The avantgardener
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I used to treat it in part of a Rhododendron control area. Same ratio mix of Roundup Proactive if I remember rightly.
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What about a spud gun?
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Who knows, they are probably friends.
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He manages a shoot, not a fox hunting group. The fox hunters are not his employer and they don’t own the land.
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No, it just adds to it.
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He has no choice does he? Pheasant pen damaged, poults released for predators to take. Loss of birds, poor shoot, lose job.
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He already has a full time job managing the shoot, he probably doesn’t need to add to his list of things to do. His knowledge and the ‘guns’ having a good result on the day are what will keep him in that job.
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By uneconomical I mean the sheer outlay involved to not actually even kill a fox. Compared to letting the keeper, who knows his land, knows where the foxes are, and can dispatch them any time he likes at no cost to the tax payer, deal with them. He told me he would rather not have them on site as he has to repair damage each time, but it isn’t his land.
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I was recently on a felling job where I was asked to turn up on site a bit later as they had the hounds on the next day ‘trailing’ foxes. I turned up to find 60 hounds, countless horse boxes and range rovers, tweed wearing ladies blowing their little bugles. The pheasant pen was damaged and the poults where all through the wood, the keeper had to stop what he was doing to sort it out. Not one fox dealt with. If I had to come up with the most uneconomical way of dealing with fox numbers this would be it.
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One of his Foremen I believe. ?
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My mate recently passed a guy for his small tree felling on his third attempt, the guy had been cutting scrub on the rail for the previous two years with no tickets.
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One of the Woodland Trust sites near me at Brede had developed a problem with Boar. They escaped from Paul McCartneys place a few years ago and bred like hell, then started to come into conflict with dog walkers. I used to see them often when knapsack spraying the Rhododendron in Autumn, stunning animals. They have been culling the numbers on a controlled basis year by year, but they are not removing them entirely. Some moron decided to release a whole family of Potbelly’s there when they had obviously got a bit much to look after. These pigs had been reared with humans so would gather round whenever anybody was having a picnic, they ended up with their own Facebook page. In the end they where rounded up by an abattoir owner from, of all places, ‘Ham Street’.
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You can buy scabbards in most sizes, or just take the bar and chain off the power head when you have finished and put it back on when you want to do the next work.
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Felling license’s
The avantgardener replied to Ashley_smith's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
If the woodland has had a management plan written it will also have a felling license attached with the agreed works, the FC are the people who agree the license. -
As anyone on here used a Haecksler 4? apart from the dealer...
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That would be a massive improvement as it’s a pretty bomb proof piece of kit.
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I prefer the roller feed machines, I still reckon the CS100 is hard to beat but haven’t used the Jo Beau equivalent. It would be mostly used on small domestic jobs and Orchard maintenance where I would have to move it around quite a bit so weight would be a factor.
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What’s the price plus vat on this machine?
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Unfortunately due to COVID most of the colleges including Merrist Wood are running the practical side of things at half that of normal with remote/cyber tuition in between,. I personally think the more practice the better so I would go with a dedicated training provider.
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I worked for a guy who used to re saw large volumes of reclaimed timber from Dibnah’s mill demolitions, mostly Pitch Pine and Douglas, but we milled just about everything else also. The bandsaw was a Forestor with 4” blades. It had a container filled with diluted diesel and a swab that coated the blade the entire time, it certainly did improve the life of the blade and improved the cut whilst in operation. Dry Elm is like concrete.
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I think Stihl had to respond with some new gear after marketing the pieces of crap that where the early 261 and any 362. That crap was up against 550/560 and several other saws from Dolmar/Makita/Echo who all took a cut of the market. The new Stihl saws I have used are impressive, Husky chain speed and pick up in a Stihl shaped box, be interesting to see how durable they are long term in the hands of users not saw collectors. Looking forward to trying a 595 though.
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My apple tree has been back in flower for the last couple of weeks, it’s never happened in the last 10 years.
