David oakman

Nice bit of Elm Ben. I had a huge Ash pollard with a big goblet come down last week and i have got the trunk sitting in a meadow waiting to be milled up well if i get time LOL

Do you find woods work hard or is it just my age i came home today cold and my bones all ached but i had a little friend with me all day today a little goldcrest.

Tomoz i am going to wire any new early purple orchids i went to look today and 25 fallow deer ran out oh dear. Then i have got to go and brash a compartment in a large wood, then same as you spraying and grass cutting.

Hello ben what u been up to today? i have been cleaning out a pond i am glad it is finished get back to tree work tomoz.

I just saw your face and i thought hello i know that face i have seen it in lots of books and magazines.

What do you do with the large poplar trunks Ben? I have a lot of them but don't really know what to do with them LOL

We have got a nursery near here selling trees and shrubs of local provenance i supply him with acorns from my veteran trees he sells them as his heritage range.

Interesting that you as a woodman are trapping here the gamekeepers do it for me they use fen traps on a ramp it seems to work well they tell me how many they get but they might be telling porkys.

they said it was a thorn or maybe tick bite still whatever i thought my time had come

Welcome to the woodmans choice.

I sell firewood in the quad traler and the tractor trailer it has kept me busy at week-ends i am now trying to get enough for next year. i thought you would have taken your cs 30 31 last year? i bet you are still using one at home LOL

ARE you self employed or employed?

Where abouts in Norfolk are you Rupert?

Woodlands worker well done keep it up.

No i do not climb, i do most of the tree felling. all the roadside trees and the climbing work goes to a contractor. i risk assess the trees and if i pick up on any defects i tell the agent who then gets some quotes and a contractor. a long chain of command as i could get lots of people off of arbtalk to do the work and they would come a lot quicker.sometimes they say yes to work sometimes no last year i had a climber in to deadwood a 600 year old oak which has a nice low crown.

Yes it is mine they bought me one at last how easy it is with a chipper i can do more work LOL

Yes i long for a dry spell, we are flooded here the water is going over the top of all the ditches and going overland as all the pipes and drains are blocked with the hedgecutter clippings. today i had to repair the park fence before we loose the sheep again i picked up two dead sheep today and a lamb, there are at least 20 lambs but it is to wet and cold for them.

Thanks for the info on the 026 i have been looking at it can't grasp most of it yet. the parts list will be very handy just quote part number brill many thanks.

Hello ben yes the same here i have had the loader loler tested. I have got to go on a refresher course for spraying it is the first part the one on all the laws and stuff. I am not planting this year as no money. this is good as i can spend more time in the woods i am working out now where to go as there is so much to choose from all the best david.

Sorry to hear that, as i said to you before i am only here because of the shooting. you sound a bit like me i would rather be doing something than nothing. i hope work picks up for you in the new year.

Hi joe have you been reading cernearb thread on lanyard setup that is very interesting good pictures too.

Do you use crossbows as well?

Where do you work? what woods have you got where you live?

Welcome to the woodmans choice andy.

Ben now you really do sound like me i am the same i say yes to every job so as to keep my job. as an old estate worker told me you are just a number and when you die or leave you will be replaced in a week.