I went to visit Ben working in Whitrig Wood today. He is milling the stem of a fallen ash tree into workable, and carryable, balks of timber. The area is boggy and inaccessible to tractors, so this Sunday we will all go and work together, lugging and schlepping it to the nearest point of mechanical access. Ben is using an Alaskan mill, designed for just this kind of situation, where the stem cannot be lifted out and taken to a sawmill.

Hakim