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Blanch then freeze, but no they arent as nice as fresh but then its abit like spuds that are not the same as new potatoes freshly dug up...

I don't see why you need to bother with briquettes when you can get all the quality oak firwood? 🙂 I'd just stick with rhe oak and maybe get some softwood also for kindling or to mix in for rapid heat etc.

Some people who eat meat every day often seem to be fussy eaters who only like plain food. Meat & 2 boiled vegs etc is ok but gets old every day. But on the other hand you get vegans who seem to mostly eat a load fake meat rubbish & quorn & don't cook much veg recipes. I have l veg plot so a chest freezer full of runner beans french beans broad beans & tomatoes& other vegs. Bit sick of the beans but beans always are so productive and the crop never fails. Im sure alot of tradition diets worldwide were heavy on the beans. Broad beans grown in UK in since iron age yet Lidl don't sell them theyprobaby do in Waitrose?. Runner bean has to be possibly the most productive crop that exists per land area? Grew a shit load of butternut sqaush also so being having squash soup all the time this winter. Bags of spuds to use up before they sprout & shed full of stored apples. Use to have the freezer full of lamb as well before the local home kill butcher got run over now don't keep sheep anymore.

The local ramblers are putting sections of wooden boardwalks everywhere, must be may miles of it all added up I think its foolish as it don't last more than 5yrs & needs alot of ongoing maintenance. I reckon mini raised embankments plus some drainage could work better in most places.

So all the stuff about the rustic tradtional Mediterranean diet being heathly is wrong? Was a low meat diet as meat all the time would of being only affordable to the more wealthy i thought?

Related to rowans Wild service tree or a Sorb tree. Exotic & a natives. No one else will have one in there front garden. Maybe a group of 3

Hazel needs some light to regen as it isn't a very shade tolerant species so cutting them but not the overhead canopy won't do them much good. For decent healthy hazel growth & coppice poles material zero to a max 20% canopy cover is best. Posting some pictures up may be helpful. Is it hazel with standards or two distinct species blocks?

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I prefer 15" more handy esp if siding up hedges / reaching into blackthorn scrub to cut it at base or cutting across larger diameter hazel coppice stools. OP probably will want a decent brushcutter also.

ms261 or 550xp Then maybe also the new small husky for doing the hazel sticks would be my ideal. Husqvarna 540XP Mark III but its very expensive for a small saw. Echo don't yet have a 50cc or 60cc with modern AV? But there 40cc are 70cc models are new. The makita EA4300 is good but no longer available.

That was my first thought also 😊

Very hard to say from only the picture but that particular tree doesn't look too affected or unsafe atm with regards to adb.

I was under the impression alot of it was overstood and derelict & not heard of any new land planted so not sure if it is thriving or in decline as a industry?

Robinia pseudoacacia - Black locust or False Acacia Castanea sativa - Sweet Chestnut Bit about Sweet Chesnut coppice: Coppicing - Hampshire Chestnut WWW.HAMPSHIRECHESTNUT.CO.UK Sweet chestnut coppice is cut in rotation much like Hazel. In this case the stools are around 22yrs in age, a good time to... There are a few UK suppliers that import Robinia & Ive seem them used for playground structures. Robinia Timber | agricultural-fencing WWW.AGRIFENCING.CO.UK From the look of it the poles, also sand down really smooth so are ideally suited. Looks alot better aesthetically than tanalized, & will last longer plus more eco. Id be happy to pay a few quid more over tanalized for fence posts etc that lasted better. Loads grown in Hungary even though its a non native has become there "national tree". Dunno why or if it could not also be grown in the UK but I suppose we already have Sweet Chestnut that does a similar job.

Any Sweet chesnut coppice about in Romania? Or black locust, & acacia.. Acacia Poles - Products WWW.ACACIABOIS.COM Poles (round, peeled, pointy): small diameters for fencing, large diameters for earthworks, river bank restoration (tunnage). If so you could make a nice shed from the round poles etc.

I was thinking a bath full of water must weigh about the same or more esp if an old cast iron one?

Heard there is some grant funding for new forestry equipment. I don't know the finer details but the items are listed below: (click the crown image) Productivity items and specifications – Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK

Yeah seems a fair price and will be a test to see if the hyundai works ok, i'd take along any other saws also.

Get a decent 60cc saw

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Binders & stakes would make it more stock proof as well as looking tidy but as you already have pig netting I suppose its not needed.

Zomax catalogue: https://www.zomaxtool.com/uploads/Gasoline-Chainsaws_opt.pdf Ok why does this one have 3 fuel caps? 16.9KW! 🤔?

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