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Low Impact Forestry Ltd, covering North Yorkshire and the North East
Bolt replied to IronMike's topic in General chat
Nice pictures... look good enough to have come out of a brochure.
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Reminds me of the roads across the moors after the Dartmoor prison farm sale.
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An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A chap called Alan at Lynher Training in Cornwall had a Lucas Mill. All the workbenches in their training room were made from sycamore (IIRC) that they had milled themselves. Pretty nice looking timber for use in that type of application as I remember. -
An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
.....and (from memory) very handy during the summer if you need to feed your mothers goats in a hurry. -
You will regret not getting bigger whatever you get (unless, possibly, you're ACE )
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15m. Spend the savings on a 4m polesaw
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Top 3. 6 locks in the picture as I see it.
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jmac, I guess.
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To be honest though, that seems like an awful lot of locks on a gate that doesn’t apparently see much use.
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Those locks could be made of cheese, but that wouldn’t help him get out!!
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An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I saw the fine line that you trod, and it was good. Anyway, stuff all that malarkey...... back at full throttle to the trees! -
Although I see your point up to a fashion, what must be appreciated is that there is a higher rate of attrition in a basic tree climbing course than other ‘CS units’ simply because if you really are hopeless at it, you are pretty unlikely to finish the training, and almost guaranteed to not bother with an assessment. I have had the dubious pleasure of training some truly hopeless causes at felling over the years, and almost all of them seem to convince themselves that they will ace an assessment!
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I first started using this two rope / anchor system back in 2015, when I started doing climbing for a utility company that required it. I was over 45 at the time, having been a climber since the 90’s. .....amazing how an old fart can adapt to some things seemingly quicker than the young-bloods! [discretely pushes a pair of Blake’s-hitches under his climbing bag with his toe].
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Hope you get fixed soon, Stubby. Just the tail of a Lab can be destructive enough, wouldn’t care to be on the receiving end of the whole dog!
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Indeed. Burning unseasoned ash is simply a squandering of what should have been properly seasoned ash.
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An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Inspired post, possibly the best one yet. -
Interesting pictures. I always associated hedgelaying as something done down the edge of a field. Never really considered horticultural hedgelaying like the pictures above to be a 'thing'. Good to see that there are enlightened homeowners willing to invest in it. Nice work.
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No chance of me helping with this.... I am clueless when it comes to presents for my own family.... certainly no good with anyone else's!!
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I guess it depends what he wants it for. If he wants a 'rescue knife' to hang on his climbing harness, these are fairly popular... SPATHA - Packs-and-accessories | Petzl United Kingdom WWW.PETZL.COM Petzl United Kingdom. Knife with carabiner hole I had one ages ago...… and, alas, lost it ages ago. I believe the current style has a locking blade, so may fall foul of the 'legal carry' * requirements for strolling down the high street of a weekday evening though. If he wants a knife for grafting apple scions, or other specialist activities, then he is going to require something a little more, errrr, specialist.
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Personally, I rather enjoy loading the stove, so the increased reloading frequency is kind of a positive for me (although unexpected blobs of leylandii sap is not).
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Does anyone know if these things are any use? I was toying with bodging a drawbar onto one to fit on the back of the lawn tractor (shift split wood from the bottom of the garden).
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Have you seen this most excellent thread started by 'Woodworks'? If I remember correctly, a bit of info on the commercial builds with a bit of experimental build action thrown in!
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An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Fair point. Put like that it does seem a bit less of a giggle. -
An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Before helping yourself walk the forest, chop wood. After 'enlightenment' drop wood, run the forest. -
An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management
Bolt replied to the village idiot's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I had the great opportunity of being in at the start of a 200 acre farm 'rewilding' project back in 1995 on the moors of the North Pennines. (eccentric millionaire project). Woodland planting, lake excavation, wetland creation and peatbog restoration. Happy days. Always nice to be a decade or two in front of the curve.
