Saw-sick Steve
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Give it a go, you may find that you've got a natural aptitude for this work - I know I did! I just found horticulture to be a bit limiting, so went back to agriculture and tree work, but it does seem to be true - some people do have 'green fingers'.
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Well worth burning though.
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Sorry, you'll have to be a lot more specific than that. For me, its when our rookery sparks into life again. I love the activity, and especially the noise - such gregarious birds.
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I had a similar customer. First load, seasoned beech - ''burnt too fast'' Second load, seasoned ash - ''too small, burnt too fast'' Third load, seasoned birch,alder,willow in larger chunks - ''too dry. too fast'' Fourth load (!), half seasoned oak - ''too wet, needed ton of coal to burn it'' Final load,seasoned ash in larger logs, I said if she wasn't happy then not to bother with me again. Haven't heard anything yet...
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how many dumpy bags out of a 25tonne load
Saw-sick Steve replied to kindlett's topic in Firewood forum
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Depends on the size of yer timber, but if its mainly coppice regrowth I'd say processor every time. You can make a log splitter quite easily yerself. Even big-ish rings I tend to split to a size with a maul then put through the processor - you'll really appreciate that elevator when loading logs.
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Managing woodfuel and wildlife (RSPB training)
Saw-sick Steve replied to Charlieh's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Good mag, British Wildlife, especially Peter Marren,s column! Charlie, whats your main line of work? Only you sound like you do a fair bit of farming as well as tree work and conservation work, much like myself! -
I have. Loads. If not the actual poem, then some variant of it; ''Ash green, fit for a queen'', or '' of course everyone knows Ash makes the best firewood'' etc. Personally, I'd no sooner sell or burn green Ash than any other wood. Green wood is green wood, and will tar up your chimney whether its 35% or 95% moisture content - just a question of when.
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Had a 262xp for the last 12 yrs, cracking saw and cut tons of timber with it. That said, it does suffer slightly on the anti-vib front compared to more modern saws, but the combination of power to weight make it hard to put down - far more solidly built than the 357xp I was using today.
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Very old, dry heart of Oak is the closest thing you'll get to coal IMHO. Burns hot and long. From a selling point of view, Birch, Alder, Nothofagus and Sycamore - fast growing, quick to season and easy to handle.
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It's work, CJ, deal with it! I've got a delightful weekend sitting on my ass in the tractor flailing hedges to beat the March 1st deadline. Missus and kids are away this w/e mind, so I'm off to the pub later to watch Wales v France with some mates. Every cloud....
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While the usual suspects hurl abuse at everything that emanates from the EU, we slowly but surely morph into the 51st state. If it happens in the USA, its only a matter of time before it rears its ugly head on this side of the pond.
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I went to school in Bodmin...
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... ended up leaving a small deposit, after making a late withdrawal.
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Christ!, a snotty letter is all I usually get - who do you bank with?
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Its already happened in the agricultural, horticultural and hospitality industries, so its only a matter of time. Global capitalism depends on the free movement of cheap labour to keep costs down and maximise profit. Strangely enough, this only tends to happen in so-called 'menial' trades. Be interesting to apply the same stricture to other industries - banking for instance. Why don't they ever consider importing loads of Indian financiers over here to do our bankers work at a fraction of the cost? Oh no, silly me that could never work, could it? Cant justify enormous bonus's for yourself if someone could do the work for less.
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'Ol Reynard came a-callin' the other night and bust in to our chook house by lifting up the pop-hole with his nose - b*stard! Had to vault a heras panel to get access to the house in the first place! Result, 15 dead chooks and not one he, or more likely she, managed to carry away.
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Then thats totally acceptable, not even English nationals but anyone whose legally entitled to work here be they Poles, Irish, Portugese or whatever. If you can find someone prepared to work for the minimum wage in this industry - I don't think many here would! The important point is that labour laws are there for a reason, and if you'd ever had the misfortune to have been on the wrong side of an unscrupulous employer, you'd realise why.
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So applying that rationale, assume you'd have no objections at all to a firm setting up down the road from you employing all, lets say, Philipino labour on £5 a day and under cutting every job you quote on? After all, they wouldn't be getting half that money at home..
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...and probably about the same price, the way things are going.
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Cool place alright, but it does rain rather a lot. IMHO, coastal scenery is just as stunning in Wales and Scotland, with the added attraction of more space / less people. (I'm only saying that cos we're full:001_tongue:)
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A nice barrel aged Tempranillo Cab - Sauv tonight.
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I think the aim of the programme is to give gainful employment to Monty Don after he had to give up the Gardeners World gig. Used to run green wood working courses at a site I used to work at. Majority of the participants were urban refugees who had an idyllic view of this as some bucolic, rural heaven, which it was in the summer. As I used to inform them, its a completely different ball game working out in the woods in a cold, wet February. By the way Tom Vaughan, who featured in the programme , used to be my kids woodwork teacher.
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Its Trebah, (note single E) pronounced Trebbah, and yes it is well worth a visit. My Dads cousin used to live there, Donald Healey (of Healey cars fame). Doesn't Deakin write about swimming round the Oaks at high tide? Its a great experience and one I'd recommend - just not in February!
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A timely reminder RE bird nesting
Saw-sick Steve replied to Yorkshireman's topic in Training & education
err...it was a joke..
