Jesse
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Hi Jon, just got in a fair spin, red wine, hot stove, an dan me fav jack Russel woke me up over the thunder and lightning , whats all this about then?
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I'm with you on this over the years I have had some really unusual bits and species of wood, after all the effort I have gone to try and sell it I have ended up burning it ,on my own stove, as a sort of top quality log, I then sit back with a fine red wine , and enjoy the fine burn as some sort of connoisseur of fine firewood , I'm not complaining , just enjoying, been burning a bit of Laburnum tonight, it was lush, had the stove door open, lights off, no telly, Jack Russel on my lap, room temperature red wine, happy days
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Don't know but I find Mole Valley Clinic Ace to be good stuff . does exactly what it says.
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Prince Charles would probably take them, I was told he has a collection of stumps turned upside down as a sort of radical art, for me i would take them off your hands for £100 for habitat but you would have to deliver to Somerset
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Penny dropped, you must be a new tenant, owner has said do what you like with the garden. Hows that, did you like that Tom ? or am i a million miles away?
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If they are TPO'd ,which i think they may be, and without knowing the area, you will need a very good reason to fell. I am only putting forward friendly advice , but they do scream TPO to me.
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Yuo got the same ideas, i will never have Otters but do get once a year Stoats, they are a treat, they have very poor eye sight , a bit like me, but if i stand at the foot of the top wood pile, still for ages, first you hear them cheeting, then they will run out around your feet, in and out of the logs. Chasing the sent of the Rabbits.
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Could be but why the replies so far ? have i missed a joke?
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Tree Preservation Order, whats your involvement or interest in the site ? from here it looks like you are either naive or trying to take advantage of someone. Don't mean to sound rude or disrespectful, has someone asked you to drop the trees for cash or something ? but to me they look like prime candidates for a TO.to protect being so close to those houses.
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Do the checks free of charge, but only if i am appointed, applications I submit for a fee of £80 payable in advance, for the site, if a full survey and report is required additional cost again, on those two trees say £150 for the two, payable in advance, but on those two Pines given from the distance, I would probably advice free of charge that an application to fell would be unlikely as apart from poor form they look ok., whats the underlying reason to fell ?
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Before anyone goes rushing in to do the job for free or for the wood, the owner , poster should firstly make sure who ever is opting to do the job for 'nout' is properly insured, those trees to me also look like that given the close proximity of that newer estate that they would be TPO'd, I would say £250 per tree was very reasonable, arizings to stay on site, and that would be to section fell and carry out all necessary checks with your LPA.
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My habitat range is vast, the planed habitat is a little predictable, but i also have little scrap areas, unimog tiers on there sides which hold water pockets on the inside, tree pits which have not been filled in and hold water, a sloping water table, top cover dry now, lover cover water filled, historical wood chip piles every where , buried wood , dead wood ground level, suspended dead wood to see what happens, weed control by hand for Netal ,Ragwort and thistle, other wise organic. none organic, few areas of ruble, stone and sand that by now must be well washed and salt free, barns, batts in my loft, Common Pips, Badgers in the top mixed wood chip and ruble pile, red dear in the middle but only now and then, we are sandwiched between the m5 and a38 and my left alone island now provides one of the only long grass thicket, covers around, nearly all the surrounding land is cultivated.
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No one ventures into my garden any more, or the cover, only me unless i bring them to look at a snake, the ones i have had to move could hold a good portion of there body , head and 3rd off the ground and strike, hissing . It doesn't mater if i'm over run with Adders but hopefully i can now distinguish the two. I will post more photos as and when.
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Thats great detailing, i can work with that ,i have had the hissing and striking as the fist one i found last year, right outside my back door i did a Steve Urwin, and coaksed it buy the tail into a box and released it deeper in the wood, the wife was freaking out a bit, but shes ok now. The hissing and striking is the grass snake, isn't it ? or have i misunderstood. All is cool now i just leave alone. Just a bit concerned about the dogs being hurt or hurting a snake. Thanks again for your input thats the sort of detailed information thats really helpful especially with my eyes and colour
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That really kind of you too, but , i can't really see the difference.
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Foot of the Blackdown Hills Somerset, thanks for that, my eyes are not great but it is a blumin big snake !!!
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Now hang on, is everyone 100% certain that the snake i photoed is a Grass snake as some of the ones do have the strong diamonds, even the photo's its got a pattern, but this one is a dull green.
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I absolutely love having them around, its such a treat, and all the other wildlife and all on my doorstep its great just going out and having a careful , slow walk about, would be very easy to miss but now i know how to walk and look with eyes wide open very slowly.
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Thanks for all that, thats great information from all, i didn't think grass snakes got that big, are they venomous ? i will try and get TMT to post photos of the others , they look different, but it does not help being colour blind, is it eggs they lay in the wood chip and i assume its June when they emerge.
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Thanks top photo was the last, it spat the toad and moved away, lower photos were how i found it, it most have just made the kill, at first i thought the snake had lost its head and was dead it was only as i looked close i could see a massive toad half in its mouth with its back legs sticking out, snakes mouth was gorged with it. proper treat to see i am going to start taking my camera out more . Habitat is as you see it but that spot has a massive Beech ring that was put there with a crane 7 years ago, a good 2 ton lump.
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Thanks TMT, would really like some one to confirm what it is please .
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BS Standards are your best protection together with a camera and tape measure for a back ground scale of any photos, thats the great thing about this country, British Standards, if you are hitting under ground services a reference to the relevant document clearly specifying any measurements of actual depth and BS specified depth should get you out of the poo if the tolerances are in your favor.
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It is, thanks, I did do it to try and create a wildlife haven and to put a little something back in terms of replacing trees if you know what i mean, they are all trees that suit clay and the different drainage areas, it almost extends to 5 Acres now but each year i push the southern boundary out , when I moved here in 2000 it was agricultural farm land, no trees only hedges, at first it was experimental to see what would grow the best, first place on the well drained clay soil is Pinus nigra evergreen and for the wetter soils Betula with Alnus, Pinus went in in 2006 as 20/30 bare root, they are now 10m in hight, Douglas Fir was planted 2 years ago and they are showing great potential . I have also a created underground and above ground timber stacks and the site is untidy in terms of dead wood on the ground.
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My garden boarders my self home grown cover and wood piles and wood chip piles, cover is now about 10 years old and has just reached canopy closure, mixed evergreen and deciduous trees, very diverse species mix of trees, I also maintain a variety of different grass heights where it still grows, the range of wildlife is now vast, Owls, Fox, Badger , Deer, Small lizards, lots of snakes. Last year was the first time I had noticed them with possibly 20 to 30 sightings , this year starting this month its reached the point that I now have to be very careful when walking outside, they are fantastic but could they kill a Jack Russel, Found one again just now while out with one of me dogs , dog did not see it and the Adder (i think) was eating a Toed so had it mouth full. Sent some photos to another member and hopefully he will post. Great to see them but why so many or is it just one or two that i keep seeing.
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And before I get any hate mail, when my time comes and I,v gone senile Tom, remember to pop me in the chipper head first
