Catweazle
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One advantage of charcoal burning, only 1/5th the weight to extract.
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The SC in the picture has quite a few side branches low down, which will make it a bit more difficult to split for palings. When it's been coppiced there will be a lot of new growth, more competition and better wood next time. Kindling is a good idea, SC lights easily and burns hot. As a firewood it spits badly but leaves very little ash. You'll be amazed how quickly it grows back, so you could have the thin rods for yurt makers in just a few years.
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Buying diseased woodland
Catweazle replied to renewablejohn's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Somebody who demonstrates a hermetically sealed transport to the powerstation could make a lot of money, not just from the sale of the biomass but also from DEFRA. -
It was a pleasure to show Gavin around the woods today, he has a real appreciation of trees. I wish I could have told him some more, but I'm just an amateur. If anyone local wants to pass on some arb knowledge you could do a lot worse than invite him for a walk around your site, clever bloke and a sponge for information.
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Some options for me there It's great that you guys take the time to share like this, many thanks.
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I have a question you might be able to help with. In Summer I moved a lot of firewood by hand, and lifted most of it with my palms downwards and the wood hanging. This caused a sharp pain in my elbows whenever I try to pick up something palm downwards. Palm upwards or sideways I can lift as normal. The pain is worst when my elbow is bent at about 45 degrees. Any ideas on how to help this heal ? It's been months now.
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My 346xp has a Scott Wojo pipe on it, it flies but jeez is it noisy. No reliability issues so far, but I can't claim any credit for setting it up, it was all done by the bloke who I bought it from.
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I think maybe a lot of people with their new solid fuel stoves were fed a line about cheap wood by the salesman, they're in for a shock.
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I don't like uncomfortable either
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No more demo's of Long Range Pruning from Mick then ? Sounds like an interesting meet
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If you look closely you can clearly see that in 1973 someone tied a yellow ribbon around the tree, and coupled with what appears to be a cold February in 1976, the tree's fate was sealed. I would have expected it to fall a couple of weeks earlier than it did, but then I'm no expert.
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I wonder if the authors have tried all those woods, I burn Sweet Chestnut often and it burns a treat. I have a closed stove, but have found that if the wood is split down the middle and then well seasoned it doesn't spit much anyway. I also leaves hardly any ash.
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Best wishes Dave, hoping for a full recovery.
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It looks to my untrained eye that if the butt hadn't sprung back so far or if the tree the trunk was hung on had pushed it back a fraction, the trunk would have taken the saw with it to the ground. In the video the saw is across the user and the kick-back zone narrowly misses the butt. I'm just a hobbyist, but this would scare the hell out of me.
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Check the property auction sites, they often list small woodlands. I think you'll be better off buying a wood already grown, agricultural land is a stupid price right now and you'll have to wait 15 years before it looks good. If you buy an overstood coppice you'll have a load of timber to sell to offset the cost and you can make clearings and tracks to suit yourself.
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Is it possible to cut small strips from higher up the tree to patch the damaged bark ?
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I have found the 346xp to be excellent, it punches above it's weight - that little chain rips through small logs much faster than I expected.
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There are quite a few houses granted in woodlands, even in SSSIs like Ben Laws. The ones I have read about have been where woodland operations need 24hr supervision, charcoal burning seems to be a common reason. English Nature, for example, are very flexible and realistic when it comes to getting neglected coppice back into use; their input could swing a planning application, they really are keen to get woods working.
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I'd prefer the saw to rip out a couple of braided wires and jam them in the sprocket than cut through my shin.
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Why don't the boots have a couple of steel wires down the front ? They wouldn't weigh much.
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I've got them on DVD, watched the one on Gypsy horse trading yesterday. The man was class.
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Tried a cat, went back after a week, didn't work. Think I should have killed it to give the flies a chance. Joking of course.
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If you could ask, I'll be grateful. I'm looking for a use for short rotation coppice as I want to plant fruit trees between some of the stools and I don't want to let the chestnut grow big enough to shade them.
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Floating crust is a winner. I've also heard that hanging a roadkill rabbit / squirrel / fox / whatever from a tree over the water drops a regular supply of maggots into the water and makes for good fishing after a week or so. I've never tried it myself.
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Why does dynamite spring to mind now ?
