woodyguy
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Well I might just take up the challenge of that experiment. I've got to cut down a couple of Sweet Chestnut on Sunday in my wood which will be used for firewood so not a big deal to test it out. Just need to remember to monitor them over the next six months. How long do we feel they need to be cut before we lop the extra inch off?
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Site clearance hypothetical question...
woodyguy replied to Bryn the wood man's topic in Trees and the Law
You can fell 5cubic metres per calendar quarter if you are not selling it. So 30th Sept you fell 5 cu m then another 5cu metres the next day. Problem solved. If you're really worried about people phoning the council then 31st Dec and 1st Jan should be even safer! -
Thanks for sharing. That's lovely work and something I've been planning to do myself with my dewalt so good to see it done well.
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First go at a bench-is it going to fall apart!
woodyguy replied to kav's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
Love the squared off but waney edge. Good work. Bit of Tung oil and it will be lovely. -
That's RobD in the video so its great but not cheap. I've been using a Bosche one which works pretty well but won't detect as deep as that. certainly picks up nails etc.
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Planting a shelter belt on non-woodland soil is like normal gardening. Whilst the fungal based leaf litter of an established wood is fragile and damaged by fertilisers and manure. The massive biodiversity of a wood is totally different from arable/grassland soil. The trees growing need the fungi to gain nutrients. That is why you can't plant an ancient woodland and it takes at least 300 years to get a decent woodland soil going.
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Woodland trees don't want extra nutrients like grass they want healthy fungi. Interesting some years ago when Gardening Which did a trial of making a peat/fertiliser planting mix to help planting trees and found that it slowed the establishment of the bare rooted trees. So mulch with bark/chippings but no manure would be my advice.
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Jay, I found initially feeding them with the traps not set ie putting the nuts around a closed trap, meant that after a week, I was catching them as fast as I reset the trap. They're not as bright as they're made out to be.
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Help! What to do with seedling?
woodyguy replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
It will grow much better outside over the summer and then come inside late autumn to prevent getting frosted. -
Only issue to me of "killing" traps vs live is that about 1/3 of what I catch are hedgehogs!!
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Live trapping works well and I keep my numbers down quite successfully. You catch a dozen or so over a couple of weeks then there are none for a month then just the odd one. I restart when you see several. Seems to limit damage and they're suckers for cashew nuts!
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Help! What to do with seedling?
woodyguy replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I'd put it outside in dappled shade for a few hours each day, before bringing it back inside, gradually increasing the amount of time each day. Beware of full sun and keep it watered. Known as hardening off. -
That looks more than blunt. He seemed to just gradually wear it away. I bet he's got the chain on backwards???
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Thanks David, hadn't seen there was a second edition, so have ordered it.
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Depends what you mean by turning? If you are cutting a bowl blank then you need to cut it now not dry it first. Look on line how to cut it to exclude the heart of the wood, otherwise it will crack. You can then as seven says, rough turn it, or dry it first. If you plan to turn a full branch/trunk, then coat the ends with old paint and let it dry for a few years first.
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Thanks for sharing. A fascinating place and well captured on photos.
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When young they grow fast (one of mine that is 22years old has grown 2foot this year already) but slow when older. As two of us have said, it is probably 40 years old but could be up to 60 at most.
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Agree with the age. They are a well mannered tree and good to live with. In the states and increasingly in UK they are a street tree, so not going to cause you any problems.
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Fair point. use a glass graduated 100ml measuring cylinder. accurate to 0.1ml.
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Measure from the filling station pump and then add oil on returning home. Nothing else is going to be that accurate. Do 5L cans at a time.
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Wonder how old it really is? If you can't count the rings, you can only estimate. Lots of them seem to be pre-christian but "experts" seem to disagree about the rate of growth when they are young which can change the age estimate by a thousand years or so.
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Ficus benjamina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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yes its fig, see them all over the mediterranean. Not a rubber plant though as those leaves are much bigger.
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Interesting post. Insisting on a blood test early isn't helpful as they are generally negative. But do remind your GP that you work in an industry where you might meet ticks so Lymes Disease is a possibility. They will see a case of Lymes disease roughly every 180 000 cases they see (its very rare) so most GP's won't diagnose a single case in their working lifetime. So a reminder and an appointment to get the test at the right time is helpful.
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Thanks that was great. Read a book years ago about that area as it is today after the logging finished, so fascinating to see how it lost its trees!
