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Winter time job, scoop them out using as big a bucket on the digger as you can. The hole you have dug for it, loosen up the sides incase the digger bucket has smeared them tight. Line it it with well rotted manure if you have any. Prune back the bush too, so that the rootstock is not having...

Plenty here if you want to give them a try, I can find a few with brackets 🙈

Thanks for the reply 👍

If you are using Creosoted timber, ask McVeighs for the BBH timber. That way you know at least it is genuine Creosote and UK treated. If you are after UC4 then it's pot luck. Country Supplies at High Wycombe will deliver to you There is a man near Basingstoke splitting Chestnut stakes etc...

How long does it typically take for an application to be approved so that work can commence? I have a couple of clients who want to coppice, plant and fence old hedge lines this coming winter

I think the big white catch with black centre is to fasten the cover and hold the bar in place. The black adjuster above is to move the bar in or out.

Where abouts in the Chilterns are you? I'm near Prestwood/Naphill. Sore on metal and tyres is the Chilterns

Around here if you don't guard or fence then the deer will hammer any planting. I have done beat ups, admittedly on conservation type rough pasture and the voles have chewed the whips off.

Couple of USA based fencing groups for you to try, https://facebook.com/groups/USAAgFencers/ https://facebook.com/groups/334239117419304/

Anyone on here ever see Keith from White Horse Contractors on a dozer? What a wizard he was. RIP

Stand well clear of any moving machinery

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2024-0012/CDP-2024-0012.pdf Page 4, paragraph 3 "While the BPS ended in 2023, in the transition period farmers are eligible for ‘de-linked payments’ based on their BPS payments in 2020-22. However, from January 2024, farmers no...

Yes definitely. It took a bit of tweaking of oil flow, gear selection, engine speed and knowing what vegetation was too much for it to rip through. But this was an early model and they may have improved again. We could have reused this netting, but it was 50m rolls of Mild Steel that had been...

As above, SoloWrap