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Did I not hear that the stump had shoots appear, as sycamores occasionally do? Would we not just let the tree that is already there get on with it? A lot cheaper...

I'm sorry, how much per chain? Like tires and mattresses, I'm happy to spend a bit more on some things.

Has anyone put out an accurate guess of the value as firewood and chip?

RIP, big dribbling cat, you have passed the single shared brain cell to the next orange in line. I'll chop out my two a fat line each of catnip in his honour.

I won't let you down boss. I pass dozens of lovely big yew at a nearby Holy Well, I'll keep an eye on them going into autumn.

Still morning, is it? Was about to go to bed last night at about 11, when a callout came in for a missing person on the mountain. Bad weather, yellow rain warning, flood risk. Not the best conditions for someone to be out in overnight. Get dressed, fill the thermos flask, down a coffee, grab the bag, hop in the car, keys in the ignition... stand down, person located. I don't really drink coffee after 4pm usually because I won't sleep, so following a cup at 2300, today's productivity has been shelved. Some gentle pottering instead.

I did this a few times when I was planting for forestry, some sites were 2 hours away. Made more sense to camp out and do a few more hours, instead of planting 600 sitka straight into the fuel tank.

I tried my best to keep up with this, but I lost track pretty quickly. I think I understand the gist of it, but i wouldn't want to be quizzed on the details. Electrics really isn't a language I'm fluent in.

Nice one Peas, it is indeed a 2kw inverter I've got. I'll give it a go on the campervan setup at some point then, it sounds like it could be a go-er. If I were to do any wiring in the work van in the future for it I'd probably want to be a bit more belt-and-braces than the jonky first-attempt affair in the camper, but it'll do for an experiment, anyway. Regarding the size of my hose, I've had no complaints so far...

Well I'm using 1½inch fat yellow hose at the moment, anywhere up to 50m of it depending, and at that kind of distance I'd hate to go down to a skinny Homebase hose because of the loss of pressure through friction. Better to have a bigger volume crawling through a fat pipe than a smaller volume screaming through a skinny one... But I've got a 12v to 230v inverter for the campervan, we've only ever used it to watch a film on the laptop, so not exactly hungry... but I've also seen others' camper setups where they are running a little electric oven and even a kettle off their leisure battery, which are much hungrier, through an inverter again... so there must be a way of doing it. As you say, petrol will always have the grunt, you could empty the IBC 4 or 5 times off a tank of hydrocarbons, the question is how many electric batteries would it need to empty it a single time, even with trickle charging while driving around... I might just have to do some tinkering with it on a rainy day sometime I suppose!

This old thread will do for a bump. I need a bit of help with some maths. I get the feeling @GarethM might have the knowledge for this one... I'm currently using a 2-stroke water pump to move water from an IBC in a van to wherever it needs to be - usually either recently planted trees or hanging baskets and window boxes - but I'd like to see if it's possible to switch to electric, to reduce noise and fumes wherever I can. I've also got a 1.1kw electric pump, same output as the 2-stroke. Is there any way on Earth that you could have the same kind of wiring setup as a campervan with a leisure battery, charging off the engine when moving, and giving power when switched off? Obviously a campervan leisure battery wouldn't give much run time, after going through an inverter... but is there a way to make it work? Bigger batteries, more of them? Steal them out of a written-off Tesla, maybe? But would the necessary charge time between runs make the idea impractical? Happy to be told it's a pipe dream, I was just wondering.

Beautiful coronet cut on that right hand stem 👍

Tidy.

This, err...this bathcast... where... exactly... is the camera located...?

That's a great idea, and I'd like to subscribe to your vlog.

Beautiful garden, very dog-friendly.

Morning all, I don't suppose anyone has any data to hand showing the relative uptake of water in various woodland settings at different times of the year? Obviously it slows right down for broadleaf, but it carries on to an extent with evergreens, conditions dependent... I wonder if there's a handy table anywhere comparing it across seasons and species? Might be a bit too much to ask! I've been asked to plant a garden woodland in boggy ground, just want to discuss the whole range of options with the guy, from digging ponds and drainage to just firing in whips and walking away. Cheers dudes. Edit I've got this pdf from 2005 so far, hoping for something with a bit more meat on the bone though. fcin065.pdf

Maaate, that looks sublime. Ever made your own pasta? Toss that through a pile of rustic orechiette and you've got perfection.

If you are able to take down the trees and hedging safely yourself, you are also well able to throw it into a chipper from your local plant hire place yourself too, and it'll be a lot cheaper. Like others have said, I'd not be biting your hand off to tidy up a pile of shite someone else has made. That said, there are people out there who offer such a service, so you might get the job done just fine.

Ooh, I see it now. Yeah, I completely failed my reading comprehension there, I thought you were just having a dig at the younguns. Sorry chap.

He's a hoot all right!

Was that as a regular snack, or just for the craic, or what? How many at a time, fistfuls? I've just decided I'm going to make a batch of lacto-fermented hot sauce with just yew berries, red chillies, and salt. That should show the character of the fruit quite well. It lends itself to such predictable names as "Are Yew Insane?!" or "Yew'll Regret This!" I'll report back at some point in the future.

Odd thing to shoe horn in there. To the OP, a layer of membrane underneath manky old sheets can solve all sorts of problems... old polytunnel plastic, radon barrier, roof membrane, silage plastic... whatever you can find. Doesn't matter if there's a few holes rusted through the metal if any drips are carried away anyway. Kind of adds to the upcycled aesthetic, too!

Huh. Might give it a miss then. But then I wonder if they'd have any more noticeable qualities when prepared instead of raw, such as in a jam or chutney... either as a supporting player of in the lead role. I was gifted a jar of, oddly enough, giant hogweed chutney once... which is definitely one way of disposing of it I suppose, but against the onion, apple, marrow, and vinegar, it wasn't exactly prominent, and could even have been a lie. Who knows? But we stray further from the topic at hand. Do not feed yew to adults with learning difficulties, even if chutneyed.

Someone else said that a few posts back, very interesting. I wonder if they are actually pleasant, though, and worth the hassle. Might nibble on one the next time I see a yew, and report back. That's a fine looking climbing tree, perfect for youngsters to break their first bone in... or practice the avoidance thereof.