David oakman
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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:
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I really can not see a quad bike causing soil compaction. Iknow more about this than most as i have veteran trees everywhere and it took me three long years of fighting to get the car park moved. The cars used to all park around my 400-6oo year old veterans. The new carpark is on grass with no trees and my veterans can be in pease but i only got it moved on the danger of the old trees not on soil compaction.
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Thats it the smart holder that's the one i saw on ebay it holds the whole cord. there was also a video on ebay it looked Kool:001_smile:
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THE ones that grip are on ebay some were i will look later.
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Have you got Mike Abbotts book the living wood in there he uses a firewood station you could easily make one or have one made. it is on four legs at a comfortable work hieght then it is a frame like a bike rack you fill the whole thing with your four foot cord and the chainsaw cuts straight through the lot the rails you set to the size of firewood you want then tip the logs out. I know the thing you are talking about you don't need to hold the wood at all you put in 8 foot cord and it just grips it and you just cut ssimple i have used one they are brill but i cant afford one:001_smile:
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Cool avatar where did you find the deer. When i was choosing my new one i nearly used one of a baby fallow in the grass.
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I planted an area this year very small only 200 trees and shrubs it is next to a small wood and the small field next to it is cover crop but is being planted next winter about 3500ish plants. In the light of this thread i am going to mulch the small area and see how it does and how the trees grow how many die ect and keep you posted. As i said the only trouble we had with mulch before was thistles and nettles but if i keep on to it these will both hand pull.
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Where i am i plant some years upto 10,000 trees and shrubs. so i use a quad with low flotation tyres, the grass pops up as you pass by and does not know you have been. I used to knapsack spray but one woodman could not keep up with the maintenance with the planting numbers for every year. As well as all the other woodmans jobs:001_smile:
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Does anyone know if you can buy a PTO compressor so when you get a pucture in the woods you can pump it up to get you home. I used to have an old one but it broke and i binned it but i should have repaired it. i cannot seem to find any on the web.
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No i loved seeing your pictures i love to see trees with an end use it makes me feel good when trees are not wasted:001_smile:
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I will send that picture to crimewatch for you dean see if they know him LOL:001_smile:
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Round this way the woodmen are like chainsaw hillbillys are you getting the pictre:001_smile:
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Not you as well LOL:001_smile:
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Youv'e made my day i am sitting here full of cold running nose sneezing feeling cold with a fever now i can't stop looking at her i think im in love. Or is it the fever ha ha ha
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Dave.G. Spraying is what the FC tells us to do we have to do it. My plantations i spray for between 4-6 years and the losses are never no more than 1% if you tend to your new plantings any tree or shrub you see dying cut it to the ground and watch it grow again.
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Down here in suffolk you is a sado. indeedy it is.
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happy new year:001_smile:
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The years go quicker and quicker the older we get:bawling:
