Ben Ballard

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: