David oakman
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Yes i agree the woods i know around suffolk which are unmanaged are empty of life, but the woods i look after are full of all types of wildlife,wild flowers,i remember reading in a book that hazel uncut lives to about 60 years but if it is cut the stools will live up to a thousand. Two years ago we felled a 400 year old oak when i went past it today it has good regrowth which i would not of exspected.
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We are HLS so i am busy cleaning ponds putting livstock back in meadows hedges with 6 metre margins things like that. the woodmans group i will try and put more on after christmas. Have you got dormice where you are?
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Lee unusual to see someone who likes opera. My son plays double bass for the nationl youth orchestra and is going for his audition for the royal college of music tomorrow.
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Is that you in your picture? hedge laying do you do much of that it seems to be making a bit of a come back well prince charles likes to do some.
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Yes i can see it must be hard some people still think they can run before they can walk. Have you got plenty of good walks where nyou are? have you got many veteran trees?
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Hello ithought i would send you a message as you have not had one yet.how is work going?
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Do you get people who fail the course, when i did my cs32 i man failed but he was a danger and an idiot.
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I would not call that the dark side i would call that being mature and trying to take things a bit steady as you get older, i think we all would like to slow down maybe get a desk job oh no i think i will stay out side in the cold.
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Why is everything against you? what sort of woods do you work in and what sort of trees do you have there? do you sell your timber trees?
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I did not know the flue thing was on never mind i am watching miss naked beauty not much naked in it haha.
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Is that a one week course including assesment or is the assessment at a later date.
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Andy i saw in the paper andy stringer talking about the green man stone arch at cotton church. maybe you could carve a green man to stand in the churchyard.
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Welcome to the woodmans choice. I don't let gamekeepers decide nothing and we don't have a forestry consltant but we do have a land agent but he does not know an ash from an oak. true story this he took me in rondwood to mark up two or three oaks to sell as timber trees he marked one and it was an ash he said no it is not ash trees have smooth bark the tree was at least 300 years old with deep fisures.
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Yes that was his mum and dads house and land. How much does your man with the mill charge a day?
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I say it is all sporting here but that is not all true, the owner is mad on trees and wild flowers so he is always wanting work done in the woods. we are also trying to clear all the neglected ponds.
