David oakman
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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:
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A transit does carry 1.5 ton but don't quote me as i don't know about the double wheel on the back version, i had single. and i had a cabstar and i got pulled up for being over wieght with 1.5 ton of sand because a cabstar will only take 1 ton.
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Well done you will have to start saving up now
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Good points quickthorn, i have tried the mats and mulch the mulch dddid not work very well as the thistles grow in it and take all nutrients, and the mats the grasses grow over them by far the best is to spray just before flushing when the trees need all there energy, the old forester here used to also spray in autumn but there is no need as the trees are shutting down apart from some root growth but i do spray my newly planted hedges in the autumn as this gives them a head start in the spring. As you say this is only needed for three or four years but the FC does like six years as do some woodland consultants.
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Well done and best wishes. he is not so green as you it must be being lost in each generation LOL:001_smile:
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Ditto to the above. merry christmas and a happy new year to you all and to all my virtual friends on my members site and woodmans social group some i have met and hope to meet a lot more of you next year have a good one david:001_smile:
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How about that drink sometime my mobile number is 07765970309 i am off work now for a week. merry christmas and a happy new year to you and your family.
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Quickthorn is right in what he says i at a large estate plant sometimes upto 10,000 plants and they are all sprayed around to keep weeds down, every year i have to beat up and it is allways less than 1% but one year i forgot to spray a large plantation and i had to beat up about 40% they just cannot compete with the weeds in the first few years the root system needs to establish then the tree is away and you don't need any more spray. this is the system i use and i rarely have any trees die:001_smile:
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I was talking to the farm manager today who was telling me he went to a farm meeting and they had the figures on pesticide levels in rivers and he said something needs to be done. On this estate pestisides have been redused by a lot but you wouldnot swim in the river. I too have used a chainsaw with waders on in the river but saying that i always as Andy said winch or drag out with the tractor where possible get it on the dry and if you can flat and level.
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Well i never noticed before i must buy some glasses:001_smile:I used to be a mod they were the days.
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Merry christmas moderators hey i see you have a new one high scales
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You have them too they say birds are nesting in march but here they do see that a woodman working alone is no harm to wildlife and when you see a nest being built i move on. Yes i am busy all year planting nov and dec then working in the woods till end of april then spraying then during the summer i cut rides around the estate bit of tree work in estate gardens maybe removing tubes that sort of thing plus in the summer i do orchid surveys barn owl surveys and working out work for the following year, so all woodmans work lucky really.
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I had two new tyres fitted on my tractor and the fitter was telling me about police got called to a wood at night someone had reported seeing a lorry and they caught thieves felling trees with an axe to keep the noice down, still they got caught:001_smile:
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What sort of work do you usually do in the summer as we cannot work the woods now in the summer months. What are you doing for christmas?
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They will be the oak fairys that live in old hollow trees LOL:001_smile:
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Iknow but it keeps me amused.
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If you are going to spend some time there watching the wildlife try putting in some glades deer birds and also pheasants they don't like it closed in if you put in one glade go back in the spring and it will be full of pheasants, you will also get wild flowers and this will bring moths and butterflys as said leave some dead wood for beetles ect and you have made a good start.
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Now now guys i would not say i was brown nosing i would say it was i was saying my very good friend steve bullman was a top man how is that better or worse:001_smile:
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You lucky beggers. what a lovely bum well done on a good get together keeps us all meeting each other:001_smile:
