westphalian

This tree pusher over thing is cool. This sycamore is going to be a garden table. Now I hear you stack the planks vertically for sycamore. Is it necessary to seal the plank ends in this weather?

dry and bright in God's own county

Bloody hell you are fit. I’m 6-0 and will be chuffed to bits to get sub 14. I retire in 2 years my lifestyle will change for the better, ie more time outdoors,felling,milling and general exercise

No idea mate. There have been two small municipal woodlands planted recently. One near Durham and one near Shildon

19 days dry now. lost one stone, stone and a half to go, although come feb first i'm DRINKING. will have to lose weight more slowly, 1 day a week until target then no more than x 3 a week. say this every year, but this time i mean it ( i say that every year as well)

but to fell more than the quarterly allowance you need a felling licence and therefore a management plan which would entail replanting if the density dictated it. i'm removing dense conifers from a PAWS and will not be replanting many trees at all, returning the site to W8 woodland at natural densities

I’m in a quandary about all this. On the one hand, everybody knows we are fucked because turning your hall light out or pulling the plugs out at night so the red standby light goes off will not keep China and India catching up with the West in killing the planet. Deal with wood when you have dealt with absolutely everything else. Exhaust emissions are the killer but where to get the electric for electric cars? Nuclear doesn’t become profitable for decades and people are not ignorant of the fact that the hunt for more and more fossil fuels is not slowing down. It’s like a vegan couple saying they are not going to have children for environmental reasons. Pull the other one. Action on wet wood burning? Just a smoke screen (pun intended) Anyway, it was minus 2 here yesterday morning so that disproves so called global warming.

There is a 10 acre field 2km from my house which opens up for them spring til autumn with toilets and rubbish collections. I do hear though of other areas not being so amenable

Yep. The Full breakfast is a must

I love wild camping, especially in a bivvy. I’m a out of sight out of mind camper, no one would know I’d been there. Was pleased when Scotland made it “legal”. Was soon pissed off though when my favourite spots were all of a sudden filled with shit, bog roll and cans of Tenant ale

As mr prentice one remarked, I am a liberal. I detest intolerance. I had always lived in the city and gypsies/travellers were well under my radar until 25 years ago when I moved to my present location which has a large gypsy AND traveller community. Didn’t take long to change my mind towards them being victim to their thieving (caravan) vandalism and general anti social behaviour. I didn’t feel I needed to qualify ‘social responsibility ‘. There are always good and bad in every community. I was guessing 20-30% would be your answer. Completely taking over a village green with caravans, horse boxes, white vans, litter big bonfires and general anti social behaviour is a far cry from a horse and wagon. I’ve always understood that their anti social behaviour stemmed from them being apart from general society, loss of employment and change to way of living from the mechanisation of agriculture. A viscous circle of behaviour due to being excluded from general society and ensuring they always are In my experience most cliches are true and most reputations are earned. We are all bigoted to some degree or other. The groups at the bottom of my list of “must get to know sometime” are religious zealots and all those that choose to have no regard for others rights.

Serious question Eggs as you have lived with them. Percentage of gypsies that are socially responsible and those that are not. Ditty for travellers. Would imagine travellers have higher ratio of bad ens For comparison the Independent quotes figures saying 1 in 4 of the general UK population has a criminal record which I find very hard to believe

Sam turners Northallerton and pierce bridge Less choice though

We are 40 miles away from Appleby and they arrive here a good month before the fair starts. They use heavy gear to remove bollards, posts and similar obstructions to enable them to camp on village greens grass verges, private fields etc

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they do EXACTLY the same scams to our local pubs around Appleby Horse Fair time

can u expand on the depth gauges? do u mean more regular attention or keeping taller or shorter than other chains?

Yeah, getting if off the truck was never going to be the problem ?

the more I think about it the better it seems just doing it in the wood. A bit like sex. You may think about spicing it up by doing it on the stairs but when push comes to pull you can’t beat the old bed cheers everyone

yeah, I have seen that vid. only 10' <20" stems. agree about farm jack, another accident waiting to happen at the height of the truck deck.

no trailer, just the L200 single cab I use this for rolling onto mill but I wouldn’t like to be behind it rolling it as high as my truck plus wrong angle

I looked at ready made rollers, too expensive, I think you are right about the rope between two trees, you need two decent trees in the right place. I did build a substantial tripod with block and tackle for lifting the stem onto the mill but abandoned this for the farmer's jack which was a lot quicker. might resurrect the tripod for this. so far, a ramp seems most feasible with the winch at the back of the truck. if it's no good I will build a lifting arch, but the disadvantage of that is the free fall onto my pick up truck but that is probably easily avoided. I bet I probably go back to milling in situ

you have to earn it to owe it squire?

Bloody hell! 10k? Is that right? Between myself and 2 partners we only pay 6k. Have you shopped around? Easy to change. We are changing firms presently

You lot are cynical. What’s up with taking him at face value ie he means what’s he says? Very admirable when one admits when they are wrong. If I am ever wrong one day I hope to be able to admit it.