David oakman
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I should do they have a large house with two BMW estate cars in the drive. The estate is having trouble with these people the woodmans cottage has an old lady living in it she trys to guard my wood. anyway these people have dogs and they let them roam and they poo in this old ladys garden she picks up a pale full every week:mad1:
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I keep my own logs at the old woodyard i went there before christmas and split enough for the christmas period, next to the woodyard is a private house as i went past i noticed smoke and i have never seen that before so i went to check my woodshed oh dear the pile was neally all gone:mad1:
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Cool pics the windblown oak is outstanding. -
Can you imagine the country with all the old flowers coming back i know this will never happen on arable fields but with the 6 metre margins going next to rivers ditches and hedgerows this could come. Some of our 6 metre margins have a wild flower mix added but it would be nice to see the return of the corn cockle or the pheasants eye ADONIS both nearly extinct.
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I usually spray at 2L/ha which kills all grasses nettles ect but will not touch bindweed horsestail thistles but i don't think you can kill everything just think the finches like the thistles mind you they are a begger for seeds LOL.
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Hope she gets well soon. I hope you have a better new year.
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Food for thought there quickthorn,
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The other problem with timber growing in this country is that landowners will not cut trees at the right age and leave them as amenity trees then when they fall over as you say expect big money for big trees. But when the trunk gets to the mill you find shakes and pockets of rot then you have bought firewood.
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Well done.
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No i was reading a post earlier with a male who spent christmas all alone you could be in there if you play your cards right.
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Grass is usuallly planted first then trees and shrubs because in this country most tree planting is sport related. The game birds need the tall grasses for cover and to nest in these situations trees are a second product and not very inportant to most landowners. If you get a good one like me he divides his woods into thirds one for game one for habbitat and one for timber production all are equal:001_smile:
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You try selling large oak trees 3-400 years old timber merchants come and they give you a sob story about the cost of labour and the cost of diesel and offer you next to nothing for it. They say the machine to pick the trunck up the lorry to cart it away ect ect its a hard life:001_smile:
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It is all down to money. the estate where i work used to have six woodmen now there is one me and all the costs have to be kept low as they wont spend money on woodlands. They just rely on grants it is a shame and i would be the first to say but it seems to be the way of the world david.
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The first year i came to this estate i planted a plantation of mixed trees and some shrubs and the gamekeepers went in and planted artichokes i never let them do that again. It is a shame when landowners and farmers get grants and plant but never look after them.
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Yes i have some coppice woods and am getting more all the time but not good quality as we have deer and rabbit problem. If your gamekeepers are like mine they swipe over everything last week he went swiping and ran over a large ash sapling and knocked the oil filter off and lost all the oil and i only changed the oil and filter two weeks before.
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What wood do you use for your stakes when hedge laying and where do you sourse it?
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I thought this could run alongside the Glyphosate and trees thread. When do you take your tubes off? i have been taking hedge tubes off at about 2 or 3 years but some i leave on untill they break down but you then don't get the low growth. Trees i have to leave as we do have a deer problem shrubs i find always grow back whatever.
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How about you come to mine on monday? i have no car on monday as my wife is taking the son to the peak district. You could see some of my old oak trees.
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Logger sorry metres. As for wieght it is the same as how long is a piece of string. oak is more than ash ash is more than willow ect.but at a guess my trunk is about 2 ton a cubic metre.
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This is where i am lucky the family in the big house are not to concerned how i do the work just as long as it is done. The thing about strimming in the summer is if it is a hot summer and heat stroke and all that, i did get heat stroke once when i was hand weeding young spruce LOL well it was not funny:001_smile:
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I like the thought of that scott F. i did try it last year because i was in hospital in the spraying season and when i came out the grasses were too tall to spray so i strimmed all my young plantations and it did last the growing season. I do think next year i am going to do less spraying but the hedges will need to be sprayed as they just get over taken with bindweed and they pull the plant over and kill them.
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To put this thead into context i have just sold an oak trunk 6 cube and the farm matbro would not lift it and if you put it on a transit i think it would colapse.
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The best thing is to sell your wood as a level load not by wieght. I sell my trailers as a level load people can see it is the same every load. plus i was stopped on the A14 for carrying a load above the sides of my cabstar so by your picture you are over loaded a few logs falling off could do a lot of harm:thumbdown:
