Tony Croft aka hamadryad

probably whats called hard maple, several species.

Norway is a goodun, like granite and popular for blocks, especialy expensive ones like this would be

Living the dream!

kind of, a lot of hard work involved both prior and to come!

Mindful of the sensitivity of asking for an insight into someone's personal life, and no offence intended (or taken if you say bog off!) it sounds like there's something pretty major on the horizon. Sounds intriguing, any chance of an insight?? 👍🏻

Off grid lifestyle in rural bulgaria:biggrin:

Come on, when so many people in the UK are struggling financially it's hard not to make a moral judgement on someone with so much money that they would struggle to spend the money in a hundred lifetimes...

and this statement is the essence of the problem. If we direct our anger and frustrations at the ones who cause those stresses and angers and frustrations (rather than at our own kind, in this case JK)

Its about time Tony, enjoy you new life

its on;ly just beginning, we move in september, then the world becomes a new and most wonderous place again:thumbup1:

man alive, nowt more messed up than the minds of folks

listen to wayseer's manifesto

Off op topic, nice to hear from you Tony, sounds like you done really good , sort of lifestyle we all dream of, a true eutropia turn in life.

We get what we attract, what we manifest, I learned of it, and am indeed as you say, having more than my share of the good life

unsustainable practice, we should be looking at more sustainable approaches, and once the customers understand WHY it is a crap thing to do, i mean think about it! threy will avoid kiln dried

Replying to this thread feels like it's been a waste of my time.

not at all, means i no longer have to do the night shift on such things, so good on ya:thumbup1:

The on site vote on this is Honey fungus , hedging in close proximity is dying, TO has also visited the site and had a scratch around , he also thinks so. ?

sounds about right:001_smile:

Thanks stu I will check him out , I've tried to watch a few u tube vids being a complete noob and only found a few educational !!

Quick ash type platter /bowl that came off a small burr just finished from this morning, any constructive advice much welcome... Now it's stopped raining should get back out side !

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your doing well matty!

nice bit of ash that, the bowl gouge takes a bit of practice, avoid the tip and back of the wings and you should be o.k, thats where the catches happen, i just bought a 3/4 inch gouge which has enab.ed me to get better with them. I have gotten so used to scrapers they are my main tool and im getting pretty efficient with just a scraper now. Lots of sharpening keeps it cutting clean as a whistle. I use the sorby pro edge sharpening wise, its pucka but expensive initialy, once you have it all its cheap on belts

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A eucalyptus reduction from the other day. Gutted I didn't get a before shot but I was pleased with the end result as it was quite a hard reduction.

get the befores!

agreed

daedaleopsis confrogosa

cant beat horse chestnut burr, very lightwieght though, but stunning once polished:thumbup1:

Ive been turning some similar brown oak, that bench is the nuts fella, well done, and dont take less than 750.00

Depends your age, but if you coming out the forces see if they will pay for some arb qualies. Climbing isn't worth it, **** work for rubbish pay and once the body is done then what?

its true that when the body is losing its lustre it is a hard thing to take but as for the poor wages, well yes im on the same money as 8-10 years ago, but I couldnt earn this much as unskilled labour in any other job!

Amid sized Magnolia that the client felt was once again growing too big for its boots.

Leave it be, it will strengthen where it needs to - axiom of universal stress...

axiom of uniform stress:lol:

can only repeat already said, service is second to none, tree source and summerfield.

Jo at tree-source is a gem and grossly under appreciated

Some cracking work there Tony and some quality original makings - impressed

thanks fella, gotta get in touch soon for as stock up, chains etc bent thew 56 inch rails, and shredded the belt on my sharpener, snapped some u bolts on the mill, been grafting!

could make a lovely bowl out of that bulbous growth!

nice to see good quality work still getting posted, well done to the last few posters, good jobs

The great tragedy is it was all preventable, but yet again the industry big shots refused to listen to the practitioners (who really knew long before) that it was imminent and advised on how to stop it.

Unfortunately there is a vice like grip on commerce and the World trade organisation is all too powerful