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why not make your own storage boxes ? ...simple enough and you could make them to your own specifications ..

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It will not lose it's resin, it will dry ....it will lose it's water the same as any other wood , if fresh cut this time of the year then the next few months, especially May and June will probably see rapid moisture loss , however it does not move very much whilst drying ....are you milling it ?

Libtards will proclaim it is ethnic cleansing !!!

I am assuming you mean Chusan palm ......it is not really a "wood" but grass , however look up Dewey Garret an American turner who makes some interesting things with it , sandblasted to highlight the structure of the material ......

if he has been charging more than you ( and selling it ) then you appear to have been under priced !!

this is the big problem with tree work ....the overheads ... most firms charge say £ 200 -£300 per man day +vat which seems a lot of money for a 3 man team to do some basic tree work , which a lot of it is ....simple felling , hedge topping trimming chipping etc . Where as a plumber , plasterer etc have far lower overheads as part of their man day rate and probably do not have endless bloody "tickets " to obtain just to do their job so as a consequence will keep more of what they charge ...

another possibility is that he was Sergei Skripal !!!

Has Vespasian been abducted ?? .....not posted for a while ...

When you consider just how much wood a sawchain will cut in its servicable life and the money it should be making you as it is your main tool , then why does any one try to save a couple of quid ? I buy the best regardless of cost , and in the grand scheme of things of daily overheads it is too small an expense to bother thinking about ....

"ring bark " with a blowlamp !! thin barked trees like Beech will be fairly easy to do this too , it will boil the sap just under the bark and destroy the cambium layer and not leave too visible a trace as there is no need to burn long enough to "char" the bark .

What is soap ?....

Welcome to Devon Big J !! I have recently seen a job that some horse loggers have done that your machine would have been far better and far, far , more productive than .... I can see potential for more than just tree jobs with that bit of kit ...

I have often thought it is strange that if some one crashes a car whilst drunk the insurers will pay for the damage they have done ....

When you used to watch comedians ( Bernard Manning etc ) on TV on a prime time Saturday night family show tell jokes that you laughed at .....but if you were to repeat them nowadays you could cause such a level of offence in some people that you could be in serious legal trouble !!! however words such as F%*K and C?@T do not seem to cause the offence they used too !!!

I also start at the top and then on the way down kick out the hangers and remove broken branches they were stuck in !!! ... on a bad day !!!

There is plenty of work out there , just see how many tree surgeons / outfits there are ...getting a share of the market is one challenge , doing it for fair / decent financial reward is another challenge again !! loads and loads of Leylandiis out there that get bigger every year ....

Snow on beaches , sand dunes , cliffs and coastal fields today in S Devon , but very little on Dartmoor ...that is rare ....awful weather .....luckily I am driving a lorry most of this week !!

Liberon finishing oil , then waxed and then cut back with wire wool , I do not really like glossy finishes much .....

The one at Tarr Steps ..Exmoor ..

A few recently finished pieces ...a 10"dia bowl in rippled Ash , and a Hollow form in Spalted Beech approx 10" tall

just wanted to say I think it is great that on this thread , that politics and religion, usually 2 subjects that are avoided , are discussed without many being oversensitive or offensive , just goes to show what a nice bunch of lib-tard fascist , snowflake god-bothering tree butchers we all are !!!

I have spent time in South Africa and a few neighbouring countries and the logic / mentality of the indigenous population would simply astound anyone, for example .......when the AIDS crisis developed the government advised use of condoms , however black tribal / religous leaders claimed this was a plot to breed them in to extinction so was ignored , it was believed by some that they could be "cured " of AIDS by having sex with a virgin , subsequently many young / teenage girls were raped by infected men making the situation worse .... how can any one deal with a large proportion of the population with that kind of mentality , to some extent it comes down to education but the whole culture of Africa is of a different planet to our own and it is not really our right to impose our ways upon them however sympathetic we may feel to their plight , but it seems Charities are very good at making appealing cases with scenes of starvation to tug at our heartstrings to help keep themselves funded .

Kevin , a while back I believe the councils in Cornwall ( N.Coast ) put forward proposals to charge surf schools etc for using the beach and sea for providing a facility , not sure if it came in to effect though , that would have been similar to charging commercial operators for using parks ...

If you came across this piece of woodland and saw all these mutated / butchered trees whilst out for a walk and had no knowledge that it was some kind of eco-experiment I think most peoples reaction would be WTF is going on here !!!! interesting though ....