Who's restock weeding?

[AlexB]

Before

 

After

[arbwork]

takes me back a few years that, grass hook in hand looking for Corsican pine in bracken, back bent for the day, .. weeks mmm sorry cant help with above tho!

[AlexB]

It's not so bad these days, mech weeding with a brush cutter. The first pic is tomorrows job. The second was today's the third was a week ago! Again looking for sweet chestnut in bracken. Avoiding, well trying to avoid horse flys and mozzies. After this it's spot weeding western red ceder!

[daveindales]

takes me back a few years that, grass hook in hand looking for Corsican pine in bracken, back bent for the day, .. weeks mmm sorry cant help with above tho!

 

Agreed, takes me back to the 80's. Pre brushcutter days, when we used a sickle all the time. Wasps nests and all. Sickle blight was quite common in those days too!!!

[AlexB]

Sickle blight, is that the same as a stihl canker? I'll have to remember that one! This is my first year doing it. It's not easy money!

[kernowstu]

Agreed, takes me back to the 80's. Pre brushcutter days, when we used a sickle all the time. Wasps nests and all. Sickle blight was quite common in those days too!!!

 

We called it Sheffield blight,liked weeding bracken,try the cornish bramble:thumbdown:

[Spruce Pirate]

We called it Sheffield blight,liked weeding bracken,try the cornish bramble:thumbdown:

 

We always called it Sheffield Blight too - that's where the steel for the hooks used to be made I think. Bracken isn't too bad if its upright, I once had to hook bracken off larch trees in Jan/Feb. It was like snow blindness at the end of the day, but in orange. All day, looking for little orange sticks under the little orange sticks.

[ben_inthewoods]

Try to persuade the Forester to whip early next spring to reduce the impact next year. Hooking this time of year not great for your health if the spores are out.

 

We've done 20ha of this, not great and a larch crop - fingers crossed not to get P ramorum

[AlexB]

It's Fc, they know they can do it earlier but they're not doing the work and they don't like to do too much paperwork at one time. It confuses them......

[AlexB]

I started the piece in the first pick last thing today. When the brush cutter hits the bracken it wobbles like a jelly for miles! It's a big tangled mess going to

Try the shredder on it tomorrow instead of the tri blade.....