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Also try contacting local companies, if you want regular supplies then, as above, you need to become a good tip site for a local company and they are best contacted directly. Some tips: Logs are processed into sizes ready to burn once dry, these are not going to be free as that takes work. If you are a going to be a tip site you need to be asking for wood not logs (arb arisings is the term used here). As above be flexible. Despite what the internet will tell you all wood burns(!) and releases the same amount of energy per unit weight when dry (when using a wood burner). Less dense wood does take more space but generally that is not so much of an issue (also soft wood generally dries quicker, which can be handy). In fact some softwoods are really good wood to burn once you figure out how to best split them (leave the faster burning woods in bigger chunks).

Come and watch the UK & Ireland Tree Climbing Competition 2025 This September the tree care community celebrates 30 years since the first tree climbing competition took place in the UK. So please join us in Coventry to witness the agility, precision, and passion that’s been taking tree climbing to new heights for three decades. 13th & 14th September War Memorial Park, Coventry https://buff.ly/cS7prSz To commemorate the 30th anniversary we've collaborated with Arb Fiction. He's created an incredible piece of artwork, showcasing a collage of images from picked from our competition archives, spanning the three decades of competitions. This design is now available for purchase on our online store. Explore our range of products, including t-shirts, hoodies, notebooks, and more! https://buff.ly/gxavHBb

Come and watch the UK & Ireland Tree Climbing Competition 2025 This September the tree care community celebrates 30 years since the first tree climbing competition took place in the UK. So please join us in Coventry to witness the agility, precision, and passion that’s been taking tree climbing to new heights for three decades. 13th & 14th September War Memorial Park, Coventry https://buff.ly/cS7prSz To commemorate the 30th anniversary we've collaborated with Arb Fiction. He's created an incredible piece of artwork, showcasing a collage of images from picked from our competition archives, spanning the three decades of competitions. This design is now available for purchase on our online store. Explore our range of products, including t-shirts, hoodies, notebooks, and more! https://buff.ly/gxavHBb

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Go out and try it you should try to earn say £20 hour allow half hour to start and half to finish so how many can you do in a day a £1.00 a tree is very hard into grass remember to screef off the grass before planting

Is this still possible to get done at Alice Holt? If not does anyone know other places that do this?

Not sure how thick or wide your slabs are. But, after air drying slabs down to 15 or 16%, I re-saw them into narrower and thinner sections before the final drying down to 8 to 10% suitable for use indoors with central heating. Dries quicker doing that, and less likely to develop defects such as splits, etc. I don’t have a kiln, but run a dehumidifier in the workshop and stack timber out of the way to slowly dry down to 8 to 10%. Years ago, I just used to keep the planks in the house and they gradually acclimatised before being machined to final sizes. But you might not want a stack of planks inside! Needs to dry slowly. I suspect with firewood logs the aim is to dry them as fast as possible and if they split it doesn’t matter. Andrew

BillQ you have no idea about my humanity! But I agree it was a needless death.

Also got a trainee position available.

Yet another one with little humanity for the needless death of a woman.

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Good morning Arbtalkers 😊

Morning all, Fault on mewp played up again yesterday and I had to come down from basket on rope and harness. Time to leave it at the dealers until they find and fix the fault. Happy hedge job today by comparison.

Few emails to sort out and try to jazz up a CV to send to a few folk. Groundsfest was good, meeting folk was good, outdoor, loads of working machinery and lots of people about. Not too much arb gear but still, Forst, TP, GM and TW there amongst others. FSI and Predator there too. Got to wake neighbours up in a mo with toy car going for MOT, hope he is a tad sympathetic and over looks a few things! Wee, Arthur, Whirled.

Thanks Shavey, lets see if L&S can get the smaller parts but it's good to know you've got a whole unit so I can get the saw up and running anyhow.

I think its unlikely they will get dry enough just from being air dried, I live in Glasgow its pretty damp and the slabs are to be used in a kitchen so they need to be properly dry. @Stubby It is a concern that the moisture would go into the slab yeah, I've no experience with drying floors so was hoping someone could tell me one way or the other. I assumed (hoped!) its harder to get moisture into the timber than out so it wouldn't be too big a problem though

As it happens a refugee boat crisis did start when Maggie was in charge (from Vietnam). But as soon as we started deporting them to a third country the flow stopped.

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Morning, blue sky and nice sunrise here. Off with the Robo winch this morning and boys can hedgecut in the afternoon, the 1 hedgey job I do a year for a nice older couple in the village. Have a good day folks

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Ok, not quite sunset. Today looking SE

Good Morning. Both cats slept inside last night. Must be getting cooler. Back to it. Happy hump-day.