Luke Quenby
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So, the time has come to ditch my old trusted boots and invest in a new pair. Am thinking either Haix trekker mountain or Oregon fiordland. Will be using them purely for forestry / ground work (no climbing) so lots of walking, many miles a day often, so need to be good walking boots to. Often going to be working in wet woods, so a good degree of waterproofing handy to! Any one got any preferences or experience of either and where to get them at a good price? All opinions gratefully recieved! Cheers
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Grazon is pretty hardcore stuff to be using on a lawn, unless it's severley infested with well established weeds. I'm also pretty certain it has been withdrawn from sale now. Anything with 2 4-D or mcpa will do the job and will probably be one or both of the active ingredients of what you buy, just in different volumes. I have used various agricultural type products close to newley planted and well established trees and hedgerows with no detremental effects to either, having said that following the basic rules about wind, weather conditions and margins should keep you and your trees out of harm. If the problem is bad, there should be nothing wrong with giving an autumn spray followed by a spring one to get total control, although the window for autumn spraying is closing rapidly. No point applying unless its growing well. Check out progreen and mole valley farmers, both have plenty of options and fair prices.
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Turning into Yoda we all are
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Sawhorses - some new improvements
Luke Quenby replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
Like the look of the Timber Croc, will have to investigate that more, seem to be getting a fair bit of cord upto 10" diameter coming through at the moment so something like that could be very handy. But all of them and Woodworks idea are all big improvements on the traditional horse imo. Like the way your one works Woodworks, have never seen one like that before, where did you get the idea for that? -
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0rbuBk8pE]How NOT to cut down a rotten tree - YouTube[/ame] This ones pretty special, some great use of 'wedges' around 4.30!
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Trend - AIR/PRO - Airshield Pro Respirator 230V Uk These are really good, I was weraing something similar to this today for cleaning out grainstores - proper dusty! The good thing is they are re-chargeable, and they blow a nice shield of cold air down over you so you don't end up to hot. Visor protects the eyes to. Not cheap but well made and worth every penny imo. If you do a lot of woodworking / milling or are working wood that has a lot of fungi spores likely to be given off I would have a look at something like this
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Top explanation Tony, really well put! Indicator species are exactly what they say they are, and are a sure-fire way of having a good idea of what is going on in a certain area or an indication to past management regimes. Because a lot of them are so highly speacialised in their environmental requirements to grow and reproduce, this is what gives us the 'indication'.
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Cool pics, good thread, thanks for sharing Matt
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Go XL and be done with it Steve!!
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Our local village post office (2 villages away now ) quotes you Royal Mail and Parcel Force prices and was moaning like anything about losing out to Fed Ex etc. because of what Royal mail are charging now. £5.90 RM or £4.98 Parcel Force to send a parcel to the Isle of Wight second class, same delivery times, big difference in price. Well worth investigating all options for deliveries, especially if your making regular / large quantities of deliveries.
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Birch over Oak for me. Birch quick to season and easy to burn with a decent heat. Oaks a sulky wood that takes years to season and has many needs for a good fire. Or as others say, a Birch-Oak mix is a pretty good one to have, especially at that price, buy lots of both if I were you!
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Broadsword is a cheaper alternative to Timbril, similar composition, have used in the past with great success on Japanese Knotweed, Bramble, Gorse etc. Last time I brought some was about £75 for 5 litres, and that goes a long way. Would imagine it will do a good job on Bamboo too. Also may be worth contacting Agri-chemical dealers / merchants and asking the agronomist what equivilants there are to Timbril, there may be a few products on the market that do the same job and contain the same active ingrediants but for less cost. Probably worth applying with an adjuvant for that extra bit of take on something like Bamboo.
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Pretty much hit the nail on the head for me too!
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We did one similar to this last winter, never been done before, took around 50 - 60% off using a man cage on the front of the telehandler as it had a grass field next to it for access. Similar to a mewp I guess, but not as manouverable. Wouldn't have wanted to climb it, would have taken for ever! Chipped straight into a dump trailer and a short haul to tip. Took 4 of us 2 and half days, and looks fine and healthy now, 15 months on.
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Sorry I didn't see you Charlie, met up with Johnk and had a chat at lunch. Thought it was a good day overall with some interesting and thoughtfull stuff covered, although one or 2 subjects had me struggling a bit.........!! They had a good mix of speakers though from all sorts of backgrounds which kept it moving nicely I thought. Definatley get the feeling some interesting times ahead for all invloved in woodlands and timber, the lady talking about the National forest and the guy from the woodland trust were very good, as were the wilderness wood and woodlands for sale people.
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Yep, it's a new technique they're trying, horse loggings sooooo 2011! Must check spelling from time to time !
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If it doesn't come with the cd, I'm cancelling my order
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Brilliant. The music in the video really completes it for me!
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Same here, but for some reason I kept watching!
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From what I know about these little critters, they prefer most of the broadleaves - Acer and Poplar in particular, and live wood, sap wood, heart wood, they're not fussy eaters . The larvae tunnel into the cambial reigion and stay out of range of Woodpeckers etc, and the pupation occurs in the heartwood, so I belive they are only found more in live stands than deadwood - though if they have been transported on pallets from Asia they must have a long life cycle / diapause abilities also. Very destructive & very dangerous, we all need to keep our eye's wide open for this one.........
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Some of the nurseries I've worked on that was bread and butter for poorer formed Tilia, Malus, Fagus, Pyrus and Carpinus. A good way of 'adding value' to something that may have otherwise been rejected for not being perfect (in the eye of the architect). It's a fairly straightforward proccess with nursery stock, build loads of bamboo frames and then fix them into the tree with tubegrip and prune / train accordingly. It's a massive thing in the Netherlands and Belgium, and pretty big in France to I think and as Willem's post stated, sometimes goes to extremes of really impressive creativity. Seems to be getting more and more popular over here as an 'ariel hedge' or for a feature / frame around a feature. From memory a 20 - 25 pleached Tilia cordata would set you back in the region of £3 - 400. But as I said if you've got the time and the creativity it can be done on your own stock or be a good way to make a feature out of an awkward shaped tree.
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Yeh that sounds ok, don't want to stand out from the crowd to much! How about not wearing any tweed or cravats, seeing as it's an RFS / RASE event we should be the only ones there following that dress code!
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Yep, I'm going, see you there?
