Ben Ballard
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hope this some use as there is a lot of different ideas people have about weight and m3 it from foresters companion book my bible oldschool:001_smile: softwood green weight cubicmeter weight conversion pine=m3=1.98 tonnes larch=m3=1.20 tonnes dougfir=m3=1.15tonnes spruce=m3=1.04tonnes Hardwood green weight cubicmeter conversion Beech=m3=0.97 tonnes Ash=m3=1.28 tonnes oak=m3=0.94 tonnes Average weight of seasoned timber 15%moisture content pine=m3=600kg larch=m3=500kg dougfir=m3=500kg spruce=m3=400kg hardwoods Beech=m3=720kg Ash=m3=700kg 0ak=m3=740kg
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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
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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
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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.
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my first bit of milling with my ms880 was turkey oak
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Two pikeys get married.on the wedding night,she says i've never had sex, please be gentle.The groom goes outside to phone his farther.'she's a virgin,Dad, What'll i do? The farther says 'come home,lad,if she's not good enough for her own family,she's not good enougth for you!
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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:
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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?
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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
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mine 8-10" or 10-12" 0r up to 15 depending on what people want have always sold 2 year seasoned wood in lengths cut to order from stack with a tarp on top in winter dont have complaints that it not been split for ages and stored somewear inside but if i had the space i would do so but then would probly charge more only do about 30 pick up truck loads a year as it something i do in my spare time iam happy with how its done
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Realy nice bowl david looking forward to seeing more things you make:thumbup1:
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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:
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From the album: Cutter 1 photos
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:001_smile:Sounds good mate about time i met up with some arb talkers
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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.
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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,
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hi i went to egypt it was great went on a all u can eat and drink river cruze visited lots of temples and valley of the kings and on a hot air balloon wear i propossed to my mrs well worth going mate realy interesting place ,if went again would visit the pyrimids and red sea
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realy nice bit of walnut david i see you into doing a bit of wood turning i also have a lathe that my dad gave me but i havent had the time to learn the skill yet ,look forward to seeing some of your turning,iam always saving nice bits of wood for the day i get into it
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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:
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Hi iam looking forward to milling some oak with my alaskan cool vids mate i havent used mine much but been using your vids for guidence cheers,iam sure one of the fungi that turns the oak wood dark brown is beef steak fungus
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thats the way to learn from both worlds old and new there is a lot of things you can learn from him that no college would tell you, fair play,you will go a long way in this job:thumbup1:
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realy great photos flaming ace,i realy enjoy looking at old school forestry photos you post your grandad must have a lot of great stories to tell,and a good bloke to learn from:001_cool:
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thancks for the offer of the pram but with my wife been nanny and me been the youngest in a family we have plenty of second hand kids stuff been offered to us your very right it is not worth been to proud ,got a another lorry load of wood out yesterday been saving up my overtime from it over this summer to help pay for things, might go on hunt for some mushrooms that we find fun today, been finding beefsteaks fungi and the od chicken of the woods hoping for puff ball this summer but think it been to dry down here, i give what i dont eat them to a game dealer that lives next door to me ushally swap for venison burgers or sauages or steak ,i have some half runner ducks and they are good for eggs so swap them for vedg as i dont have time to grow much you have a good week mate:
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Thank you for your message hope your well ,your right it has ben stressfull times but all looking bright and arb talk been a great place to take my mind of things hope you have fun with the new truck bet you cant wait, how are you getting on with your little loader with grab seen you made good use with that conifer job you posted have you been in the woods with it yet,i have been busy thinning and coppicing a wood near a river ,had my once a year walk about with the owner of the estate this week to make a list of new jobs, will be doing some tree surgery jobs and when finished thinning .
