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  1. Ben Ballard
    my mrs took most of them cheers monkeyd
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    this is what the park looks like now woodfaller[/attach][/attach][/attach][/attach][/attach]
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    u know of Daisy (ray) and brian they did a lot of the work after the storm ,i have worked with them a couple of times here on the estate when need there kit on some of the bigger jobs
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    godmersham park mate ,a realy beautiful place i love working here
  5. Ben Ballard
    that sounds good think ive seen him driving down the a28 at times does he come on this forum
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    hi iam at godmersham we been selling at 25-30 a tonne at roadside but that mixed hard woods for fire wood, id say the average dbh is 15 cm,havent had much dealings with selling chestnut and know ipulp lengths worth less what would you say it worth at roadside,
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    i have been asked to coppice some chestnut and cut it to 2m lengths and not mess around cutting it for fencing ,was going to go to our log man but he has to much sweetchestnut at moment, might have about 40 tone if my boss doesnt find any one else to sell to .if any interest i can get it to road side when the woods dry out
  8. Ben Ballard
    Hi i run a Holder we get parts from lamberhurst engineering,mainly use ours with a igland 5 ton winch,good luck finding one
  9. Ben Ballard
    i find if i have to file the bar every time i sharpen something not right,chain to tight or many other reasons i find changing the ring sprocket when put new chain on saves on the wear on bar,i find with a oregeon bar 2- times a week to file bar when using it every day:001_smile:
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    may be your boss right about a ton a day if it is first thinnings in mixed hardwood or area of regen that needs a first thin,some of the old books can be realy good as from a time when forestry more active thats why a lot of knoledge has been lost for a good few years,a least now there is more interest in forestry,and information about it now:001_smile:
  11. Ben Ballard
    nice fence ,chestnut good skills, i hope to make some of that one day,with a long stretch of post and split rail fence if one of the rails breaks and you want to replace it ,can it be done with out taking it all apart
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    looks like your bar been getting a bit hot i find the oregon bars if that one last well and paint stays on for a while if been looked after and not used when blunt,i have had the od sprocket go over the years mainly when the bar getting old or run dry ,or pinched,i grease it every day sometimes twice but sometimes these things just happen:::
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    hi john i have recently got a mill when i got it only got the 24"rail as was using it with a ms460,had to make a long term investment in a 880 as with 48"rails with 50"bar when i have saved up will get a 36"bar to run on it as the 50 a bit over kill but glad i got it as got a good deal on the saw ,it worth getting big rails to start with as would save a few £ if you decide to up grade saw,i would like to think £150-200 a day would be a fair price
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    thank you all for your sound advice shall come usefull tomorow in meeting when i put forward using it for stock and deer fencing seems the way to go,i have already got the go a head to make tree stakes and stakes to mark edges of grass strips for the els grant so they can map the gps,we have had no set up costs just 2 bill hooks to peel and axe and saw to point them and a few wedges to split the tree stakes and rails,surprised how many we made and how easy to peel in first day would say we made 150 stakes and some of that time was spent setting up a work area,so would like to aim for 200,not bad as we getting grant that covers a good part of the cost of cutting the coppice,and a stake worth about £2 ,and may be one day look into getting a pto driven pointer and peeler when i have shown it will be worth it:001_cool:
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    20 year ago we had a chestnut stock fence put up that diddnt last must of been summer felled and also the ground here is shallow flinty soil into chalk so posts cant of been in ground much so that is why my boss been put of using it until now,so looking good for using it in the future now:thumbup:it a good feeling to use our own wood and with the economics to back it up
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    cheers digga good advice,its good more people are seeing the advantages of using chestnut
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    i have a trunk iam going to mill when the tree was standing it had a lean and alot of its weight to one side,would it be best to avoid plancks warping to mill from the sides that were not loaded with the tension and compression?and when it milled and stacked in log form with spacers would putting a couple ratchet straps round ,keep plancks from bending?i ask as to get the widest plancks would have to mill the way it was leaning due to some rot on one side.
  18. Ben Ballard
    realy good advice thank you
  19. Ben Ballard
    that is what i would like as can see regulations as to what chemicals can be used in future and come to end of fences life can see people been told they cant burn it because it treated so could cost lots of money to get rid of, my problem is to convince my boss it is worth us using i have to treat it as he dont belive it ok untreated i have had a few old boys tell me that chestnut is much better than treated softwood so i go with what they say:001_smile:
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    hi all ,on the estate we have started getting our overstood sweetchestnut coppiced some going as firewood and the best poles iam using for fencing and tree stakes and rails,makes a realy good productive wet day job for us and should keep the boss happy with saving a few £.could anyone tell me what would be the best treatment for dipping the ends in and how long to soak and can this be done when wood is green or best to let them dry out a bit first for a few months? any advice would be great thancks:001_smile:
  21. Ben Ballard
    thats good if it dont spark when dried to 9%,would you sell it to people with open fires then,or still keep it for logburners
  22. Ben Ballard
    hi i did some larch 3year ago was getting £10 a tonne chiplengths and around £20 for the bars as was young thinnings with no big saw logs ,sell it now as firewood tendency to produce sparks (third grade firewood)
  23. Ben Ballard

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

  24. Ben Ballard
    also i jotted down when borrowed the book,spruce and douglas fir 2 month after felling april-september time would have 7% weight loss and pine 5% weight loss october-march would be 1.5% for spruce,douglas. and pines 1% ,2 month after felling,you can see wye foresters dont want wood sitting around for long time if selling it by the tonne
  25. Ben Ballard
    thank you everybody for pointing out my mistake with the pine and making more sence out of it

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