Goaty
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Must be feet! Also are you after a real HGV with all the hassle of regulations and licences or something you can drive on a car licence. Not digging at the OP, more detail required.
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Sounds a bit nutty. Any evidence of drilling? A lot of holes needed to achieve that?
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Planting for a Sweet Chestnut coppice - any tips?
Goaty replied to SteveA's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A lot of big tree seeds in my experience don't need a cold spell Conkers, oaks of various kinds, beech etc. As mentioned if it's fresh and gets its needs it often germinates before the onset of winter. However if seed doesn't get the moisture & growing media contact, it goes dormant. Often I have found bought seed very poor for this reason, it's needs to be stored and becomes dormant and too dry. I buy trees from a nurseryman who grows a lot from seed, he always try's to collect his own fresh seed of the fickle species, due to this. Walnuts try growing a shop bought one, it's dead from a seed viewpoint. They must be obtained with the green husk on. De husked. Then sown immediately. -
Planting for a Sweet Chestnut coppice - any tips?
Goaty replied to SteveA's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Nut type seeds I've filled big glass jars in layers of seed and sharp sand. Punch small air holes in lid. Keep outside and moist. When you see the roots appear about this time of year pot on. Don't let the roots get too far or you will damage them. -
Planting for a Sweet Chestnut coppice - any tips?
Goaty replied to SteveA's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
We used to grow them on the nursery when I was younger. I'm sure they could be propagated by the stooling method. Or suckers in young plants. I remember lifting them with roots on other shoots at ground level. -
You do wonder what actual strategy goes in to this sort of thing. The people in power are only thinking of their term often. Is it liability? Everywhere and everyone seems to plant the Himalayan birch Betula utilis jacqmontii. It does get a tad bit boring. On the other hand are mature trees really suited to live alongside the concrete& tarmac jungle.
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Saw a bloke get done big time on one of those police program's running on processed waste oil I saved a fortune on running an escort van on bio about 7 years ago. Then got through two injection pumps. I would of been out of pocket if I didn't have old engines with them on. Got to agree with agrimog. If anything is green, bio or tech. It's likely someone's get rich scheme motivated by greed not care for environment. The 10p below pump price is suspect as well. Oil seeds can be expensive. Crude is cheap now. But markets are volitile. Also if they aim for 10p could it really be 20p?
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Planting for a Sweet Chestnut coppice - any tips?
Goaty replied to SteveA's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Acid soil I think they like. Seldom set nuts round here, but if it gets warmer they may! -
I'm intrigued. Do they let the big cats out on one of them extending pooch leads?
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Planting for a Sweet Chestnut coppice - any tips?
Goaty replied to SteveA's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Fencing posts I assume ? Was discussing this on another forum at the weekend. I was curious and round here there is no plantations. It seems to be a down South thing. I would imagine no closer than 2m. Is it worth having an early crop planted every other plant. Birch or alder for firewood, they tend not to regenerate. I am speculating, I have no real real experience in this. -
Common knowledge amongst hgv drivers and my own experience. 8 wheelers even with rear axles engaged and diff locks. Off road empty bounce at rear an scrat. Front axles resist and sink. 4 wheelers are better but they bounce at rear loosing traction. Momentum often can be key along with a higher gear. 6 wheeler with rear axles and diffs if needed are the best of the lot empty and laden. In all cases I'm referring to hgv with no drive on any front axles. Just posting for those that don't know. 4x4 on off road tyres probably outclasses the lot. I've never driven one.
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But has the lifespan of a battery farmed hen I reckon.
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The tug of war team have a synchronised dance like move method.
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Nothing to lose in moving them then. Do it Asap, but be organised with planting holes ready etc. Alec I know me and you have similar interests horticulturally, would it be Harry Dodson an old fellow that featured in a C4 (I think) tv series from the Rhs on propagation. I remember watching it and being totally fascinated by it. From the mid 80s when gardening programs were about gardening not the arty I know it all and am wonderful, and just buy it in the garden Center along with the trendy tat you stick in your garden from there, whilst wasting the day over a coffee programming we get nowadays. Geoff Hamilton was the best. Proper gardening tv died with him.
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Thanks for that chaps. Anne widdecombe may yet appear on the fave girls thread again then!
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Alec, I'm impressed with your tlc, it's sounds like a Victorian or even capability brown style scene. I've recommended such in the past but no offence to the OP. After a short while these projects tend to get neglected. Rootstocks are a pain to get, wholesale they are dirt cheap. I managed to take hardwood cuttings a year ago from some apple M25. The top pieces that was chopped off when grafting and got a few to root. It's one of those projects I'd like to do, stool them and make more babies. But I know I won't follow through. Eternal enemy in this life...Time!
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Something not on the bench but the frequent visitors to this thread may know. What happened to Rich2484 that used to post here. The RNLI volunteer. It's nearly a year since he last posted!
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Lots of variables. I've never done it. I think it's on piece work. Something like 1500 planted in a day. At 10p each. But don't quote me.
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I love the intro to vic and bob accurately through the gate in the discovery. I like to drive myself like that when occasion affords. It's good fun. I remember as a teenager taking my escort van down the field at the nursery. Some of it was undeveloped grassland. I took a colleague with me. He used to fret as I hand braked it round. In a high pitched voice "Awh paul stop it" "Don't do that it's dangerous" I just did it all the more, I didn't know about drifting and doughnuts they had yet to be invented or arrive in this country. What happened to the stunt days of youth in the 80s and 90s? O yeah health and safety became an industry. Everything fun got party pooped. Needless to say I never watch country file.
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You don't mention size by height or girth. I would be reluctant to go through the trouble of shifting and giving tlc post replant on anything over 5 years planted. The older they are the less juvenile vigour to reestablish themselves. I would get some grafts done. It's the perfect time of year for that. Fresh vigourous Young plants that will outgrow and yield better than a replant.
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Started to read the thread and got this far. Laurel was my thought. Toxic to livestock but pulls out easy. Burns great even when green. Just don't breathe it due to cyanide gas. Bamboo comes in two forms. Running or clump forming rhizomes. Research your variety before planting.
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It doesn't have to happen just mention what a great idea it is. Pay a haulier to come unload one then turn truck round. Have a break or go and do another job. Pick it up the other way round later. He was only repositioning the container. Sunday morning when most are at home and council office shut down.
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I reckon so pto off gearbox to hydraulic pump to hydraulic motor. That's how concrete mixers work. Switch in cab to disengage and modern ones have electronic switch at rear. Heck of a motor on mixer drum though. Turning 14-18 ton of concrete at18 rpm or less. I wouldn't want to buy a replacement. Chipper high speed motor should be cheaper.
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Valid point.
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I find the councils position agreeable. As for children climbing on them. Control you children if your that bothered. I'd probably climb on them myself with my kids.
