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  1. organic guy
    Off topic, cycled to and stayed in Llaniloes last week. Loved the high street and wool market, was a lovely billhook in the shop on the high street but was shut on sunday.
  2. organic guy
    Spot on , saw photo of church yard without tree about 100 years ago. Could not believe it was so young, looked like 500 year old yew.
  3. organic guy
    On Anglesey, guesses of age?
  4. organic guy
    Spilt from the trunk, then rough planed and then turned. My concern is how much more it will dry, maybe come loose. I need to rough turn some and leave them until needed.
  5. organic guy
    Spade refurb, ash handle from second harvest in our Millennium wood
  6. organic guy
    My son has just bought some land which has trees on the boundary of the village. He was being hassled by a villager that a tree was unsafe so got a surgeon to investigate. Long story short, tree is now cut down. Turns out tree had a TPO. Should the tree surgeon have investigated? Should solicitors have flagged this up in sales contracts? It also appears he has 11 trees with TPO but can only find 7! What should he do?
  7. organic guy
    Constructive criticism gratefully received!
  8. organic guy
    Ash
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  10. organic guy
    That is the tree about 5 minutes after I started and decided I should keep a record. I will try to take one later, I would value your advice. re HC, completely understand what you are saying, but the French being so good with there trees will have another one planted and ready to go when that on dies, surely much better than here where people plant inappropriate trees, let them get too big and then cut them down with no replanting. Pollarding and pleaching I guess is almost indefinitely sustainable? But it has survived quite a long time! Having cycled the length of the Loire last year I was so blown away by the pollards I came home and pleached? two trees in our garden which have got too big. It's still alive!
  11. organic guy
    But it has survived quite a long time! Having cycled the length of the Loire last year I was so blown away by the pollards I came home and pleached? two trees in our garden which have got too big. It's still alive!
  12. organic guy
    The beautiful pollards of France in progress!
  13. organic guy
    today's continuation of the sloping oak cut 4 big planks off the bottom then 3 off the butt cutting uphill Used the winch on the butt as it was damm steep
  14. organic guy
    Finally got there, second attempt at bending the top. Angle of back is not perfect and only slim ladies allowed to sit on it.
  15. organic guy
    Not an expert, more answering through interest to stimulate the experts to reply for my own knowledge. I would cut back all the tall straggly bits now to get growth down lower for next year. Now to see if I get shot down!
  16. organic guy
    Just cutting up some spalted beech slabs to make some plant holders to find it is full of worm. Not such that it will spoil the holders but dont want it spreading to anything else. Any treatments other than standard supermarket killer? What is the worm the larva of? TIA OG
  17. organic guy
    My new book as recommended above says all sorbus species suitable for handles , Rowan was even sometimes used as a replacement for yew in longbows.
  18. organic guy
    Loving the jig. Cleaved some straight bits of ash last night to see what happened. Turned out not as straight as I thought and knots where no knots were visible. Off to my workshop tomorrow to have a play.
  19. organic guy
    No, we milled it downhill, just let it go and it ran down of its own accord. Issue was we had to gouge a hole to get the saw in at the top. We have now managed to cut the bottom end off so I am thinking we will now support under the top end with some longs and mill uphill so we can cut right up to the butt and plank most of the trunk without having to cut the butt off. Do you think that will work?
  20. organic guy
    My first thought was birch as numerous others in the area but is 3 times bigger than I have ever seen a birch. Are birch all silver or are there different varieties?
  21. organic guy
    2ft plus dbh, appears to have catkins or something similar on tips of growth. Too high up to get a good picture.
  22. organic guy
    Fallen oak across a track, no means of lifting so started in the middle, should get easier.
  23. organic guy
    Love to see a picture of your axe handle I did put a green handle in a tiny hammer which quickly became loose, I am now feeding it with linseed oil
  24. organic guy
    I have started volunteering for a repair cafe and expect to be re handling garden tools. Too tight to cough up for ready made handles( and half the pleasure will be making handles) so am looking for advice about milling ash to use. How fresh should I mill it, what size , how to dry and for how long? Can I use it fresh? Anything else you can think of? TIA OG
  25. organic guy
    Was back too close this afternoon and disturbed her,12 eggs in the nest.

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