northcountryboy

This is a difficult one as each callout will be different, id suggest a set price for each job, ie: removing fallen tree blocking access, making safe broken limbs which involve climbing etc etc. That way you will not be wasting your time going out to jobs at short notice and possibly not getting the job. Or you could price it on a callout fee which includes the first hour then an out of hours hourly rate, as an example £100 for the first hour then £60 an hour thereafter. As for your staff, id suggest a weekly/fortnightly rotation for callouts and pay them a callout fee on top of an out of hours hourly rate. Difficult to say when no one knows what margins you work to.

This is a difficult one as each callout will be different, id suggest a set price for each job, ie:

Sad to read that the guy that set up the HCC passed away in March, this may have something to do with whats happened at the HCC.

Do you need a hand rotating your avatar pic mate?

If H-A hadn't had posted it up you could have had me all night

Yeah I can see it now, cheers. It kept saying upload failure.

Think im having trouble uploading my avatar, can anyone see it?

Right so heres my set up, the round face plate screws to the lathe and I take it you screw the face plate to the bowl blank. Watching a few youtube vids it looks like everyone favours a chuck that you can turn the base to the size of the chuck jaws then turn the bowl round which will then hold the bowl base while you turn the inside of the bowl. I take it I cant do that with my primitive set up?

Next time im turning i will do a photo casebook of what you will need to do.

That will be mint cheers, im glad pole lathes are not this complicated.

The bowl blanks I have range in size from 5inch diameter to 10inch diameter.

I'll post some pics up later. It does look like a faceplate that screws into something on the lathe, so I screw the faceplate to the bowl blank? Then how would I go about turning the base, surely the screws will get in the way or do I turn the blank passed the screws?

Ok so ive bought a wood lathe but havnt got a clue how to attach the wood to the spinney end. Do I need a special chuck as looking at some of the pics on here mine looks nothing like them it sort of screws in. All hint tips and pi$$ takes gladly appreciated.

Nice unusual piece that

What great looking timber.

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[ATTACH]141765[/ATTACH]I made these for a country park, we call these lecturns,,,?

When I worked for the forestry commission we called them interp (interpretation) boards. Used to display interesting facts about the site but normally ended up get set light to.

Having done some courses through HCC it does look a bit suss.

Cheers guys, the first one was in a bundle of seasoned planks I bought which contained oak, beech and elm but when I sanded this particular piece it didn't look like oak, even the images on the wood database didn't show it with this particular grain patina.

Can anyone tell me what this is? I think the 2nd one is cherry but not 100%

Yeah I've heard of the end grain method of construction of chopping boards too. I suppose unless your doing some heavy duty butchery in your kitchen woodworks design will suffice, most of the chopping boards and even the so called 'butchers blocks' are constructed using strips of timber biscuit jointed and glued together. I make a heavy duty chopping board in one piece of oak that is sanded down to a smooth finish that will take any amount of cutting and cleaving you can throw at it, just make sure you oil it frequently with a food grade oil.

The Horticultural Correspondence College do the RFS Cert as a home study course but its done over 2 years and doesn't look as time consuming as the Myerscough Collage course, maybe worth a look.

I started my RFS cert online with Myerscough collage last year and totally underestimated how much commitment it required, projects, online discussions, research and tests etc. I had to drop it in the end as I got that far behind. It certainly would have benefited me by going to collage 1 night a week. You have to have some real commitment to do home study as you can be easily distracted. I think it all depends on what style of learning suits you better.

Can you PM me a price and some rough dimensions and weight and I will see how much it would cost to arrange a courier.

Are you planning on selling any of the hares NorfolknGood?

He was not charging £72 . Thats what someone was willing to pay . Its called an auction ...

No s**t Sherlock.

Ive bought some blanks and boards from home-of-wood in the past and was happy with the price and quality.

Im sure the winning bidder was thrilled. I however thought it was expensive.

How would I know what his profit margin is unless I know what he paid for the timber in the first place?

I just thought £72 was an expensive price for what he was selling.