Joy Yeomans

Emergency call out by the police to make safe a silver birch on main road, they had their car search lights up it for me and cordoned the road off , quickest climb ive ever done i think , adrenaline was pumping as it had got quite a crowd - even in the middle of the night!

well bobbysm instead of dissing my reply - why dont you tell him your ideas for a firewood business - or share any of your knowledge on whatever it is you do. i was only commenting - and i did not do it abusively ive got alot of friends around us who sell logs and theres alot of forestry contractors around me who are friends, i supply alot of part time loggers some are firemen etc if they came to my yard and asked a specific question i would hepl them, but i wouldnt go and give tree surgery advice to a lucky heather transit lop and topper conifer man - my advise in the original reply was that why ask sooo many questions, if your going into logs fine, but shouldnt you have some idea of what your doing? or is this another person we all clap on the back for starting up with no idea how to start a tractor, how to use ptos safely or how to service and check a chainsaw? the original query from chippan lead me to believe that this was a complete career change/start and he didnt know anything about anything? i will no doubt be shot down in flames for commenting this - but this is where i was coming from in my reply which was meant to be tongue in cheeck and light - with no mallice or abuse given - so dont abuse me!! we both used the internet at college over 10 years ago to help us through our RFS and HND courses BUT i think to ask lots of generalities to a hardened forestry contractor at that stage i wouldnt of dared , sometimes you need a bit of knowlege to not look stupid i think before asking advice just my opinion

I would answer your response as thus; my comments were not designed to be or give abuse - you asked a question -I answered it - you may not like the comments but they were not abusive and I dont think anyone elses were:confused1: - if youve got the time to sit down and teach someone to read and write without charge you dont need money by selling firewood, so leave it to the people who rely on this for their income with employees and families to support to do that - why not set up a business giving advice for bee keepers you obviously have a knowlege of this, give advice to small holders on that, if your set on selling firewood then so be it, were not stopping you, but why should we answer ALL your questions with answers and markets that have taken us years to acheive Marks and Spencers would not tell Tescos their trade secrets that have taken years to find out themselves the internet can be valuable as a resource tool but its up to the individual to ascertain the correct answers from that information. As i gave you some advice, buy wholesale off us and retail it - as another said, by a chainsaw, cut your logs and sell as volume - what more do you want? If you choose to jump on the firewood bandwagon and heaven knows theres alot started recently - be prepared for a little friendly banter - I dont mind competition, by all means, it keeps us competative and gives our customers choice to have a rubbish load from someone else and then come back to us for quality wood:lol:

nice case, does it whistle through the exhaust - love the old IH's

think its a lambourne cab, but will check with Mr. baron, when he gets in

a very good book that hubbie likes and talks about alot is "the body language of trees" i think its called, shows how trees grow and the way different branch compositions give different tensions/compressions - well something like that anyway - Im Hort, not Arb - but I know he refers to the book alot when talking to me about how a tree "stands" when we go on walks in the forest or look at trees on sites etc - hes a bit of an anorak on that subject - the one he liked learning about when at college

during summer months, i sell what we grow in our polytunnel, once all the sticks have gone out of it, go to farmers market, car boots, youll soon find a customer base - good luck dean - gas for gas heaters if need be, but i just pot some conkers and ornamentals in the pots and leave outside to break the dormancy and they grow really well in a cold tunnel - a good source of ornamentals is four oaks nursery, near jodderall bank cheshire - wholesale prices for trade, just show your letterhead and trade chq book etc

if something "did" happen, how will you get down, with no qualified person to help - also if youve not done any climbing how will you know what knots are correct and technique is correct - sometimes its best to wait and get taught the correct way , so was not to get into bad habits - even the best laid plans can go wrong , just my opinion - I wouldnt climb on your own mate, not even with Mrs Miggins watching

its a mix of both hardwood and softwoods, was try and move it daily as it just clogs up the tractors pto etc and usually it goes off for animal bedding, but we couldnt get the trailer back yesterday and the lads were in a "lets go mad and clean up" mood, so just piled it up with the manure to spread in autumn.

sorry !

when my grandad died, a few days earlier when he knew he wasnt well, he said when i die, ill be reunited with "Energy" his horse from during the war, an Austrailian Whaler, he had it in India with him in the Army for 12 years then had to shoot it when the Japanese broke into Burmah in the early 1943 I blelive - it stayed with him all his life and never got over it, but orders were orders then, and he had to leave his horse to fight the japanese with tanks, hed been with it 12 years before war broke out. we form such deep links with animals, when we were lambing a few years back, im pretty hardened to farm life i think but we both cried when one of the little lambs died after a few days that we had to bottle feed as it was an orphan.

, well its hard to show the extend of the swamp that we call "the yard" this year its extended into the field, last years pics attached kept the swamp in check a bit, but nearly lost a wellie this afternoon taking pics

if we make the soup lumpy enough it shouldnt come out the sides:lol: super cj:thumbup:

your good! , the pics arent the best as i havent got a macro lense to try and get them in close up focus

know what your going through, its a while back that we had to have our old english bull terrier put down, but she had bad heart and was only getting worse - mum still has her little shrine of pics and ashes! - whatever gets you through i say, they mean so much there not just a dog, theyre your companion all the best - it gets easier

some pics of today, the lads decided to tidy up the yard and some pics of the two trailers we are going to build into one "superTrailer":lol:

thanks hamay, didnt know what it was, just thought it looked nice, like coral almost, on the beech stumps we have at the gateway.

hope this post is ok on this thread - we impregnated some poplar 18months ago with shitake and oyster mushroom mix and this year has been brilliant for the mushrooms - however need some room back and can sell some of these if anyone wants them I thought £20 a ring? as the dowls cost me £180 to do. Can negotiate if anyone wants the lot - pics are taken today - going over now have had some nice ones on. only selling as dont have anywhere else to put them, have to move them, and they like a damp spot pm if interested

This is the amount of sawdust moved today, after 2 days cutting, this weekend! - cant sell it/move it quick enough, didnt get the trailer to load it back in time, so had to pile it up and will let it rot down, with the other piles of the same size, will spread it on the fields.

some nice fungi growing on the old butts that line our farm gateway

Todays job - move the pile of soil after laying some concrete at Christmas, and the lorry came this afternoon bringing 100 railway sleepers - the lads are going to make a track and some chip bunkers - got to be better than the sea of mud weve had - Rohan and Tony taking turns in the digger as going cold, although Tony found how to warm his hands on the fordsons exhaust:thumbup:

business link have downloads, and just change to fit your terms , they are quite helpful and usually advice is free - google contract of employment it should come up.

i dont think the ability to spell if i was interviewing the lad would come into it, my husband is dyslexic and if we were interviewing him for a tree workers position i would not spell check his c.v.. If I were interviewing him for a forestry foremans position as site safety officer than yes, I would want someone with more academic skills - so i think your spellings comments are to but it mildly harsh. but Jamie as I think weve all commented - try and get the basic certificates - we started our company with little more than £50 in the bank and some grim determination to succeed, we took any and all work that came our way, paying for ourselves at the same time to go through 2 year part time college courses, at the same time bringing up a family with a mortgage and other commitments - if your determined and youve got to be - you WILL find a way to help yourself - take on gardening jobs, hedgecutting anything, make yourself known to local firms, ask for any casual work that comes your way to help finance the courses, if you sign on to a part time course at college it doesnt cost that much and they will get you ready for assessment then all you need is to pay for assessment when ready? if you want to be in this industry YOU CAN but in this economic climate, it is difficult and no one is taking on new staff, so you have to persevere and offer something that they require - certification, but its like anything youve got to want it, and if you go to interviews showing that passion it will come across in the interview and help you get that job. - hopefully - best of luck and hope you get there

a friend of ours said that cheaper stoves made in this country are only made out of mild steel and coated? but some from the continent like morso are completely cast iron? could this be a cause of warping - also do you get a better singe off a continental stove I would imagine one from brazil would singe all over?

I dont want to sound flippant but its taken us 10 years of hard work to get all the information that you want in five minutes - i dont mind helping anyone, but it sounds like you want your business plan given to you on a plate - if your starting a business, its up to you to source what you should be doing, what you can afford to buy and what you can afford to sell it at surely. buy your wood off a merchant or forestry contractor, chop it up season it with a bit of salt and pepper to taste :lol:and away you go buy all your logs and sticks off me wholesale and away you go, dont bother with smelly old chainsaws and log splitters, let me do all that hard work for you:lol: - all youve got to do then is sell the stuff:001_smile: