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If you have acidic soil, grow blueberries. Stick some woofers in a caravan during harvest season and leave them to it.

Stick a few polytunnels on it and grow weed, you can make a bloody fortune.

Gert lush, fam.

This yoke right here? I do worry that this particular chipper might actually be too wee for this thread. I've only had about 2 hours on it so far, but it hasn't exploded yet... 15hp, chipper for branches up to 10cm in the side, shredder for bits up to 1cm on top. I honestly can't complain about it so far, obviously it takes a bit longer to prep what you feed it, but I'm saving anything bigger than 10cm for firewood anyway.

Has anyone got a significant length of time on a corded saw? If you look after them, will they last a lifetime? Obviously the cheapo Screwfix ones aren't going to survive solid use, but would a Stihl be worth the investment?

Sounds to me as though the problem lies with your research and expectations, not with the saw. I've a 200, love it. I'll probably get a 220 in a year or so, unless they end up bringing something bigger out.

Birth certificate?

Like I say, I'm not looking to chat about it here, because it's a little pointless. But the time for discussing whether or not the impending climate catastrophe was actually real was back in the 80s, before the huge wealth of data started coming in. In the 90s, we still had the chance to ask "How do we stop it?", but we wasted time by still discussing if it was real. Throughout the noughties, we should have been talking about how to mitigate the worst of the damage, instead of still trying to convince people that it's real, and happening now. For the last decade, the burning question should have been "What can we do to ensure mankind's survival past the year 2050?", but instead, we've had some of the most powerful and influential people on the planet still yelling that it isn't happening, when it is visibly destroying people's lives across the planet. Now, here we are in the 2020s, and the hot topic is... is the impending climate catastrophe real, or is it just a scam thought up by Big Keep Cup to sell more reusable mugs? You are absolutely right though, there is much more to worry about in this world... herbicides and industrial fertilisers are only the tip of the iceberg (whatever those are).

Because the planet absolutely cannot afford the environmental footprint of them, as will become increasingly clear over the next few decades, when huge-scale ecological collapse will bring about the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, followed by the death of billions more during widespread conflict and ongoing famine. No argument from me I'm afraid, I don't see the point in it. Just be aware that the most common causes of death for anyone born past, say, 1980, will be starvation or suicide, and there isn't a whole lot that we as a species can do to change that at this stage. Now, whether or not you using a bit of Roundup to treat that ivy stump or sprinkling a bit of NPK around your azaleas will save the planet isn't the question... but no one snowflake can be blamed for the avalanche, and we all have to decide what changes we can make in our lives. Not to change the future, because we are about 40 years too late for that, but for our own piece of mind, and to prepare for the world, if any, that awaits us. Sorry to sound like such a downer.

I mean... it is.

I have to say, I'm genuinely not sure what I'll do with all the free time I've gained since trying this out. Good stuff.

Stop beating around the bush and give the man a straight answer, for Christ's sake.

You haven't got a link to a guide for that process, I suppose?

All good information, thanks for your advice. I'll upload a couple of pictures when I get round to knocking it over, if anyone wants to follow the process, if I end up doing anything with it. From what I can gather, being on the West Coast of Ireland might work in my favour here, as our lovely moist air means things are pretty slow to dry out.

Useful, thanks. It could be a case of only getting 3 cuts from it then, one through the centre and one either side, as thick as possible. All the rest of the trim could be pressed into service (ho ho) as the weight on top. If, at the very least, I only get a warped and wavy garden table out of it, I'd be thrilled, because the tree is right next to where that table would be. Shame it has to come out at all, really.

The chap with the mill doesn't like me well enough to spend the day working for free. He'd expect to be paid for the hours he puts in. Which is fair enough.

That's a shame to hear. I'm clearing dozens of trees from this site so we're not short of firewood, ash and goat willow mostly, I was hoping the eucalyptus would be worth keeping for something else. Would the stem be better kept whole and dried slowly for a few years before being played with? It's less likely to split then, isn't it? He'd not be doing it for free, no. We get on well, but he doesn't like me that much.

Howdy, I've got a pretty decent eucalyptus on my own land that needs to come down. It'sa good bit over 2ft at the base, with about 18ft of worthwhile stem. I know a guy with a mobile mill, and I'll be getting him in anyway to do 3 big cypress, an ash, and a few sitka that I have, so I was going to have the eucalyptus sliced up as well. After doing a bit of reading, I was thinking of making a load of chopping boards out of it. Has anyone done this, or anything else worth mentioning, out of eucalyptus? Cheers dudes.

Groovy, that's the plan.

How do you mean? What's the expected shelf life of a container, specifically a pair when roofed and clad for a big shed?

It's clusters of words like this that make me so unbelievably depressed about the future of humanity on this planet. The science, at this stage, is so clear cut, so defined, so well-understood. How on Earth, I ask the sky, fists clutching my hair, can people have such ridiculous ideas as this in their heads? Protip: learn to grow your own food and don't get too attached to polar bears.

Interesting thread, very helpful. If anyone wants to give some more chatter about coppicing ash, I'm all ears.

This hurts because it's true. Sorry. edit - No wonder though, my mum is pretty hench.

I got a notification that this thread was bumped. I'll take this opportunity to say: stop using weedkillers (and, for that matter, all herbicides, pesticides, and industrial fertilisers). Cheers.

Ah, this thread will do, saves making a new one. What value or worth would you put to a ported Husqvarna 345e? It's well-used, but been looked after. Cheers dudes.