5thelement
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Douglas is certainly favoured in the UK and even more so here in France. I have felled a lot of Cryptomeria japonica in the East/West Sussex, underrated and underused, a stunning timber with incredible colour and smell, even the light sap band is durable.
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Thankfully there are a still a few small local sawmills that would snap them up if they ever decided to fell any. The Lawsons Cypress I thinned a few years back was of excellent quality and considerably older, most of the sawlog stayed local or used on site.
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They are a tad over 90’ and all but the edge trees have self suppressed their lower branches up to around 50’.
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Leylandii
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1940’s, surrounded by Coast Redwood and American Red Oak, the latter two got flattened in ‘87.
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I know of a small plantation in Kent that has drawn up beautifully, it also withstood the ‘87 storm when all around was flattened.
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I’m particularly interested in the Baroness Mone story at the minute. The peer has been abandoned by the Tory Party and is facing a House of Lords Standards Inquiry, and an investigation by the National Crime Agency. A virtually unknown company for which she lobbied, was given £122,000,000 of taxpayers money to supply unfit PPE at twice the price to the NHS. Her husband also made millions on testing and moved the money to an offshore account. I bet this leads to no criminal charges and a “lessons have been learned” statement. Benefit scroungers are one thing, but these vile cretins are in a league of their own.
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I’ve got an Eder 1800 and really impressed with it. I mostly use it for hung trees or assisting fells in dense canopy, very quick and easy to set up, sure beats dragging the Tirfor out the box.
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Where Do You Chuck Your Stove Ash?
5thelement replied to Witterings's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
I spread mine thinly on my rose beds and let the rain wash it straight into the soil, they produce excellent blooms. Any surplus goes straight into the compost heap for future use on the plot. -
Conifer hedge standing volume to chip volume
5thelement replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in General chat
I’m not convinced on 8-10 fold Stuart. Hardwood crown, definitely, but a dense Leylandii has caught the most experienced of us out more than once with its lack of reduction. -
This morning I collected some Acacia poles for a large pergola that I am constructing to grow Kiwis on. I’ve now agreed to help the old guy I collected from to reconstruct the roof over his mill after it was damaged in a storm, it will be in exchange for Douglas fir construction timber for another project I have in mind for next year. A poor photograph of the mill which dates back to 1914 and Is assembled using the railway engineering of the time, the saw/carriage travels along rail lines, you sit right next to the blade. He has wood everywhere, softwood sheds and hardwood sheds. Interestingly, none of his wood is stickered, he rarely cuts green wood. He has decades worth of logs drying in the round instead. His place stands in 5 square kilometres of woodland, completely fenced off with his own deer and boar population. He is 82, only deals in cash and doesn’t own a receipt book.
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Never dropped a beat.
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Last year in France there where more children in ICU with Bronchitis than with Covid. There is now a Bronchitis epidemic in children, two kids in my daughters class are in hospital at present. Mass Vaccination of children and forcing them to wear masks all day indoors, coincidence?
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I have never believed in forcing anyone to have the vaccine and not had any myself. My point was if the vaccines worked against the current strains of Covid it would be easier to encourage people to have the jab rather than weld them in or move them to salt mines, so I would assume the vaccines clearly don’t work.
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The FC did some research a few years back, it may be published online. Pretty sure the nitrogen issue was found to be negligible. The main issue was applying fresh woodchip with leaf matter too thickly around very small/young plants and the resulting heat drying the soil/root balls.
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The Arbortec Pro do seem a whole lot better than the originals. I’ve seen the originals disintegrate at the crotch on a 5 day training course.
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Maybe the vaccines are largely ineffectual on the current Covid strains?
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How Much Wood do you Burn in a Week of cold Weather?
5thelement replied to Billhook's topic in Firewood forum
If I was going through that much wood and the Wife was still cold, I would be checking for a pulse. -
That doesn’t sound right at all. If the fire is roaring the heat should be moving fast up the flue, if it is stopping the exit isn’t clear. Is the flue complete from woodburner to exit or have you just got a short flue pipe into the existing chimney?
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The Covid debt is never going away in our lifetime. It’s a perfect cover for all future successive governments, whatever the party, to point the blame at when they screw up the economy, cut domestic spending and any defence cuts. It will be used as the reason we can’t fund our own Nuclear Power Stations and beg money from the Chinese, we can’t afford it because of Covid, it will run and run. The UK is never going back in the EU, the best way to silence any remoners is surely to show the positive outcome of the vote.
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This wasn’t caused simply by free movement though. The shipyards of Britain had been long dead well before this. Globalisation and cheap manufacturing abroad was a bigger issue. Its great that you have seen an upturn in local labour, do you ever envisage a time when the shipyards reopen and we build our all our own Naval Vessels again? And I have no problem with the vote, just that it’s being wasted.
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We did have apprenticeships before Brexit, my nephew became a sparky on one. Andy says there are more apprenticeships now though, so it must be true.
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My main issue with any Brexit discussion is you can’t even ask the question “What benefits have you seen so far?” without people spitting their dummies out and calling you a remoner or that somehow you are being unpatriotic. Its like showing even a tad of empathy for the Palestinians automatically labels you an antisemite, very strange.
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I read it years ago, absolutely loved it until the last two pages. I cut them out when I gave my little girl my copy, she still thinks he is real. 😉
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I’ve altered the landscape with tree planting or drystone walling in just about every place that I have lived, at least in the short term. Years of whip planting over the Winters through the 90’s, 30-50,000 a time creating wildlife corridors linking already established Ancient Woodlands together. Planted 20,000 Oaks and mixed natives for the FC a couple of years back on an harvested conifer site. And there’s a huge Eucalyptus on the council estate where I used to live, I planted it in 93’ in the back garden of my now demolished flat. When I go back home I occasionally drive by and take a look how things have grown and how the walls are holding up.
