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    Congratulations indeed - I'm pretty jealous. Woodland is pretty expensive down here... Can't offer much advice (hopefully one day I'll have a wood too!) but this was a good and useful read: http://www.woodlands.co.uk/owning-a-wood/badgers-beeches-and-blisters/badgers-beeches-and-blisters.pdf
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    I would guess it was worth more as boards, utility poles etc. than as firewood. But would probably be more hassle to realise the value...
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    How do you get the energy back out of the thermal store when you want it?! I don't leave my woodburner in overnight, it's just an evening thing really- longer on cold weekends. I don't think the seals are good enough to keep it in overnight in any case!
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    "Walnuts... Do not lie..." Get out of my head!!
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    Yep, he looks a little toughie. I can picture him staring down a fox, and maybe giving a wolf second thoughts!
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    What breed is the dog that's not a spaniel?! He's got some attitude!
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    Yep, pretty sure it's a hawthorn. Single pip for the one above, but there's also another tree nearby (that I thought was a whitebeam) that might well be a hawthorn too, and has double pips. Thanks.
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    Thanks chaps. Hawthorn would be embarrassing! (Though at least one of my apps doesn't include hawthorn, so that's my excuse!) But it probably is. No thorns, but they both look fairly aged trees and I believe mainly the younger shoots of hawthorn have thorns. I'll go and see if I can find any remaining berries, but those I saw do look like hawthorn berries according to the interwebs. Cheers.
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    Hi all Found a couple of these near me. Tried various apps and books, but can't be sure. The leaves look like some sort of oak, but it has red fruit of some sort (mainly gone now, especially on this tree), and the stem is quite gnarled and twisted. Sorry, the pics aren't great! Any ideas? Thanks.
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    Now up for £3250!
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    Telephone Preferences Service? (Not sure if that applies to business phone lines as well as personal though). Won't stop them all, but it will help. TPS
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    @ normandylumberjack I used to live near St Michael's Mount in Cornwall - twinned with yours I think!
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    That was a good un. I like the way Harry Enfield struggles to stop himself smirking during the dongle part!
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    Does one row of conifers really matter in the grand scheme of things...? Just a thought.
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    Also, if you do arb work every day, does it become just a job and you get bored of it? Or is it still enjoyable?
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    I don't love my work too much at the moment. But I don't work in arb! I work in IT... I'd rather be outdoors chopping logs etc. Having said that, when the rain and the wind are hissing down outside it's nice to huddle a bit closer to the radiator and my monitor, and to be glad I'm not out in that halfway up a tree...
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    I'm in north Somerset, west of bristol. Yourself? Cold here tonight, but got back too late to light the stove. The heat doesn't spread well from my living room, so that's baking and the rest of the house is cold!
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    Had mine going a few evenings recently, but it seems to have warmed up again - get too hot with the stove going anyway!
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    Could you not just screen shot / print off a Google maps satellite view...? Not sure if that would be legal for commercial purposes, but I'd have thought it would be enough for boundary marking etc. Maybe not for individual tree level stuff!
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    Hi Alex Well done on the comp placing. Just wondering, would you be able to grab a photo of the first hedge as it is now, at some point? I'd be interested to see how the re-growth is coming along... Cheers.
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    Got some gauntlets too!
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    Hi Russell. Yes thanks, got in touch and he's doing a hedge the next village down from me soon - just trying to sort out times etc. Cheers graham, I'll take a look - nothing like ready to compete, but I can watch! Cheers.
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    Some years seem to be better than others for fruit trees. Last year I got no apples and no plums - year before that lots of both, and this year lots of both. Last year I did have the apple tree cut back quite hard, but the plum was untouched (though it still grew vigorously) - apparently last year was a bad year for many fruit varieties (over here anyway)...
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    Nice job! Is the trailer braked? How does it tow behind the Jimny?

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