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  1. Ben Ballard
    they are great but spendws alot of time been fixed find alot of leaks and when working hard burns the oil ,perfect for having around to deal with the hung up trees ,was told you can get huge tyres for them that make them perfect in boggy places but dont do the final drive any good
  2. Ben Ballard
    yes holder with igland winch,she a good old girl perfect on this job
  3. Ben Ballard
    cheers mozza
  4. Ben Ballard
    hi all thought id share , This is a area of mainly Ash regen and sweetchestnut most of the chestnut has grown up from large felling from around the secondworld war,the access is up a old drovers route the compartment is mainly on a bank with some level areas for winching and skidding the wood to stack to be extracted by crane the area was badly hit by the 1987 storm so there is a lot of horizontal wood hung up with huge epicormics coming of them so a good challenge light thinning is to be carried out to retain best of ash standards and best chestnut poles, either maidens or coppice poles and coppice thin remainders,some of the windblow such as some of the large fallen oaks will be left to as some cool phoenix growth ,and large amounts of deadwood to be left in wood .the chestnut going for chipping for bricketts the ash going as firewood,and some bits of oak and yew i hope to mill
  5. Ben Ballard
    :001_smile:a good difference is hardwoods as a general rule will coppice grow back from a cut stump softwoods dont but there are 2 that do yew is one and the other is the coastal redwood of the west coast north america california, hope thats some use to you swinny
  6. Ben Ballard
    :001_smile:hi mate,here is a start for you, hardwood = broadleafs softwood = conifers
  7. Ben Ballard
    good thread steve cheers i have had a sort out in my cuboard under the stairs found a dead mouse that i poisoned the other week that had started to stink but could never find until now good job has helped take my mind of the dog for a while also found some old photos of her that made me smile:001_smile:
  8. Ben Ballard
    thank you for your replys:001_smile:
  9. Ben Ballard
    thancks hama this thread has helped me lots to think of the good times my dog Bess a black lad was killed yesterday on a main road, she was my best friend and companion and came to work with me all the time id say it the most sad i have been with out her,i had her for 5 years bess was 9years old .i was given her as she wasnt wanted and needed a home ,not for a while as will never replace Bess but i would like to do the same for another unwanted dog one day:001_smile:
  10. Ben Ballard
    Ditto,hope you find out what you need good luck,we cut lots of wood and have had no end of people asking for wood to start up selling fire wood,have to say no a lot as we would rarther look after the blokes that have been buying it of us for years
  11. Ben Ballard
    milling is the only time i have considered getting a chainsaw jacket but always been put of with getting to hot,be ok in the winter:001_smile:
  12. Ben Ballard
    i use all the normal chainsaw gear with a xtra thick pair of gloves,would use a dust mask for some wood ,like yew,was thinking about getting some knee pads
  13. Ben Ballard
    great vid steve,nice cuts:thumbup1:
  14. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:now that is what i call a lathe,beautiful work niceone
  15. Ben Ballard
    sending a letter to tell them would be good saves them been feeling intimidated by knocking on door
  16. Ben Ballard
    your opinion skills and knowledge are certainly not ignored on here mate,its worth its weight in gold ,your a credit to the industry good luck with finding the job you want:001_smile:
  17. Ben Ballard
    nice work what thickness did you mill the big lump of beech?
  18. Ben Ballard
    looks like bleeding canker phytophthora might have a cool affect on the wood i never milled any like that it the risk you take with milling you wont know till you looked in side:001_smile:
  19. Ben Ballard
    should do might even look better , it would be hard going on the saw with them been dead
  20. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:good job realy nice bit of wood good to see more people getting into milling and who can see more than just firewood
  21. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:very nice bit of oak good job be cool to see what you make with them
  22. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup:congratulations mate great news bet you cant stop smiling:001_smile:
  23. Ben Ballard
    nice one David you did well capture that shot are they fallow deer?
  24. Ben Ballard
    happy birthday have a good one mate:001_smile:
  25. Ben Ballard
    was it a walnut you felled mate ?what i like about these kind of benches is they all have a cool story about how it came to be a bench and doing a local bit of wood some justice:thumbup1:

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