Is Bubba in da house (or any other wood experts?)
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Is Bubba in da house (or any other wood experts?)
Was out with the chainsaw today - the nice chap who owns the field next door needs two acres of old woodland cleared for more cow space. He told me that he would pay me to cut it down, cut it up and take it home to burn in the stove (Free fuel, free fun and someone pays you?)Anyway - I cut down a (erm thinghy), wasn't really a bush, wasn't really a tree. About 10 foot tall, single trunk with a bushy top bit. The strange thing was, it was barbie pink throughout, with a solid black line that looke like a binary trace. It wasn't a cherry, but I have no idea what it was..... Any suggestions? (If the black line hadn't been so 1 or 0, I would hav thought Blackpool rock )
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Isn't any tree over a certain height protected?
I could be wrong, but I know my neighbours had a moan about our trees. We hate them, and the roots are ruining our drive. They love them, and they give them privacy!
He keeps saying they are protected.
Just a standard evergreen as far as I know.
I could be wrong, but I know my neighbours had a moan about our trees. We hate them, and the roots are ruining our drive. They love them, and they give them privacy!
He keeps saying they are protected.
Just a standard evergreen as far as I know.
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Isn't any tree over a certain height protected?
I could be wrong, but I know my neighbours had a moan about our trees. We hate them, and the roots are ruining our drive. They love them, and they give them privacy!
He keeps saying they are protected.
Just a standard evergreen as far as I know.
I could be wrong, but I know my neighbours had a moan about our trees. We hate them, and the roots are ruining our drive. They love them, and they give them privacy!
He keeps saying they are protected.
Just a standard evergreen as far as I know.
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You said that twice you said that twice.
When you get out in the sticks, those rules may apply, but it would be damn hard to regulate them. Farmer in question owns about 400 acres, currently (he says) 330 acres of farming land and 70 acres of woodland. If you surveyed that, you would be hard pushed to come back and say.... "Hey - last year you had 70 acres of woodland, now you have only 68" (mostly because he threatens everyone who slows down at the end of his lane with a shotgun... except me )
When you get out in the sticks, those rules may apply, but it would be damn hard to regulate them. Farmer in question owns about 400 acres, currently (he says) 330 acres of farming land and 70 acres of woodland. If you surveyed that, you would be hard pushed to come back and say.... "Hey - last year you had 70 acres of woodland, now you have only 68" (mostly because he threatens everyone who slows down at the end of his lane with a shotgun... except me )
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Isn't any tree over a certain height protected?
I could be wrong, but I know my neighbours had a moan about our trees. We hate them, and the roots are ruining our drive. They love them, and they give them privacy!
He keeps saying they are protected.
Just a standard evergreen as far as I know.
I could be wrong, but I know my neighbours had a moan about our trees. We hate them, and the roots are ruining our drive. They love them, and they give them privacy!
He keeps saying they are protected.
Just a standard evergreen as far as I know.
If they were protected and you cut them down, the worst that would happen really, is that you would be required to re-plant and you can do this from seed.
Fvuk the neighbours.
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Totally incorrect, you can be fined upto 20k per tree, jailed for upto 6 months and forced to replant like for like. I have seen someone who was forced to replant a row of 6 poplars with trees of minimum 15 meters height. It cost him just over £100k including the fines!!!
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I am not cutting down two acres - he just told me to take what I wanted, because someone is coming in March with a giant shredder. I didn't even make a small dent in a corner today, but by March, I will have enough stuff too keep me warm in my old age. Oh yeah - he has permission from DARDNI (our own bunch of overpaid tree huggers) to convert the two acres. How long do you reckon it would take you to cut down and up two acres of woodland?
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Totally incorrect, you can be fined upto 20k per tree, jailed for upto 6 months and forced to replant like for like. I have seen someone who was forced to replant a row of 6 poplars with trees of minimum 15 meters height. It cost him just over £100k including the fines!!!
Link me to a domestic Judgement, further than a local Magistrate.
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He was made an example of, a builder who was told to protect the trees while building properties. Instead he removed the trees with a 360 and was hence forced to replant.
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Nah - No parcels. He used to threaten me as well, but a couple of years ago one of his cattle was lame. I could see it suffering from half the windows in the house. I went to his yard, did the standoff with the shotgun thing (he had one, I didn't, so I stood off a lot) but after explaning it to him he told me that I am the single decent person alive on the planet , and everyone else is trying to rob him. We live in a double green belt, (I didn't know such a thing existed until some hafwit from the council asked me to see my authorisation for trimmimg the hedge.... what next - a permit to cut the grass? ) - Anyway - The tree removal is authorised and legal and approved etc etc, but none of that explains the pink tree
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Hi, Fast Bloke. Lots of trees are pink when they are green, so to speak. Oak is pink when it is newly-felled and full of sap, for instance. I could tell you more with a bit more information, such as leaf-shape, weight (density) of the timber, bark description, presence of thorns, berries? The black dot-dash effect is intriguing. I think I've seen it before in a timber.
You shouldn't cut down old woodland, by the way. Probably protected as habitat.
You shouldn't cut down old woodland, by the way. Probably protected as habitat.
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That's a reasonable guess. Possibly a field maple, which tend not to get too big. Never seen one of those as timber though.
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Now we just need to wait for the resident 'look at me' to come along and tell us he knows someone who owns 4000 of the very trees, potted in his utility room.
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But it's unlikely to be a Japanese maple, or a Norway maple, is it? One's too unlikely, the other one's too big, and the only other reasonable Acer is the Sycamore. And if you can't recognise one of those, you've no business operating a chainsaw.
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Hence I employ my gardener to know the finer points. He was happily wielding his chainsaw all week through a huge old apple tree which is now a replacement path edging for my ponds.
Why have a dog and bark yourself is the easiest answer.
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Hi, Fast Bloke. Lots of trees are pink when they are green, so to speak. Oak is pink when it is newly-felled and full of sap, for instance. I could tell you more with a bit more information, such as leaf-shape, weight (density) of the timber, bark description, presence of thorns, berries? The black dot-dash effect is intriguing. I think I've seen it before in a timber.
You shouldn't cut down old woodland, by the way. Probably protected as habitat.
You shouldn't cut down old woodland, by the way. Probably protected as habitat.
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Can your dog lick is own ****? Can you?Anyway - you miss the point entirely. He wants the trees cleared. He doesn't care what they are. I have a stove that burns anything. I don't care what it is. If someone wanted me to be their gardener and know what I was prunung then I would be a complete fail, but if someone wants to pay me play with a chainsaw the I am all ears (and gloves, and ear protectors, and strange trousers.) It seems you haven't tried it. You don't know what fun you are missing