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  1. Recommend trying to control slugs using methods that won't render your soil incapable of supporting life. Encourage frogs, hedgehogs, songbirds into your garden. Consider ducks.
  2. As Mark says, cut it and tie it back on, barrel knot would be my choice, but unlike Mark I'd keep using it for another three or four trims. CE mark is at the far end, is it? Would LOLER be a problem with a quick fix? Might be less hassle to just buy a new one, but that's a lot of hardware going to waste.
  3. peds

    Jokes???

  4. You should start a gardening tips podcast.
  5. I googled it, there is currently no podcast by that name. You are go for launch.
  6. peds

    ArbDogs? Pics!

  7. Should grow both, then you'd just need a chutney plant and you'd be all set 👍
  8. Good morning. The cat came home at 0200 screaming his head off, soaked in some kind of fuel. Probably diesel. Clearly asking for help, and being relatively placid throughout the ordeal, but still dealing with the occasional feline urge to fight-or-flight. So I do have a few new scratches, but nothing quite so bad as the last time I won a bout of cat wrestling against a feral, and nearly lost the hand. Anyway. After thorough scrubbing he still smells of it. Not sure how much he would have ingested during his own attempts at grooming. Might get the vet involved, I'm going to check on the patient now. Hope your days involve fewer angry cats than mine. Edit to add a photo of the poor wee thing. Edit 2: Hmm, my left index finger, which has a few puncture wounds in it, is starting to heat up a little. I'll keep an eye on it, but I won't be impressed if this one needs a week in hospital too.
  9. Sorry boss. War horse chestnut?
  10. peds

    ArbDogs? Pics!

    Outstanding!
  11. peds

    Jokes???

  12. Snakes on a Plane
  13. No C*nt Tree For Old Men
  14. The Poplar vs. Larry Flynt
  15. Not heard that for ages. X gon give this to you in return.
  16. Morning all. Three stems of a dead birch tree coming down today, up against a house. Two to be dropped onto the lawn, the third leaning towards the house can be easily snipped apart from an anchor high up in the beech next to it. Big blue sky, not to hot. Suspiciously easy day.
  17. Groovy, thanks dudes. I've only ever seen it in mountaineering, usually attaching a lanyard or cow's tail. Still definitely only the one strand weighted, anyway.
  18. Different people have different setups, but either a truck you can fire chip into from a road-tow chipper, or a tipper trailer you can fire chip into from a tracked chipper or otherwise portable chipper would be the basic for a one-man-band, before you start needing a second vehicle with a second driver etc. Alternatively, put the money for a tipper trailer towards a tippable chip box on the back of your f450, and get a road-tow chipper. Probably the most economical and simplest setup you could begin with, but the box on an f450 would probably fill up pretty quick.
  19. Trailer 1st, chipper 2nd. Can you winch a wee chipper (or the biggest chipper you can fit or afford) into your f450? Bucket/mewp/hoist later on down the line.
  20. 15 minutes of breaking girth hitch/larks foot/cow hitch. Edit: I have to say... are you sure a girth hitch is the best knot for your intended use, if you are only weighting one strand? They are more commonly used in closed loops, where both legs get weighted equally anyway... Seems like there's a strong risk of the knot pulling through when weighting a single leg, unless you tie off the other side of it or add a stopper knot... Would a barrel knot work better for you?
  21. Oh you mean the other strand coming out of the cow hitch knot? Yeah, that doesn’t count at all, that's not doubled. It's just dead rope. I thought you meant two hitches on two single strands. You probably know about this crowd already, but they've got the biggest library of destruction testing vids I think. Login • Instagram WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been... HowNOT2 | Linktree LINKTR.EE Breaking Gear Fear for All Extreme Sports
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    Bind weed

  23. peds

    Bind weed

    Whatever point you're trying to make has gone right over my head, and honestly, I don't think I'm to blame.
  24. Can't help but laugh at this question after everything you've been through... I imagine you'll have a few sore spots to deal with for a few years yet! 😆 My right shoulder and left hip like to wake up every now and then, just to remind me of some of the mistakes I've made in the past. Rather frustrating.
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    Bind weed

    Look, I know I say this a lot, but... ...what on Earth does that paragraph mean?!

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