Ben Ballard
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thancks for the advice tommer:001_smile:
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Milled this walnut friday and have a couple people that are buying the slabs,they are 2"thick and 7ft long average 2ft wide, i am keeping a chunky 4"slab for my self as have have plans to for it when my wood working skills improve:001_smile: what would you think would be a fair price to sell them for per cubic ft unseasoned ?any help wout be great thancks
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:thumbup1:realy good site with good information
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sorry to hear you news hope you have a speedy recovery must have been a very stressfull time waiting to find out your results from scans and tests.
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looks good niceone, changed a bit from when i worked for you.
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one i could find from a few year ago not perfect but got the job done:001_smile:
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looks a good job mate must be great working with the horses you must have a strong bond with them:001_smile:
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nice find we have lots of deer in our woods but never seem to eat the fungi,but think they might be eatting truffels as i havent found any.
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sorry to hear your bad news ,sounds like she a lovely dog with lots of happy memories
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i use a pre filter/outer filter as i was worried about the dust in carb when milling with my 880,but like robd says the power is lost but id rarther that ,than risk of damage to saw:001_smile:
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silky always down the side of seat ready to go ,find having a leatherman handy and a good knife binoculars come in handy to, and a tape measure
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Uh Oh someone let the gardener prune the trees
Ben Ballard replied to Hollands's topic in Tree health care
best time to prune acer is summer so dont worry about them bleeding, -
:thumbup1:GREAT work rob looking forward to seeing the solid benches
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we sell at 25 a green ton hard wood for fire wood . chestnut and larch we getting 18 a ton roadside,we cut hundreads of tons not thousands as we only a small estate ,have a lot of establishment of young plantations to keep me busy and the tree work in park and gardens.
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fair amount then ,will be good to see some more pics with the horse logging,do you work on your own most or with others?,we have a 2 man team at moment .
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i know what u mean with the horse flys:lol: ,you must do some interesting jobs working for the trust what kind of tonnage do you cut a year if you dont mind me asking just interested:001_smile:
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nice one great pics good to see the holder,are you a contractor or are you a private estate woodman:001_smile:
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yes mate i love it,i realy like it as it the most far away place on the estate wear not many people go, felled a tree the other day and had deer 20m away eating the fresh cut brash some interesting groundworks about the place and found a good few old bullets from when it was used as a army training ground .
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sounds a good job with the ash log barron and sky line,i would of liked to been production cutter ,we only cut about 200-300 ton a year for the estate often doing other jobs in the parkland and a further 400 ton of chestnut coppicing that is done by someone that buys it standing,he pays me to get it out at weekends with the estates crane.
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A few more pics from the job,shifting some wood to make room to skid some more out was a bit hot to day with the fire but good to get some brash out the way:001_smile:
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amazing work:thumbup1:
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liquid amber or candy floss tree are great
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cockspur thorn could be a may be or buck thorn
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no mate just cutting for the estate i work for i opened the gulley up to the job a few years ago and took a few weeks as had to make my though a load of big beech,it the last area on the estate to be cleared from the 87 storm
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yes mate some of the root balls spring back but most stay in place as been down 20 year just a good lot of tension whith the xtra weight from the epicormics, all good fun and hope to get about a 100 ton of it
