what grinds your gears

[marcot]

Bl----y squirrels attacking my walnut tree. Last year we got about 500 walnuts from the tree after shooting 14 squirrels, this year they have attacked earlier while there is only soft green pulp in the nuts. I have managed to shoot 11 in the last 3 days but will not get many nuts this time round. I am trying to work out a way to stop them getting into the tree but obviously not easy. Maybe get some traps and have a concerted year round effort. Any bright ideas?

Could you cut the tree down and take it indoors?

 

[primmiemoo]

Could you cut the tree down and take it indoors?

I'd found this thread so as to have a good grumble, but you provided an antidote before I could set cursor to composition box

 

[jellybean]

I did wonder if one of @grainboy conical roof from a grain bin fitted around the trunk could stop them getting up the trunk. But I would have to remove an apple tree that they could jump from into the walnut tree.

 

[Cowmansam]

Bl----y squirrels attacking my walnut tree. Last year we got about 500 walnuts from the tree after shooting 14 squirrels, this year they have attacked earlier while there is only soft green pulp in the nuts. I have managed to shoot 11 in the last 3 days but will not get many nuts this time round. I am trying to work out a way to stop them getting into the tree but obviously not easy. Maybe get some traps and have a concerted year round effort. Any bright ideas?

Trap and shoot is about all you can do I think

 

[Cowmansam]

Electric round and round the two trunks maybe

 

[melted welly]

why do people have to have bonfires during harvest one whiff of smoke and I'm out of the combine with the fire extinguisher having palpitations

I get the same when lifting over wintered carrots from under straw

Scarred from too many years of the old man turning up on a whim and “just burning a bit to get the discs going….. the winds blowing the other way”….. and the whole lot (poly, carrots and all) ending in flames.

“Tornado of flames” he described it as one year.

@Chae1 remember that phone call? Sure I was in your cardick spec clio when that disaster unfolded.

 

[Baker9]

Traffic was bad on the M6 today, too.

I got caught in a huge knot of it starting at Carnforth southbound, right down to the M61. There was no accident, no roadworks... just a handful of complete f**king arseholes tootling along at 40mph in lanes 1 and 2, causing miles of tailbacks.

If you are driving at anything less than 60MPH in a modern car on the motorway, you should executed on the spot.

And the carcase hung from the nearest information gantry with the relevant information of the crime on said gantry to as the French say " pour encourage les autres".

 

[smcapstick]

And the carcase hung from the nearest information gantry with the relevant information of the crime on said gantry to as the French say " pour encourage les autres".

Quite right.

 

[Forkdriver]

Trap and shoot is about all you can do I think

And then the rooks will have them.

 

[Cowmansam]

And then the rooks will have them.

Can they crack a walnut

 

[Forkdriver]

Can they crack a walnut

Oh yes, when they are just off the tree. What they drop becomes more walnut trees

 

[Cowmansam]

Pretty rare thing aren’t they a walnut tree not sure why though

 

[JWL]

Pretty rare thing aren’t they a walnut tree not sure why though

That's because the gentry kept digging the root boles up to make stocks for their Purdey's and Holland and Holland's

 

[Forkdriver]

Pretty rare thing aren’t they a walnut tree not sure why though

Plant a few for the future. At our last smallholding l planted a couple and within 15 years we were getting a crop and also a few seedlings to transplant. Lovely trees.

 

[DrWazzock]

All day changing three belts on the combine.
It’s the size of a house but there is about .1 mm clearance between the belts and various guides and parts of the frame. The fancy external tinware can’t be removed to get at things properly. The hydraulic pump belt wouldn’t come off with the tensioner wound back out of the way so had to remove the hydraulic pump. The new belt was so tight it didn’t need/ couldn’t fit tge tensioner. Every bracket and support needed fettling in the vice to sort it out. I despair at modern (1982) design for maintenance. Get those design office wallahs out on the spanner’s I say. Then they might take a bit more care.

 

[Pan mixer]

Spending several hours in a field working past lunchtime. Just going round the corner to go home at last and the Bee Militia are all parked in the way again.

 

[DrWazzock]

Plant a few for the future. At our last smallholding l planted a couple and within 15 years we were getting a crop and also a few seedlings to transplant. Lovely trees.

My uncle has a walnut tree. He has to put a radio in it tuned to radio 4 to keep the squirrel away. Is it the sound of human voices that keeps the squirrel away, I asked. No he said, it gets fed up of the woke left wing political bias.

 

[roscoe erf]

may of mentioned this before PEOPLE

 

[primmiemoo]

may of mentioned this before PEOPLE

Subset ~ co-workers, too
Looking forward to tomorrow when I'm working with someone who's less of a self-indulgent show off.

 

[Chae1]

When people just leave trailers in fields I'm sowing.