Thread: What's in your garden?

^ you know nature looks after its own "rubbish", its called decay and in the UK after the great storms of 87' it was found that the woods and forests that were left to naturally regenerate with deadfall did so much faster than those "tidied" by man, not to mention the wildlife that lives off all the rotting ecosystem.

^Well I think it all ends up as C02 one way or the t'other. But since I am a certified pyromaniac my bio-waste is going up in flames


I was bewitched by the sight of bioluminiferous fungi in the forest as I cycled back to the house in the dark tonight

Spooky and magical. Maybe Santa makes tea from this for the reindeers to power the sleigh

Tree came down and nearly took out the wee shed

Must have been the wind earlier in the week

Must have happened a few days ago and I did not notice as the leaves are already brown

RIP tree

Close shave Loopy luckily as you shed your inhibitions, the inhibted tree "skirted' the shed

Lovely stuff , you seem to have a nice property there, are there any wallabies or wannabies nearby?

^Heaps of wallabies Dave. One was munching the grass under the fallen tree as I approached with my chainsaw today. He had obviously seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as he hopped it sharpish.

During arboreal dismemberment I noticed that the tree had fallen on one of the Jacaranda saplings that have sprung up round the shed from seeds from the tree.

It had been stretched to breaking point but spared by the grace of God from snapping so I released it and it was badly bent over but a bit of reverse bending had it standing proud and perky.

And a curious creature on my glasses.

It is a treehopper nymph which has an explosion of cotton protruding from the arse-end of its green cone-shaped body.

Originally Posted by Looper

Tree came down and nearly took out the wee shed

I was so chuffed at the tree having fallen in between the powerline and shed that I completely failed to notice that the tree had had 2 trunks and the 2nd trunk had also fallen and had in fact fallen dead onto the power line.

Climb up the power pole and gaze in wonder at the meagre 13mm J-hook that somehow did not snap. Thank my lucky lordy's I decided to go for kosher hooks back in June, instead of my home made hooks from bent jumbo screws.

Trim the dead foliage to get a clearer view of the situation.

Add a rope to prevent the cable from suddenly flying up like a mediaeval catapult (or rather Ballista!) when I make the final cut

Make the final cut and watch the rope arrest the energy before any damage is done to the hooks

Gradually allow the cables to rise back into position

This is critical since this span is 80m from pole to pole with a 14m slack drop in between the poles so the cable is very long and heavy and contains a lot of kinetic energy once it starts to move.

Tip top job Loops!

^Still can't believe that hook did not snap!


The striped agave decided to shoot it rude little sprout in response to the warm weather

Poor Bandy Bandy came cropper at my front gate

RIP