David oakman
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Can i take it you two work together?
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Today i went to check 3 beech trees on one of them are some bad new wood wounds, as you look up water is getting in old pruning wounds. this tree is next to a driveway and road. what i wanted to know was has any one got first hand experience of the success of pollarding a mature maiden beech tree, helen read does not give it a very high success rate. The reason i would like to pollard is that there are only 11 mature beech on the estate they don't like the clay soil but it would be nice to keep them if possible.
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So how many cubic metres is that mr smarty pants:ohmy:
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I would say lucidium davids last picture is what i call resinacium.
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Today someone gave me an old stihl chainsaw i cannot tell you the model till i clean it up but it is orange with stihl on it. But it has no chainbrake on it. I know you could not use it in a work situation but what are the rules to using it at home. That is if i can get it to work. Plus it has three filler caps one on the left which says gas one on the right which says oil but there is one on the back what is that for?
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Interesting that you as a woodman are trapping here the gamekeepers do it for me they use fen traps on a ramp it seems to work well they tell me how many they get but they might be telling porkys.
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Nice one steve a little bit of a letter box cut in there
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Hello ben what u been up to today? i have been cleaning out a pond i am glad it is finished get back to tree work tomoz.
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How is norfolk tony suffolk is not bad at the moment for january.
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I had a red toadstool growing on a dead bough on an oak tree this was about 5 metres up but i don't know what it is. I was not much help really was i LOL.
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Thanks for that it was very interesting:001_smile:
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Enjoy the rest justin i will look forward to some top notch threads from you. Get well soon.
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Top secret charlieh we have spys on the forum LOL.
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Braces for me and i think you will find farmers hold there trousers up with a piece of bailer twine LOL:001_smile:
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No i have a quad and two tractors that is it. I would like one but if i could choose i would have a toyota hilux to deliver firewood in and get about the estate.
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Good luck with the op david. Look on the bright side you can be chief moderator and moderate all day.LOL:001_smile:
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This is funny i just went to make a cup of tea and the kettle had limescale init so i just cleaned it out here in suffolk our limescale is soft round and round with a brush and the water goes white and its gone. but i was going to say vinigar. still liking your avatar dean can you send her round im home alone tonight :001_smile:
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If you goggle mower magic garden machinery the smart holder is on there with a video. thats the one i would buy i am going to see whats in my big boys toys tin LOL:001_smile:
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That is what tractors wher made for a work horse good stuff and got the job done could do with some wieght i think ha ha.
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One of the men on the estate retires this year and he told me when he started work here when he was 15 there were 4 woodmen and in the spring and summer he used to help them hand weeding all the new plantings. with the cost of labour today try paying them wages when a few days out on the quad and its done. As for wildlife corridors we have 6 metre margins beaside ditches and hedges, then mr farmer goes round and cuts the grass beside his crops!
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Four years ago i planted a long shelter belt 3500 trees and shrubs. the first year i beat up 1% the next three years i lost none. they were all sprayed with roundup for three years in anyones book that is good. the fourth year i did not spray and the whole area is over run with thistles. I am going to cut some rows out each year to keep this in check.
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Did you see the chainsaw bit it was not running and they were trying to use it like a hand saw LOL. Me and the wife saw it when it first came out and we watched it last night still good the wolf bit is funny:001_cool:
