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Old 17th June 2023
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How long did it take to paint white stripes on 200 oak trees?
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And why paint the trees?
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How long did it take to paint white stripes on 200 oak trees?
30 seconds if you have a thousand people with loaded rollers ready for the command to "GO!" I think that is actually a conservative figure as long as nobody on the crew gets all anal about getting paint into all the cracks between the bark. Like... GO, slop, slop, done!
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Still really like my bobber
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Still really like my bobber
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