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Whatever you do all the best to you. I'm not an arborist, but if you fancy taking some photographs of someone sitting at a desk designing a road give me a shout.
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Not tree related, but in 1998 I went to India for a holiday. I hired a taxi with driver and translator for a morning. The cost was £5 (about $6 at today's exchange rates). I also went to the Taj Mahal. It cost 23 pence (30 cents) to get in.
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I plant my trees in an area with a lot of roe deer. I use 1.2m shelters and they seem to protect the trees OK. I had a look at a tubex supplier and they say a 1.2m tube is OK for roe deer: Tubex Tree Shelter | Alba Trees Nursery - The Official UK Stockist The costs of the tubes is a fair up front investment. However you should be able to use them again if you don't mind using them with a slit up the side. I went into a neighbours land and "acquired" 100 shelters that had been previously used and discarded. Is there any old stock fencing nearby? You could make shelters by making 1.5m diameter rings and placing them around your trees?
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Why do you want a 5 foot high shelter? Do you have lots of red deer browsing your trees? I normally find a 4 foot shelter protects from everything apart from red deer, sheep and chavs.
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tbh, unless the schoolkid has had similar problems in class I see no way that a 6 year old would think "it's easy, I just find the number that means adding diagonally left and right adds up to the same total".
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Newbie with boggy unmanaged mostly broadleaf woodland...
matelot replied to Hobby_Woodsman's topic in General chat
If the site is waterlogged the tree roots won't go below the water table, that means you'll always get a lot of trees getting blown over. If it was me, I would probably plant water loving trees (like willow and alder) on the wetter areas and let the oak and beech grow on the drier areas. I would also dig a massive pond. An excavator doesn't cost that much to hire a day. If you have fish in the pond they should eat the mosquitoes. When it comes to earthworks a larger excavator can be cheaper than hiring a small exactor. A 1.5 tonne exavator can get bogged down while a 10 tonne excavator can sit on a dry area and clean out the wet areas. -
"Moisture seeps out of wood once split? Sounds dumb but ..
matelot replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Is it not more to do with surface area? You put your washing out on the clothes line and it drys in afternoon. You leave it in the washing basket and it doesn't dry. -
advice needed for removing wood and brash from steep garden
matelot replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
I'd have thought the obvious thing is to put a thread on here to see how much you could sell the timber for? -
What do you all read? I've read a fair few newspapers over the last years. However I got fed up with reading a lot of the pro migrant articles over the last few years and stopped buying them. I used to buy the FT but stopped when they became too left wing (and pro Bremain), I then read the Herald but stopped after a ridiculous article saying we should let all of Africa into Europe. I read the Guardian website to see why the left wing are hated so much. I also like the Times. LOL, I've also just started a digital subscription to the Daily Mail. I've no intention of reading it but it's good to know that my money is going to a paper that hasn't become overcome with political correctness.
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There is something a lot more beautiful than a table that you could turn this tree into....
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How much would it cost for someone to make their own kiln? I can't help thinking someone that was good at welding could get plenty change out of 5 grand by making their own. All they'd need is a shipping container/ insulation/ old stove and a fan.
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I was speaking to a labourer on a building site this week. He said in the summer he was working an 84 hour week and clearing £1,200....
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That's a lot of ivy....
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are there any businesses in the area that require a lot of heat? I cant help thinking greenhouses/ laundries/ swimming pools etc need a lot of heat throughout the year. Perhaps see if it makes sense for them to buy a sawdust stove and you sell them the sawdust? Failing that I'd be burning the sawdust to dry logs.
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how about getting an under 25 work visa for Australia?
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Why? I cant help thing carpet on the roof and sides will make it top heavy and difficult to drive round corners.
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Perhaps briquettes could be made cheaper if a "glue" was added to the sawdust? We've all played with "papier mache" as kids. If flour can make paper into a strong material maybe a few bags of flour would bind briquettes together?
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I do like splashing out for a pearl necklace
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Lol, this is about three minutes of the new Liberal MP getting owned. It's well funny. [ame] [/ame]
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Cheer up, is Saturday night not bath night? That pretty East european girl will be along in a minute to give you a wash.
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Zac fought a London mayoral campaign that was quite "controversial", have you considered that might be why he lost his MP's seat?
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So why do countries like Peru and Canada get free trade agreements with the EU without freedom of movement?
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investment against return scale for wood processing
matelot replied to flatyre's topic in Firewood forum
Yeah, I see people on this website selling cubic metres for £60 and I wonder if they really are cubic metres. Perhaps trading standards should investigate some log merchants? -
OK, the EU politicians play hardball and start a trade war. That means millions of car workers/ wine growers/ cheese makers/ watch makers etc in the EU lose their jobs. You really think a French politician wants to see a car plant close because they can't do a trade deal with the UK? You think the Spanish want to lose British tourists because of a trade war? You think the Germans want to close a steel plant because they no longer sell goods to the UK? You think Europeans are happy to lose their jobs so politicians can make a point? Do you think unemployed EU citizens might vote for politicians that will get a free trade agreement so they get their jobs back? This weekend the Austrians are having a Presidential election, the likely winner is a right winger that wants a referendum on the EU.... The EU is dying....
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With the greatest respect, your forecasts are terrible.... I don't think the EU have many cards to play.... Their economy is a mess, if they start a trade war millions of EU citizens will lose their jobs. Millions of EU migrants work in the UK, if we kick them out they will be unemployed in the EU. Russia is becoming increasingly belligerent, if Poland etc fall out with the UK they can't expect much military help if Russia invades them.
