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  1. Stereo
    Land is sodden down here in Devon. We have them coming down everywhere. At least 12 trees down last night. We also inherited a partially sawn up sycamore from further upstream which got wedged in a riverside alder coppice. Much appreciated. Very sad that people are tenting under trees at the moment.
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    As for ash, my approach is to carry on regardless. If its going to hit us, it will do some thinning for me. I think the worst thing we can do is give up on ash.
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    I need to get one of them cutters, heard a lot of good things about them. I don't think we can use round up. We did discuss pigs but its so steep that we are worried they will shove all the soil down the hill. One current option is goats which I am reading up on. Apparently love brambles.
  4. Stereo
    Ok, thanks
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    We have a steep bank at the bottom of our wood. Half is an old pheasant pen which was mainly elm, all of which is dead standing although they are starting to fall over so we plan to clear it out totally. There is a thick understory of elder and bramble plus other young trees. The other half of the bank is just pure bramble about 4 foot high. Probably half an acre in all. I want to clear it and re-plant with oak, ash, hazel and sweet chestnut with a view to running coppice with oak and ash standards I'm happy to put in the hours but am worried about the brambles coming back and overwhelming the young trees which will be much more difficult to manage than initial clearing. As its steep, mechanical access is limited. The farm is currently under organic conversion so weed killer options are also limited. Anyone done this and have any advise? I've considered a small propelled rotavator to try and dig up the roots.
  6. Stereo
    What are sticks? Hazel bean sticks?
  7. Stereo
    The best way to get a XUD in the old days was a cheap BX mot failure but they are all gone now. Good car the BX, I liked it.
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    Most softwoods leave little ash I find and as you say, the ember bed seems to disappear quickly. If you burn some ash or syc etc. you can go back 10 hours later and rake up some hot coals and get it going again with kindling just by opening up the vents. With most softwood I find that the fire is cold and dead half an hour after its burned down.
  9. Stereo
    Hmm maybe it was the 406 that he has now. The 405 was a 92 .
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    Hang on, hang on dartmoor. My bruv had a pug 405 with the 1.9 and he had this after a puddle. It's something to do with the engine going into protection mode. He had low revs and lots of smoke but it was not damage, it was a setting that the motor was put into due to water ingress. Before you start taking the head off, ask a real XUD expert about this as it may be just an electronics thing. His car was fine once dried out.
  11. Stereo
    Currently £99000 lol.
  12. Stereo
    Yeah syc always does that. White or blue spots usually. Great firewood though.
  13. Stereo
    Put in for planning then. There is an assumption in favour of sustainability now. If you can show that you have a viable business, you may (or do already) employ local people and that your activities are environmentally sound then you have a good case.
  14. Stereo
    Try travis Perkins. Good rates at the mo.
  15. Stereo
    So last night he's making charcoal. Quite a good episode I thought. Anyone have a guess at how many cube of hazel he put in the kiln? ie. I think he said the charcoal had a street value of £250. Would he have got more by logging it up? It's always something that has appealed to me and we do have a lot of hazel coppice.
  16. Stereo
    Sycamore is a lovely firewood but pretty much whatever you do you are going to get a blueish mould on the logs after a while. This will turn to white when it's dry. It's pretty normal and unavoidable as far as I can see unless you can store each log in a vented barn with space around all of them. I think it must have something to do with the fact that the wood has great anti-bacterial properties although I don't know if there is a link. One of the fastest growing and fastest drying hard woods in my experience.
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    I think we need to let it run. Maybe we need controls on ash saplings so that it spreads slowly but it will be all over in a few years. Those trees that die should be dealt with and any that survive can be actively bred from. It really wouldn't take that many decades with a concerted effort to get a few million resistant saplings in the ground. It's a bit gutting for those specimens that we have nurtured over the years. I've got one at the bottom of my garden that has been spoilt since it was a sapling sticking out of the hedge when we moved in. Everything else has been cleared out of it's way and it's been carefully pruned. I was really looking forward to enjoying it when I'm an old duffer.
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    I'm leaving all mine in the hope that I have some resistant ones.
  19. Stereo
    I've got half an acre of standing DED elm which is coming out this winter. Going to be toasty next year! Might need a bigger splitter though!
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    Countryfile

    Stereo replied to coppiceer's topic in General chat

    I'm well hacked off. One of my littluns must have cancelled series record and it's not on iplayer yet. Thought I would watch Dragons Den instead but that's been replaced by some moron jumping out of a balloon.
  21. Stereo
    From the sound of it you don't need central heating so one of the older rayburns should be fine for just domestic hot water and they are very cheap. You can buy kits to convert oil ones back to solid fuel as well and last time I looked new boilers for the old ones were quite cheap.
  22. Stereo
    We got our esse w23 off Dean Forge. It's great but you MUST have very dry fuel. I believe the w25 has better water control. Also consider a second hand Rayburn from eBay. Cheap as chips but may need new boiler and other. Bits. To be honest, if I was doing it again I would spend less an get a Rayburn on the cheap.
  23. Stereo
    I would caution against doing this with softwood though. Quite a few times I've loaded out the stove with pallet wood on a low ember bed and shut the door fully. What seems to happen is that the wood just gets hotter and hotter and hotter without a flame and then bang. When it eventually does go I guess the stove must be full of flammable gasses. Twice I've done this and it's blown the chimney vent off and let smoke out into the room. Luckily I was there. So I always make sure things are well alight before closing it up.
  24. Stereo
    Couldn't they have pulled that hanger down with a simple 4 ton hand puller and a long chain? The way they were attacking it, they obviously didn't expect it to come back towards them.......
  25. Stereo
    If he'd tripped backwards when he was pulling that limb down it could have done him good and proper.

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