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Shame Spear & jackson or any other UK company doesn't make useful  quality hand agri or forestry tools anymore.

Where as Sneeboer Dutch and SHW & baack from Germany Falci Italy still do etc.

I was looking for a new fork handle for a monster of an  old fork and couldn't find anywhere in UK selling the appropiate ash style D handle, the original had one like  the pic below:

Unlike pic the metal  strapping went all the way up to the top handle so  was flat nor curved right at the top where it was riveted onto the bottom of the D handle.

Baack in germany still sell the same style

Kindling axes, I find not many smaller hatchet axes have the ideal  head profile most hatchets are too narrow cheeked  a profile like a felling axes rather than the more obtuse angle splitting axes or mauls.

Ochsenkopf do one with a wider splitting head profile rebaged as stihl ive got & is & its very effective.

Stihl (Ochsenkopf) Axe/Hatchet, 1250g Head, Made In Germany by Ochsenkopf

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Roughneck also do one  but is looks extremely broad maybe to much....

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The smoke from a hot fire is invisible.  This second issue is best managed via stove design or clean air zone rules not an outright ban.  

A broadly agree  but I think its still an issue esp  with an urban pop density if too many stoves are running even the new eco ones.

In cities with mains gas and where  stoves are often a new trendy lifestyle choice of the wealthy, more than an economical pratical one, maybe they should be discouraged even if all are  eco stoves?

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We had a carbon audit done for the farm recently, which because of its narrow-focused desktop approach, came out with totally nonsensical recommendations.

A co2 footprint between imported kiln dired wood from lithuania V some  arb waste from 1 miles away wood be interesting?

Obiviously the most eco log would be from a  coppiced wood close to the property, harvested &  by an axe and horse logging or another  very low co2 way but that is taking it to extremes.

Its viable imo that ideally each village or farm could have a  managed  woodlot located close by, producing enough to supply its needs but this doesn't scale up so well to towns & cities logistically or pollution impact wise.

Woodlots are  a  concept often promoted in third world places to relieve fuel poverty.

On the other hand  I think shipping & harvesting in bulk may be less  carbon intesive than many think?

Might give some effiency bonus with a large volume of product versus the fossil fuels burnt by harvest machinary & transport per log etc but im just guessing.....

This is mainly a UK based forum  but goodluck.

Imposible to say what tree it is unless you  have a time machine

and root probably has nothing to do with dead tree stump.

What other stuff is growing nearby etc as roots go along way

Don't try to cut ground like the mute  mime artist guy in the vid.?

If the trees were younger/smaller they might of established ok due to tree crown to root ratio, younger trees having more  roots for less top, also dependent on the local rainfall in the first few yrs etc.

But perhaps a smaller tree may be no good for street planting as would need more maintence prunning in situ?