David oakman
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you been reading my mail ha ha. i think its all interresting hope you are well
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I just noticed you are the same age as me, have you always worked with trees or did you work somwhere else first. I am just starting to sell firewood and i have bought an alaskan saw mill if you can make them a little money they seem to be happy well apart from the agent he is never happy.
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I wanted to go on that course at flatford but i could not find the money at the time. I would also like a visit to staverton i have the number of the man who looks after it, the best time to go is when the rowen are coming into leaf and the oaks are still bare one of the old pollards is very short with this rowen growing right in the goblet.
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I was driving home tonight from orford and came past staverton sticks i wondered how many of you suffolk boys have been there, i have been there once i went ring counting to compare them with my own oaktrees, they are on light land and i am on boulder clay. the best thing i remember is the rowen and holly trees growing in the oak pollards cool:001_smile:
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I am glad the funeral went well. I had a friend in helmingham who was dying of cancer of the lungs and spine,i used to visit him and the week before his 52 birthday i went to see him and he told me it would be the last time i should see him as he had had enough and wanted to go, on my phone i had a picture of a wild flower in one of the woods and i told him i would call it peter after him he gripped my hand and said i had been a good friend he died two days later one day before his birthday. ANdrew i don't know if you have any bleeding canker material but i have two veteran horse chestnuts bleeding badly and they are in the main garden open to the public i need to know how much damage it does and how quick, these are tall trees but i do not want to fell them if i do not need to. many thanks david.
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Don't get me started all the estates around here are getting rid of there woodmen and using contractors but they do not get a feel for the woods like i do and get to know every tree and wild flower the animals and birds. Iam starting planting on monday one small plantation and 2800 hedge plants back breaking on your own still at least i have got a job.
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If you don't mind me asking where do you work? yes my job is hard work i am the only woodman with 187 acres of woodland and a400 acre park not to mention all the hedges and hedge trees that go with a 6000 acre estate.
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Cordwood is wood to be sold as firewood and a stack measures 4 feetx4 feetx8 feet and there is 1.41 cube in a cord.
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I hope you are alright ? I live at the top of an avenue of veteran oak trees and with this strong wind it roars like a lion. The problem is thin walls and i may loose some, never mind it goes with the job.
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Sorry you won't know luke taylor if you are not at otley. where do you go or are you doing your basic chainsaw somewhere like BTS training. yes i am the woodman at Helmingham Hall.
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Inspirational places you've worked at
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Picture Forum
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Iwould buy your own PPE some of the smaller things you don't need if you want to be a woodman it is a good idea to carry a whistle and when you get a job and earn wages buy timber tongs heaven to your back you pall logs in the centre and not twisting your hip and hurting your back:001_smile:
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My king charles always watch tv but the labs never look at it at all.
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Interesting pics:001_smile:
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Good stuff bob keep it coming:001_smile:
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Iwonder if we can get the tree faller to join arbtalk:001_cool:
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yes he is coming to me shortly take trunks out of the park. i thought it might of been yours andy.
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A local tree person! he also said fuel filters should be changed every year and not just cleaned.
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I have lots of maidens i was looking at on yesterday went for a walk in the park with the wife and dogs and we stood looking at this oak a monster it has a lightning strike which has now healed over or should i say sealed over
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Is there any legislation on a service on chainsaws e.g. i heard A.V. mounts should be changed every two years.
