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  1. Paul in the woods
    An image search shows this up, if its any help. https://www.plumbingspareparts.com/700-gv-invicta-wood-burning-stove-baffle-plate-1120.html So, it looks like a baffle for an Invicta stove if you can search on that. It looks quite complicated to me. My stove just has a folded piece of metal that sits on two bars at the top of the stove. My concern is you can put it in the wrong way round, hence suggesting trying to find instructions, even just for a similar stove.
  2. Paul in the woods
    Well, it's got you baffled! Do you not have the stoves instructions, it should tell you how to fit it in there. If you don't have them they may be available online. A stove id would also help.
  3. Paul in the woods
    You can only sell 2m3 a quarter. I'm not a fan of using the exemptions myself as I don't want to be felling in Spring or Summer. Personally, as a small woodland owner I found my local woodland officer useless and not interested in processing my felling licence, expecting me to make use of my exemptions. I gather other woodland officers are far better so it would be worth trying to see what your one is like.
  4. Paul in the woods
    You could try speaking to the local woodland forestry officer. Are you planning to thin, clear fell or do something else? I am sure you've done this, but check it thoroughly for squirrel damage.
  5. Paul in the woods
    Have you tested the split face of a freshly split log and pushed the pins in a good depth? I've burnt some ash with obvious dieback and not noticed much difference. I have often found ash takes a long time to season though, it may be one of the drier woods when felled but then takes along time to shed it's moisture.
  6. Paul in the woods
    It's not the clearest picture but my first thought is velvet shank, Flammulina velutipes. There's some good pics and info here: Velvet Shank WWW.WILDFOODUK.COM Capable of surviving being frozen solid this fungi can be found throughout the winter and is a tasty find when there is not much else about.
  7. Paul in the woods
    .303 isn't a NATO round. Most .303s I've seen shoot high at short ranges, you can change the front sight blade on SMLEs, would that be an option? I don't know that particular rifle.
  8. Paul in the woods
    I place traps up trees so little chance of hedgehogs. Not seen a polecat but I thought the risk with pine martens is they are more omnivorous and may go for baits aimed at grey squirrels. Aren't polecats more carnivorous?
  9. Paul in the woods
    I own a couple of patches of woodland and have found if I can shoot/trap about 10 squirrels a year that gets the numbers down so the trees don't get damaged much. They quickly move back in so it has to be done every year if your neighbours aren't also controlling them. We've had a lot of damage this year, about the only tree that escape are the ask which are being wiped out by ADB! Annoyingly in a few years we may have to stop trapping them in the lethal traps due to pine martens. By the way, I think the thinning size is 10cm dbh before a licence is needed.
  10. Paul in the woods
    I don't know about them but Mr Spoon regularly went to the moon when I was a kid.
  11. Paul in the woods
    I've often wondered if they landed on the moon but faked the photos.
  12. Paul in the woods
    Use battery chickens.
  13. Paul in the woods
    What's the issue with the trees? Leaves, shade, fear of trees? I wouldn't say they are small but I've seen much larger urban trees.
  14. Paul in the woods
    As much as I don't like the current lot I'm not sure I want the previous lot in or Reform (if either actually want to run the country these days). Unfortunately I think we need a few years of Labour to remind the voters what they stand for.
  15. Paul in the woods
    Wych elm?
  16. Paul in the woods
    In my experience once it's showing obvious signs of die back it'll be dead in a year or two and fall quickly so not a long term prospect of standing deadwood.
  17. Paul in the woods
    May not be the soil, I've got 1000s of 35ish year old ash with dieback and the roots rot off even when the top has a reasonable canopy of leaves. Luckily I've got a lot or regen hazel, which suits my plan, so I'm just felling out the ash.
  18. Paul in the woods
    I don't know what it is, it has a look of a cross between mechanical damage and ash die back. I get lots of squirrel damage in my woodlands and it doesn't look like that, and the tree rats don't seem to go for them. If it goes above 1.5m or so then It's not deer damage. Are the leaves damaged at all? It might just be a reaction to the very dry and very wet weather? This thread might he worth a read:
  19. Paul in the woods
    If they are common wasps then the new queens will hibernate somewhere and find a new nest site next spring. They're likely to be nesting in an old rodent hole and there will be loads of them to use. There's a chance they'll nest there again but I've only known them nest in somewhere like a loft in multiple seasons.
  20. Paul in the woods
    It's getting late in the season now, they'll die out naturally in a week or two.
  21. Paul in the woods
    The fungi look more like velvet shanks, which grow on rotting or diseased wood. Could be something else but not honey fungus.
  22. Paul in the woods
    Probably a parasol Macrolepiota procera, Parasol Mushroom, identification WWW.FIRST-NATURE.COM
  23. Paul in the woods
    If you do shoot them it's worth baiting up an area with cheap bird food, corn etc, a few days before hand. They often get used to an area to feed and you can settle down and pick them off.
  24. Paul in the woods
    I've had this out with a few insurers with a domestic 4x4. Unless I could prove items were fitted to a car in the factory they classed stuff as a mod. The car was some special edition with a different bumper and a few other visual details. Simple answer is to tell your insurance company, ideally via email, then you're covered. Unless they don't like the mod and refuse coverage of course.
  25. Paul in the woods
    Why do they need a protection order to be looked after? Are they your trees or a neighbours? Depending on where you are the sycamore could get badly damaged by grey squirrels, worth checking to see if there's any bark stripping going on. If you like wildlife I'd plant some more trees in that grass, or leave the grass to grow longer.

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