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Stere

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  1. Makitas are decent saws.
  2. Oak is often pollarded I think not sure about coppicing oak. Anyway the deer would eat the regrowth. Terraces suggest area most likely being a chesnut orchard historically. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SB3zQAK_GGIC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=chestnut+orchard+terraCES+FRANCE&source=bl&ots=0jLx76OK7T&sig=ACfU3U3BVpPjbFs_5koMiyf_buSDpTCNIA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiH542k67_gAhWwURUIHSnhCYgQ6AEwDXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=chestnut orchard terraCES FRANCE&f=false
  3. Bamboo can be either a clumping type no that invasive, or higly invasive type that sends sucker out several metres depending on variety. Why not holy, yew, beech or hormbeam native & all year round screens?
  4. Wiki on "Gyppo loggers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyppo_logger Liked the family in the book
  5. Stere

    Mulch Circles

    Noticed the same id say its best avoided unless you don't mind all the rubbish in it.
  6. Pinus nigra var. nigra Pinus nigra var. caramanica Pinus nigra var. cebennensis Pinus nigra var. maritima So if its a nigra theres 4 different ones...... Even more types. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_nigra
  7. Cheating but I found an app http://identify.plantnet-project.org/query/weurope/
  8. Must be one of theese competition axes. http://www.osborneaxes.com.au/conventional_grinds.html
  9. Looks really professional What tools did you use for the larger pleacher cuts, chainsaw axe or billhook etc? Iv'e done a LANTRA course but hedge we did never looked as good as any pics on here. We never trimmed the hedge a tidy shape along the top & sides after laying it. Do you use a petrol hedge trimmer?
  10. Ptelea trifoliata 'Aurea' golden stinking ash
  11. A new third pile. Also split the oak now will season faster.
  12. So its not cherry or Rowan (or even hornbeam ?) What time of year was pic taken June?
  13. http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012703 Says used for furniture. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pistacia+chinensis+furniture&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CfRgbdlI4shOIjjeDy9zCS9WdAGCbXxI8fFKXuTQvqjUpKCxSdog_12uvJL0bXbrePYvj83Vp6IcJYZGkNVUpB3jeICoSCd4PL3MJL1Z0EXHocqJ90yv-KhIJAYJtfEjx8UoRmZnqgLXhkv8qEgle5NC-qNSkoBH8TKs8u49jcyoSCbFJ2iD_1a68kEaqaGckBxOnaKhIJvRtdut49i-MRzjW1_1CShNTQqEgnzdWnohwlhkRHsY16-RW-_10SoSCaQ1VSkHeN4gEWGgSfcDjyRa&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjK_8nJk5XgAhV58eAKHexuDAwQ9C96BAgBEBs&biw=1680&bih=917&dpr=1
  14. After brexit aspenarbs fleet.....
  15. Anyone actually stockpling anything? With all the news about supermarket food shortages image thet might actually be some people panic buying stuff before the March 29th. *dons tinfoil hat* Prices may increase if a hard brexit..... ?
  16. The War Game then scary coz nuclear war could happen https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy7nt/the-war-game Probably be like that^ after brexit. ?
  17. Whats the ticket fail rate I though pretty everyone seems to pass?
  18. The original japanese Ring was abit scary.
  19. how about Local steel fabricator, custom cut metal sheets various grades & thickness? I got a oversized manhole cover made for a well, wasn't thast expensive.
  20. No Zulu yet or Get Carter?
  21. Can't choose just 1...... Leon Blade Runner Big trouble in little China The Warriors Full Metal Jacket ThX1138 Clock Work Orange Trainspotting Carlitos way Terminator Jackie Brown Last of the Mohicians White Men Can't Jump ? haaha I have wonderfully/bad film taste no recent films though... ? Agree about Dune I like sci-fi but never rated Stars Wars or Star Trek Like Aliens, Predator Robocop, Demolition Man ,Total Recall Starship Troopers. Fav quote from Aliens: They Mostly Come At Night… Mostly.......
  22. Im not questioning all grazing just if his dramatic claims about mob grazing/holistic grazing reversing deserts are true & backed up properly scientific studies. Its something I studied yrs ago in uni and his ideas about desertification & stock densities go against the mainstream view.
  23. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/aug/04/eat-more-meat-and-save-the-world-the-latest-implausible-farming-miracle https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19/grazing-livestock-climate-change-george-monbiot-allan-savory im not sure who is right seems likely politics is clouding the science of both sides....
  24. Thy do a chainsaw same 2x18v also but doesn't cut as fast as the stihl apparently but probably be ok for hegdelaying.
  25. Same woods % now as 1350 in England? Suppose majority of deforestation % happend with stone axes in the neolithic. ?

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