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AJB Temple wrote:You cannot cut tall Leylandii like that unfortunately as the tops will go brown and not regrow. It is unfortunately one of those hedges that needs cutting quite often, or topping out at a height you cannot see fro m the garden or house.
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Mike G wrote:Hawthorn! Bah...... I see your hawthorn and raise to a blackthorn. Miles of the bloody stuff (well, that's what it feels like). It's got me through the soles of my boots at least twice.
Mike G wrote:Hawthorn! Bah...... I see your hawthorn and raise to a blackthorn. Miles of the bloody stuff (well, that's what it feels like). It's got me through the soles of my boots at least twice.
Cabinetman wrote:Oh yes, you reminded me what blackthorn is, those thorns are just so – well thorny!
You could almost use them as nails, i’m sure they must have had uses for them in the old days.
Lons wrote:I got the reg and called the police who came out and gave me a right ticking off for chasing them with a weapon saying if I'd hit one of them I'd have been arrested, true enough but I wasn't amused and said as much.
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SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:You Mainland Lot are SO lucky! If we had cut down a "Fairy Thorn" back in ol' County Derry, "The Little Folk" would have been so peeved at you, there would have been seven years' bad luck, your daughter would be barren and your son lost at sea, the cows would have gone dry, and RogerS would have moved in next door...
BigMonka wrote:[*] I'm thinking of going for this one: https://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/Premium-DIY-Scaffold-Towers.html Noting roger's bad experience with them, although I have previously had good experience of ladders from them.[/list]
novocaine wrote:for a 5m platform, that's cheap as chips. it would cost me that to hire similar for a the few weeks I need it for when I repaint the house. the builder of our extension has offered me to hire his at a cheap rate lucky for me.
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[*] I'm thinking of going for this one: https://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/Premium-DIY-Scaffold-Towers.html Noting roger's bad experience with them, although I have previously had good experience of ladders from them.
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RogerS wrote:BigMonka wrote:.....
[*] I'm thinking of going for this one: https://www.laddersandscaffoldtowers.co.uk/acatalog/Premium-DIY-Scaffold-Towers.html Noting roger's bad experience with them, although I have previously had good experience of ladders from them.
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Just be aware that the shorter towers only have very small outiggers and TBH I don't think they give enough stability. DAMHIKT.
How about a tripod ladder ?
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