coppice cutter
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Electricity sub-station anywhere nearby, or even a step-down transformer?
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Might add that even though my ground is arable I also farm with permanent pasture and no chemical fertilisers. Actually putting out FYM today which is going on ground for next years hay crop. Once the last load is on today the gate will be shut and that will be it until sometime next June when the mower goes in. I do this in rotation which keeps down the worm burden for the sheep and helps reduce the amount of dosing stuff required. Also means we get away with using more basic dosing products when we do have to do it which in turn is a big benefit regarding anthelmintic resistance.
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Yes, along with other things. I've had several attempts made to rope me in to carbon credit schemes, but on account of the woodland on the farm rather than the grassland. I've refused them all and will continue to do so as I think it's a mockery. Firstly, the environmental damage being done to our planet goes way beyond that which may or may not be related to the climate alone. And secondly, even if there is a climatic aspect to it, and even if is is being unduly influence by carbon, there's no way I'm going to contribute in any way to a system which is solely designed to deflect the blame away from the largest culprits.
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Hmmmm, not sure I'd go along with that. The vast majority still get any info on such things from mainstream, with it skewed in a particular direction as a result.
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I imagine the one fly in the ointment is Braverman. And low and behold, which one of the new cabinet is getting the roughest time of it in the media. Co-incidence?????
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I think the two words of the tweet say it all!
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Must be pretty bad when even the BBC are flagging it up. How phantom forests are used for greenwashing WWW.BBC.CO.UK Governments that make forest restoration promises they don't keep are accused of greenwashing.
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Even more so I would suggest, and primarily due to the increased generousness of the social welfare system, "come easy, go easy". Although to be fair, we also have an increasingly merciless capitalist system which thrives preying on easy targets.
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A man before his time it would seem.
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We hear lame-assed "sorrys" from them all the time, a few more will do no more good than all the previous ones. It's what they're going to do about it now and in the coming weeks that interests me. 17th November will be the date for some answers it seems. Hope it's worth the wait!
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People in a majority will seldom admit they were wrong because being in a majority they never have to. Mrs CC now regrets getting the jabs and won't be taking any more despite being expected to. But she won't admit she was wrong nor should she as I fully get why she took them when she did. What's done is done, and no amount of hand-wringing or remorse from politicians, false or genuine, can undo it anyway.
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It really doesn't lay well with me to defend a politician but I can't say I blame them. Such was the hype at the time that anyone in any sort of prominent position going against the flow would have been committing political hari kari. Nor would it have made one jot of difference to the path we were being taken along. I know plenty that were proper hard-line anti vax, and would have castigated others for taking it, yet when it was their own job on the line, or something to do with a family member, they took it. So I don't think it's right to blame anyone anywhere for doing the same. Mrs CC got vaxxed I didn't. I understand why she did, she understands why I didn't. That's the way it should be.
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I've had the original X3 for a good number of years now and it's still going strong. It's cut and cleaned many tons of coppice wood and all it needs is a quick rub with a sharpening stone every now and again to keep a razor sharp edge. The original grind is still on the blade as it's never needed anything more severe to keep it right. Earlier this year I bought an XA23, which is the long handled version of yours. It was too near the end of cutting for it to get a lot of work but what I've done with it so far suggests that it's going to be a regular member of the cutting team from now on. Don't know if I'll buy an XA3 or not, I really don't need it, but if anything happened old faithful that's definitely what would replace it.
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I've the straight Natanoko, a 300mm Gomtaro, and a Zubat Arborist. I use them all over the course of a winter as I now cut pretty much everything by hand, but the Natanoko is my most used out of the three and would be what I'd recommend for your job. It's also sharpenable. A good brush hook will also do a lot of work for you as well, I strongly recommend either of the two Fiskars offerings.
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More likely he's been paid off to keep his nose out, publicly at least. Bet he didn't sell himself cheaply either
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Divide one side in to calculable areas, work them out individually, add them together, and then multiply by the length.
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In fact, just thinking further (I really shouldn't!), it was even odd when he got the chancellor job in the first place. Javid just upped and left, no particular reason, no particular explanation, and boom, this guy Sunak was in the second most powerful job in government. The commentariat ranted and raved on about how this was no shock as he been waiting in the wings for years and had been groomed for this position, was "supremely qualified", blah, blah,blah. Well I'd never feckin heard of him and I keep reasonably abreast of political goings on. To quote from the film "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "Charles, get the rifle out, we're being f**ked!"
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Well whatever he may or may not be, it seems increasingly like he's going to be a shoe-in this time. Maybe it's just my old cynical head, but the whole thing is starting to strike me as being a bit whiffy. A procedure which took months before is going to be wrapped up in a week. Remember the "Boaty McBoatface" carry on? "The public paid for this vessel so it's only right and fair that they should get to name it", ...................that was until "the public" picked a name that the establishment didn't like, then it was "f**k the public, who do they think they are, we'll name it ourselves". Oh well, onwards!
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So do you think Truss had a hit job done on her by her own party because it was the membership that put her there over the heads of the parliamentarians? And now they're back on plan?
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I mistakenly assumed the worst from your first post. I've edited my own accordingly.
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Will a lot of small domestic tree firms go bust?
coppice cutter replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
There's a big international haulage company not far from me, been going thirty odd years. Two brothers raised on a farm, started driving lorries, set up on their own, one brother hit the drink, other brother bought him out and kept building the company to the scale it is now. Still operates as a sole trader. I take it that you should understand how both work and choose the one that you think suits you best, I don't think there's any hard and fast "one is better than the other". -
No it's grand, and much better than staying silent and bottling up, there's nothing worse than bottling up. A few years ago I fractured my skull, clean break from the corner of the eye socket down to my top jaw. I had to learn how to sneeze by keeping my mouth wide open and just letting it out, pretty gross but otherwise there was a danger that I'd displace the fracture and my eye would fall out, even more gross. Conversely, if you ever need to sneeze and have to stifle it, it'll feel like your head is gonna explode. Anything building up isn't good, and if the exchanges here provide some sort of relief valve for anyone at all, providing they remain essentially civil, then don't under-estimate the good that may be doing. As the Americans would say, "we're just chewing the fat".
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Seems that even the modern day 'radical' is as soft as shite. Presumably "refreshments" would need to be along the lines of soya milk and tofu bites.
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I think that's for the best. Of-course now that you're not doing it, you'll not actually find out for certain what a pain in the ass your flat roof would have been ultimately. But knowing a fair few builders, joiners, roofers, and such like, it seems generally accepted that they are problematic, high maintenance, and best avoided if at all possible.
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Sooner the better, it's not working and it's not going to. NEXT!
