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Sorry boss. War horse chestnut?
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Snakes on a Plane
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No C*nt Tree For Old Men
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The Poplar vs. Larry Flynt
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Not heard that for ages. X gon give this to you in return.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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Whatever point you're trying to make has gone right over my head, and honestly, I don't think I'm to blame.
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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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Look, I know I say this a lot, but... ...what on Earth does that paragraph mean?!
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That's not loading for me, could be an issue at my end though... anyone else? There's definitely specifics with different knots, some are more kN hungry than others, but I always just say 50% for any knot for simplicity of maths, and to make sure any sums give an answer firmly on the safe side, rather than the dodgy side. So yeah, a doubled single strand will be back at single single strand strength after both have been knotted. One question to consider is... is whatever you're doubling for redundancy's sake really worth doubling? For ropes and soft goods the answer is often yes, for metal it's often no, and there are intricacies and exceptions all over the shop.
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Are you taking issue with a dictionary definition?
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It should be outside the run, yes. It's to stop foxes digging in. A layer inside is great too, if you have the space available in the run. The girls will find somewhere better to dig anyway. 🦊🌱_] 🌽 🐓 Like that
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Coop is better off the ground as they like to roost, ideally up in the trees. They are only ground-nesting birds when broody or injured/sick.
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Better to have a 200l barrel collecting off the tarp (or better) roof, and topping up fresh water either daily or automatically (overflow from barrel when it rains) than having water sat around collecting droppings and scratchings. They enjoy hunting around a pond, but your run isn't big enough. The slugs will come anyway. A dust bath, elevated or contained off the ground (tractor tire, logs pushed together, etc.) and topped up with dry, screened soil occasionally is much preferred to anything wet.
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Very tidy. What's the weight saving?
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Put shop-bought eggs or golf balls where you want them to lay, until they get the idea.
