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Fires, illegal or not in these circumstances?
oakandmaple replied to Les Day's topic in General chat
I think the scouts’ can argue they’re burning wood fuel not waste as it’s for heat and cooking? -
Thank you all! Very very helpful.
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I’m looking for advice buying a bigger saw. It will spend more than half its hours milling mostly 16 to 24 inch oak and ash at least for the next few years and a few days logging up 20-30 inch ash. Thinking of a 661 or 500i?
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Agreed. Worst year ever and they love beech.
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Ha! My boy with his shoes off.
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Agreed re kids and lids - though when an indoor wall is busy and they’re small I’ve put them on occasionally. To be fair to the instructor / wall, I suspect she was the only person who had ever got stuck like that - she was pretty skinny and 3 inches shorter than the next shortest in reception class - and by six months later she was too heavy to be able to recreate it. Love being outside with them.
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Snagging spooks me - maybe the main reason I haven’t taken to climbing trees. 15 years ago my daughter went for her first climbing session at the local sports centre aged 4. Too light to trigger the auto-belays by just leaning back, the instructor asked her to turn round and jump off the last foothold to get it going. It worked the first couple of times but the third time she caught the back of the helmet on a hold as she jumped and was strangled by the strap. The poor instructor raced up the wall unattached to pick her off as her eyes rolled up white and she started fitting. Didn’t do any harm or stop her becoming a competitive climber later, but they stopped putting kids in helmets on the auto-belays soon after.
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Control of pendulous sedge ( Carex pendula )
oakandmaple replied to Alan Smith's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
If you decide to get pigs in the future, I’d recommend Oakland Pigs not too far away as a source of piglets and knowledge. They used to run courses and they maintain an excellent book with everything you could possibly want to know starting out keeping pigs. I had them three times so far clearing ground over winters. Great fun and super effective. Message if you want more info - I’m just down the road in Cuckfield. Home - Oaklands Pigs OAKLANDSPIGS.CO.UK Oaklands pigs one day pig keeping course - why not buy a Christmas gift voucher - expert training, practical... -
Hi Nepia, Looks like a Brown Argus. Brown Argus | Butterfly Conservation BUTTERFLY-CONSERVATION.ORG This small butterfly is characteristic of southern chalk and limestone grassland but occurs in a variety of...
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Agreed.
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G777 Revised Mk IV Granberg Small Log Mill Chainsaw Mill WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK The Small Log Mill design is based on the Alaskan Mill Mk IV and can be used with bar sizes up to 20". Compact... VERTICAL MINI MILL - Chainsawbars WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK Is it the small log mill (cuts parallel but doesn’t clamp the far end of the bar), or the vertical mini-mill? I’m interested if it’s the small log mill. Thanks!
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Not going to help if they build them overseas like this giant project: Morocco-UK Power Project - Xlinks XLINKS.CO
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We finally got going on the mill(s) this month and I'm hooked. 😀 Many thanks for all the tips and encouragement. One 3 foot and 2x 6 foot logs done so far - and 30 feet to go that we've painted up till winter. Insert
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Woodland Mapping Tools?
oakandmaple replied to oakandmaple's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Many thanks Jamie. MyForest looks like it has what I need - and QGIS seemed well past my tech capacity. -
I'm about to begin writing my first Woodland Management Plan for the 11 hectare wood I volunteer in. Any recommendations for apps / tools for the mapping?
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How long have we urban dwellers got?
oakandmaple replied to openspaceman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Back to the wood burner topic, I met an oncology consultant a month back who specialises in lung cancer. She said that there’s been a rapid rise in recent times in people (especially females) in their forties getting lung cancer who have never smoked. She said the consensus assumption is that it’s down to the rise in wood burning stoves given other forms of smoke have dropped in their life time, but it didn’t sound like convincing research had been done yet. -
Many thanks for all the helpful comments. I've ordered a bar and chain set, as recommended by Rob @ chainsawbars (very helpful too), and I'm looking forward to getting going! To begin we want some 3' planks to use in maintaining the paths in the wood - start relatively easy. Beyond that, lots of ideas, but want to see some of it before deciding. Stiles, kissing gates and narrow footbridges in all directions prevent vehicles, so nothing huge and I guess we'll probably want to get a mill that cuts at 90 degrees at some stage (the one we're borrowing initially doesn't). Could we plank it up over a few years or will it likely deteriorate or harden up much? With a bit over 40 feet to the first union, I suspect we wont get it all done this year. That fireplace is beautiful and inspiring. Appreciate you sharing. Thanks again for sharing all your wisdom.
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I just wrapped my regular Oregon tape measure round it. It was 172cm round a couple of feet below the first big union, and 208cm three feet up from the base which work out around 55 / 65cm
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Hi, I am looking at trying milling for the first time on this oak which fell about 9 months back. I have a friend with a mill who offered to lend it and help. Putting a tape round it, it’s about 2’ diameter average with bark. Before I borrow and buy the bits I need, I just wanted to ask if it looks like a decent prospect to plank or are we obviously wasting our time? Thanks for any views and sorry the pictures aren’t great!
