lux
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Everything posted by lux
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Not enough people willing to pay for it in the UK or overseas clients are more profitable? No idea the cloggies came over here just to shoot deer.
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Not the only culprits though. Every plantation around here has high chairs in it for culling the deer that strip up recently planted stuff. Out of interest so the FC have organised squirrel culls to protect plantations. I’ve no doubt they strip up young fresh trees. ?
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Maybe you’re only climbing the small trees with thin soft bark they like to chew on and not up the big trees they generally don’t like. Who knows. Honestly if you’re saying you fell or remove more trees / branches etc to squirrel damage than other fungi etc I’ll take your word for it but I’ll be surprised.
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No it’s not... honestly don’t see why people get so bent out of shape about it. Sad that they have pushed out the red squirrels. But plenty is being done to re introduce them around the country. As for damaging trees. You see very little damage from squirrels. The odd chewed branch that is no worse than some rubbing branches. I fell a lot more trees due to honey fungus than grey squirrels that’s for sure.
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They might of caught fletch but they didn’t catch me [emoji23]
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Dawn redwood has opposite buds. The pictures show alternate
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Can’t be dawn redwood. Swamp cypress more than likely. [emoji106]
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They are great little characters. I raised 4 that came out of tree being reduced. For a while I used to be able to call them down with food after being released. Still see them occasionally in my woods.
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Hard to say as it’s the only one I’ve used but the tigergrip is very very good.
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Me either And probably because it does just the same as a zz2 [emoji38]
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Who lives here ? Appeared on a woodland path over the last few weeks where I walk the dogs each day. Hole goes pretty much straight down.
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They’ll be hardly any greener than the softwood ones pumped out at most fencing suppliers.
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I know where to find some nice rails [emoji6]
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Nice moat to push the grindings into. No excess grindings to take away for that stump I bet [emoji106]
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Ah yes. They look very different in that picture. Nice unusual ripples.
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Are they milling marks at 90 degrees to the grain ?
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Not at all. But at least you’ve made some money if it turns out to be no good by having a base cost on it. I’ve milled enough oaks in gardens not to be tempted for the free timber that turns into firewood [emoji23] as you say each to their own but it wouldn’t be for me on the free timber basis.
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More to the point it’s just easier to have the Miller remove it [emoji23]. I agree. For me I’d want to have a base rate cost for the milling that takes into account value of the timber. If its planks for interior use the value is low until they are suitably air dried or kiln dried. I’ve had superb oak that I’ve air dried to all the good practices to find 3 years down the line it’s propellered right up and no good in long lengths. If it’s gonna move, it’ll move. Maybe suit someone milling as a hobby in these circumstances.
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Because you’d want to know before you put a saw in it. If you take the deal for free wood / planks I wouldn’t want to be lumped with being responsible for removing it if it’s no good as milled timber only firewood or biomass. It’s a big stick to remove for free if it’s worth £ 40 in biomass.... I’d want the tree surgeon to be doing that and I wouldn’t want to see the client stuck with it because neither party assumes responsibility either way.
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That’s the point. If it’s crap the customer has to call the tree surgeons back to do the extra work removing the stem. There’s a big difference in the amount of work for the tree surgeon felling it.
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That’s my point. Surely the tree surgeon would be adjust his price either way for less or more work If it’s no good they have a big old pile of oak rings to cut up or if it’s good for milking they have an easy dismantle with half the waste. [emoji106]
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So if someone milling it finds it’s no good , has shake or full of metal and stops after a couple of cuts who’s responsible for it. The Miller or the tree surgeon......... I assume the dismantle has been reduced in price to account for less work but if it’s got to be ringed up the price goes back up to the customer ??
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I’ve had good results with roundup sprayed 1 or 2 times a year.
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Also got one gathering dust in my workshop that’s available. Based Haslemere on the Surrey West Sussex border. Also an oxdale 3point link log splitter if anyone’s after one.
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Always nice when they punch above their weight.
