Ben Ballard

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:

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 .

i steve thancks for the link for the 3d scan we will look in to that would be realy cool

with woods you will be working are you doing it for the wood as payment you cut or do the land owners pay you to be there and give you the wood as payment if you dont mind me asking i find on my estate most of the thinning jobs that we do are at cost to the estate grants cover some of it but not much when we get the chance to do big stuff or over stood coppice we can cut and extract a amout to make it pay,the main aim is conservation here and to maintain the capital value of the woods ,

:001_cool:thancks for Bill Moore 's number for the snatch block , he was very helpfull

hi david good luck with your big weekend hopefully you wont have to tow to many people out iam going to cut my hedges and get on top of garden havin my injection for my low white blood count so wont be doing to much as has side affects like flu for a few hours after takin it i getting used to it and have it every 3 weeks probly forever but better than getting ill again:001_smile:

Hi david hows your week going and hows the new grab. i been putting loft insulation in when it was raining and finished beech and been cutting tracks back looking forward to when my grane fixed so can shift some wood got a nice amount built up now