Doug Tait
-
Posts
3,703 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
59
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Doug Tait
-
Not much of a night out apparently, the advisory group of experts that gave recommendations for this law decided the typical line of coke contains between 35-100mg. There'll be more than the legal limit for driving left as residue on the fifty note in your wallet when leaving the pub toilets!
-
So he was found to have been over the legal limit for cocaine, who knew it was legal to drive if you were only buzzing a little bit on ching!
-
It amuses me every time I see my neighbour out with the gypsy stick, standing well back from his sawhorse doing some logs
-
Good they're taking site safety so seriously here. Keep that compound gate locked to stop unauthorised passage.
-
local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
Doug Tait replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
Anyone recognise these? The oh saw them along the riverside...
-
Agreed, little and often and no need to collect. I do close to 10acre of paddocks and ROW, whichever bit isn't being grazed by the horses, with a zero turn no mulch deck.
-
Been lovely here recently, today was cooler and cloudier but the silver lining was upside down rainbows.
-
Sorry to hear that spuddog, that's crap.
-
Grandad tumbles has already "done a Holly" and released a statement saying Tumbles lied to him about it.
-
Thanks for that link Paul. Mow and collect at the right time seems like the easiest approach until she sees if it works. I don't think the area will be too fertile as she had work done to shore up the eroding riverbank with boulders and the banking was left with this patch of quite rough, stoney, clay based bare soil.
-
It's a long strip of ground with a tarmac driveway along one side and a river on the other, closest boundary is with a field 30m away. Is that likely to cause a problem?
-
Thanks, very helpful.
-
A friend has sown wildflower seeds on an area of rough ground along the side of their driveway. There's some young straggly grass growing there already that is maybe 10" long but not very established, never been mown before. My feeling from what little I know is to mow before the grass seeds itself to stop the grass dominating but could anyone give some pointers or suggest the bullet points of looking after this area in the best way please.
-
It's not rusty enough or rattling enough for my taste mate!
-
To keep it light you could use a small caged trailer with a fitted tarp cover. Not high security but keeps things out of sight. I've an Ifor P8e with a fitted tarp that takes the quad in it with the cover on. (Pic lifted from internet, I haven't swopped the truck for a Chelsea tractor!)
-
I wouldn't worry too much about time expectations for repairs Ollie, the repair places I know can take weeks to look at something when they're busy and people accept that. As long as you're honest up front when you take something in and give a reasonably accurate timescale. Best of luck to you.
-
Ya know them days being a subbie chews at you?
Doug Tait replied to eggsarascal's topic in The Lounge
He should never have tried to teach eggs to suck eggs -
That's Lichen on the branch. Not causing any harm, it lives on the surface but doesn't take water or nutrients from the tree. It could indicate low levels of air pollution in your area.
-
I played that once, you shoot the ducks then check if they're dead with the stethoscope/heart rate monitor. If there's sign of life you give them a pill to make them better then try killing them again by hitting them with the skittles...
-
That must be a contender for the most ridiculous advert of the year. If only I was closer, desperate for 20m of established hedge and all I'd need is a digger!
-
Nothing worse than coming early!
-
We use a selection of signs, mainly the floppy tripod ones which are in the trailer kit for day to day stuff because they fit onto a full chip trailer easily, but they do get ragged and bent quickly. Not bad for blowing over if you hang a tub of oil or similar on the hook with a bungy cord. Also have the large folding metal roadside compliant ones which are solid and heavy, they only go out for road works though. We do have composite speed limit signs for TM stuff and I think they'd be a good compromise. Light, handleable and stable if a little bulky for transport, definitely last longer than the tripod ones. Don't think I've ever used the cone ones.
-
Not specifically In forestry J but I used to use this one quite a lot for work. It was road reg/insured so could go anywhere with it. Had an ifor p6 trailer it would both go in for transport and tow while working. Was good for tree work on farms and estates anyway. This was it one weekend I was going to do tree's at Dryburgh. Saw, fuel, PPE, climbing and rigging kit.
-
Now I'm confused too
-
Working on the railway today! Felling Willows, couple of them rigged down over the pedestrian bridge. Was interesting reversing the little Valtra Southbound on the line, but straightforward enough as there's been a line closure in place since 1969. It was on a disused section called Stobs Station near Hawick which is a garden now. A quiet station in its day as it served a small hamlet but was heavily in use around the two world wars due to serving Stobs Army Camp. Interesting place. In that Willow looking down on the bridge I couldn't help wondering about the thousands of young men that would've crossed it before going off to fight.
- 641 replies
-
- 12
-
