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Lowepro Slingshot 100 AW or similar, plenty secondhand for not much money on the Bay. https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lowepro-Slingshot-100-AW-Review.aspx

Not a huge fan of the main presenter but quite an interesting insight to how these things are made. In my defence, I'm currently suffering from acute manflu and not up to much other than watching the idiot lantern...

A couple of years ago I bought a chainsaw from the Bay of E which arrived via Royal Mail badly wrapped in cardboard soaked in the fuel and oil that was leaking from it. The Postie had been driving with the van windows open as it stank of petrol. It was in nothing like the condition described...

After I culled a load of leylandii, I hired one of these tracked Timberwolfs for a bit over £100 a day - deals with anything up to 6”. Quite heavy on the diesel though. I kept the bigger stuff for burning and just put the brash through it - you do end up with large piles of chippings though...

The main difference in the NS and WB styles is the angle of the stakes so not as significant as that with Devon style which is a lot of work unless someone has already kindly made a bank for you. The Wrington & Burrington Association run a course in Jan/Feb which is not too far from you. My...

The hedgelaying neighbour would certainly provide advice but his days of practical hedgelaying are sadly behind him. I did a five day course down in Somerset where I am from earlier this year and am wondering whether to lay the hedge North Somerset rather than Welsh Borders style - I suspect in...

True it is not just the tree you need to worry about and there are plenty of Utube vids usually involving Darwin award wannabe 4x4 drivers showing the forces released when tensioned cables or whatever they are attached to, let go. I have always relied on a combination of the shear pin in the...

The one I found was not so lucky - I try not to think about it too much! :(

Psyching myself up to have a go at laying a length of very unruly hedge around a patch of woodland. One neighbour wants it doing so her show ponies don’t get their manes tangled in vegetation - the other is a former national hedgelaying champion - so no pressure then! :)

Nice bit of kit and certainly less effort but no reason why you can’t run a Tirfor through a pulley (and add a length of cable/strapping) to get you away from where the tree is going to fall.

My chooks do that with moss!

Is this what you have in mind? ;)

Looks good but a bit more than I was thinking of spending. :)

A bit of a thread resurrection but things move on and the Andrew James versin (is he a real person?) no longer seems available. On @mazon, around £30-35 seems to get you a 240/250w dehydrator with a timer and variable temperature setting (older threads suggest that earlier models didn’t have...

Thanks for taking the tine to make and post the video - really enjoying the series as we have a similar lifestyle albeit in a somewhat harsher climate in the Welsh hills. I bought a similar fence set up earlier this year after a young fox which clearly hadn’t got the memo about not coming round...

A bit of thread necromancing! :emoji_mushroom: A cracking day out foraging around my neck of he woods which yielded a decent haul of parasol mushrooms and nearly a kilo of sloes to go with the bags of hazelnuts and blackberries from recent outings. Unfortunately I’m from the Fred Scuttle...

I was lucky enough to find an Elwell 4029-2 slasher in my barn a couple of years ago. The original worm-ridden handle didn’t last long but rehandled it has proved a useful ally in the eternal batle to control (but not eradicate - in moderation they are great for wildlife) gorse, brambles...

I have a Rudd Rake - great bit if kit! :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cumbria-49852914/rudd-s-rakes-the-family-raking-in-the-hay-for-generations