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Are they all bare root that 100cm size? 100 sounds about right to do in a day with bigger bare root trees and fiddling with fitting guards over branchy tops etc. Id guess maybe 150-200 max going flat using all the sunrise to sunset daylight hrs this time of year, & about 100 taking it easy. Using this type of spade with cell grown trees are alot faster than bare root.

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 Baack Spaten - home WWW.BAACKSPATEN.DE BAACK SPATEN forge since 1878. The main page with informations about the manufacting process and products. 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 WWW.EBAY.CO.UK <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Stihl (Ochsenkopf) 1250g head Hatchet/ Axe, Made in Germany by... Roughneck also do one but is looks extremely broad maybe to much....

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? 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.....

I have a piece of perforated steel metal as a grate has lasted ages. This type of stuff:

Seems you are right also good for starching ruffs! 🙂

Can you still get the parts for them?

Here loads of woodchip from ADB felled roadside was left. Previously practice was normally smallr piles direct from chipper but theese were larger mutiple van load piles tipped, enough to get over a tonne load from one single heap. Now you can see all the bigger heaps have being hollowed out by being shovelled at. Probably over 50% has now gone along a 15mile stretch of road. Maybe not suprising considering a tonne bag of woodchip costs, but I was impressed by the industrious of it dissapearing fairly rapidly.

Any bare ground will naturally reseed it self with weeds/wildflowers, Bark doesn't last long & when it rots down the area will be extra soft and get churned up easier than before Meadow would have to be off limits as it wouldn't like being trampled id think....compared to grass esp some species selected for there tolerance to heavy foot traffic etc Areas probably now really compacted would need cultivating digging over & prepared to get a meadow seed mix to thrive etc

Id just leave it be unless all the work traffic has mades it a muddy swamp. If so then id put some drainage/hard standing in under the "grass" or topsoil layer so it does not get churned up by doing logs there

What do you mean by them being weak?

As often as not with people who want to keep wood it is still there yrs later as a unintentional "bug hotel" I notice when passing. Often a penny pincher who ends up letting it it all rot.

A start would be upping regs so atleast making all the new build houses decent.

I like em: Load of pollards: https://symposiumleitza2017.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/notes-on-pollards-best-practice-guide.pdf I reckon LOTR ents were inspired by pollards

Im not sure if live wood moisture content changes that much annually can't find a good reference about it online apart from this: https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/nh/notes/nh_5_03.pdf Would be interesting to find more recent research info on it for different species. EDIT https://crojfe.com/site/assets/files/4020/routa.pdf Bit drier in summer^

You can still often rectify the form of a tree that young by pegging branches down with string & using a stake to straighten it up gradually with a ratchet strap, combined with some pruning. Could also work but a risk root loss will set the trees back if root ball isn't large enough. Trees may also need the extra of care watering the following summer. Maybe you could try both ways as you say have several trees. Trees on the more dwarf rootstocks that are increasingly popular now tend too keel over alot more readily, than the older traditional larger rootstocked trees esp when the exta fruit load is on youngish trees hence need more supporting.

Could the bottom concrete panel not just be shortened at the tree end and thus creating a hole for the trunk to expand into without dislogding the top one bridging across above? Like a version of this type of thing:

I think woodland turned out to be a great invesment about 10-15 yrs back when they were relatively cheap, buying one atm less so but who can predict the future? Some one I know bought a mixed former FC, PAW woodland about 30 acres. Think it was about 25k for about 30 acres. Probably go for near 250K now looking at the prices of similar sized woods. Same as houses prices....

Was the tunnel second hand or free for £500? Bargin for one that size.... Cover alone costs about that much?

Need to look at the twigs to see if they are all still healthy/alive to confirm its condition, if they are fine it could be nothing to worry about. Just scrape bark/ bend or trim with sceateurs etc too check if the twigs are still green Also have an apple with similar bark that is still is relatively healthy. But on the other hand some seemingly healthy trees can just die due to unknown reasons without gradually declining, Had a pear do that anyway. It was healthy one summer, but then after next winter it just never came back into leaf.

Might be dead

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Iv'e done the same, when a old tree was ring barked by canker, now its back prducing a decent apple crop still has some canker but not as bad as before.

Looks like poor grade of material for weaving rods from the pics, the wrong variety of willow perhaps or plant spacing & coppice age etc Needs to be more uniform like this pic

I thought all stoves, so the metal stoves also would riadiate heat from a hot surface but just not store the heat for hrs after fire gone out, so only when lit... So its actually is the large thermal mass volume or/plus he larger stove surface area volume the produces the extra riadiant heat of a ceramic stove versus a metal one?

I remember chatting to someone who was out on a job yrs ago, & him saying he just binned all his chains once blunt, said he couldn't be bothered with the hassle sharpening them & it wasn't worth his time to do so. 🤔