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Survival Skillset

Lesson 12 of 15

Which way to people? Paths, gates and forestry

40 min

You are lost in a big conifer plantation. Every direction looks the same: rows of spruce, brash on the ground, a grey sky. Then you find a stump, cut flat and low, its wood still pale and sticky with resin. That stump is a message. Someone cut this tree recently, with a machine, and the timber had to leave the forest on a lorry. So there is a road, and…

In this lesson

  • Paths and their wear
  • What it is
  • When to use it
  • How
  • Common mistakes
  • Gates, stiles, walls and fences
  • Sawn stumps and clear-fells
  • Forest roads, tyre ruts and barriers
  • Reading tyre tracks
  • Check yourself
  • Key points

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

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