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I am told from the Aussies complete combustion with no "brands". Fines can be used as well as large charcoal pieces as cooking charcoal. No dust!

If it's 'complete combustion', then you don't get charcoal, you get ash. Maybe they meant complete conversion.

Thanks to openspaceman for giving me yet another reason to get hold of a copy of 'Sylva'.

Didn't have much root, did it? No wonder it fell over.

Cotinus coggygria, suffering from Verticillium wilt. I thought the last photo was of witchhazel, but that flowers in winter. No, it's your poor plant's stunted attempt to produce the clouds of blossom which give it the common name of Smoke Bush.

I had a look. It's basically a conical vessel filled with wood, lit, then doused with water when the wood has carbonised. The cone is open-topped, but it seems the lack of updraught inhibits complete combustion. It seems a bit hit-and-miss to me, and appears to be promoted more as a biochar producer than for good barbeque charcoal.

Bear in mind that obviously new stuff might be pounced on by customs, and duty charged. It isn't just booze and fags they look for.

I think cedar cones ripen on the tree, before disintegrating in situ and scattering the seed that way. A cone gathered in June is probably not ripe yet.

I tried several times to germinate cedar seeds, waste of compost to cut a long story short. To grow a Lebanon cedar bonsai in it's characteristic multi-stemmed shape, find a pot-grown one with plenty of lower branches and cut off the leading shoot. Then prune, wire and re-pot for twenty or thirty years.

Can someone tell me what wood this is please?

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The link took me to a listing for a book about log-cabin building.

About right. Used to get a £1 for a log, 50p for a bar or rail on piece rate; this was in 1995-1997. Chain was £1/inch then and still is now!

 

Pics attached are what chainsaw courses teach now: note to landowners - you don't save a penny using them to bugger up your woods!

I can't quite make out what the third picture is showing. What is the round thing to the left, and the horizontal thing across the top?

They've got the 'do my trees' mindset because that's just what you do, as far as they're concerned. The notion that the trees don't need 'doing' is incomprehensible to them. Try explaining that any pruning will inevitably lead to reactionary growth, locking them into a vicious circle of further pruning, and you might as well be talking Martian.

There is probably nothing you can say or do which will satisfy them, the fact that they can't articulate what exactly they want is probably a good excuse to decline the job.

I reckon the person who planted it bent the stem back on itself when putting on the Tuley tube. The leading shoot attempted to resume upward growth and broke out of the side of the tube.

Bump. Some cracking entries. Lacking entries in some of the categories still though. keep them coming

What are you still looking for?

Don't know about tyres as old as that but "modern" tyres have the year of production hidden in a code printed on the side.

In the first picture, the right-hand tyre looks like it could be a remould and therefore possibly second-hand when fitted.

book a couple of days off work after eating it though.

I think he might be cooking it first, rather than eating it in it's frozen state. Mind you, he'd break his teeth on it before it had a chance to poison him...

Some new regulations rumored to be coming into place in Sweden

Say no more. It'll be an EU directive, which we don't have to worry about post-Brexit.

Second picture had hawthorn in. Not sure if that's the bit you wanted identified, but the thick trunk belongs to something else.

The flowers would nail it. How long before it blossoms and you can get a (yet another!) photo up?

I'd go for a pair of dessert cherries. Have an early and a late variety and they'll still flower close enough to pollinate each other. The blossom looks almost as good as the ornamental flowering cherries.

Probably have trouble with garden gates though.

 

I doubt it, just feed them in as well, metal fixings and all.

"Gates? What gates?":001_rolleyes:

:biggrin:I bet you're already on to them asking for wood samples!

Odd, I just did a quick Google search and got no results for Neache in the context of call centres or any other jobs.

Nice to see horse-logging and coppicing given a mention alongside the mass-market conifers. Also interesting to see comments regarding the difficulty of securing permission to plant, due to three different bodies needing to agree. Overall, a good balanced piece of reportage, wish it could be this good every week.

Any particular reason for wanting to get rid of it? The tree(s) add a bit of height to the garden which is otherwise lacking.

Often well-intentioned but irrelevant and ineffective IMO. The carbon-absorbing abilities of full-grown trees are projected onto mere saplings and even when they do get going, much of the carbon taken up by a deciduous tree will be shed with the annual leaf-fall. Also, where are the trees to be planted? One carbon-offset scheme (in Africa I think) had native forest cleared to make way for it. Even in the UK, think about how long it would take for the trees to absorb the CO2 emitted by the vehicles driven to the tree-planting.

You can understand charities like Woodland Trust wanting to get in on it, but remember that the late Oliver Rackham likened it to drinking more water to combat rising sea levels.

As for first-hand experience, I did look at one some time ago. I didn't find any evidence of corruption or fraud, just a lot of wishful thinking.

2' off a 20' tree? What difference is that going to make to the shade it casts? The thing is, if you take enough to be noticeable, you get a lot of reaction growth. Back to square one in a couple of years.

My first thought was 'what a waste of four good axes', but I'd nevertheless like to know how they were secured.

I like the look of slabs of wood with wild grain, but don't fancy clearing crumbs, spilled drinks and other gunk out of the crevices.