Hammering gorse and scrub with the Roboanimal to bring back the wildflowers on behalf of the Westcountry Buzz Project to restore habitats for now rare Bumble Bees species. Nice lines coming in too 😁 Its love 🤣 Continue reading

We did a long Sycamore hedge repollard today in Lynton taking only the battery kit to site charged on our renewable electricity tariff. We still had a diesel guzzling truck and chipper going but hey....first steps. You hear some criticism about rare earth metal mining etc but I still think they are far greener over… Continue reading

Something to make shifting and loading timber around quicker and a whole load easier on our bodies, less noise and sawdust on site. 💚💚💚 thanks to the clever chaps at Nick Sampson. Update you all when its ready for work! Continue reading

Meet "Priti" the Wood wasp! In my first ever turned bowl, made from Sumach wood. Harmless sting, actually an ovipositor for laying larvae in wood. Continue reading

Then devastated some brambles with it later! Continue reading

Tricky 3 days sorting out windblown conifers with Steady Joe Haines and his great forestry equipment. After the removal of acres of diseased Larch the remaining Hemlock and Lawsons Cypress were left newly exposed to wind forces, hence the mess. Flopped, snapped, sprung, hung up, rootheaved, you name it! And a great day spraying invasive… Continue reading

Heres a classic example of this devastating and now completely widespread disease. If the tree is in a hazardous location then this is the point in time to remove it. If it declines any more and cannot be felled, then it will be unsafe to climb and will need to be dismantled from a cherrypicker… Continue reading

I can recommend the coffee 😁 - great hosts Ben and Joe lowering some chunky Sessile Oak. Textbook chaps! Three us up trees at one point Continue reading

I'll let the pictures do the talking! Continue reading

Came across this monster burr/burl/tree-wart on another misty walk with the outlaws. Continue reading