A great time of year to be doing some work in the woods! Keep up with every episode of the series here: kzread.info/head/PLxnadpeGdTxCwRkZTLMhjbT_EAu6bAIZy

All the ash is dying here from a emerald ash bore and 40 years back all the elm died from dutch elm disease. The wood continues to evolve.

@TAOutdoors

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People have already succeeded in reducing ash dieback over here by pruning and propagating from the most resilient trees.

@UpTheIrons51510

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Keeping stools alive while rejuvenating the diseased wood to prevent further bore damage. Coppicing! 👍🏼

@codeblueize

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from an emerald ash bore

@vaevictis6990

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Yup, we lost almost all our ash over last decade in Southern Ontario. Even with wood transport bans looks like it's getting into the northern forests...

@Shane4theSavior

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Ahhh Ontario

Your tip with the tree branch rooting also applies to many other plants, particularly TOMATOES. Many people have forgotten these vines readily produce roots from any branch that's touching the ground. It's an easy way to cultivate multiple plants that can be later transplanted elsewhere, or just enjoy a larger root system :)

I own a 5 acre woodland & every spring I & a few friends go & start cleaning up the land , checking for downed trees , cleaning up litter , checking for trees that have rot , clearing the paths & camp sites we made of leaves . Putting down new mulch on the pathways , checking the fence lines to make sure no one has cut into my property , making sure there are no widow maker trees that have been downed or no dead tree limbs above . We do make sure we leave small dead standing trees because it makes for fire wood when camping or to make stuff with . We make sure to put out are mini hydroelectric turbines we had made for my woodland , they all run from a small creek up to the battery house , then it’s passed down to each camp site that uses electric , we only have a few because some of us like being off grid completely , it’s hard work in your spare time but we’ll worth it .

I so appreciate your deliberate use of your woodland in cooperation with the local wildlife. I learn so much from your woodcraft and bushcraft! Please keep it coming when you can. I only have an acre and a quarter, but following the hurricanes we get here, I must tend to my woods and wildlife very carefully with clearing the dangerous widow makers out and of reducing fire hazard. Yet the, squirrels, possums, raccoons, owls and woodpeckers depend on this little bit that I have!

Another great video Mike, you are just like your dad you never stop! I love watching your videos and your dad's, and the way you do things to look after the wild life is fantastic and you should be really proud of yourself! I always look forward to Friday for your videos, as I said in graham's video, if he talked about grass it would be interesting. You two are legends and the relationship between you is amazing! You two are the best on KZread and make a lot of people very happy. Keep it up and look after each other!! ❤️❤️

It's so cool to see you make structures, build things and plan for the future of your woodland.

Great video as always Mike, there are so many things I would do if I had my own woods, clear a south facing part and have a large pond for wildlife would be the first, a pile of birchwood for common lizards and grass snakes, I would also use some of the soil to grow food as it's better than bought compost and that leaf litter makes the best potting soil but needs to be in a large pile and left for a year.

@robertproctor5610

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You can do it. Watch Bushradical's channel sometime: he really dives into sacrificing certain things while homing in on that target of land ownership.

I love the whole natural living fence idea!❤️🤗🐝

I really enjoy this channel. Thanks so much, Mike, for all your effort and education.

So very interesting Mike, I love your woodland series! And how you care for nature and all it’s creatures 🙏🏻 Good job sir, much respect

A good 2023 and health, success and happiness for you and all your loved ones.

I enjoy watching the woodland management episodes. When I could be active, I thinned my woodland acreage and took out the tangled parts of the understory. It was very satisfying.

Saludos desde España.

Mike I really like how you care for the wilderness and I have watched this series unfold and all the growth and work you have done. It is amazing. Thanks for taking the time to share. also love the van camping.

Woodlore, bushcraft and all related content are ALWAYS incredibly interesting; I can envision just how incredibly resourceful and resilient our ancestors were year round, no matter what continent we live on. Excellent video, keep on doing what you're doing. Take care and God bless.

Thanks TA...I've learned a lot from you over several years. Blessings!

Thank you for sharing 💞

I once went on a coracle making course. The basic structure was of thumb sized willow & made in a circle in a fashion similar to the way you demonstrated. Then the opposing branches of willow were bent over at the top & tied together. After that the willow sitting in the ground was cut in order to free the remaining structure. You then have a large willow basket (Unsurprisingly the instructor was a basket maker) which is then covered in canvas and sewn into the gunwhales where the willow was interwoven (just enough to form a strong gunwhale). All the canvas is then covered in pitch. A thwart (seat) is then fashioned in the centre & then secured just below the gunwhale. Its then only necessary to obtain or make a simple paddle. Propelling the craft is an art in itself but consists of figure of 8 movements at the bow.

Great video Mike. Really enjoy these 'a day in the life' style videos, seeing all the odd jobs you do at the woodland. Look forward to the next one!

I tried to do a similar thing with building natural tree guards - my solution was to use some of the arm-thick boughs that I was drying to build a sort of giant 'log cabin fire' shape around the tree. If you tie it together with spruce roots or willow it ends up being pretty stable. It doesn't really stop the rabbits but the deer leave my trees alone now, and once the trees are big enough to survive on their own the tree guards will be dry enough to burn. All the best :)

thankyou for putting water out for the animals

I love these updates from your woodland. Nice to see the hazel guard instead of plastic, totally awesome. 👍

I'm looking forward to the follow-up on the hedge lane.

Always a pleasure to catch your woodland videos. Reminder when you have a garden/woodland there's always something to do whatever time of year. Keep posting!

Really enjoyed this 1 👍 Have a great weekend everyone 🙏

so glad you are helping the woodland animals

I have been binge-watching your videos this past week, starting with the Bushcraft Fort thing from 7 years ago. So much fun!

Keep doing what you're doing, thanks for sharing.

Great video and thanks for making and sharing. And good to hear you talking about the need for rotting wood on the woodland flor fir habitat and biodiversity. Dead standing timber is just as, if not not more important. Especially from the hazard, and possibly aesthetic (leaning etc) dead standing is overcleared in our woodlands. Is a home to insects and fungi that need those special conditions if drier, airier dead wood. So leave plenty hung ups and just off the grounders and the odd dead stander for the wildlife. We can override even in woodlands! :) Awrabest, Phil

Super... Great...

Another great and informative video Mike 👍

Wow, that's cool as always! It's always pleasure to watch Your videos! Greetings from Kyiv!

@grandadoutdoors5317

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👍🏻🇺🇦🇬🇧

Wow, blue bells in January; here we still have a solid month of white ground and gray sky. Btw my son and I just bought our own "woodland" on a river here in the upper Midwest: thanks for the inspiration, Mike.

@randalllaue4042

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We call the “Bluebells” “Virginia Bluebells”...

@randalllaue4042

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Plus lots of ours “Split” during vortex...

@robertproctor5610

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@Randall Laue that's interesting. I've never heard of them referred to as such. I also don't know what splitting during vortex means. I should research bluebells since they are one of my favorite things about spring.

@randalllaue4042

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@@robertproctor5610 they were supposed to be renaming plants all over the planet, with communities finally calling them the same names. There are multiple names for same plants, the world is getting smaller. The plan was to organize the botanical aspects.

@robertproctor5610

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@Randall Laue Oh I see. That's interesting. I guess i thought that was why plants had their scientific name: so we just had one name, group, phylum, etc.

the best part of the show is the dog! makes me happy every time! 😆Great video and information.

Thanks for filming Mike. 👍😁

Great vid again Mike! I'm off finishing off some hedge laying I started before Christmas tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!

Great round up of the latest woodland work!

Really a cool watch love how your using the woodland to the best it can be

Nice little jacket/coat that Jaxx is wearing.

1. Winter here by me won't give way to spring for 2 months, so while your 'spring is right around the corner' words are positive, for my area they just aren't true. We're experiencing a mild winter, so far, and I feel like our coldest times are still ahead. 🙂 2. If the fence doesn't come up to above the deer's shoulders, or isn't wider from whips to perimeter than the length of a deer neck I believe it *won't* stop them from snacking on your hazel babies. Maybe the camera POV doesn't show it accurately, but I expected something much wider than you made, and higher than you indicated would be the top. Cheers, Mike! Your woodland is looking fantastic and I'm jealous of the time you spend there. That's what keeps me watching!

Great basket making

Thank you for providing the water for the animals!

Thanks for sharing 🤗❤👍

colliding is a great way to manage lower level of woodland.the borders of past would live in the woods,and manage them for tool handles.nodding rustic chairs with the spring pole lathe and making charcoal.thanks for sharing.stay safe and lucky.maddog.off grid.West cork.eire

I love this series. Learn so much and it’s very interesting. Would like to see more.

Great video as always Mike 👍

Looking great there sir ,Jax seems to love being out my best to you n dad peace

Very inspiring, we wish we could have such woodland to start our own developments. We only can rent such places just for a couple of days to do our bushcraft hobby. Thanks for sharing Mike, Sandra and Jan.

Love these woodland vids. So much wonderful information. You are correct nature is magnificent. Keep them coming always learn so much Thank you

Enjoy your video lots of great information.

Ranger from the PNW... Dig all your videos from pallet house with dad, to historical rebuilds. Great content, not too much vocal, decent strategies. Really dig it. From one woodsman to another, I tip my hat to the good sir.

Good water harvesting tip. maybe an over flow spout and a screen to keep bugs out. Keep up the good work! Cheers

I miss the old giant fort thing. Lol Reminded me of making forts in the woods as kids.

Greetings from Norway. I see you have 2 weeks of firewood prepared for the winter 😎

my father in law was a stick maker and my own father was a wicker worker and they both would allow a few bent stems to grow to make heads for walking sticks and also would train the young hazel around a small wheel to form crooks a great vid as always thanks for the insperation to have ago myself ,,,cheers mick out

@hampshireoutdoorsandsurviv9340

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il get the mrs to show me how bit of a tchno phob myself but many thanks speak soon

i wanna woodland tooooooo!!!

Great video thanks Mike 👍

Love watching and learning. Thanks 😊 x

Very cool video!

Good job Mike.

Thank you. Love your channel. Now I want some woodland.

Thanks MUCHLY for pointing that out and the discussion!👍👍

Thanks!

Thank you

Great stuff thanks for sharing👌👍

Amazing 🤩

Wonderful technique, thank u for showing us! ❤

@TAOutdoors

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Thanks! More to come…

I saw one of your videos a while ago using a weaving method to make fence panels and felt inspired to make some fence rings with my seemingly never-ending supply of euro buckthorn. Its added spikiness makes it horrible to work with, but it bends much like your hazel and clings to itself very well. I don't see much deer traffic but so far it's done well to keep the cottontails off my blackberries/fruit trees.

Good job

As always another great video thank you

Good to see Jax with a coat on!!!👍👍

Best 👍

all looking good there !!!!

@KaylynnStrain

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just repoerted a FAKER askng viewers to messsageon Telegrama

18:40 - I managed to get the rain barrels (similar to yours, and tapped!) emptied and upended before they froze solid 🥶 Stellar video, cheers!

cool stuff

good!!!!!!!!!

You have inspired me to grow a hazel hedge at home!

How much would you recommend I spend on a decent small hatchet to start of Bush crafting?

Also, we (the Netherlands) had a real bad drought last summer too, but we're dealing with an extreme wet season ATM as well, so hopefully that will help you too to fill up the drinking pond as well

Loved the vid but I hope you covered over the shoots to stop any frost?

and those hazelnuts with wild honey and wild boar, some chanterelles maybe, and some aromatic herbs sound like an authentic nice finish to a bushcraft day!

That would be a good method for a homemade compost bin.

Bliss!

Mike! What did you start the fire with? Silver beech scrapings?

Nice work :) I like it

@TAOutdoors

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Cheers!

About 0:24. If you didn't cut it, it would make an AMAZING cane! Shillelagh style. Sory about that, I love your content and i do a bit of woodwork myself. Started with spoons a few years ago, made some shrinkpots and now moved to canes 😂 It's like they say - if you wield a hammer, everything looks like nails 😁

I've been burning firewood for fourty years, and I live on a very large piece of forested land. Every year I cut next years firewood in advance. I used to stack it in wind rows in the forest to start seasoning it. But now I stack it in round piles. It way more efficient, and the wood seasons better. And I'm not even Norwegian! Cheers. 👋🇨🇦

Ash is amazing for ax and other tool handles

If you know any stagecraft artists, they can make your plastic barrel look like a a rock, stump etc...

Your videos have always seemed to calm me down

Some of your best vids are those when you don't talk, you just do. To urbanistes, we don't need speech, we need sight!

Keep up the good work. When is the best time to hedge lay?

Enjoyed this, thanks! Keep in mind that Ash dries like rock, so is super hard to split once it has been down a while!!

Thanks for this that's sutch a cool idea I'm thinking of trying that out keep up the great work

@TAOutdoors

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Cheers Marcus, it’s time consuming but very rewarding.

didn't see it mentioned (maybe i missed it), but with rainwater barrels be sure to put an overflow hole / spout near the top... screened against bug entry.

I suggest to make a much smaller ring and use thorny blackberry branches to protect the hazel.

That hazel has been layered, but naturally by a falling tree haha. Great technique for expanding your Coppice stools!

@TAOutdoors

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Yep! Layering in it’s most natural form.

@spencersanderson1894

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@@TAOutdoors Yeah that really made me laugh. Well done on all the great work you do!!

@mariapalmer5671

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Also called an Irishman’s cutting

@spencersanderson1894

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@@mariapalmer5671 That’s very cool, do you know why it’s called that?

We used to pile the brushwood onto the stools to protect them from the deer. Not so neat, but quicker if you're clearing a lot of stools in one go.

from making a pallet wood shed to making a pallet from homegrown wood full circle mate, nicely done😆