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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.
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That's mental. I'll have to look into the process a little more, I wonder why galls specifically. You'd be awfully dependent on the whims of nature for your ink harvest... I suppose ink was priced accordingly. Ah, that must be why printer ink is so expensive! They still use traditional oak gall production methods!
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About a 3rd of my lane is road planings, made three years ago, great stuff. I tried to get some more recently, last year, and it seems impossible... it is now all "contaminated waste" and has to go through the correct channels. Might be the same story where you are.
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I saw one fella saying whole little towns had been destroyed, he thinks it's " Katrina-level" stuff.
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People stew pork in Coca-Cola. Could work with a partridge. Oh, you mean to drink, not to cook with. Sorry, no further suggestions.
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What openspaceman is saying is that when someone mills it, they might find fencing staples embedded in it, as farm and estate trees often have these, and other buried treasure, and occasionally a dark blue hue staining the timber as a result; and other undesirable physical attributes.
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Bought a 345 off someone a few years ago, he accidentally (or maybe on purpose... who knows?) put a new 1.5 chain on a nearly new 1.3 bar, they did not work happily together. Had to swap it out straight away. Couldn't comment on how much wear and tear they'd need before they match, but I wasn't bothered about finding out.
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Ah right, I don't know if all those laminate flooring systems are similar, but you'd not have much joy trying to poke the one we've done half the house in under a skirting board, it needs some wiggle room. By the sounds of it, new skirting board would be my choice.
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Ah no, it's brand new skirting board, first time on the wall. I was just taking 6mm off the door and architrave around it, we didn't know what floor would be going down when we had the doors done. Would you really need to do either of the options you describe, would you not cope with the skirts being slightly higher? Or is three a load of fitted furniture or something? Depending on the cost, I'd probably try ripping the needed height off the old skirting board and refitting it, don't know if it would be worth the time/value of reusing it, but I like doing things like that anyway...
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What toy is that?
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Doing the last room in the new house today, the 5yr old son's bedroom. Floor just finished (I did the OSB subfloor, she did the laminate clikclak on top), and I've taken 6mm off the bottom of the door and the architrave legs. Doing the skirting board now, whilst she paints some snowy caps on the blocky mountainscape she'd already painted a little while ago. Next up: a bunk bed shaped like a castle, with drawbridge, portcullis, dungeon, and slide.
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Okay, well I just told that to Oscar, but he still doesn't seem thrilled at the prospect of losing his in December.
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Jesus... what was the other dog doing to him?! I wish Igor all the best with his recovery, and I just know that the trials ahead you both face will only strengthen your relationship.
