Ben Ballard
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:001_smile:i did that with mine and put them in a shaded place so not to dry out
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:001_cool:nice work with crane
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:001_smile:fair play to you peter not the best of weather today
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largest tree in volume ive seen couldnt touch this one as to many people around auto log as seen in the old photo with car on it,wanted to park the hire car on it but blocked as unsafe it heaped up with dirt the other side so that how u get on it
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my wife takes the p and called the site my tree porn
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what amazing adventure you must of had finding that tree the bears would of freaked me out
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nice one that sounds a cool tree,i made sure i steped gently when near it as didnt want to compact the ground.
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congrtatulations and hope your wee one get better soon mate must be very stressful sounds like a future tree man in the making been strong as a ox.
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good thread mate nice tree ,i read the book the wild trees it the story about finding them tall trees very good read
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it was my dream to ,i was of sick at the time so used the time to go away as couldnt work. going to alaska this may so il get some cool pictures then
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it is forest fires that done it as they need it to live ,there were loads of old truncks from ones that have blown over in the forest ,fungi dont rot the truncks so fire is needed to clear dead wood from floor for regeneration .as it a park i went to they have controlled burning
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a bit bad i know, but had to hop the fence for this photo
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thancks mate
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Thancks Stevie your threads are good aswell and your a pro at what you do i like the crane you use,ill post another cool photo .you been busy today ?
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my sequoia holiday 2 year ago
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hi david i chopthe brash up withthe saw when thinning find it soon rots down pile some brash on hazel stumps to protect from the deer burn when need to clear access or got to much brash forestry commision dont like burning much and say a wood doesnt need to look tidy like a garden,but i dont like it looking a mess so do bit of both on chestnut coppice always burn to aid extraction
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thats handy you got a market for them good luck with it mate ,i found fancy resturants love to get there hands on them and can pay up to £20 a kg for most wild types ,i just sell to a game dealer that i split the money with mainly just ones i find when i am working
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hi i did some the other year with chicken of the woods used a oak i felled in winter was important that it wasnt infected with any other fungi so the plugs would infect the wood found ann millers speciality mushrooms web site realy good she even sells lions main plugs ,iam still waiting for my logs to fruit,i been putting aside in my yard large horsechestut logs as i have found them to be realy good for oystermushrooms had one oyster grow that was worth 20 pound this year and havent had to do anything to them and they worth more that if id just logged it up
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we planting lonicera i know what u mean about it spreading so not planting to much of it ,box ,holly ,laurel,dog rose,dog wood, spindal tree i said no way to rodrodendrum.iam planting them in clumps about 1m spacing in areas of about 5m square with mesh guards and a tempory fence for each clump to stop the deer,due to mesh guards i will have to weed manualy .do you have much wild garlic in your woods ? i was selling to a game dealer last yearpicked just the leaves and flower,there was so much i didnt make a dent in it, is not on the protected wild flower list so i wasnt doing wrong i was planning to have a good harvest this year but we have sold that wood now so might have to poach it haha was worth £7.50a kg took about a hour to fill a bin bag wouldnt get rich doing it but nice been in the woods and get a bit of pocketmoney
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thats good about the farm pond ,we are thinning same area still been sorting out what we are planting,one of my jods is to plant a mixture of evergreen scrubs in groups in a wood i thinned last summer at the flushing points mainly ,when i first come here i would spend 3 months planting a year most of our woods have been restocked now and we are incoraged to keep what open areas we got left open .i plant specimins mainly now ,i used to like setting a plantation out with ranging poles and seeing it all line up when guards are on its nice seeing what you have planted grow its a good feeling.
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hi David we got our last shoot tomorow it beaters day, do you have many to go ? did you finnish your pond was it big and what is it for
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was lighting a fire and it exploded and set fire to me burning hands and face luckly no scares now . by mistake i used a old can of fuel i had knocking around turned out to be diesel mixed with petrol when i smelt it could only smell the diesel so thourght it was ok ,as i never use petrol because how dangerous it is ,now i am realy careful and if i light fire with fuel it comes from a can labled ,old oil or diesel ,never again could of been so much worse
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i realy think aswell that our vetran trees is something to be very proad of especially our old pollards and the history of there uses .seen a interesting experiment in a arb mag of seeing if a pollard would respond with growth better been cut with axe to be more like a natural break than with a flat saw cut ,or cut to look like a break with the saw
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i like the ideas of planting large specimins to get instant cover but i have found it can be a bit of a expencive risk if dies. i try to play it safe and plant smaller trees as find they can establish much better in the end and save a lot of graft ,herad that planting quercus robur or other oaks that has come from south of france or places warm like that. would be better for our future inviroment has any one else heard of this or have i heard wrong
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i enjoyed the thread i like reading and learning what other people would do and make my own mind up about things, with out been rude if i think i no better.iam no expert on paper ,most of my experience and knowledge is from doing the job and the odd book
