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Commenwealth Young Forester Award 2012

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:06:19 +0000

We shall be nominating candidates for this prestigious award from within the ranks of our younger members of the forestry crews.Stay tune for results.

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Hope for Elm revival ?

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:45:32 +0000

It has been a sad feature of the countryside in the last few decades that the Elm has suffered with the well known Dutch Elm Disease.The Conservation Foundation is attempting to unlock the mystery of why some trees survived Dutch elm disease which wiped out over 25 million elms in the UK.Cuttings taken from mature trees that appear to have resisted Dutch elm disease for over 60 years have been skilfully micro propagated. The resulting saplings are being distributed to hundreds of schools, community groups, local authorities and private landowners who have signed up to take part in the ‘Great British Elm Experiment’ .Participants in the experiment are being asked to log their tree’s progress on a specially developed elm map.Saplings are being offered free to schools and small local organisations, and at a modest cost to others. Each small tree is accompanied by a certificate showing its parent tree and type and schools will also receive a poster with growing tips and project ideas.

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Busy like the bees

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:30:37 +0000

Normally at this time of the year the workload tends to taper off.It’s far from that here as we have had to include working weekends for the forseeable future as we aim to keep a tight rein on the schedule.

On the north bank we have crews tackling projects in sproatley and skirlaugh with numerous projects to follow in swanland,beverley,cottingham and hessle.

Over in north lincolnshire and north east lincolnshire we are flat out.With a list of contracts as long as your arm we are ploughing through them as efficiently as we can.It has helped that we have acquired new chip sites recently in the area.

Over in grimsby we are following a schedule that will be taking us through immingham,grimsby,cleethorpes,barrow on humber,barton upon humber,humberstone,healing,laceby,melton ross and kirmington.

Over scunthorpe way we are in crowle,scunthorpe,scawby,brigg,bonby,saxby all saints,south ferriby,winterton,burton stather and messingham.

Phew, plenty to be getting on with there.Hope to have a few photo shots of these on the blog.

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Tree Surgery-Scunthorpe

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:53:36 +0000

We dismantled a very big Cedar last week in the scawby area just near scunthorpe.It was a pity our sawmill wasn’t up and running yet as we could have produced some lovely planks.Instead we had to disc it up for … Continue reading →

Firewood Moisture Content

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:49:15 +0000

Here at woodserve we have existing stocks of firewood and newly cut stock.Some of our well seasoned stock has a moisture content as low as 16 % and quality checks on recently cut firewood for next winter is showing moisture levels averaging 20-22%.Although most of that was felled last Autumn it is really pleasing to see the quality of this firewood come through.The windy,relatively dry winter really helped to kick start the drying process.

FIREWOOD AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE,SCUNTHORPE,GRIMSBY ,NORTH AND NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE.

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Bluebell woods

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:55:01 +0000

Is there a more pleasing sight in the british countryside than a bluebell wood in its prime.Take a look out there,it’s one of the perks of the forestry and arb industry.

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Professional tree services throughout East Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire

Disease Alert

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:16:36 +0000

The Asian Longhorn Beetle has been discovered in Kent and has the potential to cause more damage than Dutch Elm Disease.This disease could become a huge problem for uk arboriculture.Likely hosts include Acer( sycamore and maples ) poplars,willows,birch,elms,horse chestnut,alder,london planes,hazel,beech and some members of the prunus family.Be on guard.If you have large specimens in your garden keep a close look on it’s overall health.If in doubt call us in for a more thorough examination.

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Professional tree services throughout East Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire

Firewood season

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:04:51 +0000

It’s funny how no sooner do you think the firewood season is over and suddenly just over the horizon your nearly upon the next one.Strange really as we are still selling large quantities of firewood now so its nearly all year round.When you think that in 6 weeks time the nights will start to draw in its a pretty sobering thought.It really pays to plan now and stock up because before you know it the colder months will be with us. Last winter was predicted to be very cold and turned out to be much milder than expected.Who knows what this winter has in store for us.We break weather records now every year so best be prepared for the worst.

FIREWOOD AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE,SCUNTHORPE,GRIMSBY ,NORTH AND NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE.

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Woodserve – new website

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:41:46 +0000

Woodserve has updated it’s website.We hope you like it.

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Professional tree services throughout East Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire

Firewood Barrow bags

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:41:11 +0000

Due to popular demand woodserve are pleased to announce that ‘barrow vented log net bags’ will soon be available from all our online shops.

FIREWOOD AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE,SCUNTHORPE,GRIMSBY ,NORTH AND NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE.