woodyguy
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They get the first line wrong as 1m is 3.08 feet. From that first inaccuracy it only gets worse. Few people using bulk bags of 1m, so why not explain the size of builders bags as well. As others said, simplified to the point of being worse than useless.
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I had a similar problem and bought a 560 which is brilliant. Although rather overkill it is so capable that I seldom turn to anything else.
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Very few of the acers have coloured up, beech is still green and only Quercus Coccinea has any colour on it. When I was a kid most of the leaves were off by mid-October, so yes feels late to me.
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Autumn is late. Mine are totally green still.
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yes that is the going rate. You can buy the 1.2m ones and cut them up though!
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Different leaf to Liquidamber and most similar to Acer Sacharrinum but I only grow the type species so difficult to be sure.
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You need to use a mulching head not a cutter. If cut you end up with 6 foot longs bits of barbed wire like dried brambles that trip you up for years to come. The Stihl mulcher is excellent, cuts them into 4 inch bits and will even grind the roots out on lighter less stoney soils. Unfortunately you need a powerful machine to drive one but I've done about 4 acres this year and it's excellent.
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Thanks for sharing. I love old pollarded beech. Bags of character. The first lot of pictures appear to show beech pollards along a wood bank which was the traditional way of marking out woods from 12th century onwards. They were always pollarded and originally the bank would be very substantial with a ditch and palings along one side. Love to see a bit of living history.
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Glyphosate-what you need to know
woodyguy replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sorry meant to add that the 350mls is the RoundupPro concentrate, not the diluted stuff we spray. -
Glyphosate-what you need to know
woodyguy replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The LD 50 (lethal dose for 50% of those that drank it) for rats per kg means about 350mls for a human. So I rather doubt that any rep drank a pint as probably 80% of them would die. In reality however its pretty safe stuff (whatever some chemist said). It's used very widely and injury is very rare. -
Plan to roundup the rest, but yes will keep an eye on it.
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No problem. Posted it in June thinking I was being helpful and greeted by deafening silence. Not used it before and find it really odd to spray something over several acres and then have no visible sign that I've done it. If I'd bought it off ebay would have thought it was a con. You can now tell the stuff that's sprayed vs not sprayed though as it's dying back sooner.
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You may notice I posted this in June when it was on back order. It arrived and was duly used in August and has now all gone (as hopefully has my bracken)!! As you rightly say though, is not comparable with Roundup as works totally differently.
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The Gransfor axes are precision tools, beautifully sharp and a joy to use. A splitting maul is a brute and takes a lot of rough treatment. So a Gransfor splitting maul seems a bit of a contradiction in terms. I'd buy him a Fiskars and spend the difference on some PPE when you use your chainsaw!
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I generally use this ebay seller who is very quick cheap and helpful. 100 Tubex Easywrap Rabbit Guards for hedging protection | eBay
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Berry bearing is good. So lots of Hawthorn, sorbus species, crab apple, pear, cherry if not too dry. Don't ignore non native that support wildlife so sweet chestnut, grey alder, italian alder, sycamore or norway maple, Robinia. Lastly low growing stuff like gorse or native roses are great as well. Sounds fun.
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Small area like this the mulcher blade on a brushcutter, cut down NOT side to side and you end up with mulched 3 inch sections. I've done several acres in my wood and you can even cut the roots out that way so they barely come back. Use the Stihl mulcher not the others as the quality is much better.
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my local sainsbury's has a poster beside the pumps about red green and max volumes, so I guess he's just doing what he's told and following "the regulations"
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Thanks, interesting paper.
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At least he tied in eventually. What do you call that cut at the top where he's cutting from behind, directly towards his stomach with the bluntest chainsaw in the US of A? Scary.
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Dry/wet, acid/alkaline, south facing, shaded etc Few more details and what you wish the trees to accomplish would help a sensible answer eg wildlife diversity vs timber yield
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That's not a picture of a tree but of a house. If you post a slightly more close up picture showing the bark and leaves, you might get an authoritative answer.
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Class. That was so dangerous I had to hide behind the sofa just to watch it. How do you deal with the arisings??
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You don't give up do you!
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Zubat. love it
