walshie
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I live in Wales. I'll do it now in a minute.
Simon - it's my field so no-one to ask.
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56 minutes ago, johnphilip said:
Is it something to do with some form of fish or eel trap ??
That's a good call. I'll check out some old fish trap designs.
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11 minutes ago, Wymondley said:
I still think it may be part of an old chain harrow, although if it's near a water course it may have been used to dredge reeds.
Whatever it is, I can't wait for the next installment.
Stay tuned.
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Next thrilling installment. Spent an hour down there today hacking through tree roots and uncovered this much including the round object highlighted earlier. Still won't budge so I suspect there's more below the ground.
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No. I haven't dug it out yet. 😃
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4 hours ago, johnphilip said:
Is this a round object. Next to it. I zoomed. In on your photo ,
Yes. It certainly looks like a round object. 😃
Gimme a chance fellas. It's been chucking it down here and I don't want to get my hair wet. 👨🦱
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On 02/10/2023 at 15:38, enfieldspares said:
Just take a "quick". That is pull off, leaving a heel attached, a sprouting branch and let it get started in a jar or water or, even better, say special rooting jelly. Some say dab the heel end with "rooting powder". That way you'll have the same species to fill that gap and only about a year behind (depending on your soil composition) than if you'd bought said plant. And FWIW how do you think the garden centre produce theirs?
Excellent idea. Thanks.👍
On 06/10/2023 at 17:32, old man said:walshie, does it bear strawberry fruits?........... Cornus Kousa?
No. No fruits.
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4 hours ago, ditchman said:
take a spade and do some digging and more pics please
Will do.
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44 minutes ago, wymberley said:
Don't suppose there's another one on the opposite side of the stream?
I see where you're going. It is at right angles to the stream. I'll be back there in a few days and check that out.
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12 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:
hello, before the advent of diggers farm workers use to dig out ditches by hand so maybe a spade scrapper ??
That would make sense apart from the fact it hinges flat forward or backwards.
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11 hours ago, ditchman said:
something to do with the keeping and management of sheep ?
in the middle of a field ??.......something from ww2 ?.....something from the royal observer corps....looks a bit iffyfor a ack-ack gun emplacement...
It's on the edge of a field about 10 ft from a stream. It looks like it's been there a long time has been put there on purpose. It hasn't just been dumped. I reckon aliens
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I found this under a load of bramble in a field. It's a hoop of approx 3/8" steel with a lump of angle iron welded to the top.
I tried pulling it out but it's in solid. About 2" below the surface each leg has a round hinge and pin that allows it to move backwards or forward but not side to side and under the hinge appears to be more steel rod going straight down. I don't know how far as I didn't have any digging tools with me.
Any ideas?
Edited to add: It's about knee height and about 3ft wide.
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Didn't get the chance yesterday to put up the 2 different (but maybe the same) dogwoods side by side, so here they are.
Top photo is what the garden centre called "red dogwood" and the bottom photo is what they called "common dogwood" - also identified by members here as common dogwood. They look nothing alike.
When the garden centre ordered some common dogwood in for us, it was the same as the red dogwood.
Rather than try to order some more common dogwood and maybe get the red stuff we already have again, I'm going to transplant some of the stuff we already have into the hedge and save some money.
It's a tricky one, but thanks for everyone's replies.
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11 minutes ago, Windswept said:
I think there's more than one tree in the pics. The first photo, the twig on the laptop, looks like a dogwood because of the flowers. Some of mine have green or brown stems, mostly new growth but also some grown in the shade. Most does have reddish stems though.
The 2nd photo does look like alder, the third I would say dogwood again.
Well spotted. On closer examination the hedge alternates alder, dogwood, alder. Etc.
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2 hours ago, Windswept said:
Your photo looks like common dogwood to me, Latin name Cornus sanguinea. It is quite variable and over the years cultivars have been bred that have more vivid stems and leaves, so the garden center stuff could be the same plant.
We have a massive bush of the stuff the garden centre had at the end of our garden which they said was red dogwood.. Bright red stems and thin pointy leaves. So maybe a cultivar of the common? So confusing.
2 hours ago, JDog said:Look up Cornus Stolonifera flaviramea.
Put up some pictures of the older stems.
Yellow dogwood. Dont think its that. Our stems just look a woody colour.
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We've got a gap in our hedge and wanted to fill the gap with the same hedging. The bloke at the garden centre assured us it was common dogwood and ordered us some in but on collecting it today it looks nothing like it. The common dogwood he ordered has pointed leaves and red stems. The stuff we have has round leaves and brown stems.
This is what we have. Anyone know type of dogwood it is, or if it is even dogwood at all?
Ta.
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Scaremongering drivel.
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3 minutes ago, Centrepin said:
My lad runs a 21 plate hi lux on off road tyres. 32psi performs best all round in his opinion. Any higher gets a loose/floating back end empty. I think the recommended was 33F 36R for load/speed. Isn't there a plate pop riveted into the door telling you?
Yes, but with the OE Bridgestone tyres with a much softer sidewall. Says 29. I was thinking of splitting the difference with 32 or 33.
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Just got a new set of Goodyear Wrangler A/T Adventure tyres for my Hilux to replace the ageing Bridgestone Duelers that were on it.
The garage said 36psi would be best. (seems high). Toyota recommend 29 psi (seems low, but it was for the Bridgstones and seemed to work OK.)
Google gives the answer as somewhere between 29psi and 42 psi.😃 Does anyone run anything similar and what psi do you use?
Thanks.
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My car insurance auto renews. I get a renewal notice and if the price is OK, I let it renew.
Last 2 years with the same company it "auto-renewed" followed by a threatening letter a few days later saying that if I didn't pay by so-and-so date they'd cancel it.
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She was great with her deadpan remarks. 97 is a good innings.
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Couple of hours this afternoon between the showers. Decent few rudd float fishing about 18" deep. Took me right back to my childhood.
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Cooper AT3 or Goodyear Wrangler A/T Adventure. Both more road biased than KO2s.
What is this thing?
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About 2ft. The 3ft is the width between the verticals. Yes the angle iron is tacked on. I'll get the actual measurements tomorrow.