coppice cutter

There's actually two different blowers in the post. Which is yours so I can check it out specifically? Thanks. 👍

Strangely I don't tend to see many withered leaves on trees with dieback. Usually there's healthy looking branches with leaves interspersed with bare dead branches with nothing. So you get the dead man's fingers appearance sticking out the top of the tree. In any case, little or no point doing anything other than let nature take it's course anyway.

No, I don't have anything currently that would take me in any direction, would be so much simpler if I had. Main battery contender at the minute would be Makita as they have such a range of stuff available to further utilise the batteries in future, both garden equipment and hand tools. Their hand tools are well known to be as good as any and I've read quite a few older posts on here from owners of their garden equipment which seem to be equally good. However, I can buy locally an Echo 2620 with five year warranty for less than the Makita twin 18v hand held blower bare. I'm struggling to see beyond old school ATM to be honest!

Yeah, you really need to try to figure out what you might be able to add in future to make it viable. Not easy when you have pretty much everything you need but don't know what might give up first, if at all, to need replaced. Not generally a fan of battery stuff but it just feels like it might suit this particular job.

How long does it run?, bearing in mind that a quick handy blast is it's purpose for me. I've a stihl dealer less than 10minutes away, so it would be a handy option. That having been said, I've also a Husky dealer and a Screwfix about 10 minutes away as well.

Had you stihl batteries already or did you have to buy all from scratch? Because on the latter basis, petrol looks considerably cheaper.

Had you Stihl batteries already or buy the whole outfit?

Haven't had a hand held blower before, and haven't had any battery powered garden equipment before so I'm well out on a limb with this one. In my spare time I maintain a privately owned kart track, it's not in constant use so keeping the tarmac clean is an ongoing battle. I have a Makita backpack blower and a tractor mounted tornado for the heavy lifting but I think something hand held and handy for a quick blast around the edges on a more regular basis would be beneficial as well. So I suppose there's several issues, if going battery do you go garden equipment battery (echo, stihl, husky, etc) or power tool battery (makita, dewalt, milwaukee, etc)? Might consider a battery strimmer in future, but that would be about it. Equally, I've no particular need for any battery power tools at present either so probably best prioritising the blower? The other option is just buy as powerful a hand held petrol blower as I can get, mixed petrol and Aspen are both always at hand and there's no issues with noise. I'll spend a while this morning trawling spec sheets but practical experiences are always hard to beat so any input or similar experiences welcome.

Prick. We'll leave it at.

OK, fair enough. 👍 I ride whatever I'm working at, could be a stepthru in the morning and a Hayabusa in the afternoon. Personally I've a collection of two-strokes, but increasingly think it's unlikely I'll ever do much with most of them and they should be dispersed for others to get pleasure from. But who knows, I'll probably keep them a few more years until I retire (God willing!) and see then.

Sounds like you're questioning me as well? My 'day' job is a motorcycle mechanic, increasingly part time.

I have a lot of customers on minimum wage who just keep their head down, work away making the best of it, and gurn far less than people earning considerably more. Don't try to tell me they are figments of my imagination. Being opinionated is one thing, talking out of your arse is something else. I used to think you were the former, but increasingly think you're most likely the latter.

The real irony is that such people tend to complain considerably less (if at all) compared to those who have little or nothing to complain about.

A niece of Mrs CC and her husband have a combined income of about £140k, it's mostly him as he has a very high up job in a local council. They tell anyone dumb enough to listen that they're going to struggle to buy heating oil this winter. Inflation doesn't lie, the country is awash with money and that's the main problem.

Yep, that's the fella.

My guess is that with the recent hot weather the can has expanded a bit. Wouldn't have to swell much to lower the level noticeably.

There's a chemical available which acts as a growth regulator on both grass and cereal crops. Hasn't many down sides in cereals as they're an annual and harvested in less than a year, but it has to be used very carefully on grass apparently.

Hazel is awesome, tough, resilient, pretty, incredibly easy to manage, great for wildlife, gives you excellent firewood, and you get nuts. I planted about 500 hundred, if I'd known then what I know now I'd have doubled that. If I had more ground I'd definitely plant an area of hazel coppice, maybe with a few standards through it. But then there'd have to be fewer sheep, and I like keeping them too. But I'm being picky, overall I should just be glad I planted what I did when I did.

Was more like this, which t'internet told me was mice.

Well it's bound to be some sort of outdoorsy type of mouse, so that'll do me. Was quite happy when I figured out what had been eating them, just another indication of bringing new life to what was previously a relatively sterile area.

Not so far, I planted it in the heart of a 100% agricultural area and seldom see a grey. I find lots of nuts on the woodland floor during late winter/early spring which have a little perfectly round hole on the top of them which apparently is mice so they seem to be the main beneficiary to date.

Maybe I was lucky but when planting my woodland I only used bog standard corylus avellana, think they were about 80p per plant back then, and all from the same supplier. First got a few nuts about four years ago, with more and more bushes producing every year since until this year where there are nuts everywhere you look. I wasn't even aware there were issues with cross-pollination?

This and your previous post all very accurate. News was much more fair and balanced when they simply reported what was happening. But it now encompasses so much commentary and personal opinion that the pure factual nature of it has been diminished practically to the point of being non-existent.

God love it. We've had two Springers, both rescues, and both classed as 'problem dogs', but we never had any trouble with them strangely enough. Not surprisingly we're Collie people primarily, but both the Springers have as big a place in our dog history as anything else.

Even if Echo still make the 390, I struggle to see why any importer would go to the trouble of stocking it along with the new 4310 which is more powerful and lighter. And I say that as someone with a fairly new 390esx sitting on the bench.