Charlieh

Shame, never mind, im sure its probably more abundant than we are aware off, give the fact that we in Staffordshire dont have a Serotine record for the last 100 years although they have been recorded in all neighbouring counties, its just no one has been able to produce a recording of one as evidence that they are here, I must get on a cave hibernaculum survey this winter, the wife has done a few and says they are amazing, but i have always been to busy to go,

any ideas what the sonogram looks like then?

has to be volume really as said, here is a quick and easy guide http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/timbervolume.pdf/$FILE/timbervolume.pdf

I have a swing lift in the garage to ready for mounting to a trailer, its rated at 500kg at 1mtr its a minicrane500 by i think scotatlas, i picked it up of ebay, it is manual slew and extention but was only £160, it has three extention arms, it weighs a lot for what it is, must be over 150kg. All it needs for operating is a 12v supply for the electric winch to lift, i bought it for moving bigger bits of timber onto a trailer when working alone, but as such havent got round to mounting it, ideally i wanted something like a small hiab 12v version or a maxilift which come up on ebay occasionally, but they are dear for something that wouldnt be used that often, also the minicrane lifts off the mounting plate when not in use.

chuck another trout on the bbq! Ace have you had any dealing with the Wye and Usk foundation as they have some fishing beats on that river, and in some cases do similar work to what i posted in the erosion thread,

carb jets? how old is the saw?

its never been a problem as far as im aware, but i must admit its not something i have ever heard discussed, so i will fire off an email and ask some questions, this technique is used widely in the US/Canada and places like Spain, and i havent every heard of any negative impacts, infact the numbers and quality of invertebrates has increased significantly, which would indicate that there isnt a problem NRA thats very 1990's, as i mentioned this is technqiue that has been implemented with the EA's consent as on main rivers you need permission to carry this work out, and even on non main river we consult them as a matter of courtesy. On several rivers EA have actually carried out this kind of work themselves here are a few pics of a scheme from last spring, felled a sycamore and bundled up the brash, and staked it to the bank and in these pics you can see that the silt has built up in the brash and is starting to vegitate, so the bank will slump over the top of it gradually, i will add this as my last picture, this is the farmers worst nightmare and a site im working on currently, the river has created a secondary channel that is now the main channel, and has formed a huge scour pool and is eating into his field at an accelerating rate, from the farmers point of view its awefull, from a river geomorphology point of view its great, as the river is acting naturally and moving around in the floodplain, its also adding vital new gravels to the river, this is also slowing the flow of the river and as a result will be helping to mitigate flood effects downstream, but will have to have some remedial works on it to prevent the landowner driving concrete railway sleepers into the bank as protection

thats some tidy looking paintwork mate, is it hammerite as i here thats pretty good

i admire your using the willow, its a good start, but getting upset about trees falling into the river is not good, we now try and retain as much woody material in the river channels as possible in consulation with the Environment Agency, but its all about getting the whole river system functioning properly and to a large extent that include natural erosion, look on that oak falling in as an opportunity speak to the landowner and ask if you can fasten it upsteam slightly to help slow the flow along the toe of the bank, whilst it wont stop the erosion instantly like conrete or such it will allow the bank to start to slump and regain a more natural profile rather than that of a cliff face, any pics of the willow work you have done? and remember conservation can involve big kit to! and the final masterpeice, an engineered log jam

similar job on another river, fish cover and to aid reducing the energy of the river along the banks,

thing is we have wrecked all our rivers, if that oak falls in will it be left? probably not as either farmer, fishing club or some other body will come along and remove it, then in the next breath said people will be complaining that the river is coming faster than it ever did, and eroding quicker, why is this, as we have got to the point of manacuring our rivers, there is no natural flow attenuation in the channels, no woody material that slows flows, causes scour pools, cleans gravels for inverts and spawning fish, Hard engineering isnt the answer either, concrete sleepers will solve one farmers problems and make everyone downstream of his worse, if he had sought advice and used soft engineering and flow deflectors to slow the water and reduce the energy of the water before the bend it would have probably recovered naturally, this tree is going into a canalised section of river to force new scour pools out and create some fish cover

fuel tank vent blocked starving it of 2 stroke?

cheers, i may pop in later depending how i get on, just going out to do some chipping, then may nip down, as i need some more sticks anyway

same story as this one

So then whats the deal with political signs being nailed onto trees in conservation areas, is this an offence, i mean nailing anything to a tree is less than ideal, but there are blooming loads appeared in the last few days, and some i know to be in a CA so then legal and tree officer type bods, whats the deal

used to see no end at my parents old house in cambs on the grassy banks, where the solitary mining bees were nesting,

i think from memory its a type of solitary bee, normally found on sunny sloping banks, harmless as well EDIT: my bad it is a bee fly Bombylius major Bombylius major

after a few weeks of chipper ownership i have these few, belts for my truckloader £11.75+vat from manufactures, or £1.75 from East Anglian Bearing Services blade mounting bolts £1 a bolt from blade suppliers, or 6-8p from local trade fixings suppliers (TFD in Uttoxeter 01889 566055) and engine bits like starter solenoids all the bits have come from ebay for less than 1/2 the price i could get through local dealers, I know there is the arguement to support local dealers, but in most cases parts can be here for next day anyway and i have been told some parts may be weeks through main dealers and had them within 48hrs of the internet. I should add my next blades will be coming from the manufacturers,

cheers guys kind of what I suspected then,

cheers thats the kind of info, i did suspect it will vary from customer to customer, but moving from advising purely on conservation grounds to actually trying to justify some incomes from the timber on a couple of sites is proving a bit like trying to predict the lottery numbers, as im not getting a lot of help from local mills

prefered sizes, lengths, top and bottom diameters that kind of info, or will it vary to much from mill to mill

Could some one point me in the direction of a decent current guide or book or website listing the common specs for saw logs of different species, I have some books that do some soft and hardwoods but they are pretty limited but i would like a more comprehensive guide, i dont know if any of the FC guides like the blue book have this info in thanks in advance for any help Charlie

not stopping him trying to sue them though is it

could always use a shorter one from both sides if his aim is good 30 X 800 MM WOODWORKIND AUGER DRILL BIT (WOOD) on eBay (end time 24-Apr-10 01:11:43 BST)

give this guy a bell, the shop is huge and has pretty much every hand tool you could imagine, online reviews say hes not very helpful on the phone but im sure they can point you to a supplier Uppertown Tools Ltd Bridge Street Bakewell DE45 1DS 01629 813 885