treedave

I'd like to agree with you, but the "national interest" is a phrase often used by pressure groups to pursue their version of reality. There are a great number of such groups that oppose developments such as the honister zip. I leads to a feeling that they would like to keep everything as it is, locally known as living in aspic. Unfortunately this is directly opposed to the need for the local economy to diversify and develop. I've no doubt there is no way that a new slate quarry would be allowed in the park, yet the old ones have created some amazing places and local history. Nothing new, but sometimes it feels like a very high price to pay for helping to look after the landscape that the pressure groups find so precious.

There's fencing and there's fencing. I've be using temp deer fencing with some good results, this is often combined with "active" control, aka shooting & eating. Works well with the smaller species but big red will get in if he wants to. Once the regrowth is above brows height the fence comes out and is used elsewhere. Not sure what the issue with badgers is, can you enlighten me as to the issues with mr Brock?

Strange that, I thought the LDNPA where charged with managing the park for the benefit of all. Unless the people that created the views and manage the man made landscape are accommodated, then the loss of knowledge built up over generations will continue. Tourism brings in the most money, but if the farmers, foresters, dry stone wallers, quarrymen etc cannot carry on their day to day existence with minimal hindrance, then the average age will continue to rise, die out and you can all come and look at a derelict landscape. But hey, in the end the trees will reclaim the fells and it may become a wilderness again.

No not really, but then there are a few less businesses and a few more struggling. Got to agree that the lake is quieter and a nicer place to work on (my 2nd job as am outdoor instructor has me on the lake a fair bit). I don't get buzzed by jet skis anymore but then I don't get the spectacle of the record setting speed week either. The LDNPA already had speed restrictions on all other lakes, with Windermere being left as the only venue to ski, go fast etc. Then with the aim of getting world heritage status (and the £20mil that goes with it) they started talking of erosion and wakes from boats-err a boat on the plane has minimal wake compared to the same boat off the plane,doh! The long and the short is they could've addressed the stated issues by zoning the usage of the lake ie <5 mph in the bays, powered craft north of bowness, unpowered anywhere, no craft in certain swimming friendly bays/ area. Working dispensations for companies with boats on the lake. As it is we can no longer practice our powerboat reduces if they involve higher speed manoeuvres. Rant over. Insert smiley of your choice here.

I'd be interested in other peoples views on NE and the planning board. It was this kind of thing that made me move out of the Park. As for FoLD, no friends of mine!, but then the National Trust have a similar rep with locals.

Checked my locals out. The local timber yard, makes gates and shds etc to order and the guy that fitted my mother in laws stove. He left a bag of their logs, I took more than a little interest in the packaging & product. Nice dry syc logs, force dried with their own wood waste. Handy if you want to buy your logs by the carrier bag full! I also know that he's asked me to supply him last year, but we agreed to go our seperate ways due to the pressures of business we where / are both under. It suits him but I doubt that I'll lose any business to him, even though he's less than 5 miles from me. The people I deal with buy, buy the load (now being educated to buy by volume to enable better comparison) and once they've had good service they prefer to stick with the devil they know.

Sorry about the delays, have had a contractor loose his brakes and damage a rim on the trailer whilst extracting. Fortunately there was a tree for the mighty mog to rest against before jumping the wall into the farmers field. So between searching for a replacement / stop gap and finishing the extraction to ride side I've neglected the quoting, a situation to be remedied as I'm working n the wood in the weather we are forecast tomorrow, today was bad enough!

Works the same way with me, as I do the little work required at my kids school. Saves the money for trips, kit etc and I get some cordwood for my troubles.

We had snow on the tops this am, followed by wind and hail storms, followed by firewood orders in the evening.

Not heard of any cutters but heard of a lad in a mewp that touched overhead line. He was working in a quarry though- same one?

Mine goes into old builders bags and to the neighbouring farm. He then stacks the bags of logs with his telehandler, a couple of days worth of processing at a time. No brass either way but both better off. Am I losing out, is the market for mixed dust that good?

How much do you want to pay? Ok, add £10 per ton on and we'll agree at that:sneaky2:. Seriously, I can get you a rough haulage price, but a postcode gives me (and the Haulier) a better chance of giving you an accurate quote. PM me or use the email link on the 1st post and I'll get back to you when I know.

The price of the dry blow reflects this, and there's all sorts of grant top up coming into it, even landfill tax top up (!?!). If there wasn't id be paying them to do it! Also the wet hemlock coming out for woodfuel chip is nice and heavy, so swings and roundabouts as usual. It'll be what it is and I'll move on to the next piece, which is gun barrel alder with 3 twigs a top, with some Oak to match. Less of a problem moving that lot I presume:001_cool: AJR68 - got the mail, will be in touch.

Hi all, I've a load of softwood coming to roadside. Its mainly Larch, with some Scots, and occasional Sitka & Douglas in. Its all straight with majority being sub 12" and occasional sub 15". Its all coming from a 5 yr old windblow site that's steep as, so most of the timber has been off the ground, or just touching in occasional places. As a result the dryness is variable but all drier than fresh felled. The larger log and fresh felled is going for fencing etc. Its coming to roadside in the South lake district. Haulage can/will be arranged, as I need weigh tickets for the land agent. Questions? [email protected] - working out of phone reception (for a change!).

Where was that hiding? Any good as firewood? I'm missing that weather already!

Thers big and BIG, I've got a shorty for on the processor, and a medium one (from Clarkes) for cord off the stack, dragging round etc. Both good once you get your head / work practices in the right places, just wish they made one with a hammer head and some weight. It would be a great hardwood felling tool, dragging, rolling, driving wedges etc.

Only fly tipping I come across is the nappy in a golden arches bag that's got wet. But thanks for the tip for my next load of conny lumps I can't shift.

Cuts like butter, split easy when fresh and dries reasonably easily. Not only grows like a weed but coppice's nicely, puts good straight growth on and if grown tight enough has no fluff to speak of on a 20m pole. Great stuff for firewood, but will try to take over - I mow a sycamore lawn under one of mine, there's that much seedling growth some years. Burning some tonight that came off a job today, dead tops out of some syca's in a car park - from site to fire in 6 hrs!

Don't want to snuff the flame of invention...... but every kindling machine I've seen allows for the increased volume occupied by the split wood i.e. block of wood takes up more room after splitting than before. will the box allow for this? Might be worth looking at chip makers for detail (like they us down the chippy!).

Worth getting in touch with the Mersey forest guys as they are, or will know how is, doing the thinning at Altcar ranges - loads of Scots pine to go, plus some of the bigger seeded broadleaves (Oak, Sycamore, Beech etc). Might have some cherry as well.

I've a lot of windblown Larch coming to roadside, but that's in the South Lakes. The haulage might kill it for you, but if you're interested PM me a postcode and I can get a haulage quote for you.

You know what John, I've never even thought of it in that way! Maybe I'm just too green/trusting, but it does have the ring of a whispered conversation in the back of pub. Perhaps a solution is that they need to be gone from site before I've finished working there, narrows the market but avoids issues and keeps the client happy. For the record, they've gone to a local kindling producer as he'll knock it off my kindling bill and pick them up, so they've literally got his name on them.

£40 Thats cheap for you! Anyway they're up a slight grass incline - your mog won't make it:001_tt2:

Hard or softwood? How much? Dry or able to wait? Little things, but they all influence the $$

I've about 2-3 tons of larch rings and some small round wood. It needs to go asap, it's stacked on the edge of a car park so pick up only needs a car & trailer. It's in Ulverston. I'm after £ 40 for it as it needs to be gone. Pm or email if yor interested