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Timber harvesting contractors and woodland advisors. Achieving the most from your woodland with a flexible and conscientious approach. Established in 2004.
Halesworth, England
Joined November 2022
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This is a really interesting thread and certainly worth spending a couple of minutes on to read and digest.
This tidiness trope needs to stop, @BenGoldsmith because it distracts from the real reasons why hedgehogs are disappearing.
Weather extremes are affecting their food supply (this year no slugs and worms gone deep due to drought). More on this later..1/9 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5âŚ
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Myth or fact?
'The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world'.
Thisđ§ľexplains how a scientic finding is wrongly used to lament the UK's biodiversity crisis, especially on farmland.
bbc.co.uk/newsround/58863097
An incredibly important statement.
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40% of the UKâs homegrown softwood timber supply is to be found in a 100 mile corridor either side of the Scottish-England border.
Early morning walk across Wimpole Hall Park before starting work. Lovely start to the morning and the week.
I carried out the heathland restoration work at Sutton Heath in the winter of 24/25 and itâs great to see thatâs itâs now starting to produce some positive results.
Heather coming through where @AspectForest removed 2h of mainly Scotts Pine at Sutton Heath 24/25 heathland restoration.
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I look out on to a farmed landscape, part of a shooting Estate. It is an entirely âkeepered landscape - it is bang full of habitat and wildlife. The âkeepering team on the Estate numbers 5 Beat and Underkeepers managed by an incredibly talented and entirely motivated Headkeeper. Curlew still nest here. Woodcock still Rode here. Barn owls double brood most years. Hares abound. Every one an indicator species. Every one of them thriving. All in very large measure because âkeepering persists. This is a prime example of a joint economy in conservation. Most of the environmental gain here is funded by game shooting. Those outside shooting are free to knock it all they like, of course they can and many do. However, it is a productive and sustainable model that works up and down the country. You donât have to âget itâ, just accept that it works.
I wrapped up the thinning contract with NT Ickworth at the end of last week and moved the machines to the Cambs/Beds border.
1.5 hectares of overstood coppice to harvest on a SSSI site. Iâve worked in this particular wood for the best part of 20 years.
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Pheasant nuggets for this kids this evening.
We all got stuck in and made an extreme mess over everything đ egg up the walls and breadcrumbs up the stairs.
But they're engaged with their food so I'll take it đ
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That's the bandsaw mill cleaned and ready for inspection by some potential buyers tomorrow.
Hopefully they'll be pleased with what they see and I can move on with the next phase.
I use a saw everyday but I wouldnât even no where to start on something like this. I certainly admire those that can.
This is a fantastic, balanced piece written by Cat. Please give it a read.
I may be in forestry but all of my clients are landowners and farmers. They would have all had an experience with SFI over the last couple of weeks. The knock on effects are felt across the sector.
Wrote another thing.
This time about the SFI debacle.
It may help explain why all those framers suddenly started shouting last weekâŚ
sidecountry.co.uk/playing-thâŚ
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With all the serious stuff going on in the world, here's 20 minutes of light relief from it all.
@countryslidepod
@RichPrideaux
@agreenoutdoors
@TrooperSnooks
@CallumMcinerney
open.spotify.com/episode/2ylâŚ
A lot has been said on social media today about new tree planting after the government announcement. Most of what has been said has been utter nonsense. Iâm not engaging. Iâll keep my head down and carry on managing these multifunctional woodlands for the future.
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Sycamore Gap tree đł lives âźď¸
Itâs good to see people genuinely heartened by now understanding that cutting off a broadleaved tree doesnât kill it, but coppices it âŚ
However, the sprouts arenât new trees. They are growth from dormant buds under the bark. They will each grow into a tree that is connected to the root system of the felled tree stump.
If all sprouts are left to grow then the tree will become âstored coppiceâ with multiple large stems crowded together. If the original stump had been smaller it would be possible to âsingleâ that is remove all the other stems apart from the best one to become a future single stem tree.
There are lots of large multiple stem sycamores that are stored coppice, from being cut down during the World Wars. It wonât look the same as the original tree, but there is no reason to feel it will not regrow into a beautiful landmark.
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Politicians need to stop saying such ridiculous things so I can go back to posting tree photos & not talking politics.
As my followers will know, I love the countryside. This is not a âfar-right fantasyâ, it is reality in rural Britain. Although admittedly I tend to prefer cider.
đ¨ NEW: Labourâs nature minister has called the picture of Britain as warm ale, a country pub and a black Labrador a âfar-Rightâ fantasy that ânever really existedâ.
⢠Jenny Riddell-Carpenter told a Labour conference in Liverpool she "lies awake" fearing the next election will be fought on rural life and that âthe far-Rightâ will decide what it looks like. She said that vision would be âwarm ale, a black Labrador by your feet in a pub that doesnât existâ and described it as âa very far-Right nostalgic vision of Britain that we donât want to have.â
⢠She was made nature minister in July and is MP for Suffolk Coastal. She said Labour must set out its own âprogressive vision for the countryside.â
