Rob D

That's a cool wagon for logs - just a bit of a pain if they want 2 bags!

Nicely thought out Mark - but it was fun walking out on it tho start with

I have been asking myself this for a long time. Measured a bag of pine and poplar the other day. A cubic meter weighed 420kg BUT this was black poplar and also pine (which had some decay). I'm sure another bag of pine only was a lot more.... I'll try and weigh some more bags next week of different woods.

Ditto above. The trouble with modern wood burning I've found is this: 80% of customers want dry wood to burn and are not interested in storing it or seasoning it themselves. Education will not change this I don't think - I offered every customer last year 40% off if they ordered in March and April. Only 10% took me up on this offer. It's just the modern way of life - they want it now, dry to burn now. So... I'm experimenting with a polytunnel which I've put a big fan in each end. The sides of the polytunnel scroll down and this with the door shuts pretty much seals it shut. I'm going to put a log stove in at one end and then the fans will blow warm air down over the logs, pick up moisture then the end fan will blow the warm damp air out. It will only be 'on' for 6 hours a day. This will use 4 units of electricity daily but the log burner will only be run with waste scraps of wood so should not be expensive to run. Whether it'll work in practice I don't know..... I'll put a vid up of it working.

How did you go about getting the rest of the tree down?

Sharpen whenever I think 'this saw feels like it may be dull' and it always is. My sharpening has improved a lot over the last 2 years but I still wish for a 12 volt sharpener that makes a fast and good job of the depth guages. When hand sharpening I use these pferd files that also maintain the depth guages in the same stroke. Got them a while ago and they're superb but not got round to really marketing them. I love the 12 volt sharpeners (prob in the 5% minority here) and always sharpen a chain on the saw rather than replacing the chain.

I like it how the little girl saw the danger and was shouting to the adults to get back

Glad to hear it and I hope you make a full recovery

Good work

I think most people are selling now by the volume but are talking more about buying by the ton. I suppose this is to do with what an artic can carry and deliver i.e. it needs to be measured by weight not volume. And I am not at all against importing wood for firewood - but I am saying why don't we explore better our own resources first? Our £1 looks like it will be worth less as the years go on - so imported timber will only get more expensive. Near me I see only undermanaged woodland or woodland that is not managed at all.

I'm surprised he didn't argue that his cap was plenty PPE enough!

Some pics of the timber Simon kindly provided me with for milling at the apf. There was a good varied load including beech, ash, willow and some cherry. I'll have some more pics of what the wood was turned into coming soon....

There is resistance to importing firewood because to me it does seem a waste when we have unmanaged woods here. Who will change this? Not sure if it will change but from selling mills I know a lot of poeple out there that own woodland which could be thinned for firewood. But to refer to my previous post I wouldn't mind knowing a few facts - how much wood do we import for firewood a year? How has this changed over the last few years? What sort of wood has been imported and where from? Is demand outstripping supply? If so by how much? I'm sure you may be right in what you're saying but do you have any figures and numbers about this?

As someone previously said why do we need to import? Can we not just manage our own woodlands better? Most of the woods I drive through are all unmanaged and would produce huge amounts of firewood just by thinning. Why is supply going to outstrip demand? And how much firewood do we import at the moment? I know demand is rising but it's not as if the UK has only just started to burn wood.... That's a whole lot of questions but who has accurate answers and facts!!

How do you find it mills compared to an 880 Liam? I'd like one of these or an 090 for the big bars.

Excellent - you could live in that!

Sorry to hear it - sub human scum

It's unusual because it's very very rare indeed for us tree surgeons to be overloaded

However Les Oregon chain is cheaper than Stihl chain which may have a little/lot to do with it! And Stihl dealers can sell oregon chain direct to customer online which may also have a little/lot to do with it! On the thread subject I thought Stihl dealers were not allowed to sell Stihl chain straight off the internet and that's why you can't find any!

Thanks for the replies. It's a bit of a piece of string question I suppose - like 'how much will it cost to prune my ash tree!'

If you don't get any replies on arbtalk Chris PM me and I can put it on a newsletter and send it out to my customers. A few pics would be good, access etc. We wouldn't have to put the address - just the general area. It's a shame to let timber like this go to waste.

Ho ho! Well for what you want to do - it's what the mini mill is designed to do! And you've tried without it and found it's a pain where it's easy with the mini mill! So I'm offering to sell you something that I can see you need and with what you want to do you should buy because that, my friend, is the facts!! Have a look at this video here [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO7r_1EWT34]YouTube - Granberg Mini-Mill II from baileysonline.com[/ame] it shows how it works - you get 12 ft of 2ft sections of track (you can buy extra if you need but you say you are cutting 9' logs)

Chris you would probably have got a better response if you had put 'lovely oak available for milling in 3 to 4 weeks North London - person responsible for milling must leave site clean and tidy and commit to completely clearing the main trunk' It is a myth that trees in back gardens like this are worth anything to sell but you may get someone to clear it for free which would free up at least a days work for you.

How much is oak is worth per hoppus foot standing? It's straight, various diameters, lots to be felled and just south of M25. Access is good via network of tracks. So what's it worth per hoppus foot standing? And is there anyone on arbtalk who buys timber like this?

Ho Ho! I'd love to Stevie but I love the feeling of attempting to heft big chainsaws about despite my agile frame - makes me feel like a proper tree man like the rest of you strapping lads!