willappleby

hi i have ms 180 with a carving bar but when it broke during a job i got a new ms 211 and put the carving bar on that it much better than the 180 and not that much more to buy cost me 200 including vat and 5 litres of chain oil iuse a huski 350 for the larger cuts and the repaired 180 for the inbetweens The kids got to gether at chistmas and got me am arber tec , a great adition to my work really good for the smaller work

hi there charlieh . i have to take down a wild cheey tree , do you know if this would be any good for mushroom growing

hi bart the carvings are just great , really like the mush with the little ones at the bottom , will have a go at that tomorrow if i get time and it not raining . what estata do you work at like you i only just started carving this year but having great fun ,

Hi everyone. New to this forum stuff, but then again i'm also new to climbing despite having been on the competition circuit for about 3 years! Oh, and im married to Peter Haine, for those of you who know him!

 

Louisa

hi there bushbaby ,if your into music check out this web site (http://www.benappleby.co.uk) he is my son ,not so good with a chainsaw but prity mean with a saxophone

hi there your work is absolutely brilliant , how long have you been carving, put some more pics up , may be some a bit simpler so i can have a go at copying (need to be very simple for me though)

I think they are rubbish and you should go back to teaching music in schools, the pay cheque will be far more frequent the pension is better and Kids need music. hahahaha Thats the best Joke reply Ive ever done. Seriously tho,, they are good but you didnt really pack your full time profession in for them did you???

Nice one - you had me going! Being a slow reader it took me a while to get to the second bit!! No, I didnt pack in a full time job to do this. I stopped teaching cause I couldnt cope with the lack of discipline both from the pupils and the bolshy parents (my childs the best...).

Got very uncomfortable pain in the knees when I climbed a mountain in Norway and I've had it in the Lake District too. Its just come about again this week as we are climbing in and out of a river(dyke) and yanking limbs out etc. Is this a common complaint in arb? I reckon spiking doesn't help but then there are people who have spiked for decades without problems.

hi there lancstree

i am 53 and thought my knees were shot , got so bad some times just couldent walk without falling over then couldent get up without help .Started going to the gym when my knees were having goods days and havent looked back ,dont get me wrong still have to be carefull but am a thousand times better , it seems talking to the lads at the gym allthough you may have strong leg muscles it can be the small muscles you dont use in your job that cause the problem , give it a try you have nothing to lose and its good for the heart as well , i found it a bit , let me know how you get on

embarrising at first

I would see if there are any shows near you, Craft fairs, gardening shows things like that. Even a good market people will buy it. Regarding price i usually work out how long it took and cost of wood if any, go by hourly rate. search internet for simular products, i've seen simular mushrooms go for 50 to 100 pounds before. I've been wood turning for just over a month thought i'd give it a go, will post pics on another thread.

cheers ian, good idea will give it some thought , what saw the accident , hope it wasnt to bad always fancied trying some wood turning myself , to mean to buy a lathe allready had the chain saws from my farming days, hope it goes well for you

thanks everybody at least no one said thay were rubbish and i should go back to my last job (was teaching music in schools much happier with achainsaw in my hands)

has anyboby got any ideas on how to go about selling and what would be a fair price

what did you use to get them so smooth??

hi there i used a 4" angle grinder with a 60 grit disc ,still have the scar on my wrist where i slipped

sorry cant really sell that one i need it to do the cooking!

i used teak oil and linseed oil, but the wood is beech

hi there we went to taton park in august this year to see the carvers ,hadnt heard of it before then but was so imprested just had to have a go. Saw a wood mushroom at the local garden centre so thought i would start with that, did a few then tryed a sunflower that turned out looking rubish so went back to mushrooms i thought i was getting the hang of it a bit better now so moved back to a sun flower .... still rubbish so no more flowers back to mushrooms ,just a differnt variety was quite pleased with that ( that was till i saw what some of you chaps can do ) have now done a couple of ducks , has any body got any advise I would love to do an owl but just dont know how to start ( is there anybody in staffordshire or derbyshire who could help ) PS the one in the red and white top in the last picture is not made of wood