rootstock fruit instead...

The sudden vitriol of the last few posts spurs me into asking, finally, what is wordle, and why has it annoyed you today?

Myself or some relatives get my kids a pair of cheapo walkie-talkies every now and then. They wander around the house yelling "do you read me, over!" at each other until the batteries die, then they leave them outside in the rain to finish them off, and forget about them for a few months. Lather, rinse, repeat. Not a bot, I promise.

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!

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.

I'm surprised, I'd have thought you'd quite like Packham.

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.

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.

Could be a birch seedling there on the right already.

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.

Proper pollard!

Merry lunchtime everyone. Bad weather coming over here, orange warnings for wind and rain all over the shop. Batten down the hatches!

He's one hell of a guy!

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.

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.