as time goes by

[Stubby]

Who's Andy Stubbs?

 

Beats me . Iv never heard of him . Some nobody I guess

[aspenarb]

Old is what we are ! . It seems to me only yesterday when the 86 storm hit . Any way soon they will nail the lid on and say " Andy Stubbs ? " no don't remember him ......

 

 

Just make sure you die potless and owe loads of money Stubby , perhaps father a few illegitimate children or both . No one will forget you for a very long time

 

Bob

[Stubby]

Just make sure you die potless and owe loads of money Stubby , perhaps father a few illegitimate children or both . No one will forget you for a very long time

 

Bob

 

There is a difference between remembering fondly and hating ones memory

[skyhuck]

I heard that the secret to slowing down the speed at which life passes by is to do NEW things. The problem with things we have done hundreds of times before is our minds drift, remember those journeys you have driven 100's of times, often you reach the other end and can remember very little of of the journey. Life is the same, find new hobbies, go to new places, you will noticeably feel life slow:thumbup1:

[Stubby]

I heard that the secret to slowing down the speed at which life passes by is to do NEW things. The problem with things we have done hundreds of times before is our minds drift, remember those journeys you have driven 100's of times, often you reach the other end and can remember very little of of the journey. Life is the same, find new hobbies, go to new places, you will noticeably feel life slow:thumbup1:

 

Interesting Huck . Some times I drive a rout and a car is in front of me . He turns left before me and I turn at the next one to end up on the same main road . In my head I say blue VW . Will I be in front or still behind . By the time I get to were he will come out I have forgotten what car and what color

[openspaceman]

Interesting Huck . Some times I drive a rout and a car is in front of me . He turns left before me and I turn at the next one to end up on the same main road . In my head I say blue VW . Will I be in front or still behind . By the time I get to were he will come out I have forgotten what car and what color

 

Snap!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Great post Standing price in 1981 - wow!

[Wood wasp]

I went for a walk with my daughter's dog, a bit further afield than normal. We drove past a 24acre plantation for sale. I extracted the clear fall here in about 1981 using a bog standard County and double drum winch. The parcel had been bought at auction at the top of the market £30/m3 standing, larch and pine a bit under thinned. We got about 2 24'6 and a few bars out of most trees plus precious few utility poles which we had debarked using spades (very low yield).

 

Stacking area was so tight after a few days I went out and bought a Bomford blade for the County which also meant I wasn't doing wheelies dragging 8 trees out at a time. Reg was the foreman for the partners that had bought the parcel and was felling and topping 150 trees a day, about 45m3, he was in his mid fifties by then, his two assistants and mine crosscut and stacked. My extracting only just kept up with him, luckily he was topping at 5" so not much pulp to deal with

 

The thing that made me remember it was we parked the tractor down a lane opposite with an elderly couple, they invited my wife and I in for tea one day and told us they were married on the day the last crop of barley came off the field that became the plantation, now for sale, 54 years previously.

 

I have never set foot on the place since but it doesn't look like it has been thinned since it was replanted.

 

I had same feeling other night when out cycling as I came down small path towards loch. Realised it was site my Old Man had clear felled when I just have been about 7, I remember being in county skidder cab when he jumped out and then got bit agitated. Turns out he'd reversed over a wasp nest and they weren't happy!

 

Typical FC site which hasn't been replanted and is now just regen hardwood scrub

[openspaceman]

Great post Standing price in 1981 - wow!

 

Yes and the market had just started falling by then, I think I could look back through my books and get the right date.

 

What you need to understand is that there was a tariff on timber imports till 1992 and also big incentives to industrial timber users to set up in less favoured areas, the effect of this wasn't felt by us harvesting contractors as the demand just increased standing prices.

 

Landowners that clearfelled then, even prematurely like this parcel, probably benefited the most and if they had let it go full rotation they would have lost out as by 1986 sawlogs were only fetching about that much delivered.In fact I believe the sawmill that contracted to buy the sawlog element of this job went into administration during the job. We were laid off before the job was finished and the contractor's team of three finished it alone with a roadless 75 with hydratongs.