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I've just moved to new house near lanark in Scotland, nice little detached cottage right in the middle of a private estate. It's got a nice big log burner and I've asked if I'm ok to collect and cut up the fallen trees and branches etc from around the estate for Firewood, and the agent asked if I had any qualifications, I said no but I do have an ms 880 with a 4ft bar lol so I'm no stranger to chainsaws. He replied that the estates insurance wouldn't allow me to do it all I can do is cut things on my own patch, so if I can get the wood back to the house that's fine. Problem being most of the decent windblown wood is all full trees! What would be the minimum ticket I could get so that I can cut these trees up in to managible bits or mill some of the larger ones in situ? Most would be for firewood but im hoping to mill some of the larger bits just for fun lol no felling involved.

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Ant

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From a self preservation veiw, if your used to a chainsaw then a winblown ticket would be more use to you but you probably need 30/31 first.

 

Really though its the agents call what he would accept- as its not really a work environment he may accept one of the LANTRA occaisional users tickets which will be alot cheaper

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I wonder if I could get round it my stating that I have my own public liability insurance? It's thru basc for shooting etc but I'm sure it covers me for matters relating to the shoot? Which clearing windblown trees from around the pens etc would be I would think? One of the first things they asked me was will I take over the shoot as the current gamekeeper is packing it in lol so there may be some leverage, or I could maybe get the estate to pay as I would then be an employee?

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I wonder if I could get round it my stating that I have my own public liability insurance? It's thru basc for shooting etc but I'm sure it covers me for matters relating to the shoot? Which clearing windblown trees from around the pens etc would be I would think? One of the first things they asked me was will I take over the shoot as the current gamekeeper is packing it in lol so there may be some leverage, or I could maybe get the estate to pay as I would then be an employee?

 

I think it only if your spaniel has an accident with the chainsaw whilst in pursuit of game :biggrin:

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I wonder if I could get round it my stating that I have my own public liability insurance? It's thru basc for shooting etc but I'm sure it covers me for matters relating to the shoot? Which clearing windblown trees from around the pens etc would be I would think? One of the first things they asked me was will I take over the shoot as the current gamekeeper is packing it in lol so there may be some leverage, or I could maybe get the estate to pay as I would then be an employee?

 

That sounds like a plan, until the BASC underwriters want to see chainsaw certs:001_rolleyes:

 

Back when such certification was new, there were ways around it but now it is ensconced in modern "risk averse CYA " thinking taking a way around can be the road to trouble.

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that's a fair comment treequip, should anything ever go wrong I would likely be hung out to dry. my other option is to leave the windblown stuff for the estate to deal with and maybe just get a wagon load of logs delivered to process myself? does anybody no how much a load of hardwood logs would be? roughly? and what size loads can you get them delivered in? I have plenty of room to store them but the wagon would need a grab to unload them as I don't have a forklift or telehandler etc (yet! ha ha)

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