5thelement
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Braken Spraying - Asulam
5thelement replied to Old Roots New Shoots's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Marcus Spurway (Forestry) has the credentials and works all over Kent/Sussex, I haven’t got his details to hand, try googling him. -
I used to fell 100 tonnes of Sweet Chestnut coppice a year to create chip for the biomass heating on the estate, they had 500 acres of SC in rotation.They chipped it in house with a machine fed cone type chipper. The spiral cone of the chipper made very regular size/shape chips at 50mm, it worked really well in the boiler and any chip left over after the Winter was spread out on the play areas and around established trees etc. I have just removed six Lombardy Poplars in the Orchard, chipped all the brash and created a good/clean looking chip to mulch around the fruit trees, I use it fresh as long as there are no leaves in it to create heat.
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Whenever I have had to remove a tree that has had the TPO taken off due to a sudden decline of a previously healthy tree, the customer is usually:- a)Upset that it has to be removed. b)Upset at the cost of removal. c) Usually have the intention of replanting a tree anyway. Does the TA state size and species, and do they follow up on establishment of the tree moving forward? In the scheme of things cost wise, surely planting a tree is chicken feed compared with a crane/mewp dismantle? I planted three trees with the kids at the weekend, Peach, Nectarine and Apricot. Three trees, double staked and ties for £90.
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Nope, I just have a lot of Forestry experience to base my posts on rather than spouting nonsense of which I now little or nothing.
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If you can keep the rootball intact and get it replanted straight away you have a chance. Watering, staking and committed after care will be the key to its re establishment.
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I worked a large Ash plantation on the South Downs (SSSI). Spec was a 30% thin, to be completed over two Winters. By the second Winter the ADB was so extensive and the trees in such poor state that Natural England proposed a clear fell to all Ash on site unless they where maidens showing no signs of ADB. The level of basal decay present was shocking., the heads exploding on impact. Depending on your geographical location, Ash will have been one of the mainstays of the Forestry hand cutter, sawlogs or firewood, great timber and kept you sharp. The decline of Ash is tragic, and I don’t know any hand cutter or contractor who looks at it any other way, no one I know is raping Ash and they certainly don’t see it as a cash cow.
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Having spent the majority of the last 5 years dealing predominantly with ADB in Sussex/Kent on large estates, Woodland Trust, RSPB and FC sites. Also doing extensive research planting Ash from all over the world in controlled experimental blocks for the FC. What is your experience of dealing with large scale ADB @skyhuck , perhaps you could share your findings and help educate others on the problems and hazards associated?
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Total bollocks.
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Wow, sorry, I didn’t realise that I was in a discussion with a leading expert in how the political world works. If you think that inept planning leading up to a major part of our history is ‘how it was going to be’ shows inept planning on an exemplary level. I usually find that when I plan a job in depth, it tends to workbetter.
