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  1. The avantgardener
    This may happen in your trade, but I have not encountered any Polish Forestry workers here in the UK in the last 10 years, and I cover quite a large area of the South East. I know English lads who live on site in caravans and campers to keep living costs down and earn more to take home, people’s domestic arrangement are their business.
  2. The avantgardener
    I have yet to work with a Pole who didn’t have an extremely good work ethic, and the Polish Forests are some of the finest you will encounter. Just download the NPTC schedules for the relevant tickets and go through it with him, job done.
  3. The avantgardener
    Iron, steel and wood combination designs have been pretty much the the holy trinity since the 1850’s, can’t see why craftsmanship in different materials can’t be appreciated together.
  4. The avantgardener
    You going to mount them on those famous shortened wellington boots?
  5. The avantgardener
    They do look nice, not as nice as the slabs recently purchased by a certain Scottish chap though. Those RSJ’s worked perfectly with the construction theme for the client don’t you think? All about personal taste I suppose, a bit like Jonhsond’s headboard. ?
  6. The avantgardener
    Where you moving to Mick, not back here?
  7. The avantgardener
    It’s generally about who you know. Get down the allotment and muck in with some of the old boys, you will probably find that one of them just happens to ‘look after’ someone else’s plot and will be more than happy to hand it over on the quiet.
  8. The avantgardener
    And if Joe doesn’t buy it I will.
  9. The avantgardener
    Yes, loads of info on FC sites. There is a map showing all the areas with confirmed OGW, it’s certainly increased massively in the last five years.
  10. The avantgardener
    I would say it is very unlikely that they are transferable. I worked with a guy from NZ who had similar qualifications, not recognised here as the standards/equivalents cannot be regulated. What do you require him to do for his employment? If he is any good he could just download the schedules and do the NPTC Assessments, CS30/31 and CS32 would get him a start in Forestry, £500 would cover the Assessment costs.
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    Today I found my first case of Oriental Gall Wasp on a Sweetchestnut coppice site in Kent. It was first found in Kent in 2015, since then it has spread to other parts of the county and large parts of Greater London. If you find any, report it on tree alert as the FC want to monitor its spread.
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    I don’t think you would struggle at all, most people I meet doing their 38/39 have far less experience than you on the saw and very little knowledge of conservation or in fact Arb. You sound like you would be getting into it with both eyes open, crack on and enjoy it.
  13. The avantgardener
    Yeah, starting with knowing what your doing, knowing that nicking clients when your a subby is wrong, knowing that working for someone the OP describes isn’t a great idea. Tickets and experience with a professional outfit might work, might not.
  14. The avantgardener
    All work fully guaranteed until it goes dark.
  15. The avantgardener
    You are subbing for the guy, you are working for him, not the client. If I found out that a subby was handing out personal details and working on the side for my clients you would be finished, it is simply not done, no matter how you manage to think it is okay in your own head. I would also be letting everyone I knew in the Industry exactly what you had been up to and you wouldn’t be subbing for them either, you would be stacking shelves in Tesco before you knew it.
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    There are always large cones on these, the seeds are great toasted or used instead of Pine nuts in Pesto. They are a swine to get at being on the tips of the branches and they tend to fall apart when ripe as you branch walk out to get them.
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    I go past that plantation most days and cut on the estate behind it regularly. I have been invited by the owner to take a look around but haven’t had time as yet. Apparently the plantation was originally a nursery that specialised in Eucalyptus when they first started to become fashionable as Amenity trees, they where left to flourish in situ when the nursery closed.
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    I had a walk round some experimental planting blocks this afternoon, apologies for the poor quality phone shots. 2 species of Eucalyptus planted after the 87 storm. 1) gunnii averaged out at 40cm DBH, around 50ft high. 2) pauciflora averaged out at 30cm DBH, around 79ft high. There are at least 20 more species dotted about as specimens, including nitens, I will take some more photos when I am back there minus the kids. A small block of Leylandii planted in 1971. Average DBH of 60cm but some considerably more, gun barrel straight and 90ft. The edge trees in sunlight resemble large garden specimens with branches down to ground level, the shaded edge trees and trees inside the block had no lower limbs under 30ft. And a swerve ball of monkey puzzle planted in the 30’s. Average DBH of 40cm, all around 60ft, and has the added advantage that it will readily coppice.
  19. The avantgardener
    Biu Jee finger strike to the eyes, down like a sack of shit, or just shoot him in both ankles.
  20. The avantgardener
    Haven’t got a clue. Wouldn’t surprise me if they where making tool handles and shipping them back.
  21. The avantgardener
    We where cutting Ash last week bound for Thailand.
  22. The avantgardener
    They are chipping 800 tonne per day.
  23. The avantgardener
    Sussex is one of the most densely wooded Counties in the country, they take lots from here and Kent itself.
  24. The avantgardener
    There are large vessels docked there frequently, also docked at Shoreham near Brighton, they have been arriving since it opened and even more recently. The unprecedented amount of rain that we had late last year meant that a huge amount of timber was put on the ground, but none of it could be extracted until Boris kindly ordered 3 months of sunshine to correspond with his lockdown. I don’t know the figures but Euroforest certainly have an eye watering penalty clause if they can’t supply the chip quota.
  25. The avantgardener
    Euroforest have the contract to supply the wood fuel for the plant, they have bought chip wood from most of the larger jobs I have been on over the last few years. They import a lot from the Baltic states but I have never heard of them importing Eucalyptus from New Zealand. I know one of the buyers pretty well so I will ask him about it next time I see him.

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