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Post by MartinT on Jun 2, 2017 10:19:10 GMT
The US carbon emissions are 14% of the total. Shocking, but not surprising. |
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 17, 2017 17:39:56 GMT
Remember this little tree? This is great. A little tree, one of 5,000 or so, about 20cm tall planted in March last year. Here it is photographed in its tree shelter on 6th April 2016  Now see what it looked like last week....   I was back there again this afternoon. It's a bit bigger. Just a bit.   I put a line on the first photo at the point where the top of my head comes to. It's still only 16 months old!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 20:36:31 GMT
Wow that's come on a bit hasn't it.
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 17, 2017 20:42:36 GMT
Not bad eh?
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Post by Chris on Jul 17, 2017 20:56:57 GMT
Is that a Eucalyptus ChrisB?
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 17, 2017 21:04:27 GMT
It is, yes - Eucalyptus glaucescens or Tingiringi gum.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 18, 2017 5:30:52 GMT
It's not as fast as bamboo (grrr).
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 8, 2017 7:30:12 GMT
Here's how they used to do forestry
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 15, 2017 7:16:55 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Sept 15, 2017 7:56:39 GMT
Yikes!
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 22, 2017 21:22:35 GMT
Another innovative and thrilling method method of administering a manicure...
It's got everything a health and safety officer officer desires in life: flying machines, whirling helicopter blades, Dick Dastardly style circular saws mounted on a twirling rope and high voltage powerlines!
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 15, 2017 18:57:42 GMT
Back to that little tree again! It's now seventeen months old and the guy standing next to it is almost exactly 2 metres tall.  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 15, 2017 19:52:58 GMT
Good stuff. Did he refuse to stand straight?  |
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Post by Barrington on Oct 17, 2017 17:59:20 GMT
Good stuff. Did he refuse to stand straight? Yeah come on Chris straighten them trees |
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Post by SteveC on Oct 17, 2017 18:50:10 GMT
It is, yes - Eucalyptus glaucescens or Tingiringi gum. I made the mistake of planting one of those next to my decking at the last house. Apparently, biting insects don't like them and that was the prime reason for it's position in the garden. Fast forward seven years and the thing is about 30 feet high and the trunk had expanded, threatening the decking platform! I got a tree surgeon in to take it down and kill the stump, which was chain-sawed off at ground level! |
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 17, 2017 19:02:52 GMT
Yes, they do grow pretty quickly. I think the best I have had is 7 metres growth in 17 months. I used to work with some people who had been growing them in Central Africa and South America, who were harvesting 25 metre tall trees 5 years after planting them!
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Post by Barrington on Nov 16, 2017 12:59:39 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 16, 2017 14:14:35 GMT
Yes, Poplars in an urban environment are almost always going to end up being a problem to someone. Even after you fell them, the roots and suckers (those little ones that keep popping up) are going to persist with annoying consequences. You may have to be spreading around lashings of potent herbicide for a few years to come. Watch out what happens on your neighbours' side of the wall and/or fences too.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 16, 2017 14:20:38 GMT
Almost as bad as bamboo  |
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Post by Barrington on Nov 20, 2017 20:19:15 GMT
Over the w/end and today I removed those big roots , I undermined two ends of each and chained sawed them , one had a 7" dia . Also pruned this years twigs from the top longest measured 12 foot , they definitely do what it says on the tin ,grow fast.
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