David oakman
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If this is to rude don't answer but what sort of illness? I had a shock this year i had 3 months off work i could not walk i had blood poisoning in my leg and it went through my body until it shut down in hospital for 8 days in a bad way a shock after never having a day off in 25 years
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Retailers required for our seasoned logs
David oakman replied to Arran Woodfuels's topic in Business Management
Put two children with that wife and you can kiss goodbuy to 18 years of wages:001_smile: -
I HAVE GOT TWO WOODBURNERS in my house and it is roasting aswell they heat up the bricks in the chimneys and heat the bedrooms upstairs as the only woodman on a 6000 acre estate i get plenty of wood and pick the best. did you carve and make those things yourself? they are very good.
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I like the oil drum woodburner, thats got me thinking i could make one like that at the woodyard to keep me warm when working there on wet or cold days.
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Are you trying to catch up to steve as the top poster you need a few more good threads to get your fingers going.
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I am not trying to be an alarmist it might of been it might not who knows. All i am saying is if we are given advise we should think on it,i am only human i do things i shoul not do but i try to think about the whole picture and make the right choice:001_smile:
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i also agree if i remember amicide used to say drill holes in the stumps fill with amicide and cover with stones,just a shame for the spiders.
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Yes so the farm manager has just told me i think he said july i will have to check and post:001_smile:
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It is not so much being prosecuted it is about you as a person if you know something is wrong do you go ahead and do it or not, for example would you fell a tree with birds nesting or bats roosting or dig up a stump with red data list lichen on it,i hope not the same with chemicles if we are told not to use we should have the sense to comply.A friend of mine a farm labourer who sprayed burnt the inside of his nose and lost his sense of smell then he had cancer of the bowel, then lungs then spine then he died aged 54 one month before a dream holiday to australia. we all do some things we should not but we should think hard on the advise given.
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The forester is running out of things to use, as said must not use diesel atrazine and simazine gone, faramon brush wood killer gone and in the chemicle store i have a box of kerb granules now also not to be used that leaves glyphosate or a few more that don't work, mind you 6 years ago i phoned the forestry commission to ask what they used and they said round-up for all jobs:001_smile:
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Forgive me if this has been said but for glyphosate mix it up in a large jar and when you fell your tree or elder paint it on with a paint brush to the fresh cut, no more regrowth and no spraying everywhere. As i work for a large estate i would not use amcide anymore i have to keep tight records of everything i use amouts ect and the HSE checks the store:001_smile:
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I need to get a digi camara first steve it's on my christmas list:001_smile:
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Yes i like it i also got the mini mill to go with it but i have not had time to put the rails on a piese of wood for it to run along a wet day job. My plants came today so i started planting good day for it as mild as this them roots should setle in before winter.
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.No you are never to old to learn anything apart from i think i am to old to start climbing
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It would be a good machine to take into the woods on a tractor, everything you cut down is money. Mr ed i have a jappa firewood processer with 4 way knife and i was wondering could you make a grile to go in front of this to make kindling would this be possible?
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Still got no camara sorry. Today i found two more trees with grifola one of them has it neally all round so istarted taping with the hammer and it was like paper on one side then i saw small gamoderma in a crease which one hollowed it out do you think answers on a postcard:001_smile: -
you been reading my mail ha ha. i think its all interresting hope you are well
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I just noticed you are the same age as me, have you always worked with trees or did you work somwhere else first. I am just starting to sell firewood and i have bought an alaskan saw mill if you can make them a little money they seem to be happy well apart from the agent he is never happy.
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I wanted to go on that course at flatford but i could not find the money at the time. I would also like a visit to staverton i have the number of the man who looks after it, the best time to go is when the rowen are coming into leaf and the oaks are still bare one of the old pollards is very short with this rowen growing right in the goblet.
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I was driving home tonight from orford and came past staverton sticks i wondered how many of you suffolk boys have been there, i have been there once i went ring counting to compare them with my own oaktrees, they are on light land and i am on boulder clay. the best thing i remember is the rowen and holly trees growing in the oak pollards cool:001_smile:
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I am glad the funeral went well. I had a friend in helmingham who was dying of cancer of the lungs and spine,i used to visit him and the week before his 52 birthday i went to see him and he told me it would be the last time i should see him as he had had enough and wanted to go, on my phone i had a picture of a wild flower in one of the woods and i told him i would call it peter after him he gripped my hand and said i had been a good friend he died two days later one day before his birthday. ANdrew i don't know if you have any bleeding canker material but i have two veteran horse chestnuts bleeding badly and they are in the main garden open to the public i need to know how much damage it does and how quick, these are tall trees but i do not want to fell them if i do not need to. many thanks david.
