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Specially after mounting a tranny and winches![Big Grin :D :D](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/vbulletin/aaf_biggrin.gif)
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Larry, I did furniture making in Great Britain for a couple years....wonderful tradition there for such work, really top notch.
Visiting the timber merchants near where I worked, it always amazed me, the volume of domestic hardwood that was available, and large trees as well. The elm logs in particular were huge. There were Beech woods in the area, good sized trees, with other species mixed in. That's how I remember the place, lots of great wood, albeit a number of years ago.
From what info I've found ,historically at one time the powers to be in England got worried about having enough large oaks for masts of ships .Evidently at that time the whole of the country was scrounging for firewood to keep from freezing to death .I am always amazed to see the pictures you post of the heavy forestry equipment you have over there in England. England is so much older than our country that I find it hard to believe that there is enough trees and available land to support a forestry type industry.
In 1806 they stole the whole danish naval fleet, thus effectively ending our days as a major seafaring nation.