My private weekend playground

[rowan lee]

Glad you're all enjoying the pictures lads. It might be crazy on behalf doing more work on my time off from the 'real job', but its the sense of freedom you get doing this kinda work in this kinda place that money can't buy. Pure contentment, I love it.

[rovers90]

Glad you're all enjoying the pictures lads. It might be crazy on behalf doing more work on my time off from the 'real job', but its the sense of freedom you get doing this kinda work in this kinda place that money can't buy. Pure contentment, I love it.

 

Money cannot buy that!

[rowan lee]

Bit of clearing up along the main drive after the diligent farmer swept through with his digger Rhodie bashing. He is a messy fecker

but I got some nice lengths of laurel and ash out of it for billets.

 

Over the last few weekends I moved back up to the NE end of the estate woodland, where some older trials are being re-opened after many years of neglect. First order was to remove the upper crowns of these windblown sycamores, that have been down for some time. New growth close to the root plate seems to be establishing itself well, and will be interesting to see what becomes of these in years to come. Got some nice wood from these, also for firewood, and woodturning. welded up a simple device for lifting logs upright in the splitter.

[MaxwellArb]

So as the ram goes up, it pulls the log upright? Good thinking...

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Can't imagine why owner never comes back to see his estate .....

 

But I met guy in restaurant when I worked in London who lived in Chelsea and had estate in devon

 

He hated countryside and never went back .......

 

I suppose if I had flat in London and estate in Ireland I'd never go to London.....

 

Takes all sorts

[harvey b davison]

Cracking pictures, keep em coming.

[rowan lee]

Mostly been doing the firewood stuff this spring. We had some cracking weather back in Mar/Apr. Welded up a new frame for sawing billets on as well. Sits nicely on pallet toes and thus can be raised to waist height as needed for loading/unloading. During the summer I have been making up these wooden crates for seasoning, as IBC availability is an issue. I get these lovely used core box planks free from work in the mine.

[sandspider]

Looks good.

 

Is there metal in the frame that's sitting on the back of the tractor in the first pic? Not sure where you welded it!

[rowan lee]

No, its the rack in pic.2 I'm referring too. Cheers.

[sandspider]

Sorry, I meant in pic 2! The one with the multiple slots for chainsawing logs to length? Looks like wood bolted together...