Aunt Maud
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Is that so ? I was thinking one would make part of a nice knife handle.
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OK, I get the point....... I'll put it back on the burnables pile.
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What's this good for ?
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Thanks for the concern. I'm on the pill already, several infact, and have spent exactly one year, one month and one day sitting on the sofa doing bugger all. I've turned to hand cutting firewood to prevent me from travelling, axe in hand to his house to extract my revenge. 40 cubic meters and counting...all over christmas. There's a Lars Mytting inspired installation in progress down Jutland way.
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I've been able to do a bit of cutting now, as the swamp is frozen solid, and it's predominantly Downy Birch that I've got. I've done a bit of ring counting and it's growing at a rate of 23 rings per inch, so pretty slow and very dense. There's some really nice burr as well. It hasn't been touched for 35 years or so and I was going to divide it into 15 triangular strips and cut two strips per year, to see if I can get it to grow any faster. The parcel of land is triangular and about 2.5 acres. I hope to get 8 tonnes per year for the first complete rotation, then 6 tonnes afterwards. It's SSI and will be one of a handful of working coppice in Denmark and probably the only one in private hands outside of a museum. What do you reckon, any advice welcome.
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Thanks Jon, I've gon to IW direct, so fingers crossed that things have changed since the last time I asked them.
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We've been here for 5 years now and I've seen one squirrel, a red one funny enough, in someones back garden in town. We do have Pine Martens though, so that may explain things on the squirrel front. But I've seen about 10 different Deer, one Badger and one Hedgehog in all that time and we live in the middle of the country, surrounded by fields and woods. There's nothing here, it's weird.
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They should just import some Danes, they have a habit of shooting everything.
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Would anyone have an Ifor Williams EU Certificate of Conformity for an LT105G that I could have a copy of as a PDF ? Ifor Williams won't send me one and the dealer here in Denmark wants £350.00 for a piece of paper, as they'd rather sell me a new one than have me register the one I have. As I've lost all my work due to being deliberately mown down by a motorist whilst I was out cycling, £350.00 is out of reach. I'm going to use it to move all the coppiced Birch I have to my garden for firewood. Cutting firewood and browsing the internet being the only things I can do, as I'm in the midsts of a severe depression and borderline on the verge of dispatching myself. Thanks in advance. Adam
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Currently -4ºC, forcast gales from the East and intermittent snowy bits.......Ugh!
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It's dangerous, because it shoots all over the place in the spring....Meh!
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Is there a demand for pine and spruce in England?
Aunt Maud replied to eror1515's topic in Firewood forum
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Get a small claims form online and file against them. Let them know you're going to do it by giving them 5 days written notice before you file it. Go through the motions, even if it ends up going to court. If you get there and they don't show, you'll usually get judgement against them. When that happens, put a freeze on their company bank account. Be hard on them, as they're being hard on you.
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They may also come from the Boreal Forest. That's something that needs protecting urgently.
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Is there a demand for pine and spruce in England?
Aunt Maud replied to eror1515's topic in Firewood forum
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Sorry to gloat, but its been another cracker of a day. Hard frost and the ground is like concrete. -3ºC, sunny and a slight easterly, same again tomorrow. Changing on Thursday, snow !! Keep your low pressure system to yourselves, UK.
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Another one for Guelder Rose...It's a beauty, but gets munched by that bug Pyrrhalta viburni +1 for Hawthorn too. You can coppice Birch as well, so you could just plant a mixed coppice and selectively manage the species to maintain a canopy, if that's your thing. Beech will coppice when small (4yrs), or you can mess about with really low Beech pollards. I've got some on the go that are only 3 feet tall. Birds nest happily in them, as it's like a hedge on its own.
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Except kiln drying raises the acidity of the wood, especially Oak.
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I've cheated a bit, behind me is the mother of all Danish swamps. When you walk on the sphagnum islands, it's like being on a raft. Luckily it's freezing over, so a combination of frozen swamp and crafty bridges should see work continue........snow on the way, so I'll be looking at taking a large Poplar down and staying on higher ground for the meantime.
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You've got rain.......unlucky.
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-3ºC and falling. Stiff old wind from the East has dried it all out......dog still swimming and finally managed to go and look at the Bog Birch coppice, cutting in the morning:thumbup:
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How about coppiced or pollarded Oak and Beech....good for squirrels. Oak supports a massive variety of wildlife too.
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We have some large Populus alba but the firewood produces a large amount of ash, although it burns fairly well, it's best for kindling and splits very easily.
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Thanks for posting that. Nice to see the bit about the "little twist" in the splitting section. It works well, especially if you can twist to the left or right......saves moving around too much.
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It's a good book, but a bit dry <Meh!>. So maybe bedtime reading, to send you to the Land of Nod.
