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  1. David oakman
    yes i work on one ,i would not want to own onei am just a poor woodman cant even aford butter for my bread:sad:
  2. David oakman
    Speedy recovery jarno:001_smile:
  3. David oakman
    I to have game keepers but on a whole we work well together.This year they have been controling the squirrells. I have now put rides in all my woods and also putting in a lot of glades which brings back flowers but the pheasants also use them to dry in wet weather. in one wood i have brought back herb paris and early purple orchids.As the retired keeper once told me a wood is split three ways, shooting, timber and conservation.
  4. David oakman
    Are woodlands in decline? wild flowers are ,due to lack of maintenance and deer problems. lack of light is stopping natural regen. what are your thoughts on woodlands today over managed or under-managed.
  5. David oakman
    Thats my sunday gone reading the rules:post:
  6. David oakman
    Six weeks ago on friday i was walking around our largest wood looking for wild flowers,i spooked 4 fallow deer and 2roe, on sunday morning i was rushed to hospital my body had shut down. I spent 8 days in hospital on a drip pumped full of anti biotics and i could not walk for 5 weeks i had blood poisoning in my leg it distroyed musle and skin and my limph glands. the doctors still dont know what it was i wonder? if ihad a tick bite. i am back to work now but my foot is puffed up by tea time and turns blue. ps i dont want to frighten any woodman but as already said health and safety means think about your health and keep safe.
  7. David oakman
    I will read and post any thoughts i may have.
  8. David oakman
    Our tree contractor was working on roadside oak trees dead wooding one needed to be reduced down the main stem a little i asked him to put a coronet cut on the top, the tree is still very high and no one in the village has ever seen it or said that they have. I think it looks real cool keep a few bugs happy. the tree next door to this has stag beetles so we are really happy:001_smile:
  9. David oakman
    On the woods departments H&S riskassessments it says contact with fugal spores LOW maybe i need to change it to at least medium. also i know a forester who died of lymes disease a tick bite and this is not even on there i asked for the risk assessment to be updated 4 years ago.
  10. David oakman
    ditto i first thought that.
  11. David oakman
    What was Richmond park like? was it a royal hunting forest? did you learn anything about veteran trees. was mr ancient tree man there ( ted green ) at least you are not to far from the show. david
  12. David oakman
    If you go down to the 10th AA arborists trade fair you will be in for a big surprise, you will find 1000 arbtalk members. i had to work:bawling:
  13. David oakman

    Seats

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    On the estate we have had two workers died of cancer in a year. i have been asked to make a bench out of a whole oak trunk to which a plaque will be fitted.has anyone got any good pictures of seats to help me get started. many thanks i am sure you will help.
  14. David oakman
    I have got a processor here which is good but as steve said the wood really needs to be straight here in a woodland setting i get all pole timber just right. i also have a highcrack wormer no problems with it just put a new tip on and you cant beat the sound when you put on a big oak ring crack. used to have a saw bench but hse condemed it:thumbdown:
  15. David oakman
    wow what make is it and how much does it cost. i get all the wood i want here and its free apart from a little hard work. david
  16. David oakman
    try some lakeland fell walking or a run up skidaw.
  17. David oakman
    i used to go to church as a child but when i became an adult i put aside childish things.
  18. David oakman
    i think the lesson here is do not quote a fact from a book because not every one will agree but then it does then become a debate and every one will learn david.
  19. David oakman
    i am into veteran trees and i would not cut one down and i know that the habitat in my 600 year old oaks is important. getting back to saying goodbye i have lost two 400 ish year old oaks in the park the first thing i do is give them a moment and think about thier life then i cut all the branches off to feed the deer and cattle then the trees will be used to the max. ps windblow butt rot.
  20. David oakman
    It was quoted as a fact in a tree council book, authors jon stokes,john white. i dont really know how much oxygen trees give off ive never asked one. but it sounds as if you are a boff on the subject. ps not taking the mick some one should know.
  21. David oakman
    grand job sort of thing i would do. i ride around this estate all weekend for no pay just thanks from the trees. and my wife thinks i am mad.
  22. David oakman
    keep us posted with how it responds you may be lucky.
  23. David oakman
    a forester once said to me david before you fell a tree give it a moment to thank it for its life 2 0r 3 hundred years is a long life. and one tree supplys oxygen for 18 people for one year fact theres a tree in my garden haha.
  24. David oakman
    no i have never seen one just read alot about them. i to have been round staverton good place for epiphytes rowen,silver birch,holly in the oak trees. and i have been to windsor wow my kinda place.
  25. David oakman
    I am sure you are right about the kids and the fire but keep in your mind that when lightning hits a healthy oak it runs down the outside heating up the sap which explodes throwing bark everywhere.when lightning hits hollow oaks it always takes the best route down which is round and round the insde of the trunk and it burns as it goes down leaving the inside black, so in a parkland setting people say this tree has had a fire no usualy a strike in a hollow tree.

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