devon TWiG

Lucombe Oaks are quite common in my area (S Devon) Lucombes nursery who invented them is near Exeter ...some pretty big ones as well !

I often pick up gorse driftwood when at the coast , it took a while until i knew what it was as it was just a stick with no bark , one of my favourite bits pictured below !

gorse ??

I drive a lorry part time and the main pallet network we deliver for is FORTEC and believe it or not I sometimes deliver dumpy bags of logs that originated in the Lake District to S Devon , also deliver kindling and net sacks of logs to Mole valley farmers regularly ....so try a pallet network there are plenty of them !! Keep the pallets under 1 ton and the goods not overhang / exceed the dimensions of the standard pallet .

many such lumps occur due to the practice of "flush cutting " which was done in pre Shigo days ...and in some areas for quite a while after as well !!!! particularly on less decay resistant species ...Sycamore , and Ash especially ...

I had not thought about how long spores may remain viable , thanks for the answers / opinions , it was just a random thought !!

In theory if all Ash trees have died and been removed ( within a very large area / nationally / europe wide ) will the disease / fungi survive for any length of time ? could an area then be safe to be restocked ?

An HGV driver I know works for an Agency and it appears he can not work for more than 13 weeks continuously at one company ( or is regarded as employed ) so has time off / or gets sent to another company for at least one week , then can start 13 weeks again ....it is with a large depot so they always seem to need a number of agency drivers ...

So if you are a man, who is attracted to women ,are you really a lesbian trapped in a mans body ?

Perhaps this sums it up !!!!!!http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2017-10-30/bus-companys-website-says-it-has-closed-after-message-from-owner/

old sump oil mixed with red diesel helped a larch slab shed I built last a long time

To increase the longevity of your posts where they go in to the ground dump some salt around them each year to keep the soil "hostile " to wood decaying / boring organisms .

Look at the trees in the verges on the A30 from Exeter to Okehampton , lots of it ...

medlar is my first thought

It all depends how much you want the wood !! do you have a use for it yourself ? or are you planning to mill/process and sell on ? I would of thought the owners would consider £50 derisory as I suspect they consider them valuable and can see more value in them than £50 for firewood !! Also if you are after Yew wood when will the next opportunity to obtain such lumps come along ?...