birch trees.

[Finman]

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Honey fungus is not poisonous. It must be some same looking what people gather when they do not know the specie.

Only cap is edible. Foot is too resilient.
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[poshpikey]

I think it is best to blanch them first before cooking and only eat a little bit the first time in case it doesn't agree with you. (And also only eat some if you are absolutely sure what it is.)

 

[Finman]

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Now we see how dangerous it is to cop birch.

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[REDWOOD]

Dawn?

I'v been called some things in my time but never Dawn, I only have one wardrobe full of cloths for one gender, and never borrow my wife's for the weekend

 

[blackcavebees]

Why cut down healthy trees? There are 1000s of single use and broken pallets that end up in municipal waste recyclers, ask around locally and you'll soon get as many as you need for the log burner, good heat output too

 

[theboynelson]

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Honey fungus is not poisonous. It must be some same looking what people gather when they do not know the specie.

Only cap is edible. Foot is too resilient.
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Although honey fungus is not poisonous it can lead to severe allergic reactions to some people who eat it. Nothing to do with misidentification.

 

[theboynelson]

Why cut down healthy trees? There are 1000s of single use and broken pallets that end up in municipal waste recyclers, ask around locally and you'll soon get as many as you need for the log burner, good heat output too

Most pallets are made of softwood, the resins in softwood, when burnt, evoporate and solidify in the flue of the chimney, this can increase the likelihood of chimney fires. Coppicing and pollarding have been going on for thousands of years. I live next to Burnham Beeches an area where the beeches are in excess of 500 years old. Their longevity is a direct result of the way they have been managed since Tudor times.

 

[blackcavebees]

Most pallets are made of softwood, the resins in softwood, when burnt, evoporate and solidify in the flue of the chimney, this can increase the likelihood of chimney fires. Coppicing and pollarding have been going on for thousands of years. I live next to Burnham Beeches an area where the beeches are in excess of 500 years old. Their longevity is a direct result of the way they have been managed since Tudor times.

No problems with coppicing and pollarding at all, do myself on small scale on my land, but OP was talking about birch which i dont think can be successfully coppiced, but i could be wrong.

On the pallet front, there are an awful lot of usa originated hardwood pallets about that get scrapped every week, harder to cut up but they do burn very well

 

[Finman]

Why cut down healthy trees?

Why to let a tree first rotten and then use the material when it has no value?

 

[Finman]

. I live next to Burnham Beeches an area where the beeches are in excess of 500 years old. Their longevity is a direct result of the way they have been managed since Tudor times.

Good Lord!!!!

I have visited in England and Wales and I have seen areas which have not a single whip of tree.
- I asked what is this?
- Sheeps have eaten everything.

You must be a little bit blind in your styles

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[victor meldrew]

In Scotland ,the land owners actually booted people off their farms(crofts) to be replaced by sheep because they were worth more !!
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[madasafish]

Given the poor quality of much of the land on those estates: boggy, peaty - I can understand why landowners did it.

Many of the abandoned buildings are still there: few people in their right minds would want to croft there in such difficult conditions... Unsurprisingly such poverty in earlier centuries lead to a way of life where the lack of food/money was supplemented by theft.. eg cattle rustling etc...invading England etc..

 

[Oscarmonster]

Most pallets are made of softwood, the resins in softwood, when burnt, evoporate and solidify in the flue of the chimney, this can increase the likelihood of chimney fires.

I heat my home with 20 tonnes of softwood every year, it's cheap and if dry the resins are burnt off with no problems.

 

[enrico]

Why cut down healthy trees? There are 1000s of single use and broken pallets that end up in municipal waste recyclers, ask around locally and you'll soon get as many as you need for the log burner, good heat output too

It's called land management.....even woodland needs managing....but if you've never owned any you wouldn't know that. You probably think you should leave it alone......oh dear!
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[Skyhook]

It's called land management.....even woodland needs managing....but if you've never owned any you wouldn't know that. You probably think you should leave it alone......oh dear!
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There is no blanket answer. Trees can be cut down as part of effective and sustainable management. A lot are also cut down for firewood; because they're in the way; because they've got a bit of rot in them and someone's frightened they'll fall over; because they're blocking a nice view; or round our way, I suspect it's often because someone's bought a chainsaw from B&Q, and wants to play with it.

 

[Gimlet]

Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year
Chestnut only good they say
If for long it's laid away
Make a fire of elder tree
Death within your house will be
But ash new or ash old
Is fit for a Queen with a crown of gold

Birch and Fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last
It is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread
Elmwood burns like churchyard mould
Even the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a Queen with a golden crown

Poplar gives a bitter smoke
Fills your eyes and makes you choke
Apple wood will scent your room
With an incense-like perfume
Oaken logs, if dry and old
Keep away the winters cold
But ash wet or ash dry
A king shall warm his slippers by.

Needles to say due to the above poem and experience I've planted loads of Ash to feed my log burners. Luckily they pollard well as the deer play havock with the young saplings.

Hate to think how many I might lose to Ash dieback when it hits this part of the country.

 

[Skyhook]

Needles to say due to the above poem and experience I've planted loads of Ash to feed my log burners. Luckily they pollard well as the deer play havock with the young saplings.

Hate to think how many I might lose to Ash dieback when it hits this part of the country.

Most of the cases found are on imported saplings. If you've planted recently, check them very carefully- never mind it hitting your part of the country, it could be you that brings it there!

Advice on identifying it here

 

[Gimlet]

I started planting 30 years ago and planted my most recent saplings two years ago and it's all been from home reared seedlings from trees that were on site when we moved here in 1960, all British trees so it wasn't me!

 

[Skyhook]

I started planting 30 years ago and planted my most recent saplings two years ago and it's all been from home reared seedlings from trees that were on site when we moved here in 1960, all British trees so it wasn't me!

Good man!

 

[blackcavebees]

It's called land management.....even woodland needs managing....but if you've never owned any you wouldn't know that. You probably think you should leave it alone......oh dear!
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Oh dear! Can we get anymore patronising pal? FYI I spent many of my younger years thinning forests here in NI, we used to be able to buy by acre where forrestry cut every third tree and left standing, we dropped them and cut them up for firewood. Hard work but a living. The OP was asking a question to which i was responding:

"I have some very large river birch trees next to a stream in my fields are they good for bees or would i be better off buying a wood burner thanks for your time."