Charlieh

yep i run a 560xpg

what about dual wheels for the tractor? a crawler may pull out better but if it starts to sink in your really going to know about it. If its sphagnum moss type bog you will be better going for floatation rather than heavy plant

This may be of interest to any recent graduates

naturescape.co.uk proper wild native plants. not weird hybrids with foreign plants that will later cause problems. They are dear but these are the only people I would buy seed off for wild flower meadow restoration

Ride widening / thinning, glade creation and scalloped edges to rides are one of the big things in "ecological" woodland management at the moment with large amounts of funding being driven through WIGS (woodland improvement grants). In this area one the main ones is the bird WIG, this has targeted the decline of many woodland birds through improved habitat mangement. This 20page FC document gives a fantastic overview on planning such works, including considering factors such as gaining maximum benefit from light by favouring thinning to the southern side of rides. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/ewgs-on011-ride-mangt.pdf/$FILE/ewgs-on011-ride-mangt.pdf This grant funding is also helping to get unmanaged woodlands back into some form of management, along with also improving woodland infrastructure as rides are drier so usable with less damage, and scalloped edges provide handy timber stacking areas, and if planned correctly these will act as sun traps and are very warm so ideal for seasoning timber in the woodland, especially if its being processed or converted on site.

Ok this week I have been involved in a ride widening to allow more light into a woodland thats a local wildlife trust nature reserve, here are a few pics for the last few days. The photos are looking up the ride before (including the elusive lesser spotted logbaron) and after the widening has started end of day 1, then a panaroma of a ride intersection heavily opened up, and finally the timber stack after day 2 and the low impact alstor being used for the extraction.

Interesting point on the noise, as the 560 is the same, I was in the woods the other day and someone else had swapped from their 357 to the 560 for a go and it was really loud to the point that when they were felling about 80meters away I was putting my defenders on, no need when they were on the 357. they are great, no more looking in vegetation or rooting about in a pocket full of sawdust trying to find them when you take the side cover off.

best part of a fair bit there!

Jim who runs the course has some heavy horses that he has used for logging There is also the three day practical course, however if your already involved in woodlands and tree work the two day class room based course is probably a better course as it focus's in detail the paperwork and funding side more than the practical out in the woods type situation.

Introduction to Small Woodland Management OCN Level 3 Here you go, great venue, good cafe on site! and Jim is a fantastic tutor you actually have to complete a management plan for the qualification as well, you can do this for a wood of your choice

Please feel free to add any useful links and info you must have stored up David, I will add a recommended reading list that can be added to as the thread developes but these I would highly recommend as a starting point. FC: Managing Native Broadleaved Woodland - Ralph Harmer, Gary Kerr and Richard Thompson Ben Law: The Woodland Way -A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management RSPB: Woodland Management for Birds: A Guide to Managing for Declining Woodland Birds in England Im sure there are lots more I will remember as the thread developes, but these three books are fantastic to read before embarking on a journey into woodland management for ecological benefits, and fantastic references to have available if writing woodland management plans for conservation. There isnt many weeks go past without me picking them up and thumbing through them for info or a bit of reading.

I thought I would start a thread, for those of us working on woodlands for enhancing ecological benefits as well as all the other outcomes acheived by good woodland management. I hope this thread can develope to a resource and am happy for people to add links, photos, documents that may benefit peoples development as woodland managers and advisor's. Im going to start it will a link to a great FC document on standing deadwood in woodlands http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/lifeinthedeadwood.pdf/$FILE/lifeinthedeadwood.pdf and a link to a wildlife trust website on deadwood B&BC BAP - Deadwood Habitats Technical Appendix Next week I will put up some photos of a ride widening project to enhance light penetration into the woodland. Please feel free to add addition info, or photos of projects

I would contact FERA, I know in another case of plant material being contaminated on an old mine site, in this case FERA tested plant material to determin the levels of contamination and advised on what should happen to the material. FERA also includes the Govt. Decontamination Services department who will probably be involved already on the site.

Welcome to LDC Driving School - TRAILER TRAINING (B + E) did mine a few months ago with LDC in Burton, highly recommended, They do a lot of national trust and utility company guys local to here and all speak highly of them I did the 3 day one for £450 ish

so you can catch a quick 40 winks on site

Very pleased with mine I would really recommend it, great straight out the box also on an 8pin, but i will say again just remember that if you run the 8pin rim then you need class 3ppe technically as chainspeed is capable of exceeding 24mtrs/sec

I think your going to have to buy new unless you get very lucky, as the 090/070 is a different bar mount to the 880/088/084 although you do get some which will mount both saws eg the 36" stihl duromatics seem to fit both, the rollomatic ES bars in that size dont fit both!

surely this has nothing to do with this thread? but i will answer, very well i run 8pin .404 with no bother

I didnt think you liked new technology on saws my local dealers they are on still on order none have turned up yet

Give Nathan at Home Forestry a bell 01746 718456 / 07966 365157 hes now importing some bigger Farma timber trailers and cranes including the driven ones, I think from memory hes running a 14t drive trailer with 8mtr crane himself

Cheers all. Handy there is one up in Stoke as I have to pop up to bear specialists in the next week anyway so I'll see what they can do, good to know if i need something at short notice as well.

Bar mount is the same as the bigger huskies on the 562, also different air filter configuration, and I dont think you can get 562's over here, same as US cant get 560's is my understanding

wheres the cheapest place to buy forestry winch cable? im after some 7mm and 9mm Cheers

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/ODW910.pdf/$FILE/ODW910.pdf http://www.highlandbirchwoods.co.uk/userfiles/file/publications/Forest%20Research%20Reports/TN694%20log%20chute.pdf if its a sensitive site what about using a log chute, cheap to set up and they may be able to rent one in for doing it rather than having to purchase a lot of kit for a one off job, they are good on steep sites which it sounds like this may be a suitable technique to use depending on the cutting spec of the timber.

NOPE absolutly not there are also translocation issues if the knotweed is near mature trees it has been known to kill them as well Tordon is a broad spectrum herbicide, it will kill everything broadleaved, thistles, brambles, docks, knotweed and it will kill them as its persistant for 2years. Its great for knotweed in areas with little other ecoloigical interest and is the quickest and cheapest method. However as mentioned you have to know what your doing with it due to the fact it will kill everything other than grass