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Paul in the woods

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  1. No, refuse. And as I mentioned the council could not provide any procedure they followed but the ombudsman didn't seem bothered by this. One of the reasons to go to the LGSCO was to understand the process but as you say it's clear as mud. When my county council damaged (killed) one of my trees they basically did nothing and refered me to the LGSCO. I replied it wasn't in their remit but heard nothing back.
  2. Thanks for the reply. I can see with this example it's fairly straight forward, 8 weeks aren't 6. I understand and agree with most of what you say. In my case I did follow the complaints process and the monitoring officer was involved from an early stage but seemed to be advising the council staff how to best mislead me and get out of their obligations (I submitted a subject access request so saw some of their internal emails). I went to the LGSCO because I found an example very similar to my case where they found against the council. In my case they did not provide any procedure they followed. However, the LGSCO still could not be bothered to investigate. I have a suspicion councils have been advised to refer people to the LGSCO much more quickly these days and the LGSCO just dismisses most of the referals.
  3. Seasons quick and burns well but faster than ash. The birch I've processed has been from old and poorly grown trees so was surprisingly hard to split. I expect something like forestry thinnings would be much easier.
  4. Have you taken complaints to the LGSCO then and won? Did the council change and did you get much compensation to cover your time? I've only taken one complaint to them and after careful consideration they declined to investigate. It then emerged they had not actually read my complaint (they admitted this but said it was perfectly fine to do this). After a bit of research into them there I found a survey that said about 90% of people were dissatisfied with their service. There is very little they will investigate, for example if you can take the council to court then they will not investigate your case and you need to suffer "significant injustice". Even when they uphold a complaint they don't seem to do much. What I have noticed over the last couple of years is that our concil does even less to resolve any issue and simply refers you to the LGSCO. The only useful thing about them is that they do publish decisions so people can search them: https://www.lgo.org.uk/decisions
  5. I don't think I've tried horse chestnut yet. I had some birch this year, nice wood with a decent scent but thought it burnt almost as quick as some of the stuff people don't like.
  6. I've yet to find a dry firewood that doesn't burn. I agree with the others, once something is dry it'll burn. Woods that are light when dry will burn quicker than heavy woods as light woods will have more air and less actual wood (carbon) in them. I can understand a log seller not wanting to sell willow but if it's free then season it and burn when ready.
  7. This might be the thread you're thinking of (down the bottom of page 1):
  8. I'm one of the very rare people who does read their policy and it's frankly shocking that when I've queried details with my provider they don't know their policy wording means. I've currently got a complaint with the FOS and they seemed surprised I'd bothered reading the policy. So, you're not alone. If you have the time and think it's worth it it might be worth making a formal complaint. If in your discusions with them you think you've mentioned your vehicles are not always locked away then they would have been aware of this and that may override the policy wording. I certainly wouldn't say the obsundman is there to serve your needs, far from it, but they may decide in your favour or at least discuss the matter with you.
  9. I'd go with hawthorn or at least some form of Crataegus. Does it have any berries or thornes on it?
  10. A bit of honey fungus in our woodland today.
  11. You say dieback, if you mean Hymenoscyphus fraxineus it's not the fruiting bodies of that. I've not seen it but I'd suggest looking at Perenniporia fraxinea. There's a thread here and if you google it there's other pics:
  12. Those or common funnels or similar, hard to be sure from the photos. They look a bit pale to me for tawny funnels but could be washed out a bit. I like to have a close look at the gils and possibly do a spore print (place one gills down on a black piece of paper/card for a few hours). If you look here you will see you should be looking for a creamy-white print. Lepista flaccida, Tawny Funnel, identification WWW.FIRST-NATURE.COM
  13. It looks more like a disease than deer damage to me. I've seen a lot of fraying damage by roe bucks and it tends to be higher and the bark is rubbed off.
  14. I've done a bit of planting and faced the hoards of critters wanting to eat them. Firstly, at least in this part of Devon, spring seems to always have a long dry period so I'd strongly suggest getting the trees planted early in the season well before spring. I hate spiral tree guards, I've got some that haven't been removed when they should and they merge in to the trees causing all sorts of damage. The ones I've used must be biodegradable but they become very brittle in a year or two and are very hard to remove without shards getting everywhere. Funilly enough we have a very large field vole population (you can often see them running about) but I've not actually seen any vole damage to the trees I've planted. (We do have a large population of tawny owls and kestrels). I'd second the idea of posts to encourage them in, even the kestrels like to have a rest and survey the fields. We also have a few hares, including a leveret that spent most of a summer in our fruit bed and apart from one branch he didn't cause any damage. Deer on the other hand can be a real nuisance. Not just going along a row of trees and nibbling all the fresh shoots but the bucks freying. But even this can be variable, our current roe buck and doe do far less damage than previous ones.
  15. Shaggy inkcaps by the looks of the. https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/shaggy-inkcap/
  16. You're just across the channel from me and we have a similar problem with the ash. Don't you have much oak and beech around there and alder in the wetter parts?
  17. If you're going to pull his chain you should get his name right! @Rough Hewn
  18. I've not seen them in the flesh but I would thing they are Veiled Oysters, Pleurotus dryinus. Look's like it's not that common a find.
  19. Possibly Shaggy Scalycap, Pholiota squarrosa. Worth looking at the stem to see if it matches. Pholiota squarrosa, Shaggy Scalycap Mushroom WWW.FIRST-NATURE.COM
  20. You may need to confirm where you are, i.e. England, Scotland etc. Assuming England you can read up on the law here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tree-preservation-orders-and-trees-in-conservation-areas#dead-trees-and-branches
  21. That's probably the best set of pictures I've seen. Worth downloading a copy as these documents have a habbit of moving about! Looks like some of the trees around here also have Phytophthora syringae which I didn't know about.
  22. The was a piece in the Small Woods magazine a while back about non-Hymenoscyphus fraxineus ash dieback. I was referring to the fact ash doesn't always look good, especially where it has been planted in the wrong place or where it's growing at the extremes of it's range. I would be surprised if the trees in the OPs post didn't have Hymenoscyphus fraxineus but whether it's the main cause of their state is not easy to say. Each year I've found our ash trees to behave a bit differently, last year many of the badly affected trees seemed to recover to some extent late on in the year but this year there's quite a few that have looked very poorly and some have now died. Thankfully a few look unaffected.
  23. Interesting, I thought they would be inundated and reading their page they say: "Please note that not all reports will be followed up directly" and "We would encourage you only to report suspected cases of Chalara dieback of ash in new (unshaded) areas on the following map " Might be worth doing to see what happens. Funnily enough they don't have where I live shaded on their map and it's been around here for several years.
  24. Did you look under the cap to see the stem and pores? At a guess I would say some type of suillis (a bolete), perhaps something like Suillus granulatus which is mycorrhizal but I've no idea what might be associated with redwood.
  25. It's not bay, the buds are wrong and the leaf stalks too long for bay. The buds do look oak like but on such a small plant I wouldn't hazard a guess as to which one.

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