Rob D

Those trousers do sound good - all those extra pockets where you could store dry beef jerky and tools and fishing hooks etc.

Well done for posting that looks a hideous barber! He'll remember this one and learn from it.

If you ever question yourself whether the chain is sharp or not..... then it's dull. I sharp chain is a thing of wonder! Look through the net for tips. The shape of the tooth is important. Madsens have some good info here Guide Bar & Saw Chain Menu Understand how the chain works and it will help you get it sharp.

I slept in the truck at the first Jonsie show - all by myself and pretty brave of me considering some of the characters roaming around in early hours. On the Bear Grylls debate - Bear is standard nickname for people called Edward as also is 'Teddy'... no I don't know why but it is! He was called it from a young age... He has done some brave things so you have to give him some credit - but I think he needs to change the way he narrates like he's constantly in a war zone i.e. slightly stooped shoulders, scanning around for potential enemies and always in a hurry.... that gets on your nerves!

I'd love to be able to put on an extra stone... roll on 41 Not very helpful to you though Dave. As said before don't eat too much in the evening and reduce sugar intake as much as possible.

Could you get a line into it (near top but where main stem still has strength) and onto a pulley in the connys on the left. Then down to a friction device (portawrap etc). Then a line to the same place - take out to the right and onto a tirfor winch. Try and get a couple of 6 by 6s under the main stem 6 foot up to pivot on and then pull the whole lot round to the right with the tirfor with someone paying out on the portawrap. Great fun

Well done for posting all the pics - went down in the right direction but I know what you mean about the hinge... it's easy to get nervous and pull the saw out a bit early. I did that on one a couple of years ago...

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