matelot

After the recent shooting in America I think Trump will become the next President... You look at conventional politicians and they come out with the "religion of peace" and "nothing to do with Islam". Trump says many migrants hate America and shouldn't be let in to America. I personally prefer Trump's stance.

The amount of material a JCB can move in a day is unreal... I don't see rutted paths as a huge problem to overcome. Simple get a JCB (or similar) to break up the ruts and shape the path so that water flows off. Plenty guys here want rid of wood chip as well. I reckon paths of woodchip would be OK for pedestrians.

Does it not depend on the pallet truck? I'd imagine even on a glass smooth floor moving 800kg would be a lot of effort.... I'm sure there are electric powered pallet trucks that could cope with some bumps.

Have you looked at your title deeds? Is there anything preventing you planting trees along your boundary? If there is nothing on your deeds I would write a letter saying "if these trees bother you, you can cut them down at your own expense". I'd also be looking to see if there is an ombudsman for NR.

If you removed that tree (roots and all) you'd leave a right mess in their garden. The householder would need £1,000 to put it right....

So what is the landowner saying about all of this? Unless he's an absolute kn0b he should pay the person that cut the trees down.

I think the main thing that drives forestry investment is that rich people buy it to avoid their estate paying inheritance tax..... This means the returns aren't particulary good... I remember circa 20 years ago a neighbour harvesting trees and he said the money he got would just cover the cost of replanting. Having said that my dad bought some forestry in 1998 then in 2010 he sold some standing timber for twice what he bought it for (I think he got lucky with exchange rate movements and the start of biomass). Sitka Spruce produces circa 15 cubic metres per hectare per year (yield class). At circa 45 years it's at the optimum diameter (too old/ wide and the value goes down). The top of tree goes for fencing/ chip/ pallets. The bottom of the tree goes for saw logs. From memory the landowner might get circa £3 a m3 for the small diameter stuff to £12 per m3 for sawlogs. So after 45 years a hectare of Sitka will be worth circa £7000 per hectare (this will obvioulsy vary depending on timber quality and distance to sawmills).

The reality is that if you are a small employer there is a risk in employing a woman of child bearing age... Not many employers want to employ someone, train them up, then see them leave for a few months, pay them maternity leave for that time, get someone to cover the original employee etc. Realistically for a lot of small employers being forced to pay for maternity leave is the difference between making a profit and loss for that year.

it's threads like this that make me glad that I don't employ anyone... I can see why employers don't want to employ women in case they get pregnant and get 3 months maternity leave....

I thought deer liked to nibble bark out of boredom and to wear down their teeth?

I personally would cut off the damaged trunks and cut off the minor "leader" branches (leaving the main branch that will form the new trunk). I'd imagine the trees will recover fairly well. Get some deer protection like tubes.

my neighbour inherited £30m. It sounds like a lot but their house is a large stately home and must cost a fortune to maintain. For instance the central heating system cost £400k.... Most of their money is in land which will give a poor income.. I don't think money worries are the sole preserve of people with smaller incomes.

I'd imagine from what the original poster says he's going to be keeping the wood for a reasonable time - he is talking about using it for firewood production. I don't personally see someone in twenty or thirty years time being able to just cut all the trees down. The Forestry Commission is fairly hard on these things... A typical lawyer costs at least £200 an hour. I don't see the point in spending thousands on a covenant that does something the Forestry Commission would effictevely do for free. As an aside, I believe covenants are fairly hard to enforce. I certainly know people who bought land with restrictive covenants - their lawyers said the covenants were worthless.

How about some photographs of the site? It should people give more useful feedback? My initial thoughts are: If you plant the site with trees no future owner can just cut them all down without going to the Forestry Commision. Normally a felling licence would require the owner to replant. It might be an idea to speak to the FC before you spend thousands on legal covenants. What are the existing fences like? If they are good you could make your site deer/ rabbit proof and not bother using tree tubes. What is the grass like? Is it overgrown? If it is there are likely to be. A lot of voles, those critters love nibbling trees.... If the site is overgrown I'd try and get a farmer to graze it or mow it. Planting trees in long grass is hard..... I love alder, they tend to grow really well. If also look at surrounding woods and see what grows well. Without seeing the site I would say tubes and stakes are the way to go. It's likely to be ten years before you get anything approaching log size.... I'd make sure you leaves rides in your wood for future access. Dig a pond.... Watching pond life is magic

I was on a ship off the Iraqi coast. Iraqi marines were based on our ship and each day they left on small boats to stop and search suspect vessels. One day a marine forgot his AK47 and left it on the deck of our ship. You would have thought remembering your gun would have been a priority in a war zone.

awesome shrubs! amazing foliage in the autumn

The thing is British construction workers, in London, are competing against East Europeans that live twenty to a house..... Saving £300 a week is a fortune for many East Europeans. If they save say £20k they can go back to East Europe and buy a house.

My employer used to send us all on training courses. It was funny meeting the graduates from London, they typically stayed 4 to a flat (two couples) and us Scottish graduates typically had our own flats. If I had to share a flat I'd end up killing my flatmates (or at the very least I'd do something horrible with their toothbrushes). tbh, unless I was offered a £250,000 a year I wouldn't want to work in London. I don't know about other parts of the country, but where I am (Glasgow) house prices have done virtually nothing over the last 15 years.

If I was going to build something that was open to the general public I'd want a proper design and engineers calculations... There are a lot of regulations for making public buildings wheelchair friendly & having fire escapes etc.

There are about 8 million foreigners living in the UK. I would say that’s quite a lot… 50% of Muslim men are unemployed. 75% of Muslim women are unemployed….. Migrants cost the UK taxpayer £120 billion between 1995 and 2011…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_the_United_Kingdom Britain's coping classes at breaking point - Telegraph Immigration from outside Europe 'cost £120 billion' - Telegraph

Thanks, in all honesty it was the most stressful thing I've ever done. My employer was absolutely cr4p at giving me support to get in.

The West has managed to cause problems in the Middle East. However if they want to redraw the state lines on a map they could do so... Israel is contentious.. However is it any worse than Turkey invading Cyprus and keeping it? Do Christians feel the need to kill because of Cyprus? We shouldn't have removed Saddam, however they were given a chance of democracy and thrown it away. imho, the Middle East would be a disaster whatever we do.

Really? So the schism between Shia and Sunni Muslims has nothing to do with it? Have you ever been to the Middle East?

"intolerable suffering"? We are talking about EU migrants. I wasn't aware of "intolerable suffering" in Poland etc?