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10 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Sounds like the life for me just out of interest what is the going day rate for a hand cutter around Yorkshire / Cumbria area? 

Hi you should be able to get £140 - £160 a day depending on expierance and what tickets you have 2 recent jobs 1 was £12 a tonne working on a average of 2.75 tonne per tree so the more you do the more you make and the other was a windblown clearance with some trees over a boundry 2 of us went and worked out at £300 each for a 7 hr working day + 1hr traveling each way so not a bad rate where are you based at ? and the views are free of charge,

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Jack would you cope felling 8 -12 of these every day felled snedded and processed ? just had 2 wk of these big lumps and just got finished about 2pm today was having tomorrow at home and then was to find my self a few days shooting to occupie my self for the rest of the wk but thats all gone tits up. now spending tues,wed,thur and fri delivering logs and timber, that tree was 55" across where i cut it and was rotten in middle.
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The curse of all foresters, butt rot
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2 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

Hi you should be able to get £140 - £160 a day depending on expierance and what tickets you have 2 recent jobs 1 was £12 a tonne working on a average of 2.75 tonne per tree so the more you do the more you make and the other was a windblown clearance with some trees over a boundry 2 of us went and worked out at £300 each for a 7 hr working day + 1hr traveling each way so not a bad rate where are you based at ? and the views are free of charge,

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That is a good going rate then and I'm in Maryport Cumbria so the minimum tickets would be cs30/31/32/34/35 then? The views are free would be a good job for head clearing as well 

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3 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:
17 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:
Jack would you cope felling 8 -12 of these every day felled snedded and processed ? just had 2 wk of these big lumps and just got finished about 2pm today was having tomorrow at home and then was to find my self a few days shooting to occupie my self for the rest of the wk but thats all gone tits up. now spending tues,wed,thur and fri delivering logs and timber, that tree was 55" across where i cut it and was rotten in middle.
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The curse of all foresters, butt rot

that was the only tree out of about 90 in last 2 week with rot in the base and that was only there due to it being a triple stemer,

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21 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

They are being gentle on you Jack.
Forestry is as harsh as it gets in arb work.
Cutting to spec is an art form. Takes a lot of practice.
Takes 3-6 months of taking shit and making mistakes before you really are able to earn at hand cutting.
Takes a few months for your body to adapt too.
Good luck
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Harsh??its fckn brutal,still have nightmares about Sitka select thinning. lol.

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4 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:
18 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:
Jack would you cope felling 8 -12 of these every day felled snedded and processed ? just had 2 wk of these big lumps and just got finished about 2pm today was having tomorrow at home and then was to find my self a few days shooting to occupie my self for the rest of the wk but thats all gone tits up. now spending tues,wed,thur and fri delivering logs and timber, that tree was 55" across where i cut it and was rotten in middle.
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The curse of all foresters, butt rot

There's some very effective creams available these days, over the counter.

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1 hour ago, Khriss said:

Looks a lovely spot @spuddog0507 tempting me ;) is it private or FC ? K

yes its a privately owned block where i have been the last 2 wk totaling 860 acers which was planted up in the 50s on a contract for Bryant & May, and for the younger lads on here Bryant & May was/is a firm in Liverpool making matches (Englands Glory) but who buys matches now, not many we all have a 5 for a quid gas lighter now a days, the lad on the harvester said its been some of the best timber he has been in for several years,

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