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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Ni:001_smile:ce doggy
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The thing is take ash my boss will not burn ash until it has been seasoned 3 years my neighbour fells an ash and it is on the fire that night. My father in law had no trouble with his flue until one year he cut sycamore trees and after one winter his flue was blocked with tar. for myself i season for 3 years for sale i season 1 year no good being a woodman and burning damp wood.
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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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I bet the children will play in that causing compaction then you can get the air spade in. nice try. I am hoping to do the same on some of my veteran oaks next year.
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We don't paint cuts anymore in britain except here i still paint cuts on special trees as there is every fungi you can think of, i use stockholme tar the groom gets it she uses it on the horses hooves.
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Thats what you call a big tree:001_smile:
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You forgot the ringing in the ears.
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I was a builder in bacton?cotton near you andy for 21 years got fed up of it needed a change, came to the estate as a maintenance man after three weeks they asked if i would take on the forestry department and sent me to college as you all know i love trees and the outdoors and even as i am poor me and the family are very happy here:001_smile:
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Better to sell it for crafts or woodturner. talking of which i found a really old spindle tree today in a neglected wood some nice spoons there.
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It can't be stealing because you are only thinning haha:001_smile:
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That skidding winch is what i want if i had some money cool.
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Mine are free i keep planting some to warm woods for pheasants so i allways have a stock, also i have plantations of spruce about 30-40 years old fell one and use the top:001_smile:
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The other morning at 8 o clock a white transit van pulled into my yard the barn doors were open so i quickly shut them, he said i am lost mate he was irish and had a broken nose. i was clad he did not get a look in the barn. the police have warned us they are about.
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That was quick dean. i agree but the worst is the lonicera it just spreads and looks a mess, the keepers did not like it when i stopped planting these but if you coppice native shrubs you get a similar effect.
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I was reading the thread on native trees and it got me thinking about my woods i stopped the gamekeepers from planting laural and lonicera in the woods and started planting more hazel. what do you think is there a place for evergreen shrubs non native in our woods.
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For me it would be a lifetime LOL:001_smile:
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Very nice:001_smile:
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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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No the wife says i have been bad LOL:001_smile:
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MS260 i use it on a daily basis will handle most things.
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I saw something similar to that, i had to make some oak cubes for a client and one went wrong and the farm manager had it, when i saw it a few weeks ago it had Ganoderma and fistulina brackets growing on it it looked really odd:001_smile:
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Cool pics, i have a book on the wyre forest but i have never been there.
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Chris i can't believe you left! some cool gear there and looks like a good view.
