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Must admit if u enjoy outdoors and wildlife stalking is a good hobby, more because u spend so much time either walking dead slow or sitting and waiting u see far more wild life than u normally do. Often get far more enjoyment sitting watching wildlife and deer than pulling trigger. Be worth u sticking ur fac in, with having ur own ground u'll get it no probs. If u adjoin a big forest block u could probably shoot a surprising amount off ur ground if u make it more attractive t them, althou wait a few years till hard woods above browse height. On 30 acres not by enough to truely sustain a population but they will constantly move in to fill the void from neighbouring forest. Once ur trees are up will do little harm anyway wot ever u do. Most off the tree browsing damage will be throu winter time when struggling for food. Often deer will target larch or Norway before SS ( horrible jaggy things they are) but I'd imagine ur softwoods will be getting up past vulnerable stage now. U will get a bit of fraying damage now and again mid summer but usually on the same trees and deer tend to prefer willow so stick a few willow cuttings in to save ur other hard woods. Have u many rabbits or hares?? As I said just looks very low in photo for deer,

Most forestry companies locally and FC nationally have stopped deer control for the moment due to C19. Will all depend on exact circumstances and the crop being damaged. Really past the worst time for deer damage fresh vegetation and into buck season ( everything else out of season in Scot) so not the worst time for this to happen if it has to happen. Althou the estate wil be losing big bucks as foreign stalkers always pay well ( plus any accom, food etc) the Dutch are always know for wanting decent antlers

Just thinking wot age are ur trees Matty?? Look quite tall in photo althou narrow stem, 5ish years?? Bit different with the hard woods but really if only roe won't do any damage to softwoods after 1st 5 years, hard woods a bit longer. After that u could please ur self wot u do either open a couple of gates so roe can come and go as please, then u won't have to worry about controlling them. If u keep the fence u will have to carry out some sort of control even after the trees are past a vulnerable age just to keep population healthy. Even on 30 acres u could have too many deer and health will go downhill, Do u not know any mates that stalk? Get them to have a look at the damage. Really depends wot u want? Do u want any deer? Either push them out or shoot them. Or if not opposed to shooting them and like eating venision and trees past vulnerable age u could make it really attractive to deer and open gates/holes in fences if it adjoins kielder u could probably shoot as many deer as u want as will always keep coming in On 30 acres ur not really need to bother about any technicalities of deer management too much

The above would make sense to me SB, but I will admit not familiar with muntie behaviour Can be hard to manage by all accounts, quite intresting biology if read in to them, have young every 7 months so do need managed. Another victory for Victorians bringing over fancy exotic animals Matty I'm not sure that's deer damage, infact I'd say it's not, but only on tablet so photos not real clear. To me the bark stripping is too low down and also with deer usually a clean cut at bottom at scraggly at top as no top incisors. Could be rabbit hare, vole or even sheep all depends on any other signs. Any footprints or droppings fur on wire fences Really ur better of just shooting them ( althou females out of season now) 30 acts fenced won't really be enough on its own when enclosed if they start breeding. U could plant some sacrificial trees like willow, deer often fray them 1st. Or plant some deer lawn somewhere in a safe shootable position so u can watch the deer as well as control them if/when needed Plus u could end up with a bit of organic venision, bad to beat Are ur trees commercial or just amenity?? If just for looks the damage might not matter as will just leave u with a bushier multi stemmed tree, different story if commercial

Definitely deer. Must admit I never noticed roe bore scoreing like that before, usually roe will thrash or fray so not as tidy and ull see bark shavings/peelings still attached at top and bottom of the rub/scrape. Prob just coming to the end of a prime time for roe as should all be in hard horn the now. Late on July/ aug time pre rut will increase again often with a triangle off bare earth below tree were it's has scrapped it's feet too. Not familiar with munties ( none up here, yet) but would say more likely to be them. Do. Munties score/mark with there teeth at all? Looks more like that with the depth and sharpness of scrapes and distance apart. With antlers would be less tidy and not uniform distances on trees that small

Must admit I have safety pins stashed in pick up visor as well as on cutting hi viz vest and on braces. Handy in pick up visor as u can pick out yesterdays before u start and ur hands are clean

Cheers think I'm going to order 1 now then. Wot's the score with the sharp sand? Just any stuff or has to be kiln dried. Cheers

How long would it take to do say a van/ trailer wheel say 13 or 14" wheel and how much sand would u use? Can u just use any dry sharp sand or does it have to be kiln dried? Totally new to shot blasting, got no idea really. Just checked my compressor 3hp, think 100 litre and 14.5 CFM, so should be ok for it. Aspen can u get the wet blasters for non karcher washers?? I've just got a cheapy screw fix job which has served me very well for a long time ( infact had to buy a 2nd as hose on old 1 gave up)

Yes looks a slightly more expensive 1 was it top chips?? Around the 150- 200 mark? The 1s at 40 quid just look like a paint gun really. Don't mind spending £200 if it will definitely work, still intend to use grinders for flat surfaces etc

Cannae mind the compressor size think 100 or 150 litre twin cylinder job, was advised was a good 1 by local ironmongers ( and not just the sales pitch) , handles a sprayer nae bother even big areas. Top chips which model do u have as quite a few different 1s about the same money. Not needing a professional job just a bit easier than flap discs esp for wheels etc. I usually paint some rust eater type stuff on it too before primeing. More functional than cosmetic.

Alright Just wondering wot folk use for small shot blasting projects. Really trailer wheels, odd bits of chassis etc I usually use flap discs or wire brushes etc just wondered if an easier way. Looking to make use of all the good weather and being off work. It won't get heavy use and got a decent air compressor to power it. A lad I worked with bought a cheap 1 from machine mart, wasnae very dear and he said it was ok, u could also put kiln dried sand throu it.which makes it cheaper to run. But another lad bought a more expensive 1 and said it was a heap of sh#te reckoned he would of been quicker blowing the shot off a bowl onto the surface Cheers

That's a small dairy that at 30, most off the local robots seem to do about 60 cows. While it saves milking time, expensive to buy and maitanence is srptill uncertain and on 24hr standby for breakdowns, which is why smallest I've heard off is 120 so 2 robots so got a back up if 1 breaks. Know a few of the earliest 1s have now ropes them out either gave up milking or back to a parkour. Modern parlour I'd prob milk 120 in an hour and ur not on call rest of day and little to break down

Will all depend how calfs are reared and at they do with dry cows, so possible to move from igloos to bigger flood then into a shed. I bet the majority of adult dairy cows in my area will never go outside now, if on robots u can't let them outside and if a bigger herd usually kept in as easier to get better quality and more constant milk as u can regulate wot they eat better. Few dairies now smaller than 300 head ( except the 120 or 180 head robot units) and some now thousands of cows know 1 milks 2500ish on 200 acres of ground. Aye supermarkets driving prices down and modernisation has a lot to answer for. Even the new 'type' of dairy cow look terrible those bloody Holstein things, lucky to get 2 or 3 lactations out of 1, old any bull calfs have next to no use. All pelvis and udders Compared to some off the old dairies small 40 to 60 cows proper fresian herds lived for years and bull calfs could still be fattened

Aye but dairy farmers only getting 25- 30p a litre, which it has been since the Milk Marketing Board finished althou only a few years ago down to 15- 17p a litre. Seemingly MLK s a loss leader to many supermarkets so u need these mega dairies or small heads milked by robots to even try to break even, really just like battery farming chickens as cows never get out anymore. It would be quite possible for a modern dairy cow love it's whole life never actually walking on or eating real grass.

Thousnads and thousands off folk do there whole working life.. Let's face it farm work has never been easier than it is now, with mechanisation and modern farm buildings If ur full time u will likely get a free house too. Dairymen, or I should say good dairymen are making very good money nowadays. Even a decent stockman can get pick of jobs as so few about. Is farm work so much worse than dragging brash the rest of ur life?? Both near enough minimum wage. The exchange rate and low pay at home makes it far more attractive to them than it ever will be to Brits. I would imagine if ur average wage at home was £250 than grafting hard for 100 odd quid a day ( I presume that's a possible wage) earning 2 or 3 months pay per week. Even now I'd bite ur hand off for some off that no matter wot the job was. Brashing trees or steepling up esp when on pipelines ( dong km's of fencing a day) are similar mind numbing jobs but u just get head down and go into day dream mode, far better now with mp3s and headphones. I'm hold enough to wind walkmans, even the tape 1s never liked the bouncing much. Young rates may help, but in reality just makes it even more attractive to migrant labour.

Is there a minimum delivery for it local desiel?? That might influence the size of tank u buy as well as how much ur using, I'd prob want atleast 1 months if not 2

There was a bit on this about the radio reckoned the agencies in charge off it are a complete shambles, thousands of folk registered but only responded to a few. Think they said had offered 600 jobs but only 100 actually accepted. Dunno how accurate that is and be agency trying to cover there arse.

I thought the same as iMac the welder down the road makes them and sure it's a plastic inside. Only thing I'd be aware off is security, I have heard of farms were they lock all the valves and they have stuck a bale spike throu the tank bottom, but also heard of them leaving tank unlocked so they don't spike the bottom and they take wot they want and wedge the nozzle open out of pure badness. Have even heard off the farmers then being chased by sepa for polluting the burn. U really couldnae make it up. Can u buy it in 50 gallon drums delivered?? Or pick it up somewhere local. Is there not some funny laws about towing desiel Bowser's even empty??

Personally I think ur worried about nothing It certainly wouldn't bother me, even unlined it would never be dangerous

Since when?? All the bad chemicals were banned years ago, 1 of reasons why modern timber lasts no time nowadays. Even the the past with proper chemical no one used gloves to work with treated timber. I can mind as estate 'boy' being sent into the old treatment tank to bale out this oil spill like sludge from bottom just in ur wellies. Could feel ur face and eyes nipping pretty quick just standing in the tank. Was actually worse using the gunk when we painted it on strainer bottoms with a brush. It doesnae look the best timber I've ever seen. Dunno wot size the planters are but looks quite thin timber. I'd just line the planters with plastic with a few holes in bottom. Might not rot as quick if plastic lined

I watched a couple of trump's press conferences over this crisis and by f##k how did that trumpet ever get to where he is. If he was dragging brash for u would u really promote him to gang/team leader never mind bloody president of the free world I'm not really political in any way but he seems to have absolutely no grasp off anything. Only 2 weeks ago he was saying America will be open for business for Easter, then that clever germ speach, now reckons king off America. The man is a complete Muppet Then the other day was shouting down some poor reporter as Fake for asking a difficult question in a press conference. His advisers must just spend 10mins after each press conference banging there heads of the wall. Be better off sending Homer Simpson out No matter wot ur political stance has their ever been a time in politics with so many truely terrible politicians and esp leaders. And the very time u need some real leaders Has there ever been a scarier time in world politics, got bo jo here, Putin in Russia and trumpet over there all with there finger on the big red button. I know China is far from honest and trustworthy, but if it ever turns out this was man made or they have known about it for a lot longer than they let on ( which they will have) they're could well be hell to pay It might make this virus look like the good ol' days.

But even if u go all battery powered unless u have 100% renewable electricity u still have emissions. Really customers would be better getting local companies to do local work u'll cut far more emissions from wasted journeys. Possibly more relevant on ur big contracts, when I was on railways we travelled all over UK and was not unusual to travel 3-4hrs each way for 1 night shift

Cheers Paul. To be fair in my area the hospitals are still quite quiet so far. Long may that continue, althou local dr's surgery is full of it. But think we will be weeks or even months behind London and elsewhere, so might all to come, if it does. I guess many rural areas will be. But most locals really are staying in, mibbee helps being rural Like I say stay safe everyone but at same time u cant wrap ur self in cotton wool and live inside ur house in fear for very long. Just an educated risk like many things are esp with tree work

Just in response to AA techie, and I'm obviously not an expert. But I watched a while clip in bloody subtitles ( and nochance of nudity, that must be a 1st ) Anyway it was 1 of leading experts from S Korea, they were on it very early with massive testing across the population, they found that around 30% off the population had absolutely no symptoms but tested positive for it, and they were more ur younger fitter types. So chances are with the physical side of cutting)climbing the is a reasonably high chance many might not exhbt any symptoms at all. But equally there work mates also likely won't be badly affected either ( assuming no health risks) So it might not be that easy to actually know if u have it throu no fault of ur own spreading it. The other thing he said the virus must enter ur system throu mouth, nose or eyes ( or possibly a cut) can't go throu skin. Hence why washing hands and not touching face so important. But not easy if ur working/sweating with saw dust flying about. Every day life is a risk esp using saws or even more so climbing a tree with a saw, probably more folk hurt themselves putting on trousers/socks or falling down stairs. Just got to weigh up the risks involved, risks will be higher if u live with ur olds or an at risk person. Way I see it were ALL going to catch it at some point, trick is to catch it when hospitals are quietist so space if u need it. Can't se my forestry work starting up anytime soon,, I could go fencing but to be honest wee bit more concerned with risks involved with that as ur all in out tractors, using chapper and bigger hand tools. Mibbee a bit too much risk of cross continuation of hard metal surfaces ( virus lasts longer) and I am in an a higher risk category having had severe asthma. Looking like I might chase up some planting work instead, on own no cross contam and still making a living.

Shame u don't live in Scotland and have a 2nd holiday house needing trees done, I'd be fine doing them.