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Brilliant. Love to try something like that. Did you carve green or seasoned?

Looks Ok. Doesn't look too burred to me. Side branch could be pretty terminal. Will certainly affect all the boards in one way or another. If it was mine id mill in to 2 " boards, but I wouldn't buy it for more than firewood money.

You've obviously got some skills. Nice work. Hope they don't move too much on you now there in the house.

It depends on a few things. For example. 10mm is thin, this will allow less airflow and cause boards to dry out slower than a thicker sticker. This may be useful in some circumstances(unstable wood in warm weather). I would guess the most common size sticker is 18mm but you could go up to 25. Obviously the bigger the sticker the more space your stack takes up. 14" apart is Ok but for thinner timber you could reduce to 12 thicker timber increase to 18. Make sure there is a sticker right on the end of your stack.

Look out for old lorry curtain sides. There the business.

This is true, took me about 7 years to be anywhere near qualified in all I do, but i do multi trade. I find my job pretty unique, but not always on a daily basis. I do get your point. 30k a year is Ok money, but not aspirational. I prefer to earn about 25 on a average 3.5 day week.

Are you suggesting that an employed experienced Arb who is good at there job should only ever expect to earn 120 a day? Seems a little low to me

Last job I was employed as was around 12 years ago(guess). Bricklayer/groundworker £150 a day. I left and went on my own for more money. Why is Arb so different?

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=97525 http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=97313 Ridiculous in my opinion.

Don't know why I read this but i did. Arb wages always astound me. Seems you should be paid more. And important to remember that you set your own wages. No body else. I work as a self employed carpenter/ builder mostly. For this I charge between 160 and 200 for day work. When pricing jobs I can earn more or less depending how they go. I also do around 4 days contract milling a month and for this charge around £360 a day. This bumps my wages up nicely. Lately I've been working for a family friend on mates rates fir 17£ per hour or 135 a day also had little milling work this last month. And to be honest I'm feeling the pinch. I'm good at what I do. Very experienced and totally tooled up. So when talking of an inexperienced grounder wanting more than 100 a day I won't comment. But when experienced arbs think that 150 for an experienced climber etc is too much, I despair. ALSO seen several adverts on here lately for lead climbers wanted In places like Oxford and London for £10 per hour? I assume these ads are jokes as I don't want to get out of bed for a tenner. Not trying to sound arrogant or anything but tenner per hour for lead climber. What's going on.

Like that. Better than a placcy bag.

My thoughts are, looks a cracking piece of ash with great shape. Best to follow the grain of the wood when milling so thickness each end should of been set by the pith. This also would reduce splitting when drying. Also ash won't last too long as a play park bench unless your willing to continually treat it. Nice work.

Just saw this on woodlots. Made me laugh so thought I'd share. 13 Large Leyland Cypress for Removal*I have 13 very large mature leylandii ready for felling and removal. Nominal fee of £15 per tree. This can be waived if you take the root too. Bicester, Oxon* Advert Start Date: 24/2/16 Contact:*Nick Newton T:*01296 737258 M:*07912 183768 *[email protected] I love paying people to work for them.

I did the test a couple of years ago cost me about £450 to get through it. One day training and test that afternoon. It was relatively easy to be honest. It's like a long driving test but there not liking at things like hand position and minor stuff. Just do it.

I'll try to make a video soon . But im off to Barcelona In couple of days so won't be for bit.

It's ex grazing so only a couple of stumps over the lot from 2 youngish squirrel damaged walnuts we decided to fell before planting. Short term plan is to mulch around trees with plenty of chip and continue mulching. Yes we have a ride on but haven't considered mowing yet. Would prefer to just keep mulching with chip but not been as easy to come by as i thought it would be. There's lines everywhere you look. incredibly hard to make it random without massively varying your spacing.

One more from My lounge window. You might have to zoom in to see them.

All finished by 11 am Sunday. Many hands and all that. About 10 sweet chestnut left that I will plant next week when I have cleared some self set poplar somewhere else Here's some pics as promised.

I have the 18v dewalt. It's never struggled. Never used a different one though so nothing to compare it too. Not a massive fan of dewalt tools anymore but had this one around 12 years and never let me down.

Interesting. Ive only done one new build lately(last 7 years) and never tested it. Don't use council building inspectors either as their jokers who know nothing about building. Can't wait Till I can afford to build my own place and I won't have any of these idiot rule makers involved. How can you air pressure test a house with compulsory holes in? Expect people to seal their houses and only need ventilation through trickle vents and expect not to have a mouldy house. These people have no clue. The passive house initiative has it right seal the house completely and control the ventilation properly.

I use 2 coats of osmo top oil on my boards. Good stuff and easy to apply. I find you need too many coats of tung oil and there's the nut allergy danger.

They don't air test all new builds only buildings that are supposed to be hermetically sealed under the passive house initiative. That is unless they started doing it in the last 3 years since I last built one. Passive house building goes to a much greater extent to seal buildings than in standard building techniques. And in this method no trickle vents are required

Top job matey. Bet you had some fun with that chair in all the mud. Is your towing machine made for that job or re purposed.

We're planting randomly at around 2m spacings. I There going on the edge of an existing woodland in a field with a few maturec trees in. It's about .6 of a hectare. After checking it is actually only 900 not 1000. And strictly no herbicide.

But bio oil is much friendlier than red. I rarely chain mill anyway but do crosscut a fair bit. Any of these things getting into the water courses or polluting woodlands is no good for me. I'm happy that my lucas runs happily on water. Would be interesting to see a study on what sort of an impact these minor amounts might have. Maybe it's insignificant maybe its not.