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    Mail comes from everywhere to everywhere. Very different. You do have a point after that but those things work because oil is too cheap If you are right that a one man band who works the local woods for example,near me, N Yorks, and sells me firewood, cant compete with a company in Herefordshire palletising deliveries of the same product, then SOMETHING is very very wrong.
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    Ta. Wish i'd tried that too. Will next year.
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    On many levels this feels wrong. Hard as it is to believe, trees grow round here. Wood is by its nature local. This centralisation could only be dreamed up by an economist, and look how well we are been served by them Operations like that are only viable with government handouts (your money btw) and cheap oil, both of which are finite. (Phew.....fell better now:001_smile:)
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    Poplars

    corylus replied to Backpain's topic in Firewood forum

    See also.. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/26533-poplar.html
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    Got c45 in this box. Mainly s. fragilis with a few s. pentandra. Only the odd failure. Dont know what root structures like....yet. Looking good so far:001_smile:
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    :confused1:He speaks in tongues:confused1:
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    Good for getting rid of dogs too:thumbdown: Eleven dogs hit by new outbreak of Sandringham bug | Mail Online (BTW I DO NOT READ THIS EXCUSE FOR A 'NEWSPAPER' It was just the first link I found)
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    Anyone know where I could source some cages or knacked containers with cages, not too far away? Have looked on ebay already. Ta
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    .....and usuall good chestnuts!
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    I am off on hols shortly to North Norfolk. Want to have a wander round some woods, look at a few trees, pick some sweet chestnuts etc etc. Any suggestions? (I am familiar with Holkham, Fellbrigg and Blickling)
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    As an aside I once convinced a mate of mine that light was measured in units called 'drings'. The scale worked on the sun being one and the full moon being zero. Kept this up for a bit till i started singing the above song. He nearly died laughing:thumbup:
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    Top comment:thumbup::thumbup:
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    Saw a few minutes of (what was probably) x-factor once in a mates house. Still havent really come to terms with it, and what it says about our little island. Instead I am sat in my study (where all the books are) with a glass of cracking Rioja, listening to some 1930's blues with the wood-stove on. Clearview obviously!!!!!!!!!!! One imagines things could be worse.............. Smug
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    Wonderfull avatar.

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    It appears that our ancestors also recognized ‘wispy’ or ‘whiskery’ trees (epicormic growth) as trees that would be most suitable for regular cutting and therefore more likely to respond positively to cutting. I wonder if our ancestors recognized that the height that the autumn leaves remain is the height to cut when starting a new pollard? Above is the paragraph referred to if anyone wonders what on earth i'm on about. Heres a link to the whole document (E E Green Fungi, Trees and Pollards) Fungi, trees and pollards
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    Cant agree with you there. Cos after mentioning stag headed oaks he goes on to mention beavers leaving sapwood, defo not oak specific, then the wispy thing. Unless you have other E Green stuff that supports your comment? (On reading the above it does sound a bit agressive, its not meant to:blushing:)
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    One of the links in the thread pointed me in the direction of Ted Green's Fungi, trees and pollards, the bedtime reading I referred to (amongst others). In the paragraph on page 3 on 'wispy' or 'whiskery' trees the latter part mentions 'I wonder if our ancestors recognised that the height that the autumn leaves remain, is the height to cut when starting a new pollard' Could anyone clarify if that is on trees with the 'wispy' growth or trees in general? It is not something I have noticed but intend to have a damn good look this autumn.
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    I havent printed the thread. Would take too much editing of off topic nonsense and chivvying to make it worthwhile. No, I have printed stuff gleaned from some of the links included. Never come across 'Fungal strategies in bed'. Will have a look on Amazon. Sounds interesting.:lol:
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    Fantastic thread, which kept on topic for a surprising amount of time. (Lady Gaga, I ask you??) Cheers Hama for starting this. Some amazing trees and lots to learn. The old printers been hard at it. Lots of bedtime reading. Anyway I have been looking at a few pollards here in Swaledale (In the north, sorry). I know Rackham came to have a look at a few and published an article or two many moons ago. Sadly some have now vanished. But the good news is that our local archaeology group have started surveying our veteran trees, or as they put it trees of 'a certain age'. Heres a link to some records/pix and a nice pic from them of one next farm along. No doubt i'll have a few questions too when all has been absorbed. Swaledale Ancient Trees HER
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    Any prices for the petrol 13 tonners?
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    ATV tyres state on the sidewalls......NOT FOR HIGHWAY USE.
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    Heavily pregent wife plus 10 month old wean on board Give the poor lass a rest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Had a logik for about 15 years?. Meshed the sides and put a removable back door on. Its moved tens of tons for us behind the grizzly, over very steep and slippy ground. Would have been very cold without it. Probably was expensive over a locally made one but its paid for itself many times over.
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    A fine old Field Maple pollard I came across this weekend. Heres an old pollard you DONT want to come across......
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    If you want to watch deer (roe in my case, but I believe its the same for all) get 6 foot or more above ground level. If you are in a tree all the better. If yr quiet and they havent scented you they will walk right beneath. A lot of problems stalkers/watchers have is due to their appalling fieldcraft. If you 'get with the forest' to quote The Boosh, you dont have these problems.

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