Stephen Blair

i was in Italy last year, i thought i was in heaven. monster old pollards everywhere with all the timber logged and stacked with the brash piled to dry for pizza ovens. saw some oaks up the mountains beside old shacks. they must of been getting fuel out of these trees for centuries. These bad boys were in Barga.

1 of my x yoppers called me today looking for work, he headed off to be a joiner making big bucks, now the work has dried up he is down to just a couple of mornings a week.

do you still have the landrover, i think i have seen you about the town.

dan 87. i take it he is 19. never noticed that bit.

what age are you mate?

i havent played in the tractor for ages, and have sourced some blown beech. now i just have to get bottle of whisky for farmer. I hope the frost comes back in.

it has just went off, and i think it will be frosty. black ice heaven i wreckon. Where are you based, you the guy i met once down at sharpys a couple of years ago?

i was wondering why he had an 020 on when he started, then i saw him digging into that big limb, good old ripy ripy. i bet he was crapping himself. he should of left the key ring at home and humfed up a 46. but anyone who can dink down those monster chunks get my respect anyday. bet that lad enjoys a good pollard! lol

ha ha.the monsoon has started up here about 3 hrs ago, i am hoping it remembers to go off. Give me the cold weather any day.

honey bros do the small round ones. i know what you mean about the big jaggy ones.

finally a name. Angus. saves me calling you mr arran woodfuel. 24th sounds good mate. i will go forraging next week for wood.

i just had to watch that again. superb, what a lump of a tree. you cant buy bottle!

just off the phone to a lad who wants timber, i have some alder and he is coming for it 2moro. must be ok:001_smile:

fireman, awesome. my old man goes nuts when he gets his photos back and i have wasted the family get together with a stupid face or bunny ears behind aunty. he he

buzz can type quicker than me, and has more experience with this. so just ignore my bit lol ha ha

steve was telling me the other day, good hardwood delivered to your yard no bigger than 15 inches diameter is about 40 quid a ton. its about 6-9 ton for haulage i was told. so lets say its worth 30 quid roadside. you will need to do some workings on your costs for extracting. remember its green. so if you are planning on splitting and selling it will take time to get a return. i would get a buyer to pick up from roadside and you just extract. you will get some better replies later on, i dont have any experience of this kind of work but i am tempted to go down the same route. good luck mate

there is a farm up the road from me and they have a sign saying"slow children playing" as the road goes right through there yard. A lady sent them her cv saying she was a special needs teacher and she was looking for work.

sounds perfect firewood mate, get a bogy on the mog and charge on. dont know how much its worth, but i dont think you could go wrong. are you getting it for nothing?

frank you must be getting up too late when the frost is gone, i have been down to acprices yard in june and it isnt much above freezing:001_tongue: ta fur now tit lad:001_smile:

howdy mate, i spent the day down at pats in maybole messing about with different sizes of wood. if you imagine a piece of wood quartered, then that is as much as is worth splitting to go thru processor, any more and it takes ages trying to pick up pieces to split. Even on big trunks trying to get pieces smaller than 10-12 inches is a bit of a nightmare. you end up needing someone standing bits up for you and its too dodgy with grab swinging about. I have seen the idea with the bar on the cracker to pick up with grab, but i dont think it will work that great as you need to wrestle and the piece to break rather than just squeeze. i am getting a bracket made up just now so it is a single pin to remove like the grab and rotator and i have snap on couplings. I am also going to make up a hich the same as 8 tonners and jcb. i dont think it is cost effective for someone to hire the tractor operator and cracker. but i am going to hire out just the cracker on a weekly affordable rate. it is so well built there isnt much chance of it getting wrecked. mine has the extra bars on it so it is impossible to get chunks stuck. but hopefully we can meet up next week for a play and a chat. cheers stevie.