openspaceman

How come? I thought under the new regime this was covered in D6 and D7 and cannot see a way around these unless in a domestic garden with the householder doing the burning. I can no longer find the additional restriction on not burning at a higher rate than 1 tonne/hour, which was the one that made air curtain devices difficult to comply. Mind we had no problem with them either despite the EA man saying it couldn't legally be done, mainly because it was clean and no one complained.

Yes but you are both giving the example of small traders with limited labour, what entrepreneurial economics has shown us is that if you can manage labour "pile it high and sell it cheap" produces greater profit, albeit at greater cost . Amen to that, I just about manage to chop my own few tonne, back when I was young and able I'd chop a cord on Saturday and deliver one load on the way home and the next the following day.

+1 reaction growth but beware of what is causing it.

It comes down to nuisance, clean air act, local byelaws and whether you are emitting dark smoke. If you don't contravene any of the above then you may burn up to 10 tonnes of plant material produced on the site ( but not imported from another place) on an open fire, but not in a technical device, in a 24 hour period. You will need an exemption to do it. I have yet to hear of anyone being stopped from burning arb arisings from sites.

Pets are for life and my budgie died in 1967

Mick we all know it's unnacceptible for a dog to challenge it's master but predator made a general observation about my whole post, not the specific point you picked on, you were wrong in this because he is no problem with his food bowl, I was referring to taking a bone from him outside, which is similarly unacceptible. He needs more work than a young girl can give him but I have never understood the workings of a female mind which is why I have become the compleat misogynist. I would not have advised a girl about to start college to have a new dog at all let alone one from a large breed.

I was giving my experience to Pete. Agreed about the training but he's not my dog, I see him at weekends and there's a limit to what I can do. He responds to me better than most but considers me from another pack. I expect him to defend his territory. Running off is unnacceptable and has not changed with the snip but he does eventually return and has never got out of sight. He's a great character and as enjoyable to walk with as my two dogs were.

My granddaughter's 9 month old dalmatian cross was done last month. He will still run off to play with children,bikes,horses and apparently small wooly things in a non agressive way. He bolts after squirrels, foxes and cats. He humped his mum yesterday! I have noticed no difference but have yet to try to take a bone from him, previously he would bare teeth and threaten.

Way back in the days of flower power a mate was studying shellfish in the Tawe estuary for a degree. This river collected run off from all the mines up the valley that had been sources for lead, tin zinc etc. He reckoned that the shells were within an order of magnitude of being smelted to recover the heavy metals.

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We used to do that and cast them in egg boxes, then burn them in the Rayburn. I expect it added to the clinker a bit, after all cement is basically ground up clinker. I've done much the same with boiled potato peelings and charcoal dust.

The welshman has posted a good link, I never saw any books like this because everyone just picked up how to do it from co workers. When I started there was great argument about whether one should be allowed to coppice with a chainsaw for fear of the rougher cut spoiling the stools. What did for the billhook practitioners in woodlands with public access was the owner's fear of litigation if someone's dog landed on a sharp spike plus they were known to poke through a 8 ply 12 by 38. Early on as a proud owner of one of the few Husky 165Rs I was sent in to trim of pointy stools in a public area. Some species when laid in the soil will root and produce a new plant, the main thing is to maintain the umbilical for the stool to keep the shoot tip alive while the root takes. With hazel you can just stamp on the stem to break it from the stool while maintaining the root connection. The plash cut is just to make the bend flexible enough without disrupting the cambium. Carr is an alder wood A sun shoot is a shoot that has grown more recently from the stool than the original coppice stems.

I'm impressed. Is that a Moore you are suatting on?

I'm not sure when alder first sets seed but if it has little cones before you re coppice it then it will seed into the spaces between the stools of your little carr. I'd leave it for at least 15 years and in 1985 I cut over an area that was last harvested for charcoal for gunpowder in WW2. Even then we could see the wire rope scars from the previous session in WW1 on beech trees on top of the bog. The estate also had records of spaghnum being gathered for wound dressings from it. It also layers well if you leave a few sunshoots and peg them between the stools. And clogs plus as has been said it is very underrated as firewood

Far be it for me to comment on pathology but: This is typical of many infections and AOD has many causes, probably in unison So the tree is reacting to the problem and making new growth where it can The microbes attacking the tree structure are producing this black liquid as a byproduct of metabolism, there is a pressure build up and it has to go somewhere You probably have cause and effect the wrong way around, the grazing pressure weakened the trees and microbugs took advantage. One does not need a felling licence to remove dead trees, evenso this is only removing the symptoms and extremely unlikely to affect the spread of any pathogenic agents. If it's a production forest then fell and replant with a suitable different species, else wait and see.

Ring barking by squirrel? Difficult to tell without a picture but that's what explains most of the mosaic of brown in sycamore hedgerow trees in SE England.

I used to use a shraeder device that worked off the spark plug for emergencies, pto pump otherwise. It was a one way valve that on tick over sucked air in via the body preferentially as the inlet manifold had higher depression and then pumped it into a standard air line. We never had any problems from using it but it was a bit pedestrian.

That's an oldie, it had a wire edge to stop the saw. Worked off the same port that the decompressor fitted to later 262s and worked off cylinder over pressure. Never did manage to use one.

I think you'll have to use an agent, Charles Dunn at Shredco will be the one for Slough H&P by you or get on someone elses quota. There is a temporary shortage at present as Hyde Park took a lot of woodchip.

Never been a horse logger, I just went in with the Holders when the show was finished ;-). Never had to put a Holder down either. I would have been happy to do a bit with the kids' shetlands or the later highlands but wouldn't give a section Acob much chance of not damaging itself.

This must depend on your market, in general a power station will not pay a premium for dryer woodchip as long as it appears to be less than 45% mc wwb. If you are supplying a good spec like G30 W30 to a private client then yes keep it dry, Even better is you actually meet the spec by screening and get paid by the heat meter but I have yet to see a supplier that agrees to this, mind I'm 4 years out of date now.

Agreed a 350lwb with steel tipper (as favoured by itinerant tarmac layers) will have a kerbweight of 2300kg add 300kg of two blokes and kit and you can only carry 900kg at best and remember the nose weight of the chipper. Mind from the numbers I see loaded on the road no one pays much attention.

Certainly the tree picture looks like manna ash in autumn and the twigs look like ash but the lack of terminal bud is a bit confusing. I'm not familiar with the pagoda tree but isn't that a legume? The ash flowers would be obvious but as they tend to be on the top of the crown the leaves could hide them. The sweet smelling leaf is an indicator too but the leaflets are slightly staggered and I'd have to pop out and check this against a line of trees on one of our local greens.

...but 3000 ft ascent in green wellies!

That's how I read it, us oldies will no longer be able to tow trailers over 3.5 tonne, not that I ever have bar perhaps a bit of overloading. I guess it's aimed at the under 7.5 tonne articulated units mostly. Or have we misread the specifics?