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I intend to check out that site thoroughly. Can you use chestnut oil on food things (salad bowls etc etc) like tung oil?

It was hilarious.....especially as i was towing a van and trailer too in my scabby looking 109.:lol:

Yeah, i did wonder if that was what you were thinking, and like you say, it was too far, about 45 foot actually!! The owner has a huuuuge pile of firewood now, anda sycamore and mahousive ash to come down asap too.

Get some mud terrains. Nothing will move in that with road tyres mate. We have all been there. I went to a farm sale years ago in an old landy with really chunky tyres, and on the way out i passed some guy in a brand new discovery shod in road tyres to hear him complaining loudly that he had just spent a small fortune on a brand new 4x4 to be put to shame by an old nail ( i think those were his words):lol:

here is one you could use....might have to get permission first though.......http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/11773-aerial-rescue-nearly-needed.html

Ian you are a star mate. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.....i have been searching for something like that for ages and ages.:thumbup:I have bookmarked that in firefox for use on monday.

No probs mate. what the pics dont show is the two huge limbs buried in the ground. I have dealt with a lot of windblown stuff, and even when i severed the root plate the butt didnt move. When we left the job there was still about 4 tonnes of trunk and the two limbs which were still secure. Plus i would rather be not tied in and ready to jump in case the tree did move, as there was a large soft landing zone all round it too. I have to say i wouldnt want to be tied to that if it did go........

Now were talking. I know you share the same sort of weather as we get- hurricanes and mega rain 364 days of the year:lol: and at the mo i reckon i am averaging £50-100/year on jackets, so £200 over 4 makes sense to me, and dry is, as you say, dry! It is really important for me as my body thermometer is a bit weird- i am either sweating buckets or very cold, and if i get wet i get very cold pretty fast the moment i stop.

Relations of mine have had to change their firewood supplier of years as he is not doing it any more/ they have lost his number/ he has moved....not sure. Either way, they live in Monmouth in wales, and this year they said they have some but it was quite expensive for less wood than normal, so i said i would try and get some numbers for them to try. I dont have any more details, but if ant of you do domestic firewood supplies in monmouth then pls PM me. Ta.

Jon- you are something else mate....where do you learn this wealth of knowledge:thumbup1:

Funnily enough, yes it was. Barny McGroo was there too, but we soon got rid of that twit by tying him to one of the sails on the mill. Hopefully that'll be the last we see of him.......he is such a nosey parker:lol:

Thanks guys, very kind of you all. I love turned stuff, but i dont have a lathe, and i think that i actually prefer doing it freehand getting wobbliness, which to me is a bit more like wood in its natural state. It is hard to really polish the inside though. The wood came from a huge beech which was as spalted as that from the bottom of the 4' dia trunk to the tip of the branches.

Arb dogs and cats......The cat is not afraid of dogs in general, and of the two dogs the brindle thing is our 11 month old mastiff/greyhound crossed with the black lab which is his mum. We also have her dad a golden lab. The cat is a more regular visitor to thelounge as we had to put the terrier down at 1am on monday:thumbdown: and it used to piss her off somewhat. They were asleep on the sofa like that for about 2 hrs!

Ha flippin ha:sneaky2: :laugh1:we know you get out there really Mr H.

Chatting to another miller the other day and he showed me ome oak he had been attempting to saw from dartmoor...it was full of big lumps of twisted metal....about sixty odd years into the tree. 2nd world war plane crash shrapnel?

I am gonna try that.

My mate recommended this youtube vid to me. There are a few others in a similar vein too......[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKiQfBs9lo]YouTube - Snatch Wars (Snatch Vs Star Wars)[/ame]

Here is my latest effort- carved out with a chainsaw, and finished with a combination of sanders and by hand, then coated with danish oil, made from spalted Beech. Carved the bulk out 6 months ago, and finished it off today.

Goretex is fickle stuff. It is a semi permeable membrane that works on temperature difference from inside to outside, and as you say must be washed with care. I dont understand the full complexities of it as it was only explained to me late last night (when i was exhausted , soaking still, and freezing cold) but something to do with pores getting blocked and tumble dryinghelping too, which can 'regenerate' the goretex. or something.LOL

I have started a collection in the field for my missus to jump horses over.......made from all those lovely hedgerow or domestic trees that have spent their unfortunate lives acting as nail/ fencing staple/ gate crook/ chicken wire........ storage facilities.:thumbdown:Found a piece of car mat nailed 20' up a cherry tree hidden in the ivy the other day:confused1:

I can understand what you mean mate- that was one coool machine, but that lorry looks very very good, esp with the crane.

I am at the end of my tether with wet weather gear. I have tried so many different things, and really thought i had it sorted with the stein jacket i got a couple of months back. However yesterday that also got relegated to the 'crap clothing' department. It seems to have lost its waterproofness already- after about 10 minutes i was absoloutely soaking and freezing cold:thumbdown:, water coming in all over, especially through those zips under the arms (why do manufacturers insist on the ridiculous things:thumbdown:). What does everyone else use, or recommend? Someone said the SIP (goretex?) ones were pretty good?

It was certainly something we could get our teeth into- there is still about 12' of trunk left and the owner has a mountain of logs too. Well spotted on the stump vice BTW, i had to look back at the thread to find which pic it was in....well spotted!!:thumbup:It is a tool that is always in the file box, as i sem to spend time getting trees out of bogs, and on that job we had 2 48" bars, a 28" bar and a 20", and loads of granite rocks about, so sharpening was deffo on the agenda, although having said that i was pretty lucky. I had to sharpen the 088 after about 4 cuts, once i had got through a load of dirt in the centre of the tree, and tickled it and the 390xp later in the day, so not too much downtime at all. That splitter system of TCD's works really really well. I cut about 4 or five 8" thick rings at a time, then cut them into handleable chunks which i then put on the trailer....TCD then split them and maxed out the landy and then i went and tipped them at the owners place 50 yds up the road. Went well all day, the only slight downside being the hideous wetness and hail. Got to go back on monday to finish it and take down a small sycamore and price a huge ash takedown too. Happy days.

Bad luck mate:sad: