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  1. Goaty
    Yes it is better if the logs roll towards your saw. 1. If they rolled away they can spin and flick out of control everywhere. 2. Also stack together if the 1st log slides to one side the next stacks neater and easier behind it. Making a uniform stack contributes to flusher perpendicular end cuts that stand better if you need to split em and there is probably other reasons.
  2. Goaty
    I'd say yes if you are a small producer with low running costs, the wood being waste from yours or someone elses business. Saves disposal costs. Locally wood waste is £30 per tonne to dispose of. (then the resell it!) But to buy in on a small scale is hard work with low returns. Biomass has shaken things up. With imported chip from forest rich countries and biomass barons, buying cheap selling high, depleting timber stocks and backed by grants and subsidies, which always unsettles things and moves goalposts to the advantage of fewer. Remember the grain mountains the EU had 20 years ago whilst LIVE AID was trying to feed them. Now its energys turn to be messed up again.
  3. Goaty
    Transplant yes. Live and thrive? Not likely, and whilst its well intentioned, next summer when there isnt enough hours in the day, watering it will be the last thing you need. I hope you prove me wrong but oak and beech are the worse trees for not transplanting even in a commercial environment , where the are root pruned and transplanted to initiate good root systems. Cherries and hornbeams reastablish fibrous root systems rapidly, whereas beech and oak tend to have fanging roots and few of them. Beech can react poorly to pruning as well. This is only my opinion and observations.
  4. Goaty
    Clarkson type male sticking to the rules. Obviously uneducated in tractor science/operation, hitched to high on the victim.
  5. Goaty
    Thanks Rob received today. Is there a revised deadline, I just finished using saw today until next week? As Im fencing tomorrow.
  6. Goaty
    Thanks Rob received today. Is there a revised deadline, I just finished using saw today until next week? As Im fencing tomorrow.
  7. Goaty
    Bizzare I was expecting suckers in a ring around the trunk.
  8. Goaty
    Bizzare I was expecting suckers in a ring around the trunk.
  9. Goaty
    Bizzare I was expecting suckers in a ring around the trunk.
  10. Goaty
    photo would help. It could be something to do with graft union.
  11. Goaty
    photo would help. It could be something to do with graft union.
  12. Goaty
    The problem is, what is obtained easily is taken for granted and not fully appreciated. Really needs a genuinely interested good listener that would benefit themselves. I would of loved to of started from school with an old generation woodsman.
  13. Goaty
    How did it go Taupotreeman?The Shigo excerpt said it all.
  14. Goaty
    Good things come from Yorkshire.......Like Dean Lofthouse. Olympian gold medal winners and lots of good ideas.
  15. Goaty
    has its nearby pollinating partner of many years, fail to flower or been removed?
  16. Goaty
    I will labour on you!!! plenty of room to manoeuvre!!! Not your regular groundie !!!
  17. Goaty
    Thats fair enough I think. Probably a good idea to get photos of the exact plants on the nursery before shipping in the interests of all parties concerned, with an item of standard size. A tool or something in the picture to show scale.
  18. Goaty
    Yes not top quality, we get better grade in uk and the dutch grow em like fishing rods. Its not a hard tree to keep straight, these where probably grown in a neglected corner of the nursery in limited numbers. To be fair to the tree, it doesn't come up very often in quantity due to potential short lifespan with disease. Check the stems out on these. Also google images. Buy Elm Trees | Ulmus Lobel
  19. Goaty
    I see what you are getting at, the trident instead of a prominent leader. It isn't good for a public area in case they split at the fork union, or get vandalised. I would single it up to the horror of many. In NZ it will soon put good growth on and compensate. I reckon 2 years you wouldn't notice it. Not what the LA wants to hear perhaps but best long term, problem nipped in the bud. As for the curvy trunk that will become less prominent each year until it straightens out. If top grade was specified for the contract they are not that. The heads are not high enough in my opinion, a larger size tree should of been used to get the crown out of public reach. It is down to not enough nursery pruning/tying in I assume NZ is dutch elm disease free?
  20. Goaty
    I see what you are getting at, the trident instead of a prominent leader. It isn't good for a public area in case they split at the fork union. I would single it up to the horror of many. In NZ it will soon put good growth on and compensate. I reckon 2 years you wouldn't notice it. Not what the LA wants to hear perhaps but best long term, problem nipped in the bud. As for the curvy trunk that will become less prominent each year until it straightens out. If top grade was specified for the contract they are not that. It is down to not enough nursery pruning/tying in.I assume NZ is dutch elm disease free?
  21. Goaty
    Dream job with the Fungi Master! Stretch out with your mycelium young learners. Learn the ways of death and decay. Mmwwwaahh ha ha!
  22. Goaty
    Signed up, I would've taken part at full price. Real Info of this kind is worth it. Thanks Rob.
  23. Goaty
    I know a Guy who is like the Hamadryad of Oil, he used to come around as a rep of a company he simplified oil requirements for companies by checking their oil requirement specs and minimising the different oils needed on stock. He was well in to analysing etc. The company started blending inferior Russian grades in their blends. He was not pleased so jumped ship and set up on his own and elected to sell Q8 oils. I will be interested in the results. Good to keep up various skills and trades I think.
  24. Goaty
    If your still a teenager build a pyramid or wall out of them, then ride your bike through them.
  25. Goaty
    This Nuffy was mighty it was a 1040 but with a 6 cylinder bmc truck engine in. It was a dragster. Did 33mph intimidated the local hunt with its mighty roar, front end slid on roundabouts. Was fun getting to top speed and cars thinking I will overtake that old relic. We learnt alot about fuel systems and various staring techniques from that beast.

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