Hotrodder wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:26 pm
I stopped doing that a few weeks ago. Every time I finished work and walked up the road to collect the triangle it was blown over. Either the wind or the blast from the lorries on the very edge of the tarmac.
Did a little more today between showers. Almost ready to tackle the big one.
Yonks ago I was taking the slates on an old building which bordered our road & needed to erect some scafolding on the road.
A phone call to our local mairie saw the works dept. quickly deliver triangle 'men working' signs & cones none of which they wanted back as they were 'left overs' from other contractors.
I've still got 'em & quite often loan them out to them what know that.
Finished it today. I leaned my longest ladder against the heavy branch about three feet from the point where it crossed the wire. My mini electric chainsaw made the cut at the mid point between ladder and wire. The wire went twang! and the offcut fell away just clear of the tarmac. Thankfully the rest of the branch didn't move much. I might have had to make a split second decision whether to hang on to the branch or the ladder. If I chose the ladder it could have been a rough landing. Choosing the branch might have left me dangling from it trying to flag down a passing car.
I'm guessing that the pine branch must have been growing across the wire for years but I never noticed it, it was so hidden by the laurel shoots surrounding it.
And miraculously, a passing driver stopped to ask if he could have the branches I had cut and piled up next to the road. At least I think that's what he said. Anyway I agreed he could come tomorrow morning to collect any or all of it. Most odd.
Humanity landed on the moon over fifty years ago but it seems too much to ask for a reliable telephone/internet service in rural France.
@L Austin France - carry over from the weather thread Purists and ecolos look away now
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The geotextile came in rolls of 100m x 1m and I chopped it in half to make 50cm wide.
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I've used paillage many, many times in gardens over the years. Valuable for plants to win over weeds, but be careful mowing/strimming blades don't catch it!
Yep...all the borders where I used it are / have been much more successful and need less watering. Now got a source of good mulch but it's time-consuming spreading it to a useful depth, not to mention having to fetch it by the trailer load...
Bonne chance!
