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  1. David oakman
    Ditto but tonight i am burning staghead oak or ironoak roasting best firewood you can buy. Like you i dont rate ash myself i sell that and use oak,field maple,black and white thorn, hazel,hornbeam ect for me.
  2. David oakman
    I was talking about this yesterday, our timber buyer came to look at some large oak trunks i have in the park. The thing is in this country no trees are grown as a crop they are all grown for amenity,treescape. when my oaks die and are felled they are worth not much but if they had been felled at 150-200 years old you would have good timber worth good money. But timber now comes from europe cheap he wa telling me he buys all his oak from france good wood and cheap.
  3. David oakman
    Anouther fungi mad arb talker:001_smile:
  4. David oakman
    I plant some small platations in Ash for future firewood i loose one or two trees a year to this beetle, but i leave the wood in the plantation and do not take it to the woodyard as it would go through all the stacked cordwood.Same as rabbits if you fell some Ash leave some brashon the floor the rabbits eat this instead of the butts:001_smile:
  5. David oakman
    Two years ago i was planting 14000 hedge plants, the canes kept breaking and were dust in one we found a large beetle i sent it to forest research a letter came back it was an asian bamboo longhorn beetle and we had to burn all the canes.
  6. David oakman
    Ash bark beetle or large Ash bark beetle:001_smile:
  7. David oakman
    Yes but whistles used to be made of elder and they went indoors:001_smile:I tried to make one with my knife but it did not whistle.
  8. David oakman
    Don't forget you must not burn elder indoors,and holly must only go indoors at christmas.
  9. David oakman
    What did you do with all that wood, just think how many matchsticks there must be in each tree:001_smile:
  10. David oakman
    Your a funguy dean:001_smile:
  11. David oakman
    Ihave also had a lot of collybia this year i also understood it did not cause windthrow.
  12. David oakman
    Iam not very good on my swedish fungi:001_smile:
  13. David oakman
    Porn star at least when its wet better than dry in that job:001_smile:
  14. David oakman
    Andrew i have got a postcard of yours on my office wall it is a branch with a split and a pipistrelle bat in it cool. thanks for the griffola stuff very good david.
  15. David oakman
    Most prob, you can see there is nothing on the tv i have been on here all night wife is now moaning:001_smile:
  16. David oakman
    I was thinking of 60 feet of hydraulic hose maybe 100 to play safe:001_smile:
  17. David oakman
    I wonder if one could be made to work off a tractors hydraulics that would be handy?
  18. David oakman
    Thats it yes a lot of money, funny how the axemens did not work:001_smile:
  19. David oakman
    Nothing i just wondered what a hydraulic wedge was like?
  20. David oakman
    Does anyone know if you can still buy these,like the one they had on the axemen, and has anyone ever seen or used one:001_smile:
  21. David oakman
    Far to many rules every time you fell a tree you think is it nesting season are there any bats or dormice is that a violet click beetle is that an oak polypore oh dear we would never fell trees:001_smile:
  22. David oakman
    Yeah you have had some hair exstentions added and dyed it blonde good look:001_smile:
  23. David oakman
    Nice party hat steve:001_smile:
  24. David oakman
    Good old ted:001_smile:
  25. David oakman
    I used to call myself a forester but as a top tree person told me foresters grow trees to fell for profit.I am amenity only 6000 acres of treescape and he said you are an arboriculturalist looking after trees from planting seeing them grow pruning and looking after them in old age as they decay keep them alive safe ect, ido not climb i get climbers in. But what i am trying to say is tree surgeon is an old word arborist is the new word there is much more to trees than to climb and cut, an arborist knows his trees and how they work and grow types of soil fungi ect. You get the picture a lot of learning to be an arborist a few exams to be a tree surgeon:001_smile:

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