woodyguy
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Everything posted by woodyguy
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Excellent work. Bring on the video
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yep Turkish
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More likely to get a response if you upload promised photos. Generally oaks can lose all of their leaves and will happily regrow them. Although not every year.
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I think the 10000 is an urban (or perhaps Rural) myth. The oldest was reckoned to be the Westonbirt one which was fancifully described as being coppiced during the Roman era in Britain. In reality it is probably half that age, but 1000 years old for a fast growing broadleaf is still pretty good.
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The outer limes are the same age genetically as the central tree. That's why coppicing extends the life of trees by several hundreds of years. Its like a 2000 year old yew tree, where none of the wood in the centre is left, having rotted away leaving a hollow trunk, so the outer growth has only been there for 200 years but genetically the tree is 2000 yrs old.
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Commonly and unfairly known as American oak mildew but comes from Mangos in the far east I seem to remember.
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Clearly the prickly one is a holly. the first one is probably a cherry but need a close up of the leaf. The third one I can see see lots of atlas cedar branches but no idea if that is the tree with the ivy on it. Needs better photos to have any usefulness.
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The one at Westonbirt is many metres across ie a ring of individual looking trees growing in a circle. Initially it was reported as being 2000 yrs old but recently revised downwards as SL lime grows faster than they thought.
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Need a photo. Often however they were coppiced for centuries and the expanding edge was vast. When no longer coppiced, grew up into a ring of trees.
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Ebay has the 1litre plastic mixing square bottles for 2 stroke. few quid and very tough.
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Certainly the ms 362 is a good saw. Same weight but 1/3 more power than your Husky. Well balanced saw and ideal for your use, I certainly don't regret mine.
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Thanks for sharing. What skill!! I think I understood about 1/4 of what he said. I recently bought a small old adze off ebay that I've cleaned up so now I know what I should be able to achieve with it. I'd love to try out one of those old shovels.
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The roots from a tree this size will probably travel at least 30 metres away. But the old folks home is recently built so should have proper foundations and hence not be at great risk from the tree.
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No it's still listed. Tempted to offer him £5 and see what he does.
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"Our theory is because our spring was later than usual the trees are growing at stunted rate and producing lots of leaves and lots of fruit/mast/etc to make up for last years very poor summer" - The problem with this is that much SBD happens in oak which have all their growth within the bud, so amount of growth is pre-determined by the previous summer and not conditions during this one. Or have I not understood the argument?
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I was cutting up a big mountain ash (Sorbus) recently that was felled in the winter storm. Had a lot of heart rot. Suddenly getting blue saw dust!! I stopped and realised it was shredded poly rope that had been used by a greater spotted woodpecker for its nest. I was a long way from the entrance. Really sad to see it having lost its nest site. Next slice in I hit the bees nest and had to run! Put a couple of woodpecker nest boxes up on adjacent trees but it won't be the same for it.
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It certainly is a dominant hedge. I'm not qualified to comment on the TPO legalities but have you considered applying to reduce it's height to 2m, where you might well be on stronger legal grounds?
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Yes it might sell for £200 but when you arrive with your IW 10x8 trailer and it barely covers the bottom when loaded, you are going to be getting your money back and poor feedback.
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I messaged him to say that he seemed to be selling half a ton of leylandii that wasn't even split let along seasoned. He replied that I was too far away to buy it anyway.
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Yes agree. think I've come to the same conclusion about mixing things. Will stop and see if it occurs again on dead SC. Although it must be "crud" on the sprocket, I've been amazed how hard it is to shift and that it only occurs with SC and not birch, oak, holly etc.
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That's reassuring. Certainly SC is full of tannins but it doesn't seem to happen with oak which is similar. I just wondered about interaction between the bar oil and anything like wd40 that I might spray on the chain after sharpening it.
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The top Stihl one and always use the same.
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A while back my 362 with a 20inch stihl bar refused to turn the chain. I took off the chain and found that the bar end refused to turn. I thought it was damaged but on returning home I immersed it in white spirits and cleaned it out. No grit came out and it now runs fine. I had been cutting dead Sweet Chestnut. This week the same happend on my 241. This time I put some petrol on it and cleaned it and it is now fine. Again cutting dead SC. The nose wasn't just stiff to turn but couldn't physically be moved with a screwdrive. Has anybody else had this happen and how can I avoid it?
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Thanks for informative post. I've been cutting 80 year old SwC recently and the sapwood is about 10-15 years. Fairly similar to oak of same age that I've also been cutting. I'll actually formally count them at weekend to see.
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Overhead lines and trees (utility guys & gals)
woodyguy replied to HDAV's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
When I contacted Western Power about this issue they ignored it for a year. Eventually they sent somebody and the team removed most of the trees close to the line but have left the one that actually touches the line. Not impressed! Will have to start getting back onto them again. But the advice is correct.
