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  1. sandspider
    Still not working for me...
  2. sandspider
    Thanks stere, interesting to hear about no change in growth rates. Whenever I have time and inclination then! I'd better plant some more, can never have too many trees...
  3. sandspider
    Thanks one and all. Winter is probably still the best bet overall. Maybe I'll do it as and when I have time, and see how it goes!
  4. sandspider
    I have little spare time at any time of year, so makes no odds to me!! And the wood will mainly be for firewood (hopefully a few sweet chestnut and robinia fence posts), so don't mind if the cut wood dries quickly. As long as the coppice stool survives... There may also be some poplar to coppice in future, and I think the wood is hygroscopic, so maybe that's better cut in summer to dry out quickly.
  5. sandspider
    Hi all As above - I've got a few species of tree (alder, sweet chestnut, willow, eucalyptus) that I'd like to coppice / pollard at some point. Looking at the best time of year to do this, there seem to be two schools of thought. 1) Winter / early spring while the sap is down so there's not much bleeding or infection of the cuts, and not much stored energy wasted. Or 2) mid summer, so the tree is growing it's fastest and wound compartmentalisation is quick. (Avoiding nesting birds). I'm leaning towards the former! Option 2 seems to be a newer idea, traditionally it was a winter occupation. Any thoughts? Cheers.
  6. sandspider
    Powercuts last night and forecast to be 23C plus today.
  7. sandspider
    Thanks Stubby Probably not much good to me then as I live in a damp Welsh valley, and have a bit of trouble dying wood / keeping wood dry...
  8. sandspider
    Is pop any good as firewood? I had the impression it wasn't great... (But could plant a few for my firewood coppice if it grows this quickly and is worth the effort...)
  9. sandspider
    I'm not referring just to youth clubs, and I'm sure you're right about lack of funding. But there has to be some personal responsibility too.
  10. sandspider
    Tricky one, this. Rehabilitation needs to be employed to some extent (help those who want to be helped and can be helped, not rewarding bad behaviour), but so also does strict justice and meaningful punishment. Rehab on its own is not enough, there has to be a stick as well as a carrot. More funding for youth clubs might improve matters, but at the end of the day it's down to the individual in question deciding to stab someone. Some people just don't want to join youth clubs. I grew up in the countryside, there weren't any youth clubs, two buses a day, nearest town 8 miles away etc. - I never joined a gang or stabbed anybody. I did light the occasional fire, mess around with an air rifle etc. but nothing that would hurt anybody else.
  11. sandspider

    cleavers

    sandspider replied to cship's topic in Hedgelaying

    A little bit of competition might encourage the hedge to grow? As long as it's not too thick...
  12. sandspider
    IIRC, I paid about 20 quid less for a load of unseasoned wood than I would have paid for seasoned. Not really worth it. I found it very hard even to get a price for unprocessed wood- it seemed to be more trouble for the sellers than just providing processed seasoned wood. I know how much work there is in seasoning and processing as I do it myself whenever I can, so it would need to be a reasonable saving.
  13. sandspider
    I have the space and like to season my own wood. When I tried to buy a load or two (either unprocessed unseasoned or processed but unseasoned) last April ish, I didn't have much luck. And prices were only a little lower than processed seasoned, if at all... So not really worth it, though I did manage to get a load in the end. It was so wet it's still seasoning, and I'll burn it this winter!
  14. sandspider
    The line feed on my strimmer is rubbish, so blade is much quicker for me! Not the neatest finish though, you're right. I do intend to try a scythe at some point.
  15. sandspider
    I use a blade for all my strimming... (But don't do too much delicate work to be fair).
  16. sandspider
    Great film and even better book!
  17. sandspider
    Too far from me. Good luck...
  18. sandspider
    Whereabouts in South Wales? And can you deliver?
  19. sandspider
    Interesting re glass not sooting up. I burn my own seasoned wood, a year or so in my polytunnel, with the odd less dry bit and my glass soots up and gets fly ash. Little bit of soot in the chimney, but not much. My stove is a Burley, I wonder if they're particularly sensitive, or if I made sure all my wood was seasoned for at least two years maybe that would solve the problem? I can never build up big enough stocks to dry for long enough! Burley paperwork suggests less than 18% moisture, but that's hard to get reliably in my own logs, never mind stuff I buy in!
  20. sandspider
    Dacia Duster? Not sure if one would be in budget though.
  21. sandspider
    Thanks chaps.
  22. sandspider
    Sounds like a good job in a nice location!
  23. sandspider
    What splitter is it, please? Presumably the logs are seasoned as billets, then chopped into logs when seasoned? (Maybe a bit more seasoning once finally logged).
  24. sandspider
    I thought 100mm logs were optimum sized for clean burn? I don't often split mine this small, but when I do, they do seem to burn better, with the odd bigger log from time to time.
  25. sandspider
    Black thorn in flower earlier this week, and a slight frost round our way this morning.

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