Van or car in forestry

[Moose McAlpine]

Bear in mind too that insurance companies will usually class a van or pickup as a "commercial vehicle" which won't allow you to use existing no claims on it. 

 

Is it going to also be your primary vehicle outside of work?

 

I'd be looking at something like a Disco 2. Good offroad and good workhorse, still a decent comfy car and can be had quite cheap.

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, JDon said:

an older Fiesta

be aware the eco 1.6 diesel model 2010 has less ground clearance than others, I have one. I also inherited a 1999 vitara which I rate but only enough room for felling gear.

[Donnie]

12 hours ago, Moose McAlpine said:

Bear in mind too that insurance companies will usually class a van or pickup as a "commercial vehicle" which won't allow you to use existing no claims on it. 

 

Is it going to also be your primary vehicle outside of work?

 

I'd be looking at something like a Disco 2. Good offroad and good workhorse, still a decent comfy car and can be had quite cheap.

Yeah this will be my own vehicle outside of work. I do have an MG ZS as well for the family etc. 

 

Also been thinking of a MK3 Ranger as they are apparently bulletproof but they just guzzle diesel haha. 
 

I fully expect to be working miles away though so I think a car might be best and convert it into a van. 

Edited May 29, 2022 by JDon

[dumper]

8 minutes ago, JDon said:

Yeah this will be my own vehicle outside of work. I do have an MG ZS as well for the family etc. 

 

Also been thinking of a MK3 Ranger as they are apparently bulletproof but they just guzzle diesel haha. 
 

I fully expect to be working miles away though so I think a car might be best and convert it into a van. 

Early starts,long drives on your own and hard work can be a recipe for disaster.

[Doug Tait]

Funnily enough JDon, we were in softwood windblow on Friday pulling out selected stuff to mill for the new shed at the yard.

If you'd been out with us you'd have heard Logan muttering all the reasons he's glad to be out of the woods now!

 

Remember there'll be no tea and cake in the Vicar's garden, no customer bringing you award winning pies from the butcher in Selkirk, no soup and rolls while working at Hotels, no tips from the big posh houses in the countryside, no ladies taking vids of your awesomeness for insta...

[Donnie]

36 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

Funnily enough JDon, we were in softwood windblow on Friday pulling out selected stuff to mill for the new shed at the yard.

If you'd been out with us you'd have heard Logan muttering all the reasons he's glad to be out of the woods now!

 

Remember there'll be no tea and cake in the Vicar's garden, no customer bringing you award winning pies from the butcher in Selkirk, no soup and rolls while working at Hotels, no tips from the big posh houses in the countryside, no ladies taking vids of your awesomeness for insta...

If that's the case then I'm out! 😂

 

[Doug Tait]

9 minutes ago, JDon said:

If that's the case then I'm out! 😂

 

No, follow your heart mate. Don't let Logan destroy the dream, go to the woods and find out for yourself, in a few months when you come back to be a tree surgeon there'll still be plenty cake and adulation for you but you'll appreciate it more!

 

We were thinking of a rec climb next weekend if you're free, I'll let you know.

[aspenarb]

This is a nice dry site and I had already backed the mulcher through the last bit. Completely different in the winter.

 

 

[jmac]

A car will be fine and get you up most proper forest roads unless the forwarder has been running on the road 🤦‍♂️. Stick a set of higher profile winter tyres on and make a sump guard for it if you find it's too low 👍

[spuddog0507]

Worked in forestry a few years now and managed with a estate car for many years, then I got offered a cheap L200 pick up, this made a big difference to where we could go and the time and effort it saved carrying stuff was unreal, there has been days during the winter that we have gone working and got up hills on to sites when the forest roads have had several inches of snow on them and we got there in a 4x4 but a 2wd estate or van we would of been going home and not working, I now would not go back to the estate car or 2wd and its as the saying goes , action speaks louder than words, I once asked a old farmer on his views on 2wd tractors v 4wd tractors and is answer was , one of them your going the other you not,,, very true that,