biggimmer

I'm based just south of you. I'd be happy to help out for odd days.

Lucky you! I'd mill it and sell the boards. It isn't very rot resistant but I don't know for sure how it would fair in a building sense. I know that the boards i've milled started to spalt very quickly. It has high value in board form as it basically never comes onto the market. It is wonderful wood for making furniture, chopping boards, wood turning etc...I'd buy some off you. I'd even mill it for a good deal Your oak would be the material for beams - no question.

I've been in touch with them as well and they wouldn't tell me rates of pay.....see ya.

Sir...you are too kind! I've done a few more recently. I will show some pictures in a few days.

Cheers Yes I came to the same conclusion regarding the paint.... I kind of wished I'd left it without.... Anyway I'm going back tomorrow to sort it out and will show some more pictures of the finished article. Yes I'd settled on £275, as it is just a first go and didn't take too long. This carving lark has got my attention and I'm going to try some more carvings. I spent 20 years making traditional bows and have an 'artistic side'....

My paints turned out the wrong shade....so I will be sorting the colours but these pictures should give you an idea.

Absolutely amazing turtle.....like wow....

Love it! You did a good job there....and I've caught plenty of barbel!

horizontal loads.....

If you want to know about tree strength with vertical loads and Kn numbers - slackliners. Hownottohighline on youtube does a lot of destruction testing. I've done a bit of highlining and a spot we use has two 12" oaks for anchors....nobody ever questioned them no second tree needed for redundancy and sometimes 2 lines rigged off one tree.

The other week a customer asked if I knew anyone who does chainsaw carving....I'd been thinking about giving it a go anyway so did a few mushrooms as practise and today I did a tawny owl for them. I'm going back in a couple of days to do the finer details and some painting on it. This being the first time doing a carving for a customer i'm at a loss as to what to charge? It is about 50cm tall, sat on top of a carved 'tree' about 1m tall.... and the customer really liked it so far...what would the 'going rate' be for something like that.

Hi, I might be able to help. How many days a week do you need someone for? I might have 2 days/wk spare? Where is the work and what day rates are you offering?

Tell me something else I don't know..... The bloke doesn't care if they die and for your information I have told him all of the above....

It's not up to me what the customers wants.......you can advise but you can't force them to accept your advice... Anyway thanks for your help

Hi all, I'm just a one man band at present but have potentially been given a job where I need some help! A row of large sycamore beech and an oak need pollarding down to 6 meters. So I'm looking for a 2nd climber and a groundie who is good on the ropes! Decent day rates and probably around 5 days work. Work to start asap - as soon as I've located the required help. Let me know if this sounds of interest to you. Thanks