Forestry Harvesting Demo 2011

[Yve_Clark]

Haha enjoy dumfries steve...

 

Looks like a good weekend wish i could go maybe next year,Hope your well Mrs C

 

We'll make sure Steve enjoys his visit to Dumfries! All good here thanks....manicly busy getting organised for the demo and then we're doing the Arb Show next week

[atree]

We'll make sure Steve enjoys his visit to Dumfries! All good here thanks....manicly busy getting organised for the demo and then we're doing the Arb Show next week

 

Sweet,Hope the show goes well for you yvonne,Cant belive how quick a year has gone.

[Steve Bullman]

Anyone going Friday?

[NI Tree]

i am not shore but aiming for friday.

[Chris Sheppard]

Me and Buzzsurgeon are heading up Saturday I think

[Steve Bullman]

Went for a couple of hours yesterday till the kids got bored. Was fantastic to see the harvesters in action and the weather as fantastic. About 1000 people through the gates on the first day I believe so quite a success!

[Chris Sheppard]

We had a ride up today, was good to actually see machines workign rather than just parked up on stands, though reckon yesterday would have been better as we about needed binoculars to see some of it as they'd covered a fair area

 

Only real negative was the car parking fee - yes, we knew there was going to be a "small" charge for parking, but £10 a vehicle was a bit of a surprise. The amount, whilst seemingly quite a lot for parkign, wasn't really the issue, more why they couldn't just say that on the website

[muldonach]

In all fairness the car parking charge also covered the bus travel to and from the site so I did not think it excessive - what was barefaced robbery was the catering - £4 for a burger certainly blunts the appetite somewhat

 

cheers

mac

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Greed - why does it creep in; makes me mad; £4 for a burger - for crying out loud! Imo £10 for parking even with shuttle bus is unreasonable. MST, local machinery dealer here do shows with free parking and FREE food. That's the example to follow.

[Chris Sheppard]

In all fairness the car parking charge also covered the bus travel to and from the site so I did not think it excessive - what was barefaced robbery was the catering - £4 for a burger certainly blunts the appetite somewhat

 

cheers

mac

 

It's not the fact it was £10 that I was getting at, more why they couldn't just put it on the website - I'd have been quite P'd off if I'd been in a car on my own and had £10 to pay to park and get the bus when a car with 5 people in would have had to pay the same between them. Even if it was just a case of paying a fiver each to get in sounds an awful lot better than getting £10 a car sprung on you.

 

I'm pretty sure there were plenty of people who were finding alternative places to park too, so gettign free bus rides

 

Those burgers didn't look too clever either

 

We timed it right on the JD stand, they brought round cakes

 

However, the fact that it was a forestry show in the North is always a bonus!

 

Just reckon that there's potential to include a few more stands maybe for the next one as I would guess a large percentage of the visitors there weren't ever really going to be in a positon to be buying a brand new forwarder or harvester.

Edited June 5, 2011 by Chris Sheppard