Ben Ballard
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looks good mate i found robd's idea of using plug cutters works well to hide the bolts,work out how much time you spent making and milling it depending how far you go plaining it and sanding and adding a finish must be worth at least £200 depending what wood you used:001_smile:
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a big thank to everybody for the great replys:thumbup1: ,every thing is going fine and should be home in couple days
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today our healthy baby girl hazel arrived weighing 3 kg, my wife had c section at 10.30 this morning,my wife is been kept in the itc ward with baby just to be sure she be ok all seem ok so far so looking good and be back on the normal baby ward for a couple days i just poped home to get some rest and sorting the pets out and going back and in a few hours it the best feeling in the world been having a baby, i feel so lucky and hope to be the best dad i can be:001_smile:
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they should be ok mate we have had some trees planted in flooded areas and havent had many problems dont if hole filles up when digging down make sue the water right down when you do it planting depth to root collar,if pit planting i dig square holes as encourages the roots to grow out better than a round hole and add a bit of mycorrhizae,i stake trees mainly one third of the trees height and some times lower or higher depends on how whippy they are:001_smile:
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also mate cricket bat willows would be your kind of thing ,or some red alders[ alnus rubra] less chance of them getting phytophthora like our common alder does:001_smile:
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november till march is planting season best before christmas . dont plant when frost on ground and snow not good for roots,
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with last 2 plancks from that elm i milled made a feature of these stumps that had a very cool ganoderma
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amazing tommy:thumbup1: beautiful benches
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i use the 346xp nice saw but stihl i use for bigger saws ms460.and 880/ stihl seem easier to clean and maintenance:001_smile:
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wel said that would be my top tractor to use with a timber trailer ,small harvester head or roof mount crane,
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good list mate,how about been able to selective thin a wood as a skill with out head scratching:001_smile:
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:001_smile:a ,climber that work in harmony with the groundys are best but must be good groundys always looking out for eachother and watching climber ,i used to find the climbers that used to get everything down realy quick not giving groundys time making a tangled mess on floor hard to clear up make the job slower,
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creative thinking mate i like it, you got some good ideas:thumbup1:
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if it was all about climbing i would give my self a 2 as my heart has always been on the ground wear i work my best always wished i was a good climber but never made it and due to health reasons best i dont, did tree surgery for a for 6 years mainly as a groundy to get in to forestry that i love and the climbing skilsl i did learn has helped me, here is a big reduction i did once sorry for the rubbish photo but onlyone i have did it as wanted the experiance of doing it so i expect some abuse:001_smile:
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realy great work , good skills you got the joins look perfect:thumbup1:
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we had loads of trees hammered round here when it snowed ,seemed to be ash that got hit hardest,we always leave a few in our nursery so if a rabbit gets in it would go for the ash rarther than the trees we want gave a load of old tree guards to a friend that had all the trees in his garden attacked:001_smile:
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cool that would be a great to go to one of his seminars one day , i got a couple of his books and have found them very them useful in the past:001_cool:
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yes mate had its own donkey engine:001_smile:
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cheers mate like your milled work to
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this arrived to shift some of our wood today for our logman, i like it,the bloke that owns it had built it himself from a chopped lorry trailer, it good as can get where the lorrys can't ,giving us more places to stack wood in future
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:001_smile:hi mate this is our Jungle Buster ,we use it mainly for bramble and bracken
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cheers cracker,i like the way that no bench will ever be the same and have character with making good use of local timber better than mass produced ones,
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:thumbup1:cool vids mate,smart bit of kit you wont have any trouble getting round in the woods
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here is a some of what did with the elm i milled and have got a coulple bords left to make one more bench and had a few off cuts to make some shelves,and a sign, used a oak post that i also milled.it my first bench so hope to get better at making them:001_smile:
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great post bolt good job:thumbup1:
