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Sorry. I shall put Murphy on ignore henceforth. Y'all have fun with him.

Graeme doesn't put himself up on a piedestal for all of us to admire, like you do. He is basically a humble person who is extremely good at what he does. Not an internet guru and "The greatest treeman the World has ever seen" like you. So if he makes an uneven hinge, my guess is we all figure...

I really enjoyed that, too.

Google it, please. Google can explain it much better than I can , in my halting, incorrect English. Basically it is an age or infection related discoloration of the center wood of species that don't have heartwood, like beech and ash.( those are the local ones that I'm familiar with) Beech will...

Sorbus sitchensis, most likely, considering where you live. There are lots of sorbusses named mountain ash, but aucuparia is not amongst them. Names of trees is a whole game of it's own. Olive ash is actually just good old European ash fraxinus excelsior that is old, female and have grown in...

Thanks, Graeme. Sounds like you are in the same position that I am, versus the harvesters. They are able to handle bigger and bigger wood, so eventually all that is left to hand fell here are the oldest hardwoods. While I don't mind working in those and can make a good wage doing so, it is...

You and me both, Burnham:) Getting it second hand is fine, too. Graeme, as an old logger I have to ask, what size of trees were you able to put that much tonnage ( boardfeet) on the ground in, because in the trees we grow here, doing that would be beyond the stuff of legends. Are you talking...

Thanks, Jerry. I've really looked forwards to seeing those pictures. You just moved Australia up a notch on my " places I want to go climb trees" list:D