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Very impressed at your dedication to get that lot out but I imagine processing in the woods (maybe with a branchwood logger for the smaller stuff) would be much more efficient in future.
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I paddled from Stratford to Langham flumes today. Saw some stacked willow brash and sideways stumps that look to have been cut within the last two or three days. The stretch was clear. It's Sudbury to the Sea is this weekend and I think the maintained navigation all gets checked and cleared (weed mainly) in preparation.
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198 mature poplars to fell Coalville.
AHPP replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Since we're playing the hypothetical pricing game: 1) Clear ground. Big (~500hp) tracked mulcher. £3000? 2) Clear ground. Smaller tractor mulcher(s). £1000 3) Fell trees outwards and backwards (leave them lying in a herringbone pattern). Two cutters and one bloke following them fuelling and sharpening saws. £1000 4) Massive chipper with a crane/winch and drive it up the middle. £9000? Shoot chips where the tree came from or into big lorries/trailers. £ no idea what that would cost or what people would pay for the chip. 5) Let some other poor grind them. Double the price for safety, add some profit. Call it £30,000 if my price guesstimates were OK. -
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I know. Questions beget questions beget questions! Thanks, folks.
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I think I want it to dry slower to prevent cracking (which I believe cherry does more than average)?
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I have a small cherry crowding an oak. It's only about 12" DBH but it's straight so there should be a few canoe paddle shafts in there. Since I only really need the crown gone to give the oak space, would there be any benefit in (a)ring-barking it, (b)pollarding it or ©both and leaving it to dry standing for a couple of years? I'm hoping it might split less fixed to the stump (drying cherry splits badly if firewood is anything to go by). Would it dry well like this or am I just as well off felling in winter, milling, (maybe painting end grain to slow drying) and air drying normally?
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How do you find the 160?
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Can you not burn it?
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Somerset farmer defends 'prison' style fence built to stop dog walkers straying from path | Mail Online Own up. Who was it? Doesn't look cheap.
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You're up early, Paul. I've been burning the midnight oil. Exam in 6.5 hours' time.
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Rent him a **** mower that doesn't owe you anything for very cheap. You never know what you could spark.* *Probably nothing but what's life without optimism.
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Costa Coffe et al is weak milky rubbish right?
AHPP replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in The Lounge
Getting proper pangs from reading this thread. I've been drinking instant since my cafetière broke. Just bought a cheap macchinetta to give that a go (can use it at home and out and about) and might get a proper benchtop job if I want to do clever milk stuff. -
My take on EU money: There are simply so many conflicting, biased and misleading statistics and reports out there that ordinary peasants like us can't possibly know whether we get more out or less out than we put in. Even if we do "know" whether we net lose or net gain, the actual figure doesn't matter. If we are losing money, we need to ask ourselves whether we are getting something in return (are we benefiting enough from free movement of goods, people etc?). If we are winning money, I say we're not really. All member states pay in hard fvcking cash, nice lump sums. The important factor is not what we get out, it's how we get it out. Spain gets out nice big lumps of cash and builds roads with it. The UK gets out thousands of thin streams of funding for cretinous social projects and other bullshit. The money is spread so thinly that it practically evaporates.
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Fixed it for you.
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Learn to fish. The guys down on the Wear often have some good looking catches. Need to establish a trading relationship with one of them.
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I'm on an economy drive diet, Paul. 25kg bag of potatoes - £3.50 10kg bag of onions - £3.89 Garlic Other veg Backbone of every meal. I have so many spare carbs going, especially considering how inactive I am at the moment.
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I am looking forward to celebrating my 40th birthday... ...in 2027. Clearly they don't make 'em like they used to.
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I've been giving this a go for the last couple of mornings. A pint of hot water and lemon and two cups of tea (my usual) seems to produce 8, maybe 9 gallons of urine by about 12:00. What sorcery is this?!
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What computer are you on? What operating system? What browser?
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Alas, that's what I was thinking. Was hoping for thermo-magic. I just want double the excuse to buy a Kelly Kettle really.
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Worth getting to use for both or so utterly useless on the stove as to render that entire half of the equation null?
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Are they any good for leaving permanently on the side of an Aga/Rayburn to keep warm and moving to the main hotplate to boil when needed?
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Same. I asked them for the best one for cutting rope and canoe thwarts (20mm x 30mm dried ash) and they're sending a black one.
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Not Gretna is it?!
