Buzz

Still sunny ! How's Casper these days ?

That's funny because looking out of the office right now all i can see is bright sunshine across the Menai Straits

Blimey Scott I had no idea ! Very very nice work ! Where's the second picture taken, on the Straits somewhere ??

Jo won the masters and Stuart Witt second in the mens masters. Don't know who won for the men yet.

It wasn't physically that hard at all as all the jobs on the site had large breaks in between tree movements. Re-rigging and breakages were a ball ache but again not really hard work. It was the shear drag of job with all the little up's and down's that drains you. It seemed like we weren't achieving much on a daily basis. What we realise now is that that is just the reality of skylining, Ed and I both have immense experience in this type of work on dryier sites and had we been able to get a forwarder on this site the job would have been completed in just over a month. I have alot of respect for Ed for gutting this out when it would have been easy to walk away. Ultimatly we will reap the rewards of the hardship on this job as it is a great promotion for the kind of works we carry out. It is a talking point in the industry now as removing re-gen from raised peat bogs has been a historically herculean task. I for one am very proud of what we have achieved, yes it was damn hard at the time but looking back over these photo's and speaking to the client makes me pleased to have been involved. Topping a conifer hedge in the rain pftt ! Nothing will ever seem so hard again !

Bugger all at the moment sadly...been trying to sell two for a few weeks now..

I went and had a meeting with Notts CC tree teams last year. They had just taken delivery of two new fully kitted out Canters like yours. Crew cabs they were, with 3 men and kit they were overweight on the front axle without any load !! Being LA they parked them up pending an internal procurement enquiry !

How weirds that just drinking tea out of one of your mugs Simon ;-)

Nice job mate !

No Stevie because the sun only shone for 3 days in 4 months lol

Sums up the job nicely i feel !

One more !

Last few off of my iphone...

Ed's posted alot of my pics of this job allready but here is a few i've found..

In the two photo's above- Me on my own, Jim on the left and Andy on the right. Neither are members here though.

How about some figures Ed ? Like 400 tons of timber chipped in 3 days for instance ;-)

I'll stick the pics up I have off my phone tomorrow :-)

Arbex - Landbased Services.

Most of the time Andy the biggest kit operating on site was Mr Ed ;-)

I'd be concerned about nose weight with the crane on the trailer as well. Hopefully BC101uk will see this thread as he's the expert. Unfortunatly as you are being subbed in you can't be sure on the level of use the Mog will have towing. If it's all day every day for 3-4 weeks i might hire a tractor in instead.

Well said Andy..

Nice Siimon

Are you sure that wasn't the Blair empire on the move

Mogs are CRITICAL on nose weight on the towing point be carefull. A Botex depending on the model won't have movable axles on the timber trailer so be carefull. You don't want to end up knackering your kit. What ever you do make sure your fixed hitch is braced.

You'll need a fixed hitch (which is the cheapest option) braced back to the chasiss. Do not attempt to drag a timber trailer around with just a hitch mounted on the implemet bracket as you'll break something in a big way.