Tiercel
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Make a Danforth anchor they hold well and are easy to make. TC
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If you can't get permission in Carmarthenshire, you might as well not bother. TC
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Bob, all sticks contain some moisture, thats why they have to be dried. When they season all sticks shrink, and the more the moisture content in the stick the more it shrinks and the longer it takes. But once they have seasoned properly there is no difference between winter and summer cut sticks. TC
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It is just a show piece, the mouth where you would pull it into the leg is too wide. It was made like that on purpose to allow my hand to grasp the shaft, the inside radius at the top of the cleek is about right, the diameter of an old penny . That said it would probably do the job at a push being made of Oak it is certainly strong enough. TC
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http://www.thestickman.co.uk/knob.htm I think he`s got one. Not cheap though and I`d rather find my own. Looking for one myself, but the sap is up now so it`ll be end of autumn now for me to pick one. Bob, if you see one you fancy cut it. It will still be seasoned before any you cut next winter. Sticks cut with the sap up take about 6 months longer to season. To get a blackthorn knob stick you have to cut saplings with part of the root ball thats what makes the knob. TC
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Now that the weather has got a bit warmer, I have been out the shed having a play making a few sticks. The crook one is a leg cleek in Oak on a Hazel shank and I tried a Herons head in Oak, but it has not come out as well as I thought it would. It looked fine when carving it, but once I put it on a shank I could see that it was not right. The beak should have been pointing down. We live and learn. The small one is an antler thumb stick for the granddaughter. TC
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You have a PM. TC
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It's biodegradable polythene. It's mostly used of fodder and biomass maize around this area. It enables them to plant and harvest earlier. Without it they normally wait till May to plant maize then harvest in November. with the covering they can plant and harvest a month earlier. BTW what the hell is a Yacon? Never heard of it. Fruit or veg? TC -
Gives a whole new meaning to ants in your pants. TC
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It's the bread bin a the cake dome that I like. That dome is something special. TC
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They look like over ripe Kumquats. TC
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A good site with regards to the law and taxidermy. http://www.taxidermylaw.co.uk/regulations/various-regs.cfm TC
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Croeso i Cymru mwynhau'r daith. Glad you've broken the back of it, you have my admiration. Now get on with shooting those bloody squirrels. TC
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If you add lime for brassicas you cannot manure at the same time as they react together and take the nitrogen out of the soil. Your best bet is to test the soil for the ph value you can buy kits or use a ph meter, anything over 7 should be alright for brassicas. Burnt wood ash will raise the ph also. But don't put with the potatoes as they like an acid soil 5.5 to 6.5 preferably. TC
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The pipes are water mains, off cuts from when they were laying new mains a few years ago. What they are made of I am not quite sure. It is some kind of treated plastic. Before I had these I used a variety of tubes from down pipes to a tin tube. A lot of people make a wooden steaming box, there are some on youtube. TC
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It does not really matter what length the poles are. What is more critical is the hight of the net, as long as that is not too high then the amount of pole above that does not matter. TC
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This afternoon was so nice, I got the steamer out and straightened some sticks. I tend do as I need and usually do around 20 at a time, as that is what a steamer full of water will allow me to do. I have two steaming pipes one short approx 4ft and one around 5ft. They both take around 5 or 6 sticks dependant on the diameter of the sticks. On the top of the tubes I have a couple of caps with a 1/8th hole drilled in them and once the steam is coming out of the holes like it does out of a kettle, the sticks are ready for straightening. I use a wallpaper stripper for the steam and jus
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http://www.trailhead.ie/wolf-reintroduction-wicklow TC
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I'm not sure, but I reckon moles go backward as well as forward, and IMO it is going backward how they get caught. Could it have been in an altercation with another mole at the time and backing away? TC
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The basket system may be marginally quicker, but traditional is a lot quieter and catches more rabbits. It's not speed that catches rabbits. I have yet to see anyone who can set a quickset faster than a rabbit can run. TC
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Most of the commercial growers who produce the early runner beans and broad beans keep bee hives in the green houses to get the flowers pollinated. You could try pollinating them with a rabbit tail that might work. An old boy in the village back home used to use one for his tomatoes in the heated green house he ran. TC
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Terry the reason the beans are straggly is because you put them in too early. They put too much growth on before the frosts and it damages the stems. Ideally they should just have their heads through when the frosts arrive. When we had the hard frosts in early November a couple of years ago a lot of farmers were caught out for planting their beans as the ground was frozen. Also when planting for over winter beans plant them on a mound as it drains better and stops plants rotting in wet winters. The trouble with having early flowers on the beans is that there are not enough insects around t
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I use this site http://www.llanelliweather.co.uk/ for the local weather and rain radar. TC
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I use magicseaweed.com its alright but as with any weather station it is just a prediction. There are so many factors that can influence our weather the permatations are unbelievabe. Take this Azores high that is pushing up to us, it is on the move and unlikely to settle, the longest lasting high pressures are the ones that develope over the country. TC
