Mr Ming

4 years on and that Beech above (although reduced) still stands having gone through last weeks storm and now very heavily infected by Ganoderma.

 

 

the site took a fairly big hit last week

 

210 trees (so far) were affected by St Jude when it ripped through this part of north London last monday.

 

25 complete root failures

15 stem fractures

the rest are all canopy damaged

 

the below are a few of the failed trees.

Sheer stem crack from a buttress & root decayed hungarian oak, Meripilus on beech, shallow rooted beech & Phaeolus within pine

 

 

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That last shot of the Pine looks fantastic David... But wouldn't fancy tidying it up!!

There are loads of different options out there, loads of smaller thinning machines made for the nordic markets.

if you wanted something new:

Gremo Gremo Forwarder 1050F - GREMO AB

Vimek 606 TTex | Vimek

Novotny Forest machinery | Novotny Machinery Ltd. - skid steering - loaders - articulated - loaders - weldments

Or if you wanted something older there must be a few Norcar's still kicking around in the UK some where. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybwAudUC_k]Norcar 490 Forwarder in mud - YouTube[/ame]

Or you could go half tractor half forwarder with one of the Kronos trailers [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjVyu64Yc4E]Kronos 140 4WDM - YouTube[/ame]

Here are some pictures from a job I have been working on for the South Downs National Park. It's at Henley Copse near Midhurst in West Sussex, on the Cowdray Estate.

 

We were cutting chestnut coppice to improve the habitat for the local Pearl-bordered Fritillary Colony.

 

Here are a few pictures of before we started:

I used to work at Cowdray, some great woodlands and amazing timber. Donald is a character.

How does the White Pearl-Bordered Fritiladmiral benefit?! More food due to less competition from the trees or does it need the open space for courtship etc?

from my understanding, the Pearl-bordered Fritillary is a butterfly associated with coppice blocks and woodland glades, this due to the periodic opening of the canopy, which allows the woodlands flora to flourish which was shade out as the coppice canopy closed. The woodland flora often found in these freshly coppiced blocks are high in nectar which is key for the butterfly to survive.

After a couple of years the woodland flowers are out competed by stronger/taller plants, grasses, then the coppice re-growth. For the butterfly to survive long term it requires regular management of the woodland in a coppice based system so that there are areas within thee woodland which can provide the nectar flowers.

The larval also relies upon food plants which are related to the latter stages of coppice flora.

Well it four years on since starting this thread, and it's that special day once again... Pancake day :thumbup:

What option are we think of for topping this year?

That video made me wince, poor machine.

That looks great Dan, it's going to be one smart castle when your finished.

Your nephew will love it, how many other children can say they have their own castle.

anyone fancy grinding this one for me? customer wants wall rebuilding before it collapses:biggrin:

That's a cracking stump, how big was the tree before it came down?

Gutted, I've only just noticed this thread. I would have loved to come, but i'm out of the county this weekend.

Have fun

That's some real smart cutting, nice presentation. It can be a nightmare when you turn up to forward out some timber and it just been crashed down everywhere.

Were you cutting poles and skidding them down the bank?

That looks great, really nice job. I do like the rack system for the shelve heights, are the shelves on pins at front? Anymore pictures?

Plus, that sounds like a real bargain

Wonderful....are they teasels?

Yep, they are teasels. Amazing photos again John, really do like the teasels shots.

Yeah, dont know how I sleep at night!!!

 

Building regs, its not a new build so who cares. Insurance pah! The stove was there when I bought the house!! (actually far safer than the open fire I had fitted before)

 

Selling the house? HIPS has been scrapped so dont need it.

 

If I had gone for the £1100 fitting then I woul dhave got a HETAS cert with it, but the same company told me all the regs and advised me to do it myself if I was a handy sort of bloke who didnt mind going on the roof, so I have done it all to the regs and it would pass HETAS if I ever felt the need to, but mostly I just put logs on it.

I think that's the most important point in this whole situation

Eddie that some amazing work you've done there Wish we could warrant the investment in a Engcon they are very impressive.

£19 a tonne was pretty standard earlier in the year for stuff going to biomass. Should be able to get it for close to that.

But that £19 a tonne at roadside you will need to factor in haulage surely? which would be around another £5-10 a tonne give or take.

Lots of choice out there.

 

The book that I generally have at hand is the Collins complete guide to british mushrooms and toadstalls. Pretty cheep nowadays at amazon.

Then of course the arbtalk fungi I'd App is worth having at hand also.

 

 

 

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Alas the retro Nokia will not handle App's, maybe a reason to upgrade...

Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Re: A little help please...

I have desired that poplar pholiota for years!

We seem to have it every where at the moment, just the way of the world I guess

Pholiota populnea indeed.

 

Very good images and context

 

Better than anything I have

 

 

Thanks for sharing

 

 

 

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Thanks for the Id, I just took the photos whilst passing.

David what id key/book would you recommend for a novice to the world of Fungi?

Stunning pictures!

Why thank you.

Hello all,

I found these on one of our stacks of popular logs, but I don't know what it is... I'm shocked at how poor my fungi id is at times.

the cap on the large one is roughly 20cm wide, if that helps.

An help would be greatly appreciated.

I wonder if builders talk about who they're waving to every day?

Probably not, they don't have Builderstalk.co.uk

That's going to be one fine looking log shed when completed

As everyone has said, a moister meter is what you need, just remember you should test your wood on freshly split pieces as it may read 20% mc on the outside, split it and then it could read at 28% mc in the center.

Any photos of your shiny new premises? Or are we going to have to wait and see the final outcome? Good luck with it all

Only 19,826 short of Mr Blair's record!!!!! :lol:

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Just ordered mine, this is a brilliant idea Rob will be intresting to see the results.

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Just ordered mine, this is a brilliant idea Rob will be intresting to see the results.