May - What I have done in this month

[MartreCycle]

An opportunity to list what you have done in the month of May in your woodland.

(Next month I will do June etc...)-

Purpose:- to give listing of small/large/interesting/menial 'things' that we do.

If items deserve more discussion - Please start a new thread - that way this thread should be easy to read and informative-

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What I have done in the month of MAY:

Clean out weeds from plastic tree guards,

Photograph flowers in bloom,

Replace rotten fence post in neighbours fence - "grrh",

clear camp space,

walk paths with sycle in hand cut off brambles,

move out (by hand) firewood cut in the winter.

[tracy]

Great idea!

May for us:

hundreds of photos,

listened to bats with bat detector,

had lots of friends visit

split logs for firewood

protecting young self seeded oak (with brash)

track repair

Identifying new trees and plants

thinking about next years coppice cut

thinking about beginning to fill out paperwork!

[RichardKing]

Felled several Sweet Chestnut that did not come into leaf that must have died over winter and were dangerously near main track.

Cut bean poles for my own use.

Selected pea sticks from heap of Birch brash

Backfilled deep ruts with rubble.

[DaveTaz]

Only one visit to Misty Wood in May so far:-

sorted through coppiced ash and hazel for bean poles and rods for hurdle making,

delivered six lengths of elm up to 16" diameter for milling into boards, along with some lengths of poplar to mill for shave hores bodies and seats

[jillybean]

Pull up brambles Meetings with Forestry comission, check fences,Pull up Brambles Price up new Gate, Fix old gate. Arrange for dangerous tree to be felled, Cut and burn brambles on path. Spot squirrel dreys, (make mental note to bring gun next time) Pull up brambles. Extraxt rubbish and take to tip. spot and watch treecreeper nests.

[MartreCycle]

Camp out over night,

remove discarded barbed wire and stock fencing embedded in ground/brambles/saplings,

sit in camping chair drinking mugs of coffee.

[James M]

Trampled some bracken, wished I brought the brush cutter.

Cleared site and pulled stumps with an excavator.

Burned a ton of brash.

Planted some sacrifical willow.

Did some pest control.

Started a diary to keep track of work.

Continued exploration of deep dark places in wood, trying to link topography to arial photos.

Fitted new exahuast on land rover.

Sharpened chainsaw chain for umpteenth time. Need new one.

[tracy]

Found a new badger sett today!