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Hi Grump
Are you a mate of Jon Ramsey from down Hull way? He visited the workshop at new year a couple of years ago and I may have given him some for you. I think there might be something to do with knives as well. Forget now. Think I might even have spoken to you on the phone.
Bob, when you have seen some of the trees we have planked in the last ten years or so, you would call under 30" a small tree. For example one outstanding oak we have to do has a trunk of over 4' in dia at the base and is like a gun barrel for at least 60'. It tapers to about 2.5' at the crown. It came down on a private estate about 3 years ago about 3am in a storm. The nearest house is about 100m away and the owner said he thought that another big tree was coming in on his house because it was that loud. We got about a year's worth of firewood as well from this one tree.
There are another 15 beech, ash, oak and sycamore not far off that size to do as well. Keeps me fit though! Funnily enough the oak was growing in pure sand and I don't honestly know how it lasted that long. These days I try to go milling at least a couple of days a month as I find it therapeutic as well as financially rewarding. Its also a good chance to have a blether with my logging buddy as I don't see him too often as he lives about 25 miles away. I am fortunate as I do most of my logging within about a 5 mile radius of the workshop so even a couple of hours is quite rewarding

<blockquote data-quote="Mike Dempsey" data-source="post: 25922" data-attributes="member: 308">Hi GrumpAre you a mate of Jon Ramsey from down Hull way? He visited the workshop at new year a couple of years ago and I may have given him some for you. I think there might be something to do with knives as well. Forget now. Think I might even have spoken to you on the phone.Bob, when you have seen some of the trees we have planked in the last ten years or so, you would call under 30&quot; a small tree. For example one outstanding oak we have to do has a trunk of over 4&#039; in dia at the base and is like a gun barrel for at least 60&#039;. It tapers to about 2.5&#039; at the crown. It came down on a private estate about 3 years ago about 3am in a storm. The nearest house is about 100m away and the owner said he thought that another big tree was coming in on his house because it was that loud. We got about a year&#039;s worth of firewood as well from this one tree. There are another 15 beech, ash, oak and sycamore not far off that size to do as well. Keeps me fit though! Funnily enough the oak was growing in pure sand and I don&#039;t honestly know how it lasted that long. These days I try to go milling at least a couple of days a month as I find it therapeutic as well as financially rewarding. Its also a good chance to have a blether with my logging buddy as I don&#039;t see him too often as he lives about 25 miles away. I am fortunate as I do most of my logging within about a 5 mile radius of the workshop so even a couple of hours is quite rewarding</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike Dempsey, post: 25922, member: 308"] Hi Grump Are you a mate of Jon Ramsey from down Hull way? He visited the workshop at new year a couple of years ago and I may have given him some for you. I think there might be something to do with knives as well. Forget now. Think I might even have spoken to you on the phone. Bob, when you have seen some of the trees we have planked in the last ten years or so, you would call under 30" a small tree. For example one outstanding oak we have to do has a trunk of over 4' in dia at the base and is like a gun barrel for at least 60'. It tapers to about 2.5' at the crown. It came down on a private estate about 3 years ago about 3am in a storm. The nearest house is about 100m away and the owner said he thought that another big tree was coming in on his house because it was that loud. We got about a year's worth of firewood as well from this one tree. There are another 15 beech, ash, oak and sycamore not far off that size to do as well. Keeps me fit though! Funnily enough the oak was growing in pure sand and I don't honestly know how it lasted that long. These days I try to go milling at least a couple of days a month as I find it therapeutic as well as financially rewarding. Its also a good chance to have a blether with my logging buddy as I don't see him too often as he lives about 25 miles away. I am fortunate as I do most of my logging within about a 5 mile radius of the workshop so even a couple of hours is quite rewarding [/QUOTE]

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