Mrblue5000

I have a felling license got for first thinning a small woodland with roughly half Norway and half Sitka spruce. I have already selected trees that I want to keep, these are painted with an orange band at roughly dbh. My question is what is the best way to mark rack lines and forked trees that will be coming out at first thinnings within the next 12 months or so? Are there specific colours for trees that are to be felled. Would a blaze mark with an axe or billhook be better than a colour? I searched on the site but the threads on the topic are over 10 years old.

It's a bit late for the OP, but for anyone else reading this for the first 9 months after damaging a finger tip there is the best possibility of repairing sensitivity. You do this by constantly stimulating it with a small sharp stone or small bolt, rolling it between the affected finger and thumb every chance you get. After about a year the sensitivity will not improve much. Sorry slightly off topic, but it might help someone else.

Is Russel Brand 60 years old?

Will the compost/soil mix under the roots make any difference? Loving some of the eye watering price estimates so far! Moving it with a 16 ton track digger is the plan. Will keep you posted on how it goes.

Last autumn I cut back a beech pollard on a property for sale near me. The new owner has decided that they don’t want the tree as it’s too close to their house. They have offered it to me as I have the space for it, but it has to be moved now, not next winter. Has anyone here moved a large beech trunk during a wet summer successfully? It will be possible to water it in its new home. Should I put pipes under the roots? I’m thinking of putting a layer of well rotted compost at the bottom of the new hole mixed with topsoil to try encourage roots. Is there anything else I can do? It’s the tree in the centre of the photo.

More ag related than arb, but here goes, pull the entire tree to the chipper, sned off the light branches straight into the chipper and blow it into a tipper trailer, lift the heavy trunks into another trailer with the loader/ pulling tractor after cutting them into lengths. Have a few short lengths under the stack on the trailer so that the loader can easily get under the logs for unloading. Another tip is stack the branches butt end down against the chip trailer so you don’t have to bend down every time you pick up a branch.

Paddy’s girlfriend got a new tattoo of a seashell on her inner thigh. Paddy is delighted, when he puts his ear to it he can smell the sea.

What is the difference between a clitoris and bud light? A clitoris only tastes like piss for a second.

They're very prone to late frosts. If you can keep the pots at a south facing wall it might help.

Am I the only one who read that as trainers and accessories wanted?

Are they related to Phil?

Not an expert here, but could you cut them over size then plane them down straight to 6’’ x 6’’ after seasoning them? I did that with beech flooring and the floor is still level.

An Irishman walks into a pub in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness and sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. ☘️🇮🇪 An Irishman walks into a pub in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness, and sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more. The bartender approaches and tells him, "You know, a pint goes flat after I draw it, and it would taste better if you bought one at a time." The Irishman replies, Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in America, the other is in Australia, and I'm in Dublin. When we all left home, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days we drank together. So I drink one for each o'me brothers and one for me self." The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there. The Irishman becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way: He orders three pints and drinks them in turn. One day, he comes in and orders two pints. All the other regulars take notice and fall silent. When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss." The Irishman looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns and he laughs. "Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains, "It's just that me wife had us join that Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking. But it hasn't affected me brothers though."

Hardly any County tractors left in the back of an airport hangar so😢

Has anyone got a bit of inbreeding in their family tree? I know of a few cases of first cousins getting married and the kids seem to have turned out ok, well the ones that survived did anyway. I haven't done a DNA test yet.

I bought Lidl’s parkside battery saw just to try out one before spending big bucks on a main brand battery saw. I have to confess I absolutely love it. No smell of petrol in the back of the jeep. Great job up a tree or beside the chipper. Batteries can be used in other tools like an angle grinder or drill. Quiet to use. If it fcuks up it’s under warranty for I think 3 years. By then it will have paid for itself in petrol savings alone vs charging batteries at night rate. Ok if I was using a chainsaw all day petrol is the way to go, I am not an arborist so those days would be 10 or less a year, but if I’m cutting 12 foot by 6 inches thick ash logs for fire wood beside the house the battery saw is what I use.

Congratulations to you both, great start to the new year.

Forgive me but I hadn't seen this one before; I had a tree that I wanted removed ,because it was too close to the house. I called a tree guy and he came out and did a nice job cutting down the tree. He asked me what I thought and I said it was nice but what about the stump ?....He informed me that he was just a tree guy who cut down trees, If I wanted the stump removed, I would need to call a stump guy. I found a highly recommend "stump" guy and he came and got the stump out......He says there you go...I ask him about the hole.....He says I'm a stump guy I just remove stumps, I don't fill in the hole......Long story short , He told me I would need to call a Landscaper...... I get a hold of a landscaper and I tell him I'm planning to leave town on a trip and I don't care what he does, Just fix the hole and make it look nice. I get back today and find out that he planted a friggin tree...

Following this one, not voting, just curious.

From the other side of the big pond; A sixteen-year-old boy came home with a new Chevrolet Avalanche A sixteen-year-old boy came home with a new Chevrolet Avalanche and his parents began to yell and scream, "Where did you get that truck?!" He calmly told them, "I bought it today." "With what money?" demanded his parents. They knew what a Chevrolet Avalanche cost. "Well," said the boy, "this one cost me just fifteen dollars." So the parents began to yell even louder. "Who would sell a truck like that for fifteen dollars?" they said. "It was the lady up the street," said the boy. I don"t know her name - they just moved in. She saw me ride past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy a Chevrolet Avalanche for fifteen dollars." "Oh my Goodness!," moaned the mother, "she must be a child abuser. Who knows what she will do next? John, you go right up there and see what"s going on." So the boy"s father walked up the street to the house where the lady lived and found her out in the yard calmly planting petunias! He introduced himself as the father of the boy to whom she had sold a new Chevrolet Avalanche for fifteen dollars and demanded to know why she did it. "Well," she said, "this morning I got a phone call from my husband. "I thought he was on a business trip, but learned from a friend he had run off to Hawaii with his mistress and really doesn’t intend to come back." "He claimed he was stranded and needed cash, and asked me to sell his new Chevrolet Avalanche and send him the money. So I did." Happy Christmas all.

I reckon she could be very open minded 🤔have you discussed it yet? What’s sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose. Seriously though there’s not many people these days who can saw logs into rings and chop the rings into useable firewood. They all want it handed to them in a bag.

We need pictures 🤓

One day a bus driver went to the bus garage started his bus and drove off along the route. No problem for the first few stops, a few people got on, a few got off and things went generally well. At the next stop, however,a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet height, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground. He glared at the driver and said, “ Big John doesn't have to pay! The driver was five feet three,thin, and basically meek. Naturally,he didn't argue with Big John, but he wasn't happy about it. The next day the same thing happened. Big John got on again, made a show of refusing to pay, and sat down. And the next day, and the one after that.. This went on and the driver started losing sleep over the way Big John was taking advantage of him. Finally he could stand it no longer. He signed up for body building course, karate, judo and all that stuff. By the end of the summer,he had become quite strong and the big thing is that he felt really good about himself. So on the next Monday when Big John once again got on the bus and said, “Big John doesn't pay!” The driver stood up, glared back at the passenger and screamed, “And why not?” With a surprised look on his face Big John replied, “ Big John has a bus pass."

Friend of mine used it in his house as a central pillar. Before that I thought it was rubbish timber. Bit sparky in an open fire, I remember it being used for fire wood as a kid. I reckon it’s the most underrated timber we have due to being planted as hedges in suburban gardens. How is it reproduced if it’s sterile?

There’s an eBay seller in Finland that sells hydraulic stuff. I got a pump for a tractor about half the local stealer price. I will try find a link for you. Arsnei Jepifanov [email protected] let me know if you have trouble getting through to him, it’s been a few years since I dealt with him.