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So, is it worth growing as a wood fuel?
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Cheers all. Some good ideas there.
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I'm looking for someone who sells really good tarps. Various projects in mind from a shelter in the woods to have a brew through log drying shelters to covering temporary hoop houses for raising meat chickens in the summer etc. etc. I've used those cheapy blue ones from Silverline and the like but after a month they start to break down and then you have bits of plastic everywhere. I want something What I'm really after is some of that stuff they used to make the army tents out of. More like canvas.
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I always thought this was something that happened to other people until we lost our first baby. I went somewhere very dark and very.....I don't know what. But I felt like I was behind a screen watching life go on. I was so sad all the time. Life was muffled. I got a job delivering flowers for min wage and would have to pull over if a sad story came on the radio as I would be in floods. I got past it but it stays with me and I'm never far off tears where kids are concerned. So I have some inkling what real sufferers are going through. As said, keep talking.
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Looks a bit over-thought. Get some pallet boxes and put heavy duty castors on the bottom and you can push them around without all the bobcat faffing.
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Conflicting advice about coppicing alder
Stereo replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I felled a load of mature trees a few years back. Some died but most coppiced strongly and are well on the way to providing another crop. I'm sure that if they are initially coppiced when yang and strong, they would coppice readily. People have made fortunes out of alder coppice when charcoal was in big demand. I love it. Grows fast, dries quickly, splits readily and burns well. Alder coppice is what we should be planting on our flood planes. -
We've got one of the biggest bobcats and it's a powerful machine. We had a mature alder fall across the road the other day. Bobby dragged it off like a twig. BUT. I would go for a tracked one in future. Wheeled skid steers are hopeless on wet ground. I've been watching the polish boys putting in a solar park near me and they use tracked bobbies and they go anywhere.
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"My mum went through this and 15 or so years on she is fine. As long as it's benign there is much hope. Probably a long road ahead. Good luck. It's amazing what they can do these days.
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Interesting. We have a copse on our farm (aforementioned mature beech, lime and oak wood on a rocky hill). We have spinneys which are usually wedges of boggy ground, mainly populated by Alder and I haven't heard of the other names to be honest. I don't use these names definitively, just what my parents and grand-parents called them.
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Yeah, that can usually be managed pretty well so try not to get too down. Might take a while to find a balance but the docs understand it far better than they did years ago. Good luck.
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I always imagined that any wooded pasture would be pollarded? Thereby allowing selected harvest of timber products whilst keeping the trees healthy and productive and providing shade and shelter to animals. Interesting about 'copse'. We have one in our land but it's all mature beech and oak now. Is copse a south west version of coppice? Lastly, on rotation and pigs, I like your ideas. Changing land use between disturbance and planting is a great way to keep it fertile and vibrant. Also avoids issues with disease burden etc. I think personally that pigs are great for a wood. They get in and root up all that mulch. Bring seeds to the surface and Hoover up spare acorns and beech nuts etc. Locking woods up like we do can't be good for them. Get the pigs, cattle and poultry in there. Shake it up a bit and get free meat at the same time.
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Thanks for the tips. I'm dividing up a chicken run into smaller pens for breeding pure breeds. The electric net run is 40m x 10m at the mo so I plan to put 3 x 10m fences across to divide into 4 10 x 10 runs. They need to be 6' or so to stop the birds thinking they can fly over or roost on them. So I need 20 or so posts and don't want to spend out on rubbish when I have loads of timber here. It's all temporary in nature and plans may change in a couple years so I'm not fussed about longevity other than wasting my money. I figured once they have served their purpose, I may be able to lop them off at the ground and dry them for firewood.
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I need to clear an area of over stood hazel coppice which has some nice straight bits. I also need 30 or so 6ft fence posts which will last 2 years. I can get these from the coppice or buy in new softwood junk. If I make posts from the hazel, how long before they snap off at ground level?
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Looking at the Sycs on our farm, and we have a lot, to see that much scaling, you would expect a trunk at least 4ft dia, probably more. All our Sycs of that size are not scaly. It does look like a scaly syc but it's just not thick enough in my view but anything is possible depending on conditions / disease I guess.
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Welly boots will stink and smoke, Pallet wrap your flu will choke But tyres treaded or tyres bald Will keep away the winter's cold. Burning tapes and DVDs, Will cause your ecofan to seize. A gallon of petrol in the grate, Will put you in a terrible state. But tyres white or tyres black, Will warm your aching back. Plastic bottles, tubs and spoons Your neighbours will complain of fumes But tyres old and tyres new Will finish them off with acrid plumes.
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I felled a load of alder, mostly mature trees around 10-12 inches. Some exploded with re-growth, some just died and some started shooting, then seemed to die off again. I have found that just cutting off he new growth and randomly jamming it into the ground (soft and wet) gives you about 30% chance of a new tree taking. With various species, I seem to get most successful re growth when the base is 4" or so.
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So is this the time to be planting huge stands of poplar? In 10 years you would have a decent crop of hardwood. Nice and easy to harvest too.
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What, ready for planting? I got your request thing but can't seem to make it work on the ipad.
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Dunno, I've been told that the spores from softwood can give the chooks breathing problems? Different type of mould.
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Yes, that is true. They know the industry average for cash sales and they may start digging if you have none. For example why did you fill up the truck on this day when you hadn't worked for a week etc. if you can't come up with a good answer they will just estimate. I know a builder who got inspected and they found out he had just been on holiday. No receipts. No bank payments for flights / accommodation and no cash withdrawn in Spain. Needless to say they hit him with estimated cash takings for the past 6 years and taxed him on it. Cost him about 5k as I recall.
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I'm after some chip to put around our chicken house. It needs to be hardwood as softwood goes mouldy and causes them problems. I reckon oak is the best bet. Anyone got any they need rid off? Or I can collect in hilux loads. Happy to pay a reasonable rate in cash / beers. In totnes area.
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Dead standing elm is the very, very best firewood there is. Sometime a bit tricky to get into lumps you can get in the fire but it's worth it. I've got half a acre to pull out in the next 2 months so that's me sorted for next year.
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I'm not expert on forestry type applications but with agricultural there are certain criteria which you must follow such as the size of the building, distance from roads, size of the holding (min 12 acres I think) and other stuff. You also need to apply on the correct form with details of the build, basically asking whether prior approval is needed. If they don't respond you go ahead. It sounds like you have put in a full planning application which I don't believe has anything to do with PD rights. You need to find a local planning consultant.
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Does anyone have a double cab iveco with 7 seats
Stereo replied to Drayton tree care's topic in General chat
It used to be over 8 seats was a bus. Not sure if that has changed. -
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