Удивительный контент я из РФ смотрю давно 2 года и понимаю без перевода языка на русский. Все профессионально.1000000☆☆☆☆☆☆ .Успехов,и мира всем людям на планете!😊
Hello Darren, greetings from France and Seasons Greetings to you and the family and happy holidays. For wood I love the NZ Kauri, Its used for furniture and was also used for ship building. For trees it would be a Blue Spruce for the beauty when either the snow or lights hit it. Thank you for all of your efforts and wonderful content this year and I have really enjoyed it. I can remember when you did the shout out to get to your first thousand subscribers and now you are at 2. It might be a slow burn (Pardon the Pun) but what you are doing in this world of smoke and mirrors has real value to the environment, the general community and the woodlander community. You have had a big year with work and family but you have stayed the course and got through it . Merry Christmas, take some time off, enjoy and I look forward to seeing you again in 2025. Cheers from France. 😊
Oh nice blue spruce. I love the fresh growth in spring. Thank you so much for your kindness, everyone is so supportive. It’s true 2024 has had its moments for us. I’m making some subtle changes in 2025 that should help me give a bit more to this channel. That’s the plan Take care see you on the next upload
I had an old ride on lawnmower without the deck, put chevron tyres on the back and it was awesome. It was an old Westwood t1600. Less likely to get nicked. Just remembered i also put tow bar on the back to hitch up an Erde trailer.
Ae up Grafter. I like our giant Laburnum. Scraggy looking this time of the year, but when the flowers come on in spring, even on a dull day, it casts a beautiful golden light in the front window. I'd better get them cut this year as they look very spindly. Best get my scates on as i hear they've to be cut before Christmas day. I wished i lived a bit closer to ya. I'd give you a day a week as i work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. Even if it was just to hump and dump for ye. Have a good Christmas.
Beech is my favourite tree. I love the young spring leaves, they look good and taste great. It's perhaps because I don't have many in my woods. Lime trees also nice. Thanks for sharing your hard work. If you want to increase your productivity, film everything in time-lapse, you don't half get through your coppicing doing it that way. 😂
Two favourite trees Ghost Willow as it’s the first source of food for many insects after winter And Wild Service Trees because if given space they are just stunning trees
Definitely describe my last couple of weeks as challenging. Just come out of my seasonal lull, to have a week of bad back then as I’m getting going again I had no pickup for 2 weeks due to adblue issues. Anyway I’m back up and running but ready for this year to be over! I tried the cheap quad bike but it ended up being so unreliable that I gave up using it, now it just takes up space in my workshop. I used my Ferrari with a quad trailer (and homemade hitch adapter) on site the other week. It worked a treat, towed the Ferrari to site in the trailer then converted the hitch and used it all day to cart stone. They go pretty quick in 3rd! Though mine has no brakes!!! You’ll see it in my latest instagram post! Oh and my favourite tree was always birch but I seem to spend most of my life cutting it down!! These days it’s probably alder.
@@timlander5915 some weeks are just miserable, I hope you have a better few weeks to catch up. I get you about the quad, some are battered and so easily stolen. To tow my tractor I’d need a bigger van and trailer. I’m thinking hiring someone with a quad and trailer as a test day.
This week I am enjoying Advent. Excited for Christmas. My favorite tree is the Maple Tree. I love the furniture made from Maple, Maple Syrup and the color of its leaves in Fall. I also love the majesty of a big old Maple tree.
Currently my favourite tree is Ash because taking down some with die-back has kept me warm this winter 😆 I do really like beech and hazel though. I did a hedgelaying course a couple of weeks ago and the binders were about 12ft, the course leader said he preferred them at 16ft and I could see why as the longer ones made weaving them in much easier IMO.
I think the most prolific tree is a hybrid poplar. The ones I had were named Androscoggin from Washington state in the US. They are marketed as fast-shade for impatient Americans. One of the four I planted grew to 15” (38 cm) diameter and about 35 ft tall, in just 5 growing seasons. Of course it had ideal growing conditions. I'm in the high desert of the Rocky Mountains and it gets abundant sunshine and high temperatures. It had full access to water and at its base I planted raised beds of really rich cow manure. The roots of the tree grew up into the raised beds. The poplars are very shallow-rooted and send out many suckers. They respond very well to heavy pruning and I'm sure would also enthusiastically take to coppicing and pollarding. They grow so fast one might be able to make an annual harvest. In fact, they're nearly impossible to kill. I regret that I had to take these trees out because their roots were causing damage. I ended up having to use Round-up to kill them. There's nothing remarkable about the wood but it would make fine charcoal. I think an ideal application would be to to-dress these trees with humanure and woodchip compost. Then coppice them for charcoal/bio-char. One could convert human waste into a valuable resource without ever exposing the food chain to human pathogens.
3:51 Willow teaches me something new everyday, so not an expert… The traditional reason to cut to the ground is to grow straighter rods. You will find the rods from a pollarded tree have a belly (curve) close to where they join the stool (place where all the new growth comes from). For weaving this can be a pain or reduce yield, but if that’s not your #1 priority…. It doesn’t really matter. The other reason cited is that it takes longer for the sap to rise in the spring… but as there is also a tradition of letting cows graze willow holts as later as May (to grow better rods), that doesn’t really matter either. In summary - the holt looks great. 😀👍
Yes coppice species tend to do this. Hazel can even send up shoots at or just below ground level too which I forgot to mention in the video. Regards Darren
Merry Xmas, and thank you for all your videos this year. Interesting thoughts on willow binders for Hedge laying .The ones I have used for hedge laying have been very good as they don't seem to “dogleg” like hazel binders can and are more flexible. What variety of willow do you use for these binders, and do they last as long as hazel binders ? All the best for 2025.
Thank you @freezefoot Willow does work well, being super flexible, hazel is good for older hedges I believe. I’ve no idea what variety it it though. And willow lasts only a couple of years which is usually enough for the hedge to send up some nice strong new growth
Lovely! Keep your stools low. Deer dilemma. Good luck with brash piling. You appear not to have the deer problems seen everywhere I've worked, so it may be enough of a deterrent to let stools get away. Where I am brash piles just do not work. Has to be dead hedges or fencing. But the dead hedges have to be at least 6' tall, and dense. Or they don't work. I agree about tree tubes. But where I am if you remove them, the young trees would get deer-rubbed to death. But then again, sika deer (down here you can see herds of several dozen grazing at dusk) can reach over the tube tops or if the trees are starting to branch and the branches droop into reach, they grab and pull and can get at the whole tree top like cattle would. Brambles are a pain. In established quality hazel, the hazel forms a canopy and suppresses the bramble so by the time the hazel is ready, there isn't much showing. With scattered stools amongst 'conservation' planting, it's always going to be a problem - the hazel just won't grow fast enough and dense enough to suppress the bramble. Where I am the sika eat them making them spikier and bushier and even more of a s*d. And if you walk through them in summer you will pick up tens of ticks. Lovely. Sweet chestnut is naturalised or an archaeophyte - it is thought the Romans introduced it 2k years ago or so. See here for handy definitions (which apply equally to trees as wildflowers). bsbi.org/definitions-wild-native-or-alien Fave tree? Not easy. In due season I'd have to say that a clone of gean (wild cherry) in an ancient woodland is hard to beat with drifts of the white flowers against a blue sky.
@@anemone104 your right the deer pressure here is nothing like what you get, I’ll experiment with the brash, it helped in our woods when I tried it. Deer management needs addressing country wide. Cherry, nice, a few have mentioned that
I dislocated my shoulder so currently ssitting in nice warm bed wishing I was out in the cold haha recommend ebike and trailer.. I don't even need a car. Cars gobble your time and money
Ah dislocation, I’ve done my left shoulder 7 times now, it’s very weak. Our family has hyper mobility in the joints and it’s in both my shoulders. I feel for you. Sometimes I do wonder if I can move over to an e bike and ditch the van
A chiropractor once told me even if it’s difficult try to balance your working routine which may mean slower production while you get used to it but practice swinging the bill hook with both arms throughout the day where possible
Your elbow problem is called golfers elbow. Work through it and it goes eventually. Just recovering from having my bicep reconnected and have a woodland to recover after the storm 😢
It's tendonitis, whether on the outside of the elbow or the inside. Just working through it is a guarantee to keep it going longer than it has to. You might try using a neoprene elbow brace. It helps keep the joint and tendon warm and the elastic pressure provides support. The best cure is to take a break, but that's not always an option, since I mean a break long enough to let the inflammation heal.
@@peterellis4262 suffered for years with it on and off. Rested through my late 20s to late 30s. Started properly working out again and it went almost immediately. A quick pain killers for tennis elbow is to use a handheld mouse type sander without the paper/over a cloth. It breaks up the crystals causing the pain. It's temporary but works for a few days until it comes back. Eventually it stops. Different on the inside of the elbow I think
@@AbellToWeirdly tennis and golfers elbow was far more painful. This is recovering quickly and surprisingly I managed to take down and move a 30in dia ash while I was waiting for the op. The bicep really does bugger all for strength unless you need to 'curl'.
The return on your investment building the dead hedge is having the future return of the coppice. If the brash is likely to produce an unsatisfactory growth result and may not keep the deer off, then it seems to me you've made the issue clear and the choice isn't really a choice. The time now invested in the hedges will mean you have good coppice to harvest. And you must have that.
@@peterellis4262 I know you’re right, I don’t often voice it but I feel that just putting barriers up is not really dealing with the issue at hand, it’s not the deers fault but there’s no predators now.
Re your very first quote, Sorry Darren, I am fed up with @UA-cam. I wrote a small essay and added the comment which showed yesterday and now it has disappeared. Leaving this just for the stats but I can't write all that again :(
Ayup Woodlanders.
Darren here, I’d love to know your current favourite tree and why you choose that one.
Enjoy the woods near you
Thanks for watching
Willow, especially the weeping willow. Been with me since I was old enough to climb a tree.
@ good call they are lovely
Hi Darren
My favourite tree is Birch as it’s the first tree to start a forest, the tree of Birth the tree of new beginnings /|\
@ that’s a lovely reason and so true. Birch are lovely.
Удивительный контент я из РФ смотрю давно 2 года и понимаю без перевода языка на русский. Все профессионально.1000000☆☆☆☆☆☆ .Успехов,и мира всем людям на планете!😊
That’s very kind , all the best to you and the woodland near you
Hello Darren, greetings from France and Seasons Greetings to you and the family and happy holidays. For wood I love the NZ Kauri, Its used for furniture and was also used for ship building. For trees it would be a Blue Spruce for the beauty when either the snow or lights hit it. Thank you for all of your efforts and wonderful content this year and I have really enjoyed it. I can remember when you did the shout out to get to your first thousand subscribers and now you are at 2. It might be a slow burn (Pardon the Pun) but what you are doing in this world of smoke and mirrors has real value to the environment, the general community and the woodlander community. You have had a big year with work and family but you have stayed the course and got through it . Merry Christmas, take some time off, enjoy and I look forward to seeing you again in 2025. Cheers from France. 😊
Oh nice blue spruce. I love the fresh growth in spring.
Thank you so much for your kindness, everyone is so supportive. It’s true 2024 has had its moments for us. I’m making some subtle changes in 2025 that should help me give a bit more to this channel. That’s the plan
Take care see you on the next upload
I had an old ride on lawnmower without the deck, put chevron tyres on the back and it was awesome. It was an old Westwood t1600. Less likely to get nicked. Just remembered i also put tow bar on the back to hitch up an Erde trailer.
@@fiveminuteman now that’s an idea, I’m not sure what to do yet, I might try hiring someone with a quad for a day see how it goes
1:52 Wow that’s a beautiful bunch of willow, brilliant for so many weaving crafts!! 🤩
@@agreatalternative it was ace, amazing what such a small area can produce
Ae up Grafter. I like our giant Laburnum. Scraggy looking this time of the year, but when the flowers come on in spring, even on a dull day, it casts a beautiful golden light in the front window. I'd better get them cut this year as they look very spindly. Best get my scates on as i hear they've to be cut before Christmas day. I wished i lived a bit closer to ya. I'd give you a day a week as i work a 4 on 4 off shift pattern. Even if it was just to hump and dump for ye. Have a good Christmas.
Laburnum is lovely, totally agree mate.
Thanks so much
LOL, that puts a whole new spin on Dingle Berry. LOL! Glad your gett'n her done! Things going well here as well.
@@GrizzlyGroundswell thanks, keep at it
Beech is my favourite tree. I love the young spring leaves, they look good and taste great. It's perhaps because I don't have many in my woods. Lime trees also nice.
Thanks for sharing your hard work. If you want to increase your productivity, film everything in time-lapse, you don't half get through your coppicing doing it that way. 😂
@@craftywildcamps never tried beech to eat, I’ll give it a go.
Timelapse everything, wow what a productive day that’ll be!
Two favourite trees
Ghost Willow as it’s the first source of food for many insects after winter
And Wild Service Trees because if given space they are just stunning trees
@@LawrenceKay-p6h very nice, Ghost willow or Goat willow?
@ oops!
Goat Willow (note to self check predictive text turned off or read before sending 😵💫)
@ haha, I make loads of mistakes
Love all trees but Cedar of Lebanon with there massive shading canopies
Oh yes now your talking, love cedar
Definitely describe my last couple of weeks as challenging. Just come out of my seasonal lull, to have a week of bad back then as I’m getting going again I had no pickup for 2 weeks due to adblue issues. Anyway I’m back up and running but ready for this year to be over!
I tried the cheap quad bike but it ended up being so unreliable that I gave up using it, now it just takes up space in my workshop. I used my Ferrari with a quad trailer (and homemade hitch adapter) on site the other week. It worked a treat, towed the Ferrari to site in the trailer then converted the hitch and used it all day to cart stone. They go pretty quick in 3rd! Though mine has no brakes!!! You’ll see it in my latest instagram post!
Oh and my favourite tree was always birch but I seem to spend most of my life cutting it down!! These days it’s probably alder.
@@timlander5915 some weeks are just miserable, I hope you have a better few weeks to catch up. I get you about the quad, some are battered and so easily stolen. To tow my tractor I’d need a bigger van and trailer. I’m thinking hiring someone with a quad and trailer as a test day.
Heated truck seats are a win ;) My current truck has a heated steering wheel as well - talk about luxury ;)
@@peterellis4262 now that is luxury mate
The first time I experienced heated truck seats, I had the unnervingly warm sensation that made me wonder if I'd just wet myself! 😂
@@Pete_Etheridge that was exactly my experience when a mate picked me up in his rather nice Volvo.
😂
Inspired by you
That’s so kind, I’m just a bloke in a woodland with a camera.
Thanks for watching and being inspired
This week I am enjoying Advent. Excited for Christmas. My favorite tree is the Maple Tree. I love the furniture made from Maple, Maple Syrup and the color of its leaves in Fall. I also love the majesty of a big old Maple tree.
@@Mecmsb Maple, very nice, we don’t get them like you do,
Currently my favourite tree is Ash because taking down some with die-back has kept me warm this winter 😆 I do really like beech and hazel though.
I did a hedgelaying course a couple of weeks ago and the binders were about 12ft, the course leader said he preferred them at 16ft and I could see why as the longer ones made weaving them in much easier IMO.
Ash is lovely, it’s a crying shame we’re losing them.
Interesting about the lengths, thanks for the insight.
@AbellTo I'm prone to being a bit of an optimist, im hopeful that breeding programs can start churning out resistant saplings for planting
@ I’m convinced some will survive but it could be a few decades before Ash starts to fill the landscape again
I hate brambles too, just taken delivery of a BBC’s 740 with flail mower makes short work of them. Favourite tree wild cherry
@@grahamv5380you’ll have lots of fun with the bcs, I love mine, it’s a good shoulder workout but we’ll worth it.
Wild cherry, nice!
I think the most prolific tree is a hybrid poplar. The ones I had were named Androscoggin from Washington state in the US. They are marketed as fast-shade for impatient Americans. One of the four I planted grew to 15” (38 cm) diameter and about 35 ft tall, in just 5 growing seasons. Of course it had ideal growing conditions. I'm in the high desert of the Rocky Mountains and it gets abundant sunshine and high temperatures. It had full access to water and at its base I planted raised beds of really rich cow manure. The roots of the tree grew up into the raised beds. The poplars are very shallow-rooted and send out many suckers. They respond very well to heavy pruning and I'm sure would also enthusiastically take to coppicing and pollarding. They grow so fast one might be able to make an annual harvest. In fact, they're nearly impossible to kill. I regret that I had to take these trees out because their roots were causing damage. I ended up having to use Round-up to kill them. There's nothing remarkable about the wood but it would make fine charcoal.
I think an ideal application would be to to-dress these trees with humanure and woodchip compost. Then coppice them for charcoal/bio-char. One could convert human waste into a valuable resource without ever exposing the food chain to human pathogens.
Wow that’s really interesting, we have poplar here, some hybrids grow incredibly fast.
Small leaved lime here for me. Wonderful avenue at my parents, planted 60 or so in my new woods. The sound of the bees in the summer is fantastic.
@@TomMonaghan-j8m ooh nice I’m about to buy a few for our woodland
3:51 Willow teaches me something new everyday, so not an expert…
The traditional reason to cut to the ground is to grow straighter rods. You will find the rods from a pollarded tree have a belly (curve) close to where they join the stool (place where all the new growth comes from). For weaving this can be a pain or reduce yield, but if that’s not your #1 priority…. It doesn’t really matter.
The other reason cited is that it takes longer for the sap to rise in the spring… but as there is also a tradition of letting cows graze willow holts as later as May (to grow better rods), that doesn’t really matter either.
In summary - the holt looks great. 😀👍
At 21:54 you describe why a belly forms… i have no idea about hazel, but it seems very similar to willow.
Thank you for replying, based on the end use of these rods I recon it’s fine too.
Yes coppice species tend to do this. Hazel can even send up shoots at or just below ground level too which I forgot to mention in the video.
Regards Darren
Merry Xmas, and thank you for all your videos this year. Interesting thoughts on willow binders for Hedge laying .The ones I have used for hedge laying have been very good as they don't seem to “dogleg” like hazel binders can and are more flexible. What variety of willow do you use for these binders, and do they last as long as hazel binders ? All the best for 2025.
Thank you @freezefoot
Willow does work well, being super flexible, hazel is good for older hedges I believe.
I’ve no idea what variety it it though. And willow lasts only a couple of years which is usually enough for the hedge to send up some nice strong new growth
Lovely! Keep your stools low.
Deer dilemma. Good luck with brash piling. You appear not to have the deer problems seen everywhere I've worked, so it may be enough of a deterrent to let stools get away. Where I am brash piles just do not work. Has to be dead hedges or fencing. But the dead hedges have to be at least 6' tall, and dense. Or they don't work. I agree about tree tubes. But where I am if you remove them, the young trees would get deer-rubbed to death. But then again, sika deer (down here you can see herds of several dozen grazing at dusk) can reach over the tube tops or if the trees are starting to branch and the branches droop into reach, they grab and pull and can get at the whole tree top like cattle would.
Brambles are a pain. In established quality hazel, the hazel forms a canopy and suppresses the bramble so by the time the hazel is ready, there isn't much showing. With scattered stools amongst 'conservation' planting, it's always going to be a problem - the hazel just won't grow fast enough and dense enough to suppress the bramble. Where I am the sika eat them making them spikier and bushier and even more of a s*d. And if you walk through them in summer you will pick up tens of ticks. Lovely.
Sweet chestnut is naturalised or an archaeophyte - it is thought the Romans introduced it 2k years ago or so. See here for handy definitions (which apply equally to trees as wildflowers). bsbi.org/definitions-wild-native-or-alien
Fave tree? Not easy. In due season I'd have to say that a clone of gean (wild cherry) in an ancient woodland is hard to beat with drifts of the white flowers against a blue sky.
@@anemone104 your right the deer pressure here is nothing like what you get, I’ll experiment with the brash, it helped in our woods when I tried it.
Deer management needs addressing country wide.
Cherry, nice, a few have mentioned that
I dislocated my shoulder so currently ssitting in nice warm bed wishing I was out in the cold haha
recommend ebike and trailer.. I don't even need a car. Cars gobble your time and money
Ah dislocation, I’ve done my left shoulder 7 times now, it’s very weak. Our family has hyper mobility in the joints and it’s in both my shoulders.
I feel for you.
Sometimes I do wonder if I can move over to an e bike and ditch the van
A chiropractor once told me even if it’s difficult try to balance your working routine which may mean slower production while you get used to it but practice swinging the bill hook with both arms throughout the day where possible
@@lukehorton707 that’s really interesting thanks for that. I’ll try if I can. It’s been slightly better this week
Your elbow problem is called golfers elbow. Work through it and it goes eventually. Just recovering from having my bicep reconnected and have a woodland to recover after the storm 😢
It's tendonitis, whether on the outside of the elbow or the inside. Just working through it is a guarantee to keep it going longer than it has to. You might try using a neoprene elbow brace. It helps keep the joint and tendon warm and the elastic pressure provides support. The best cure is to take a break, but that's not always an option, since I mean a break long enough to let the inflammation heal.
@@peterellis4262 suffered for years with it on and off. Rested through my late 20s to late 30s. Started properly working out again and it went almost immediately. A quick pain killers for tennis elbow is to use a handheld mouse type sander without the paper/over a cloth. It breaks up the crystals causing the pain. It's temporary but works for a few days until it comes back. Eventually it stops. Different on the inside of the elbow I think
@@leespencer7596 ouch that bicep thing makes mine sound petty. All the beat
@@peterellis4262 good call thanks, I’m hoping to have a few days of slightly less graft next week
@@AbellToWeirdly tennis and golfers elbow was far more painful. This is recovering quickly and surprisingly I managed to take down and move a 30in dia ash while I was waiting for the op. The bicep really does bugger all for strength unless you need to 'curl'.
Look up Golfers elbow.
Will do thank you so much
The return on your investment building the dead hedge is having the future return of the coppice. If the brash is likely to produce an unsatisfactory growth result and may not keep the deer off, then it seems to me you've made the issue clear and the choice isn't really a choice. The time now invested in the hedges will mean you have good coppice to harvest. And you must have that.
@@peterellis4262 I know you’re right, I don’t often voice it but I feel that just putting barriers up is not really dealing with the issue at hand, it’s not the deers fault but there’s no predators now.
monkey tree or yew just because its so different
Love those. We have a monkey puzzle at the woodland and a few yew I’ve planted.
Re your very first quote, Sorry Darren, I am fed up with @UA-cam. I wrote a small essay and added the comment which showed yesterday and now it has disappeared. Leaving this just for the stats but I can't write all that again :(
Ah sorry mate, what did I miss? Is there a condensed version?