The Mighty Oak

[TOMO 26,504]

1 minute ago, maxhardcore said:

maybe another time

anytime mate if you have time when your down here

[Blackmag 6,102]

6 minutes ago, maxhardcore said:

BM's been quiet this last hour and half 

He must of been watching the Mighty Safc on Dodgey box

Let's stick to the thread max and Not mention safc

[Blackmag 6,102]

7 minutes ago, maxhardcore said:

Mighty Safc BM Mighty Safc

On the same lines of Mighty Oaks 

Here to Last

Max no talk of football tonight walshie ban him please

[shaaark 10,889]

1 hour ago, chartpolski said:

Looks a very interesting place;

Cheers.

Yeah, those steps are riveting

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

It’s strange that this thread has appeared now , I recently got permission to shoot on a farm that once belonged to a family who’s son was a friend when I was a kid . At the back of the farm are two very old oak trees that I used to climb and play on 45 + years ago . As I walked around them I recognised the same branches that I grabbed hold of and the same way up to the top . Makes me feel really insignificant and how short our lives are . I know they aren’t the biggest or the oldest oaks out there but there is a strange sort of beauty to their twisted branches and swollen trunks . 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

19 minutes ago, baker boy said:

Did you climb it again

I reckon I could get up there ......... getting down might be a fire brigade job

[TOMO 26,504]

its a shame that oaks coming to the end of its days shovel leaner ....as was said earlier if only they could talk....

think it was wilf that said earlier they are such an iconic tree of everything that is/was great about great Britain ....and coincidently we spoke of films on this thread and in robin hood ...morgan freemans character remarks damn that English oak when hes trying to get bash a door down but carnt...

and wernt our old sailing navy made out of oak..

[tatsblisters 10,122]

Remember the poem we would recite at school heart of oak are our ships.WILF is right this tree is an iconic symbol .

[shovel leaner 7,650]

59 minutes ago, TOMO said:

its a shame that oaks coming to the end of its days shovel leaner ....as was said earlier if only they could talk....

think it was wilf that said earlier they are such an iconic tree of everything that is/was great about great Britain ....and coincidently we spoke of films on this thread and in robin hood ...morgan freemans character remarks damn that English oak when hes trying to get bash a door down but carnt...

and wernt our old sailing navy made out of oak..

The one oak is on its way out the other still has a few years left, here is a better picture of it from further back . You are right , if only they could talk . 
           A guy in the village had a  nice porch built with oak . I asked him where he got the oak from . It turns out it’s French oak !!! In fact most of the oak we now use in building is from France  (spit) . What the f@ck is happening to the country, when we can’t even source decent English oak anymore?

[chartpolski 24,245]

We haven't been self sufficient in wood for a long time.

An interesting story involves wood and jet engines; 

Shortly after ww2, Harold Wilson, later to be Prime Minister, did a trade deal with the Russians. 

Part of the deal included the Russians selling us timber to be used in the rebuilding after the war, and the U K giving the Russians, plans and prototypes of the Rolls Royce Neme jet engine .

The Russians then put this engine into the Mig15, which was used to devastating effect against us in the Korean War !

The question "why didn't we get the timber from Canada" has never been satisfactorily answered.

Cheers.

[shovel leaner 7,650]

20 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

We haven't been self sufficient in wood for a long time.

An interesting story involves wood and jet engines; 

Shortly after ww2, Harold Wilson, later to be Prime Minister, did a trade deal with the Russians. 

Part of the deal included the Russians selling us timber to be used in the rebuilding after the war, and the U K giving the Russians, plans and prototypes of the Rolls Royce Neme jet engine .

The Russians then put this engine into the Mig15, which was used to devastating effect against us in the Korean War !

The question "why didn't we get the timber from Canada" has never been satisfactorily answered.

Cheers.

We should be self sufficient in Timber . There can’t be that much oak used for period restorations and quality new builds . The soft wood that is harvested on the estate I work on , some goes to construction or pallets, the rest biomass. We are literally burning good timber . I think the reason for the French oak is it’s better quality . 

[Astanley 11,573]

Good thread this ,there is n Oak nearby that is over thousands years old ,I have spent many happy hours gazing at it ,I take a leaf off it every now and again ( I use them as bookmarks ) ,personally I think the relationship with the oak and the people of these isles goes beyond iconic or much loved ,I think there is a spiritual connection ,it provides or has provided food ,fuel and shelter for millennium s ,but it satisfies a deeper need in us , it has the attributes of a parent ,it is strong ,it endures ,it is ever present ,and being close to one makes a British blooded person ,feel safe ,feel at home and feel loved .

[WILF 47,354]

2 hours ago, Astanley said:

Good thread this ,there is n Oak nearby that is over thousands years old ,I have spent many happy hours gazing at it ,I take a leaf off it every now and again ( I use them as bookmarks ) ,personally I think the relationship with the oak and the people of these isles goes beyond iconic or much loved ,I think there is a spiritual connection ,it provides or has provided food ,fuel and shelter for millennium s ,but it satisfies a deeper need in us , it has the attributes of a parent ,it is strong ,it endures ,it is ever present ,and being close to one makes a British blooded person ,feel safe ,feel at home and feel loved .

Put much better than I ever could mate

[Greb147 6,809]

2 hours ago, Astanley said:

Good thread this ,there is n Oak nearby that is over thousands years old ,I have spent many happy hours gazing at it ,I take a leaf off it every now and again ( I use them as bookmarks ) ,personally I think the relationship with the oak and the people of these isles goes beyond iconic or much loved ,I think there is a spiritual connection ,it provides or has provided food ,fuel and shelter for millennium s ,but it satisfies a deeper need in us , it has the attributes of a parent ,it is strong ,it endures ,it is ever present ,and being close to one makes a British blooded person ,feel safe ,feel at home and feel loved .

I wish you'd had told me that before we lobbed down this 60 footer.