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Can anyone help me id these logs please?
Mark2 replied to kentwood's topic in Tree Identification pictures
I’d guess cedar ! Dose it smell nice ? -
Westphalian i’d be interested on your general view from your neck of the woods. Is there much new planting of hardwood comercal woodland ? FC, Private or the big comercal forestry companys ?
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Tree planting ! I know it’s Easyer said than done,not least when we struggle to make a living. but the part of woodland that can be used for firewood production ( thinning’s ect) are a crop. If we don’t plant it we can’t havest it ! we live in a very short term world these day, few plan 20 years ahead ! We must and can, if I had my time again, as a buseness knowing what I know now —- I’d aim to make big money growing and planting trees. Along with selling logs, a good sales line, in my teens I planted a lot of trees, at 65 now I can see those same trees 70 or more foot tall, the trees we cut now, someone had the forthought to plant before us.
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Moving this debate on —- beyond doubt ! With the increased use of wood burners and resulting demand for firewood timber. We should really be pushing a campaign for ‘new woodland’ planting not least as we now have Ash die back. Like Elm disease there will be a glut then a shortage. If as an industry we use more timber than we grow we’ll be part of the problem ! if we grow more than we use, we’re the salution. There can be no argument about this point within the present environmental debate ! beyond doubt energy sources will be stretched ours is the cleanest.
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Yep that was around about the time I started getting trolled ! but on the new members sub forum, I was warned ‘’ i’d need a stab proof jacket and a tetanus jab’’ at the time I took it as a joke ! Now I can see it was a threat ! well I don’t step back from threats I push back! this is 3-4 sub forums that have been trashed by a hand full of thugs.including the intelligent and productive discussion on this thread !
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Trigger works on an oil rig ! no really !
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I ‘m sure we’re on the right track suspecting dirty tricks here ! Not least becouse of the timing ! On the very day we were all focused on the Brixit vote ! What they call burying bad/suspect news ! my fear is they will ratchet up the negative false perception within the public against our enviromently benifical firewood industry ! we should counter this by spreading the truth (as discussed here)
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chessa lovely info there ! to add- - - we need to bare in mind that when a tree is growing, it takes carbon out of the atmosphere ! That’s good (carbon sink) but we need to remember that when it dies- in the woods it then releases the carbon some into the soil, some into the atmosphere. So if we burn logs or let them rot, it’s a neutral balence ! i say again these proposed restrictions are just a ploy. Burdening our green sustainable cottage industry in order to maximise profits for the very pulluting mineral oil industry and there share holders. At the expense of planet earth. The carbon they realise is not recycled as ours is. The pulluter should pay not us !
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CharlgraveSteve exuse me but firewood is sustainable! It takes maybe 20 years or more to grow logs . compared to 10’s of millions of years to produce the fuel in your car or holiday plain !!! Clamp down on those before firewood ! Not likely i know ! Not sustainable! Just plant a lot more trees ! Win win win, look at the jobs created. oops I know you got shares in energy and oil company’s ! Right got it .
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The firewood industry gives value to our woodlands just like mobile mills. Encouraging people to plant woodland ! that is a double environmental benifit, to our countryside and country! what % of Britain is woodland compared to Europe? I used to know this, but have forgotten !
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The truth is the firewood industry is beginning to have a major impact on the major capitalist energy supplyers ! fire wood is a sustainable energy supply !! not burning fossil fuels trapped in the ground for millions of years ! this is —- profit motive over environment !!!
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A lot of people like a Mediterranean style small garden design ! With a view to have long summer nights. Picture the scene—- soft Italian music, a spread of Italian food and wine good family, friends lovers, ! so paint all your garden walls with A heavy white lime wash, to reflect light and heat for med fruit ! Grape vine on a pergola, fan trained cherry’s figs, olive tree in a giant terracotta pot, ditto citrus lime tree ! Grow ya courgette, tomato and pepper’s small water feature with fountain. Ahh mid Jan and cold ! But we can dream of those sunny days to come !
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I ‘v always said — I look after nature and nature looks after me ! how about growing and selling young trees ? To graft and grow young named variety fruit trees for sale at markets, boot sales ect, is very worthwhile financially and very rewarding creatively, chatting over a stall you make very good contacts. tree seed harvesting and a nursery bed of ornamental ect ect is good, hedging plants are a big market 20 at a time. If you make a million at it don’t forget me !!
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One of my personal favourite fruit are figs ! They should have been recommend way back in this thread for Steve Bullmans garden ! Lapse of me ( dementia?) they don’t need to take up much room , grow them fan trained on a sunny wall to catch radiated heat! As they come from the med !
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Fruit tree pruning required - Congleton
Mark2 replied to BJMac's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
How big is your fig tree ? They fruit best if they have restricted roots system. They do very well in this country. Trigger is partly right about the wasp thing , but don’t be put off ! there an odd fruit as the pollination occurs inside not by flowering . could you post a picture of fig and Apple trees, you could perhaps do the job your selve with advice from here ! Or gen up here before talking to a contractor. everway if you love them , get a good job done, enything we can do to help feel free to ask. -
That looks like paradise ! RCO. One thing puzzling me though! How come we’re in mid jan , and yet no snow ? thanks for your great posts. Even the daily non spectacular ones are great.
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Tree of Heaven is called that , becouse it’s the quickest way for a climber to get to heaven ! someone told me that 35 years ago ! We were looking at one in st James sq Bath, real buit ! Lesson learned
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Could arbtalk get one of those signs ( joking )
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Good point! I tend to break-up soil (with an iron bar) surrounding the hole. You are right but I think it’s more an issue of ‘compaction’ lossend up, the good stuff will with rain ,then mix in . Also helps to prevent water -logging like a sump ! big thanks for the/any input. to add taking the tree out of the pot it’s important to sever roots going round and round the pot (I do that in 3 places ) or tease them out. I’v seem semi mature trees strangled by there own roots!
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If your not sure what variety your apple tree is, so as to buy a cross-polinater, head for the garden center when your trees is starting to blossom! And buy a tree or 2 at a similar stage of flowering.
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Slime flux
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Monkey puzzle! They’v evolved to keep monkeys off, what chance have we got of an easy day! Hate them in tiny front gdns, which is mostly where there planted, why o why.
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I can remember what the country side looked like before Elm diseases !
Mark2 replied to Mark2's topic in The Lounge
If your a tree surgeon, keep a bed of young nursery trees in the corner of your yard !! when coffee and biscuits arrive ! Persuade your customer to replace the tree felled with a young tree, better still several ! That way we can all sleep with a clear mind, and when in the future the fingers point! We will have done our bit. plus value/profit added to that job ! -
I can remember what the country side looked like before Elm diseases !
Mark2 replied to Mark2's topic in The Lounge
If you cut a hedge square it has 3 sides to cut! Cut it A shaped ya got 2 sides to cut! the bottoms don’t get gappy from lack of light (better stock proof) the critters love it to. also google— ‘adventous bud ‘ and consider it’s implacation to hedges !! -
I can remember what the country side looked like before Elm diseases !
Mark2 replied to Mark2's topic in The Lounge
We’er a big industry, some massive company’s at the top of the pile, taking up the lion share of the over one million pound contracts, and yet the majority of us are small firms ! in this national emergency, and with the Brixit timing. where is all the grant money? We need that? where are the industry lobbyists in the news connecting these to dots? after ‘ded’ We did have a huge tree planting campaign! ! we need that now, we need financial help in training. Or are we going to get cought with our pants down as an industry over Brixit!
