spandit
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It did with the last one
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I'd rather shoot them with my .223
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Wish I were closer! Put a post on Woodalert (Facebook)
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Hope it is muntjac... haven't had a chance to check the camera yet...
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Interesting. Anything I can look for to definitively prove the culprit? I have seen a roe deer in that area so definitely a suspect...
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They're tiny little trees, less than 1cm diameter, wouldn't the roe choose one of the bigger ones nearby? I'm thinking it might be rabbits now but I have a trailcam set up to hopefully catch one in the act
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A little birch and a willow had been stripped of bark up to about a foot from the ground, causing them to die. Is this likely to be rabbits or deer?
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My alder, planted last year, are mostly doing pretty well but as a result, they have large crowns, big leaves on quite small stems. One of them had been blown by the wind so much that the tube had kinked: I had to take the tube off but the stem was so bendy the tree couldn't support itself. I've staked it up the best I can but shouldn't it be strong enough to support it's own weight by now?
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Overgrown coppice. What to do?
spandit replied to Sharpy92's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Don't spray chemicals, please... The weeds will die down in the winter and if the coppice is well established I'd have thought they won't be too bothered by the competition. -
I'd hazard a guess at a camellia of some sort. Member of the tea family
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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.
