David oakman
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Cool. i was also looking at all the big dead oak trees on the roadside, i wonder why they are left is it for concervation or lack of money by the landowners.
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where abouts are you bundle2?
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I was in bintree today to visit my mum and we went to reepham and went for a walk along the disused railway track what a lot of pole ash just right for firewood how many of you norfolkians know the place i was at?
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jay why dont you take a little more time and carve a pidgeon or a barn owl:001_cool:
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Fellow tree worker told me to give the site a look and i got hooked:001_cool:
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I have also got veteran HC i must try and find time to check them all for bleeding canker ialso have red and indian but i dont think they are affected by the BC or the leaf miner mind you i have noticed a few spots on the reds:ohmy:
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Spencer is my middle name same as my dad,grandad and uncles all got the same middle name.
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When you next go to a bleeding canker take a wiff of the fluid it stinks:thumbdown:
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I have got a large horse chestnut with bleeding canker phoned the FC and they said i will need to check my stock of chestnuts iam on a 6000 acre estate with hundreds of horse chestnuts where do you start:ohmy:
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Well done dean i told my 17 year old daughter your tale and she was very sad for the old man and said what sort of people would do that old people diserve our respect for the life they have lived.
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manor ash and some pics from work yesterday!!!
David oakman replied to vduben's topic in Picture Forum
In our local churchyard we have a weeping ash (pendulata) i think this also has to be grafted onto F exselsior i was thinking of having a go has anyone ever tried?with what sucess. -
I give up i will tell you what i got my wife for our 21st a turned vase made from a sweet chestnut burr from sandringham very nice and she liked it too.
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A new car with ARBTALK written on it.
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So you dont agree with ted greens bucket of worms then? How about the worry of disease from the mulch?
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boo hoo:001_smile:
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She is in a horse paddock oh dear. I have now fenced her off but she must be well compacted i have just grown 50 saplings from her seed they are now 2 years old so i will plant a couple near her to carry on when she dies the trouble here in the park is deer try growing trees with browsing deer reds and fallow:ohmy:
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WOOD you gave her wood ive won ive won yippee:sneaky2:
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CRIMINAL:thumbdown:
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Bacterial wetwood when i started on this estate they used to leave tree guards on till they split but this causes bacterial wetwood and the bark is soft as this hardens gases build behind the bark and explodes leaving a wound.
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lee and chris i have got an oak tree 800 years old would you feed and decompact or would you just mulch with a bucket of worms? i wonder if you have worked with trees of this age before?
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Birches allways have a good look to them summer or winter not good on age:001_smile:if i keep putting this smile i will change my name to smiler:001_smile:
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Could do with some advice
David oakman replied to Scottie's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
They will give you advise like when you cut a blackthorn thicket let it come back thick for the hawfinches but who wants blackthorn in a working wood apart from shooting woods. -
No idea lee i thought chris packed up his job to work with a partner in a new venture, i only know you guys as virtual mates but i have started to meet one or two of you maybe we should have an east anglian christmas party for all us carrot munchers:001_smile:
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This must be the new company chris well done advertising already:icon14:
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LEE i thought you would go with ray mears to learn bush craft:001_smile:
