woodland dweller

Here is a pic of my Massey 65, hauling some Douglas. Also run a cone splitter with it. Gets into some tight spots which it probably was not designed for.

I Have His book TREES & WOODLAND in the British landscape (revised edition) for sale £5 + £3.00 P&P. Hardback,in mint condition. If anyone interested, PM me.

Hi Chris, don't know what species, just call them scrub willows. Just up the road from you Stockland Hill, send PM if still interested.

Hi Chris, where in Somerset are you, or are you fixed up ? Taking down some willows this weekend East Devon.

Just had a woodmizer in for 1 1/2 days to saw up some of my own Douglas. £350 per day or £45 per hour plus £15 for every blade that needs sharpening. With a blade change every 3 - 4 logs it soon mounts up. You will also need some means of moving the logs or roll them downhill to the hydraulic lift. The main negative was the blade would wonder on the more knotty stuff or when needed changing, which if you are selling the finished boards may cause problems. We did 6x2, 4x2 masses of 5/8th cladding, 3/4 and 1 1/4 stuff plus 4x4 and 6x4 and to price up to buy in Tanalised softwood would be around £3,500 plus VAT so worth doing. We did 25 logs before cost wise had to stop with 25 logs left which the chap is having as part payment. As i see it running your own mobile mill is high maintenance with a limited customer base, so a lot of money tied up.

Also its very expensive on par with Oak when i had some for a door and frame. Quite brittle in texture and your planer knifes need to be sharp or you will have tear out when machining. But yes its supposed to do as it says on the tin.

Getting together an Artic load of Douglas to offer for sale for firewood. Need to know what length to cut, and approx how much to cut at around 9 inch Diameter. All roadside, easy access, East Devon, 1 load for now,any offers. 07821008603

Stolen from woods in East Devon saturday night 4th June. Not mine it belongs to a friend who unfortunately was in hospital after a tree he was cutting fell on him. Looks like more than a coincidence ! Anyone been offered one PM me. Thanks.

Just used some food safe oil from Axminster Power Tools on couple of Ash chopping boards iv'e just made, can't remember the make.

Thanks for the replies chaps. Will get some carbon filters to be on the safe side.

Fitting a new kitchen on a cottage refurb for a customer and the extractor is vented externally. Chap came and fitted the woodburner and said he could not sign it off unless we extract thro carbon filters as it was too close to extract thro the wall. Distance from woodburner to extractor about 10 foot. Never heard of this rule, is he correct ?

Hi Copford I have just resanded and reoiled our Iroko worktops after 10 years of use. It maybe the way you have oiled them as i have used the same products as yourself. I have fitted many solid worktops for my customers and had no problems. Firstly once the wood has been sanded i tip straight out of the bottle a puddle of the oil and with some kitchen paper spread this around to cover all the surface be careful about it running off the front edge ( put newspaper on the floor, to catch any drips). Then leave for about 10mins, then gently wipe off with kitchen paper any that has not soaked into the wood. Then leave to dry overnight. Repeat every 6 months. I called back to a customer who i made their bespoke kitchen that had Iroko tops and he had reoiled every 6 months for 15 years and it looked like glass !

Now sold.

Below are the pictures of the kiln. Surely it has got to be worth around £300. If someone had asked me to make the box, I would price it up at around £200, that leaves all of the electrics and the clamps for about £100. Sorry, didn't know how to rotate the pictures.

Hi Shendy, I will take some photo's tomorrow. Don't know what its worth, open to offers. East Devon

I a'm thinking about selling mine but don't know what to ask for it. All the electrical stuff is getting on a bit but the box i remade about 4 years ago. I last used it around 3 years ago to do a load of Douglas. The drying section is 3M long x 900mm wide x 1.2M high and the total length is 2.5M long x 1.4M high x 1.2M wide. The box is made from 2 inch insulated panels. Their is a clamping system inside using 6 C section irons top and bottom with 6 lorry straps, used to crank the the timber down tight to stop it twisting. Instruction manual included. Anyone interested !

Did a bit of day trading just after the recession when the stocks where low and made around £2000 a month, when work was quiet. You had to put a lot of time into it doing all the research, watching charts , pressing the button on spikes and getting out quick on falls. But as work got busier gave up day trading and brought for the long hall. We started off with £100K after selling a house and now its only worth £30K, took my eye off the ball but hey its only a loss if you sell. Lost £10K when Yell delisted and a couple of oily's have gone bust the rest have just slowly dropped and not worth selling, just hoping that by the time i retire they may give a return. All are high risk AIM shares and mostly oily's, the risk is when they drill and find nothing the share will drop like a lead ballon and when they find oil within minutes the share can triple then get out quick, bank the lot. My only advise is if you want to make a million on shares then start off with 2 million. Cos if your not careful your going to loose !

Hi All, did the Gorge 2 weeks ago, really nice day out. If you are going to do the 275 steps and the walk along the the top of the gorge well worth it but expensive, if you walk to the end of the walk up through the road you can do the walk in reverse and then down the steps and out without paying the £20. Fantastic views from the top takes about 2 1/2 hrs Also we did not know we had to pay for parking as we parked far up the road. If you do you have to walk down the road to the caves, pay and walk back up, a long way if you parked high up. Called into Burnam on sea for chips on the way home, don't buy them from the stall on the pier, they are crap, and the place is a dump.

Hi Mendip, if you are looking for a chicken house check out my website here, Sunnyfields Poultry Housing

Hi Will, its only a small show, this year they are having a waterloo 200 reenactment. Been putting up tents today and John who runs it told me it would be the last, but yep its a good one.

Blackdown hills woodlands fair this saturday 4th july, Nr Wellington somerset.

Hi all, thanks for the reply's. They will not take screen shots or anything taken from an os map due to copyright. They will only accept a site plan at 1: 1250 and a block plan at 1:500. I sent first a copy of the land registry of my place they turned it down then a 1:5000 scale forestry commission map of my place and this was also turned down. Spoke today with a planner telling them i was trying to save some money, he said you can buy them from us so did and they were cheaper than anywhere else £34 for 2 copies of each.

Hi anyone. Is their any site i can download maps for a planning application for free. On our local planning site is a link to 4 companies where for a fee you can download a site location and block plan. I know they have to make money but i'm a bit of a skinflint and £57 sounds a lot for an A4 copy of each.

Hi mendip, i tell them they a'int no good for me as i live in a middle of a wood and have a thatch roof.