Just spent a comfortable night in the wood, setting up a trail cam and generally tidying up. The US MSS sleeping bag was roomy and cosy although it wasn't really tested at 6 degrees c.
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Just spent a comfortable night in the wood, setting up a trail cam and generally tidying up. The US MSS sleeping bag was roomy and cosy although it wasn't really tested at 6 degrees c.
Nice little camp set up up you've built for yourself, looks really cosy 
Do you get much trouble from unwanted human visitors in your woods?
Do you get much trouble from unwanted human visitors in your woods?
Mmmm… you been reading 'The Stranger in the Woods'? 
It looks a really useable camp. I've taken my 'chute down for the winter but your camp has given me the inspiration to set up a 'tarp' camp so I can use it over winter without having to set up every time. I just have to work out how I keep the sheep out of it
It looks a really useable camp. I've taken my 'chute down for the winter but your camp has given me the inspiration to set up a 'tarp' camp so I can use it over winter without having to set up every time. I just have to work out how I keep the sheep out of it
I have read that, I was interested in the fact that he never had a cold (no other human contact). Must be worth a try.Mmmm… you been reading 'The Stranger in the Woods'?
It looks a really useable camp. I've taken my 'chute down for the winter but your camp has given me the inspiration to set up a 'tarp' camp so I can use it over winter without having to set up every time. I just have to work out how I keep the sheep out of it
Yep, having just had a sore throat (I don't tend to get full blown colds) because I spent Christmas with the grandchildren I concur
None at all, not replaced a single claymore yet.Nice little camp set up up you've built for yourself, looks really cosy
Do you get much trouble from unwanted human visitors in your woods?
I'm no expert with forestry but I'm guessing the whole management thing depends a lot on your ultimate goal.
If you plan on having the timber as a cash crop, or a space to build on, or just a space to encourage wildlife.
Personally I'm the guy who would use a chainsaw to ringbark the odd tree to allow standing dead trees to encourage insects and woodpeckers but I doubt that would impress those who want a timber cash crop.
Maybe select the occasional hardwood tree to fell and season.
If you plan on having the timber as a cash crop, or a space to build on, or just a space to encourage wildlife.
Personally I'm the guy who would use a chainsaw to ringbark the odd tree to allow standing dead trees to encourage insects and woodpeckers but I doubt that would impress those who want a timber cash crop.
Maybe select the occasional hardwood tree to fell and season.
This is from a little earlier in the year when the leaves were still on the trees. Now only the confers and holly are green, oh and of course the ferns. There is a ring of tall conifers that shades and shield the area from light, wind and rain to a degree and this make the area quite cosy.
The camp area is to the right of the photograph within the conifers, This makes the camp area almost invisible fro outside.
Just a little covering of snow today, the camp area is very well protected by a ring of tall conifers that keep it dry and protect it from the wind.
Cold day at the woods but lots of hazel coppicing to be done, so fire and kettle on and lots of hot coffee to keep me going
The hazel is pretty neglected and overstood, so taking out the big and the gnarly stuff for firewood, and the decent poles for the boss for the veg garden. Leaving the decent younger stuff to give me a year or three headstart on new poles.
Pleaching and layering some stems to create new stools in some of the gappy areas.
Need to thin out some of the birch and willow too, to let more light in, once I've cleared all the brash I've been creating !
Only doing a part of the hazel coppice area this season, probably about a third, and the rest over the next couple of seasons, give a bit of a good spread of the new growth over the next few years.
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The hazel is pretty neglected and overstood, so taking out the big and the gnarly stuff for firewood, and the decent poles for the boss for the veg garden. Leaving the decent younger stuff to give me a year or three headstart on new poles.
Pleaching and layering some stems to create new stools in some of the gappy areas.
Need to thin out some of the birch and willow too, to let more light in, once I've cleared all the brash I've been creating !
Only doing a part of the hazel coppice area this season, probably about a third, and the rest over the next couple of seasons, give a bit of a good spread of the new growth over the next few years.
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Great pictures. My little piece of land is too small and too urban to get away with a camp like that, but I do intend to camp out in a small tent this summer. I have discovered a ready source of bricks, as it has been used as a rubbish dump for so long, I have dug up no less than seven car tyres so far. Anyway I intend to use the bricks to build a little fire place, as I actually have an old fire grate. I should be able to get away with that without attracting too much attention from my neighbours over the river. I was exploring the lower reaches of the land where it is established by neglected woodland for what little bit of it there is. So many trees have fallen down there it is like an obstacle course. I have definately made my mark on the land now, and I just wonder how many people on the other side of the river have noticed the changes.
A little chilly this morning but a good excuse to burn in my outbacker stove, feed the birds who really need extra rations this weather, and of course the obligatory coffee.
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