spandit
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Nice way of passing the time. Can you not just cut or crush the last bits?
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Can I ask why you are keen to spray in your own woodland? It provides good cover for game and dies down in the winter anyway when you're likely to be extracting logs.
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I have an Oregon log cradle that makes it easy to cut loads of thin wood in one go with a chainsaw. Maybe not as quick as a branch logger but a damn site cheaper and you can cut the logs to whatever length you like. I use it for cutting willow coppice into 4" chunks for charcoal making but also for full sized logs for the fire
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Thanks. Seems to be surviving OK and hopefully once it gets a bit bigger the thicker twigs will be more resilient. Going to need some ground litter to start mulching out the weeds anyway!
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Most of my alder is doing really well, with the whips up over 6' and thickening up nicely. However, I notice quite a few of the branches have snapped, presumably in the wind - is alder particularly susceptible to this or is it just because they're the first young trees to get to that size and they have large leaves that catch the wind?
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So leave the branch where it is? Don't want it to fall over when it gets bigger. Thanks for advice anyway
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This poor fellow was smothered by leylandii and has grown sideways to try and get a bit of light. The offenders have since been given their marching orders but I'm wondering what to do next: Thinking the branch on the right needs to come off but should I cut it now or wait until winter?
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I was a moderator on a different forum. Got no thanks for it but one day someone complained about a racist post. I deleted it pretty quickly, agreeing it was racist. Turns out it was made by one of the site owners who didn't take too kindly to being censored, fat racist cow, so I was stripped of my moderator status. Not bitter about it Glad we can say arsehole without asterisks, mind...
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Won't the eucalyptus coppice anyway? Where I've planted some of my trees is now densely covered in birch, oak and willow that have established themselves. Hopefully some of my other species will succeed in the mix but comforting to know that if I'd done nothing the forest would grow all by itself
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I got my cocker spaniel to dig ours out. He got a hell of a shock when I grabbed his nose underground from the other side We stopped swinging when I found out I wasn't allowed to keep the car the keys belonged to...
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You were quite abrupt/offensive in the thread I saw. You got a warning for it. Fair enough I'd say. You're not banned, the thread isn't locked so suck it in, big man
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Quite often on my days off my wife is working and I can't get any paid work on those days so splitting wood, cutting logs etc. is a good way of exercising and I end up with fuel for the winter. I've just paid a tree surgeon to take down a load of trees (leylandii mainly) as I don't have the skill or equipment to climb but I'm not going to pay him to cut, split or stack the logs when I can do it myself when I have nothing better to do
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If you have a few logs to give away with it, people like me will take it, although a bit far out of your way in this instance...
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I think hiring is your best option. From what I remember you only have a few acres of woodland (more than 2!) so not really worth buying expensive kit. You might find someone with a quad towed flail who could help
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No problem. They are amazingly expensive too, mind. That said, I hired a walk behind Billy Goat from a local hire shop for a week and it wasn't too dear, £100 or so.
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Just found out about the Orec Rabbit mowers - look them up, they look amazing!
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Why does my 13hp ride on mower get stuck on anything taller than about 4" when these seem unstoppable? Must try and rent one, seems ideal for what I need...
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I use it on top of a membrane but once it dries out, it tends to blow away or gets dug in by animals. Does work for a bit, mind, mainly keeping the membrane weighted down
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We have a well and I've bought a hand pump for it. In Winter the water table is so high it nearly overflows. We've also got a big concrete sump that collects all the water off the barn - I've fitted a hand pump to this too and an overflow as I think it was supposed to soak away but doesn't.
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You could use something like a Billy Goat mower to open them up but regular footfall is what you really need to keep them open. Compacts the soil and crushes new growth
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I put an Ecoburn 7 in our old house. Certainly packed out the heat but the top air vent is flimsy. In our new house we've put a Morso 05 in - more expensive and it shows, although the baffle has already warped and one of the firebricks is cracked (this is from one season of burning)
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Hornbeam No, possibly a cherry of some description
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I'm told crushing it is better than cutting, but within a woodland getting machinery in could be a problem. That said, cutting it down and covering the area with carpet and mulch should weaken it. I'm planning on doing something similar with a sort of seed tray that I can plant other species in, which will hopefully take over
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Tegera 17 - brilliant and cheap
