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Winter Bushcraft Projects: Big Ash Tree Snow Saw Horse [EPISODE 1]
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Date: 2021-12-01
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Vin
That is a great looking piece of land. The possibilities of doing things there. Quick question: how many acres is your woods and how is it bordered? Reason I ask is, as a retired Firefighter, how is access to it if God forbid you have a brushfire or other type of emergency happen? Is there road access for the fire department to get onto the property quickly & easily? I responded to many brush fires and emergencies during my career to areas that were well off the road with no vehicle access and let me just say, 'humping it' across a large field on foot to gain access to fight a fire or tend to an injured person in the woods is in the top 3 things that really suck. You should consider an access plan and share it with your local department in the event it ever happens. Just my 2 cents.
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That is a great looking piece of land. The possibilities of doing things there. Quick question: how many acres is your woods and how is it bordered? Reason I ask is, as a retired Firefighter, how is access to it if God forbid you have a brushfire or other type of emergency happen? Is there road access for the fire department to get onto the property quickly & easily? I responded to many brush fires and emergencies during my career to areas that were well off the road with no vehicle access and let me just say, 'humping it' across a large field on foot to gain access to fight a fire or tend to an injured person in the woods is in the top 3 things that really suck. You should consider an access plan and share it with your local department in the event it ever happens. Just my 2 cents.
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Paul
I do alot of squirrel pest control and you'll probably find your best way to control the greys will be to set up a feeder. Feeders have a couple of benefits, first one being it feeds the native song birds in your woodland. Which is great as natural food sources this year are scarce. Secondly it draws in the greys which if you build a permanent hide you could shoot them with a sub 12 air rifle. Protecting your native trees and song bird chicks and eggs from being eaten by the greys. You'll notice the difference in bird populations massively increases with time and allows you to keep a nature camera on the feeder monitoring the song bird population in the woodland.
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I do alot of squirrel pest control and you'll probably find your best way to control the greys will be to set up a feeder. Feeders have a couple of benefits, first one being it feeds the native song birds in your woodland. Which is great as natural food sources this year are scarce. Secondly it draws in the greys which if you build a permanent hide you could shoot them with a sub 12 air rifle. Protecting your native trees and song bird chicks and eggs from being eaten by the greys. You'll notice the difference in bird populations massively increases with time and allows you to keep a nature camera on the feeder monitoring the song bird population in the woodland.
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Michael
Good job getting the Ivy off. If you ve ever seen a wood that s being strangled by Ivy it s a dismal sight. What you have is a managed wood land and you don t want your hazel being grown over with Ivy - which it will given the chance.
Good decision with the ash tree. I saw that there is a mobile antique saw mill in your area that you might be able to get in to deal with the bole.
Charcoal and bio-char is worth looking into Mike.
There is a fabulous blacksmith at Sutton Poyntz near Weymouth that can make you a beautiful billhook.
Would be nice to plant and lay a hedge on one of your fence lines too. Great for bio-diversity.
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Good job getting the Ivy off. If you ve ever seen a wood that s being strangled by Ivy it s a dismal sight. What you have is a managed wood land and you don t want your hazel being grown over with Ivy - which it will given the chance.
Good decision with the ash tree. I saw that there is a mobile antique saw mill in your area that you might be able to get in to deal with the bole.
Charcoal and bio-char is worth looking into Mike.
There is a fabulous blacksmith at Sutton Poyntz near Weymouth that can make you a beautiful billhook.
Would be nice to plant and lay a hedge on one of your fence lines too. Great for bio-diversity.
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Robert
Loved seeing that shotgun though I heard that England took them all away from the private citizen. Agree with what you did for the oak trees. Ivy is nice but it is also a killer of trees and there are better ways of helping the bees such as you were saying. I use ironware on my stovetop too. Something about the taste being better when cooked in iron. You should make use of that ash tree as much as possible. No matter what you do it is your woodland so do what you think is necessary for the woodlands. You are doing what is termed conservation and a lot of people just don't understand what it entails. More power to you.
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Loved seeing that shotgun though I heard that England took them all away from the private citizen. Agree with what you did for the oak trees. Ivy is nice but it is also a killer of trees and there are better ways of helping the bees such as you were saying. I use ironware on my stovetop too. Something about the taste being better when cooked in iron. You should make use of that ash tree as much as possible. No matter what you do it is your woodland so do what you think is necessary for the woodlands. You are doing what is termed conservation and a lot of people just don't understand what it entails. More power to you.
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Solar
TA Outdoors
If you want to capture more carbon then look into planting new tree growth as when trees are very old they stop capturing carbon into the roots & ground but new growth does a great job at capturing loads of carbon. Aussie Aborigines used to practice back burning during winter of old growth as well as clearing away dry tinder build up so that new growth could continue it's cycle & this is how they looked after the land, they had perfect land management skills for thousands of years before whites came along & banned them because the white man thought he knew better. Anyway do some research.
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TA Outdoors
If you want to capture more carbon then look into planting new tree growth as when trees are very old they stop capturing carbon into the roots & ground but new growth does a great job at capturing loads of carbon. Aussie Aborigines used to practice back burning during winter of old growth as well as clearing away dry tinder build up so that new growth could continue it's cycle & this is how they looked after the land, they had perfect land management skills for thousands of years before whites came along & banned them because the white man thought he knew better. Anyway do some research.
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Boomer
Recently, using lidar, archaeologists have discovered that the ENTIRE AMAZON BASIN, and in fact much of The Americas were MANAGED landscapes; long before the arrival of Europeans.
No metal, no wheels, no large beasts of burden.
Wood and stone tools, fire and thousands of years of observation and experience.
It's in our DNA. It's what we were meant to do.
We don't need to leave this planet. We need to manage and care for it; like our ancestors.
That's what you are doing.
And it's AWESOME!
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Recently, using lidar, archaeologists have discovered that the ENTIRE AMAZON BASIN, and in fact much of The Americas were MANAGED landscapes; long before the arrival of Europeans.
No metal, no wheels, no large beasts of burden.
Wood and stone tools, fire and thousands of years of observation and experience.
It's in our DNA. It's what we were meant to do.
We don't need to leave this planet. We need to manage and care for it; like our ancestors.
That's what you are doing.
And it's AWESOME!
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Jonny
This is awesome Mike. You are a great advocate from the woodland nd outdoors in general, and as for the greys, you are doing the right thing for the area. Some people probably will complain but they are no less a pest than rats. And I'm sure people who disagree with managing the greys would be so quick to disagree if they where rats running around their area.
The content is great mate and I'm looking forward to the future vids on this woodland.
PS so jealous
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This is awesome Mike. You are a great advocate from the woodland nd outdoors in general, and as for the greys, you are doing the right thing for the area. Some people probably will complain but they are no less a pest than rats. And I'm sure people who disagree with managing the greys would be so quick to disagree if they where rats running around their area.
The content is great mate and I'm looking forward to the future vids on this woodland.
PS so jealous
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kfortney1975
Don t let those grey squirrel go to waste. They are delicious if prepared correctly. Growing up in West Virginia, US, I grew up eating and hunting squirrel. My uncle always added the brains to the gravy as it was cooking to make a richer gravy(make sure to remove the small white lump that doesn t dissolve) as it is mostly fat. Quartered, breaded in egg and flour, and pan fried in a cast iron skillet, topped with gravy is quite the delicacy.
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Don t let those grey squirrel go to waste. They are delicious if prepared correctly. Growing up in West Virginia, US, I grew up eating and hunting squirrel. My uncle always added the brains to the gravy as it was cooking to make a richer gravy(make sure to remove the small white lump that doesn t dissolve) as it is mostly fat. Quartered, breaded in egg and flour, and pan fried in a cast iron skillet, topped with gravy is quite the delicacy.
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TheStrangeGreenMan
How much trouble do you have with invasive species in your woodland? The woods around me are being ravaged by invasive insects and are being replaced by invasive plants like Norway Maple, Celastrus orbiculata, and Rhamnus cathartica.
Also, now I know why poison ivy is called poison IVY. I thought that's what you were cutting when you were attacking those odd, fuzzy vines. With bare hands. Never, ever do that in North America.
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How much trouble do you have with invasive species in your woodland? The woods around me are being ravaged by invasive insects and are being replaced by invasive plants like Norway Maple, Celastrus orbiculata, and Rhamnus cathartica.
Also, now I know why poison ivy is called poison IVY. I thought that's what you were cutting when you were attacking those odd, fuzzy vines. With bare hands. Never, ever do that in North America.
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