coppice cutter

There's Silver Birch and Weeping Silver Birch, I have both. That looks exactly like the weepers. I always thought they were both Betula Pendula but that's only because I never heard the weepers being called anything else.

The modern diesel vehicle is a consequence of people in power bringing in legislation relating to things which they have absolutely zero knowledge or understanding of. I suspect E10 fuel similarly.

Lovely tree, the feckers don't deserve it as they plainly don't appreciate it. Anyways, Betula Pendula, Weeping Silver Birch I'd say. More info here, StackPath WWW.GARDENINGKNOWHOW.COM

According to the ONS, the median (a truer reflection of average wages than the average figure itself) wage in the UK is £31,461. Does it seem fair that someone with the responsibilities of a nurse doesn't even be paid the median?

Never seen that before. The subtitles are crap but his enthusiasm doesn't need any translation. This guys channel is about as tolerable as it gets for tool reviews, most of the American stuff is just insufferable. https://www.youtube.com/c/ToolsStuff

The real question is, are we going to have a particularly harsh, and early, winter. Is that what nature is preparing for? The swallows seem to have buggered off early this year too.

There's a lot of nurses still on band 5, Mrs CC and all she works with amongst them, they don't earn anything like the figures you're quoting. Indeed that sounds more like bank or agency rates of pay. Might be a starting point for the new 'university trained' sorts, I don't know, but they're not the ones keeping the wheels turning, admittedly very slowly, but that's not their fault. To put it in perspective, Mrs CC worked on track and trace at weekends until they closed it, and her basic hourly rate for asking people questions over the phone and ticking the appropriate boxes, was higher than her basic hourly rate for nursing. Furthermore, there was no comparison between the physical and mental demand of the two jobs. If nursing is such a rewarding profession, strange that the health service is having to fly them in from other countries in droves just to meet a bare minimum of demand for their services.

Initial reaction was "Whatsapp", but if you're pretty sure that this didn't fit the criteria then who am I to argue when I wasn't there. However, had to do a quick dash to the local farm supplies shop this afternoon, which involves a brief stretch of motorway. Came up behind a red Merc which was swerving about both wandering on to the hard shoulder and then over in to the adjacent lane. As I passed I noticed that the woman driving it was looking over and down on to the passenger seat constantly and just looking up occasionally which was then accompanied by a wild swerve back on to the slow lane, then looking back to the passenger seat and reaching over towards it. Looked very like working either a phone, tablet or whatever, while driving. Pretty silly if she was, if a cop car comes up behind her 'driving' like that, she'll be for the high jump.

Just for completion to the thread, after much research and weighing up of options, I did ultimately go with Makita but decided as I was starting from scratch, and looking towards any future potential purchases, that I would go with their newer 40v system instead. Will post up how the 40v blower performs, specifically against my 50cc backpack, in the next few months.

A lot of people are just too plain lazy assed to be bothered lighting a fire, never mind working with firewood, no matter what the economics. They also usually read The Guardian and complain about farmers destroying the countryside.

These are just your bog standard 80p each bare root jobbies, plus suckers that I've dug up from various plants in the hedges around the farm. A mixture of runts and monsters, some of them have outgrown the largest alders, some of them are being overtaken by the oaks!

I increasingly think that a hard and fast rule with cherry trees is that there's no hard and fast rule.

Cherries are odd things. The books will tell you that all the different varieties of cherry will either coppice or sucker depending, but not both. I took out a pretty big wild cherry last winter, which is suppose to be sucker only, and it's sprouting up from the stump as well as any oak or maple. I can only guess that there's been a lot of cross-breeding and hybridisation over the years and while a cherry tree may display the appearance of one type primarily, there's sufficient differences in the genes to make them potentially behave differently. Just a thought.

I find cutting and trimming coppice even more rewarding, wouldn't go as far as to say that I look forward to the winter to get at it exactly, but it's an upside to a mostly dreary time of year. I suppose the other thing is that with soaring energy bills, whatever sort of firewood processing you do for your own use, you can now also do it smuggly!

He died, .....................and his younger replacement knows squat because he went to university rather than serving an apprenticeship on the job.

Exactly. If solar is going to be "a thing" surely there's a market for new builds where it's incorporated in the design and construction of the roof rather than just an add-on.

But the solar panels would be the roof, and presumably when most of them have worn out they'll be replaced anyway. Unless, dare I suggest, solar is just a fad and in twenty years time everyone will wonder why people bothered?

You need to be aware that the BBC consistently talk shite.

It's odd someone hasn't invented solar cladding. Seems a waste roofing a building and then putting solar on the roof when some sort of solar cladding would do both jobs.

With a considerably smaller surface area at any given time than the liquid version.

Owners reviews seem to be pointing towards this type with the motor at the bottom having a considerably longer run time than the old school type with the drive going down the shaft. Which has a fair degree of logic to it if you think about it.

What's it like living with painted-on eyebrows? At least, I assume that your own are long gone.

But you cheat!

I'm thinking proper eardrum exploding bird scarer.

Of-course it does, if it's not building up on the grate it has to go somewhere.