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  1. Aunt Maud
    I guess. If you cut down an Elder without asking it, you'll be cursed. As the saying goes that a wise woman will sometimes take the form of an Elder Tree when resting.
  2. Aunt Maud
    Makes for excellent firewood, but The May Queen lives there during the winter, so watch you don't get rid of it all at once. Otherwise you'll be cursed by perpetual rain, grey skies and wind. Forgot to add....good for mauls when dry, if froes are your thing
  3. Aunt Maud
    I tried to coppice one and all the shoots died at year two. It's now gone the same way as the Norwegian Blue. [ame] [/ame]
  4. Aunt Maud
    And add dried in an electric kiln too before transport....It ain't carbon neutral, if you add all that in.
  5. Aunt Maud
    I'm with Ed too. But then I don't have a firewood business and own my own coppice and produce my own firewood. As for Ash die back, all of the Ash on my land are now dead. It's coming your way whether you like it or not and there's nothing you can do about it.
  6. Aunt Maud
    Bit of wind, bit of rain. Had a chat to our friend in Tromsø, Norway, who we shared a house with when we lived in Bergen. She said they've had 3 meters of rain in Bergen this year.
  7. Aunt Maud
    Didn't it cost something like 20k to build and most of that went to the architect and structural engineer ? T'was the best grand designs ever.
  8. Aunt Maud

    Stihl Contra

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    Stihl Contra for sale in the local rag.......just round the corner. What is it and is it any good ? Motorsav, Stihl Contra, Flo... – dba.dk – Køb og Salg af Nyt og Brugt
  9. Aunt Maud
    Thats the difference between seeing trees as a crop and trees as an ornament. I much prefer the former and enjoy seeing the effect that cropping from trees has on the rural landscape. It's something that Denmark has forgotten and is poorer for it. Thanks for the photo, they look very knotty indeed.
  10. Aunt Maud
    Be great to see some photos.
  11. Aunt Maud
    Yes, fodder. Being a carpenter, fodder doesn't appear on my limited radar. I wonder if anyone uses it these days ?
  12. Aunt Maud
    If you want to initiate pollarding on a maiden Oak or Beech, you'll have a better chance of success if you choose one with epicormic growth rather than one with a clean stem, and cut the leader above the third branch. Also these two species won't tolerate the removal of all the branches at the time of pollarding and there's a good chance you'll kill it if you do. The reason pollarding has died out is because we don't cut for a crop of poles, firewood or charcoal timber any more. Maybe you could start a pollarding renaissance if you've got some suitable trees in your woodlot.
  13. Aunt Maud
    Got one like that round the house and in the shed pointing at the mower and stuff. You can get up to eight cameras on it.....easy to set up too. I put one on the roof out of the way and a couple of signs round the place.
  14. Aunt Maud
    They re-named Sevenoaks to Oneoak. I had to go to work through Warley Woods near Brentwood and it took me a few goes to find a clear road. I remember looking over towards Dunton and Billericay and seeing the sky lit up from things falling on the overhead electricity wires and saw a woman hugging onto a tree in the High Street, trying to stay upright.
  15. Aunt Maud
    Sunny start with gales later.....more cordwood splitting for me.......still dark thoghbut.
  16. Aunt Maud
    Makes a pleasant change, it's been lashing it down for weeks. N Westerly forecast for Saturday, so it should be getting near to 0ºC for a bit. I fancy a bit of a decent frost, so I can get down to the Birch coppice. Too muddy at the moment....sucks. Brother says its brass monkeys in Sweden, but no snow, which is odd, as he's usually under a good couple of meters by now.
  17. Aunt Maud
    Dry with a good westerly wind. I'm in my T shirt !! splitting cordwood with my new toy, this time 3 years ago it was -20ºC
  18. Aunt Maud
    How much is it in the UK....It's about 17.00 for 5 litres of Aspen 2 here.
  19. Aunt Maud
    Layering is burying a bent or pleached shoot in the ground and holding it there with a rock or peg so that it roots. You can increase the number of stools in a Hazel coppice by layering, for example.
  20. Aunt Maud
    Second that.....very good for milling.
  21. Aunt Maud
    I think the woodlands in the film look quite spectacular.
  22. Aunt Maud
    I've just started some Beech pollards on a neglected row of trees on our boundary. I took the lead shoot off one a couple of years ago and it's going well with shoots growing vertically into the space where the leader was. It was a maiden about 30 yrs old. Next year I'll take off a few side branches and hopefully start to form the classic pollard shape. The other four in the row have had their lead shoots taken off a couple of weeks ago. Those in between the pollards I've coppiced and it'll be interesting to see how things start to look next autumn.
  23. Aunt Maud
    To get you in the mood and make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Pull up a chair and watch the video. LIFE + Naturaleza 2008
  24. Aunt Maud
    Yes, they are about 10" long plus the socket and handle, so 16" all up thereabouts. I got them through Pan Tools in Bristol. Axminster Power Tools do Henry Taylor chisels, so you could ask them, or phone Henry Taylor direct. They take a few weeks to arrive, as they're made to order. The handles are rubbish though, as they're made of some kind of compressed cheese pretending to be wood.
  25. Aunt Maud
    I've got some Henry Taylor Diamic framing chisels. I only need two 1" and 2". They were expensive, but last for ever. If you're near Wells, there's a good secondhand place behind Tescos. " Wells Trading Post" I think it's called. They sell excellent used tools upstairs and I've got some Sorby chisels from there, which are superb. If you want more than they have, ask for Rob and he has literally hundreds in his shed at home. As for flattening your stone, rub it on a dense concrete building block to wear it flat again. You know the ones I mean, grey, hard and heavy, with a rough face and sharp edges. Get it from Travis for under a quid.

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