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Stere

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  1. Pretty sure its a turkish hazel matches the images: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=turkish+hazel&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjojuj0zaHdAhXID8AKHewsCLIQ_AUICigB&biw=1680&bih=916 Also they are a species used as street trees apparently https://www.barcham.co.uk/products/corylus-colurna/
  2. Why would a small street tree like that be a big problem for foundations, and are elms extra bad? Or is it a case of trying to find some excuse to get rid of tree because don't like having a tree there?......
  3. They seem to have 2 lvls of stuff cheap & "pro" with kawasaki engines.
  4. Taking about planning ahead wasn't Woodland relatively was cheap to buy a few yrs when alot was sold off by FC but now expensive. Maybe actually owning woodland is the only way in future to make decent money from firewood?
  5. I wouldn't buy any thing that takes 40:1 as a hassle having two different fuel mixes....
  6. Cyanide in leaves/wood but don't thing that matters in stove
  7. Some people have very long lunch breaks & short "days"....
  8. They were some £59 cordless pole saws in lidl https://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-D76C87A2-844369F9/lsp/hs.xsl/product.html?id=745053243&title=Accuhoogsnoeier+FAHE+20-Li+A1&count=1 Was tempted.
  9. Needs pictures. & how long is a day? Distance too carry trimmings? Trimmings fall on grass or flower borders? When was it last cut? What machines you have/how fast you work.... Im guessing around 2 or 3 days.
  10. Is there any planned & managed from sapling to harvest, oak or beech forestry plantations in the UK? This book looks good: http://www.treesource.co.uk/oak%3A-fine-timber-in-100-years~4476 Some background info: https://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/media/uploads/cat-247/quick-quercus.pdf
  11. OMM is the brand worn by fell runners don't have one so dunno how good though....... & this is got a good review: https://www.mbr.co.uk/reviews/jackets/endura-mt500-ii-jacket I have an old ex army goretex & its rubbish and cheap lidl one also rubbish. Only water proof one I have, is zero breathable heavy farmers supply bibs & jacket
  12. I use veg oil & wonder if its something to do with the viscosity at different temperatures, could very cold weather be worse?
  13. I'd take to lot burns well leylandi
  14. Whats wrong with chesnut why isn't it good timber?
  15. I reckon is "Chilean mahogany " ? like you said. Nothofagus nervosa
  16. Runs like forest gump ?
  17. Don't Kiln dried logs go back to 20% after storage in uk climate after awhile due to reabsorbing humidity? Also less eco/green than air dried. I'd say the benefit of kiln dried is for the seller, marketing, price bonus, and quicker turnover so less storage space needed, Not much benefit for the buyer compared to buying air died logs. (properly sesoned ones). Unless you store the bought wood in a low humidity eviroment (Say inside ther house) after buying to stop it reabsorbing any moisture.
  18. I do the same witha a regular cheap garden mower mountfield: https://www.screwfix.com/p/mountfield-sp53h-51cm-160cc-self-propelled-rotary-petrol-lawn-mower/4561f
  19. I buy green unprocessed wood & season/chop it it at home. So will that be technically illegal from next year?
  20. I dunno whats in feed & weed... just googled its this stuff.. Mecoprop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecoprop
  21. It was on Panorama i think? They went over to the USA on showed vast area of hardwoods felled for biomass, in the SE of the US. EDIT is was dispatches on Channel 4, not bbc https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/ The True Cost of Green Energy Biomass will provide up to 30% of our renewable energy by 2020. But is burning wood instead of coal environmentally friendly?
  22. Had one of thoose weed & feed lawncare guys come spray a lawn when I was working ina garden once & he was dressed in some kind of white biohazard overalls & mask, if its harmless why dress look like a guy visting a chemicals weapons attack site? Pissed me off him spraying everywhere whilst I was working there.....

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