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  1. coppice cutter
    You are casually stating with certainty, something which solicitors, barristers, and "expert witnesses" could line their pockets squabbling over for a few years, should the neighbours be vindictive enough and well-heeled enough (or stupid enough!) to decide to pursue. The growth next door hasn't come from setting seed, it has come directly from the roots of the original tree which has spread over the boundary, and I reckon that is sufficient grounds to make the problem contestable. Awkward or not, the neighbours need to be included in dealing with the problem. An, "it's not our problem any more, you deal with it" approach could end up badly, and in my opinion, it's probably worth a bit of teeth gritting to avoid that possibility.
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    Again, any possibility that it's doing this itself via the ECU because the system hasn't been reset?
  3. coppice cutter
    Is there any possibility that you've sorted the problem but the warning light just needs reset? If there's any likelihood of that being the case you could try disconnecting the battery for a while and then re-connecting it. Might not work but at least it would be simple compared to flogging around the roads like a testosterone charged young fella.
  4. coppice cutter
    I said it was "kinda" your tree, which it kinda is. The suckers have come from the roots of your tree which have spread in to their garden. And strictly speaking, your tree isn't dead, the root system from it, which plainly spans both gardens, is putting all it's efforts in to the growth in your neighbours garden. Nature is no respecter of title deeds or ownership boundaries.
  5. coppice cutter
    Well actually their tree kinda is your tree, but now it's just growing on their side of the fence. And that foliage is now feeding the roots keeping the entire thing alive. You both need to work together to deal with it rather than finger point and try to apportion blame.
  6. coppice cutter
    Not for a wild cherry, or sour cherry. I have lots of both and they sucker like crazy.
  7. coppice cutter
    No misunderstanding, that's what it's doing. Not all trees propagate themselves and spread in this way, but Wild Cherry does, and it's very good at it.
  8. coppice cutter
    Yes, they're called "suckers", Mr Stubbs has already dealt with that.
  9. coppice cutter
    There's two issues here. Firstly, it seems they done their job OK, they removed the tree but if it's still suckering from the existing roots as appears to be the case, that's something different. I suspect as said before that if you just keep mowing the grass and suckers with it, it will eventually give up. Secondly, they had no need to do something as retarded as blaming your mum for the suckering problem. I can't imagine they are dull enough to actually think that is correct so they were just making excuses when they had no need to.
  10. coppice cutter
    I planted about 400 of the rascals, but they mustn't have reached the stage of doing that yet as I've never noticed anything.
  11. coppice cutter
    I done it once and found it pretty underwhelming if I'm honest.
  12. 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.
  13. coppice cutter
    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.
  14. coppice cutter
    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
  15. coppice cutter
    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?
  16. coppice cutter
    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
  17. coppice cutter
    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.
  18. coppice cutter
    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.
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    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.
  20. coppice cutter
    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.
  21. coppice cutter
    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.
  22. coppice cutter
    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!
  23. coppice cutter
    I increasingly think that a hard and fast rule with cherry trees is that there's no hard and fast rule.
  24. coppice cutter
    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.
  25. coppice cutter
    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!

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