Bren.
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Ain't he though.
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As above.
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I've got 2x346. 1x372. If I had to have just 1 saw, 346 every time. You can do 90% of the felling you will ever have to do with it, and it's a joy to use. It's also nice and light. Always the first saw I pick up.
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Old boy playing Insomnia by Faithless on the spoons. Freakin' awsome! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POvLaziUsTo]Dude playing the spoons to Insomnia by Faithless in Borough Market, London - YouTube[/ame]
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Higher level stewardship
Bren. replied to Lyncombe-climber's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Note to self, do not give out estimates of anything after a post Sunday morning bowls practice visit to the pub. Make that 4 years.
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I used to use a Saunders Packsaver tent when I was working away. Last summer was miserable, rained most of the time and I'm stuck in a little one man. I've converted to a Eureka Chrysalis hammock now. I also got a Snugpak 10x10 tarp. Works really well as a combo, the hammock is really comfi (I can sleep on my side or front if I want to) and the tarp gives me somewhere covered to cook, read or listen to the cricket in comfort, regardless of the weather.
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Lime coppice, about 7 years. https://www.dropbox.com/s/pap82bgoenl1ggm/2009-04-02%2023.59.04.jpg Sorry it's on its side, but you get the idea.
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What gets me is the number of these videos showing supposedly pro cutters in the states, wearing absolutely no ppe. Do they have no regs on this over there?
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My thinking is that he will know what's involved next time, and get someone qualified in to do the job. I don't do garden work anyway, but I would have put him in touch with someone who does.
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My neighbour asked me for help a while ago, pulling over a tree he'd cut that was fallen on next doors fence and shed. I told him to sort it out himself. I'd already told him that he shouldn't be anywhere near a saw and that I have no time for people who use a saw with no training or ppe.
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And one of my landy, just cos I love it.https://www.dropbox.com/s/amf634ew2wryx2d/2009-04-02%2023.53.57.jpg
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Some photos of the wood. Enjoy. https://www.dropbox.com/s/o90p4nhnhk0biyc/2009-04-02%2023.53.40.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/tu7c2udv6kou4lh/2009-04-02%2023.49.01.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/d382muyhwxmsx5i/2009-04-02%2023.43.44.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/8a2t1rmqt9r27n2/2009-04-02%2023.42.24.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/6g8vmeutijg17e0/2009-04-02%2023.40.26.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8s32w1c6iz28co/2009-04-02%2023.44.49.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/hqrqfe4qpsh7w84/2009-04-02%2023.44.56.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnqc3zzq8vnuvh3/2009-04-02%2023.46.05.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvq6u7upe1yrmav/2009-04-02%2023.46.55.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/emt68tfk9ola2mz/2009-04-02%2023.47.21.jpg You can see the Aspen stand in this one and the sucker growth extends to beyond both sides of the photo.
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We buy them for volunteers. Not the best looking, or most comfy, but none of them have cut a leg off yet. If you're not going to be doing this full time, they're probably fine.
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I'll get some pics up later, if I get time.
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Lime makes excellent coppice, and grows nice and straight. Maple, Hazel and Birch will all get Hammered by deer, so you might want to put some fencing round your coupes for a couple of years after coppicing.
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Wish more people would wise up and start burning more soft wood. It's cheap, there's lots of it about and it heats really well. Many people think that you're trying to rip them off if you deliver a mixed load to them. There are a few enlightened souls about though.
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Never mind, just found one. It's a nice looking thing, quite a different shape to mine, but looks like a good tool. Might have to raid the kids piggy banks.
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Nice Froe. But no one has mentioned that you'll need a Draw-knife as well (for dressing). Hand made Shingles are the only way to go. Do Grunfors make a draw-knife?
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Spent a very pleasant summer in Devon last year, doing rights of way work. I was using an FS 410 and can't fault it. It was reasonably light (a real boon to this old boy trying to force his Norfolk legs up those Devon hills) and utterly reliable.
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Someone say they wanted a whole tree? Candalabra | eBay
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It's Swanton Novers NNR. We don't want to get rid of it as the feeling is that it is felt that it is possibly the oldest living organism in the wood (in terms of the root system), probably dating from the early post-glaciation. We do have some nice Stands in the wood and are happy to have them. I have just finished a 3 month long inventory of one of the compartments, mapping and measuring everything in it! The inventory seems to have shown that we have a high Chalara infection rate in our Ash coppice in the compartment, although we are waiting for confirmation of my diagnosis from FC. https://www.dropbox.com/s/py72m2p2s8cokup/2013-03-13%2010.57.15.jpg Personally, I'm sure that this is Chalara. I'll try to get some pictures to show the extent of the Aspen spread.
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As stated earlier, It is an Ancient Woodland site. If we allow the Aspen to proliferate, then we will have to coppice it on the next rotation, or it will shade out the existing coppice stools, some of which are hundreds of years old. It will also shade out the ground flora, which emerges for the first few years after coppicing and then lies dormant, until the next rotation. If we coppice it (the Aspen), then we stress it. leading to a fresh eruption of suckers, over a wider area and eventually, we lose either the ancient stools, or the ground flora. Neither of these scenarios is desirable. The site is a SSSI and NNR.
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I've got a patch of Aspen on a reserve I work on. It's a stunning site, Small-leaved Lime, Hazel, Oak and Ash Coppice, With (mostly) Oak Standards, Which has been in almost continuous management for 600 years. There is a small stand of Aspen in one of the compartments, some of which was coppiced in the last rotation. It has, of course, gone bonkers and is now throwing suckers up everywhere. Any suggestions on how to deal with them?
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Oooh purdy. I'll leave them where they lie for now and have a go at them in the autumn Thanks for the info. I've got a few mates who are chippies and turners, so maybe I'll just do them and hope they catch someones' eye.
