Ben Ballard

Hi rich when is a good time for you for me to ring you sometime this week

cheers

Ben

no worries mate

hi david hows work and you ,finished cutting chestnut this morning and spent the rest of the day taking tree planting tubes and stakes to area to be done this year starting hedge tomorow so be nice to have a change for a while

:001_smile:Hi mate iam cool il let u know if come across some oak like that haventgot anyat moment,got a big lump up in woods that been down for a while so hopeto mill it in summer when thinning in that area hope your keeping well and keeping busy

:001_smile:Hi mate iam cool ill let you know if come across some oak havent got any at moment just a big lump up in woods thats been down for years that i hope to mill when thinning in that area ,hope your well aand keeping busy

hi david contractor said probly go as pulp if can find a market we have all ways put of felling the pops thinking a good market would be there now they just getting to big

that ash sounds good david hope you and your family are keeping well. i know what you mean when it comes to making time to be creative lol,hopefully when logs have stoped will get round to milling the walnut when get a free weekend,almost finished mychestnut block 1 acre,and some 4acre we have sold standing has been started this week i will extract it like last year at weekends going to be a big year for wood got a contracter coming to help fell 100 large poplars soon and some other trees near a the main road,hopefully will start planting next week i know it a bit late but had to get coppicing done so grant could be claimed:001_smile:

Hi mate cheers for the help making sence out if the figures i coppied down about m3figures

Hi David happynew year to you to i start back monday with shootday,and doing a couple loads of logs sunday to stock me and the head gardener up,i find when i have had a few days of i feel the cold a lot more so looking forward to gettring back in to the swing of things as got a busy few months

Hi rob hows it going ,i been getting on well with my new rails you sent,i am looking in to getting a 12volt grinder do you sell the F 212 sawtune or is the G 721 sawtune just as good ,cheers mate

Hi david hope you had a good week, i am looking forward to a restfull weekend .i had a email to say my arbtalk inbox was full and it said you tried sending to me i just cleared it.

Hi phil sorry to let you down :thumbdown:but i have to go up birmingham that weekend to visit family,i realy like your floating beam that you have over your fire place on pitchers of milled products how did you fix it to the wall i just got my fireplace opened and would like to do the same when i mill a nice bit of wood cheers mate:001_smile:

yes I have had my fire burning most nights for last couple weeks and realy enjoying it , and its great knowing i wont run out of wood haha have you had yours burning yet?

hi mate i will come i will find out if my mrs and work mate are comming to i will let you know cheers phil

hi steve hope you and your family are well ,me and the mrs are fine,iam thinning a birch area at moment with some windblow oaks and chestnut from the hurracane 20 years ago i have got my eye on a nice bit of wind blow big yew that i can cut some decent lengths of for my alaskan mill and still leave it to carry on growing also got a walnut to fell in park land i did some ringing around as i was going to top it and dig root out with trunk to get more value for it but found out it a bit of a old wives tale to do that and only worth doing on realy big specimins mine 3ft diameter at base so hopefully going to plank it to order or make something nice from it.Have you been busy and cutting much firewood:001_smile:

we are great thancks hope you and your family are well and your lad setteled in at uni,that must be fun digging out that old pond after 100 years ii bet you comne across some interesting things that have fallen in it over the years.Been scratching my head lots trying to work out how to fit a new grease nipple to my u j on drive shaft in a very hard place to get to on tractor it beat me ,so i rang up lamberhurst who we deal with and they said after hours of trying and lots of swearing they once managed to replace one the other way is to split tractor in two and very expencive so told me to wait until it wears out and do it then or when something else majoir needs doing when the tractor need to be in two.

Hi david the mycology report you are doing sounds realy interesting is it for the management plan?iam on the look out for a stihll 66 or 88 to do some milling .my boss seemed interested in me doing planking but my manager said it is just a hobbie and dont want to get in to it when i asked about getting a second hand saw so iam going about it myself with some money i saved from overtime this summer so hope i will find a second hand saw,

Hi david how are you,what things have you been doing on the estate getting near the shoot season?,i had my log fire opened as was bricked up 20 years ago i asked a few years back and hadnt had any joy but this year they agreed i am well happy its nice burning your own logs.Iam back on my own in the woods for a while as my work mate shattered his big toe over the weekend when moving a gas bottle at his home,hoping to get stuck in to a area of birch to thin and clearing some windblow from the great storm that i have been looking forward to doing:001_smile:

thancks for the offer of the pram but with my wife been nanny and me been the youngest in a family we have plenty of second hand kids stuff been offered to us your very right it is not worth been to proud ,got a another lorry load of wood out yesterday been saving up my overtime from it over this summer to help pay for things, might go on hunt for some mushrooms that we find fun today, been finding beefsteaks fungi and the od chicken of the woods hoping for puff ball this summer but think it been to dry down here, i give what i dont eat them to a game dealer that lives next door to me ushally swap for venison burgers or sauages or steak ,i have some half runner ducks and they are good for eggs so swap them for vedg as i dont have time to grow much you have a good week mate:

Thank you for your message hope your well ,your right it has ben stressfull times but all looking bright and arb talk been a great place to take my mind of things hope you have fun with the new truck bet you cant wait, how are you getting on with your little loader with grab seen you made good use with that conifer job you posted have you been in the woods with it yet,i have been busy thinning and coppicing a wood near a river ,had my once a year walk about with the owner of the estate this week to make a list of new jobs, will be doing some tree surgery jobs and when finished thinning .

i steve thancks for the link for the 3d scan we will look in to that would be realy cool

with woods you will be working are you doing it for the wood as payment you cut or do the land owners pay you to be there and give you the wood as payment if you dont mind me asking i find on my estate most of the thinning jobs that we do are at cost to the estate grants cover some of it but not much when we get the chance to do big stuff or over stood coppice we can cut and extract a amout to make it pay,the main aim is conservation here and to maintain the capital value of the woods ,

:001_cool:thancks for Bill Moore 's number for the snatch block , he was very helpfull

hi david good luck with your big weekend hopefully you wont have to tow to many people out iam going to cut my hedges and get on top of garden havin my injection for my low white blood count so wont be doing to much as has side affects like flu for a few hours after takin it i getting used to it and have it every 3 weeks probly forever but better than getting ill again:001_smile:

Hi david hows your week going and hows the new grab. i been putting loft insulation in when it was raining and finished beech and been cutting tracks back looking forward to when my grane fixed so can shift some wood got a nice amount built up now