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  1. Mr Ed
    Garish huh? Topped off with a silk cut tie....
  2. Mr Ed
    Looks like a good job to me. Whats the problem?
  3. Mr Ed
    Hmmm, Would like to try them and give a review, as we use radio coms a lot on our jobs, particularly skyline extraction. Not sure if 200m is enough though, as we can be anything up to 500m apart.
  4. Mr Ed
    Got a 2004 Ranger 4x4 supercab for sale - CLICK HERE!
  5. Mr Ed
    Whereabouts are you?
  6. Mr Ed
    Shame, as that was a great thread.
  7. Mr Ed

    Hedge trimming

    Mr Ed replied to Rupe's topic in General chat

    I think you must have done something particularly wicked in a past life...
  8. Mr Ed
    And dont forget to boast about planting the mature olive tree in the first place
  9. Mr Ed
    Got to allow for thinning and losses shrekie I would go for eucalyptus regans in that mix, as its a fast grower with very high calorific value (looks nice too!), and some Pinus nigra or radiata as a shelter belt around the edges. Alder is very good coppice, as is Hazel, but dont let the hazel spread to far.
  10. Mr Ed
    Having seen the state of those sites before Scot started, I can attest to the immense amount of work that went into them. The one with the blue slate wall overlooks the bay at Porthmadog, and the third pic is about 1/2 a mile away from Buzz's new place at Penmon Point.
  11. Mr Ed
    Kwik chip? as in an orange tunnisen? I've seen a few, not a bad machine, by any means.
  12. Mr Ed
    Or you could just buy a proper mini skidsteer with log grapple...?
  13. Mr Ed
    hello, my posts are magically vanishing.
  14. Mr Ed
    Great vehicles, I would say yours is worth at least £4k with the tipper.
  15. Mr Ed
    I had a contractor subbing to me to do the skylining, he had given me a price (similar to 2 other skyline contractors) but let me down with a weeks notice due to ill health. I had no choice but to buy the yarder myself and crack on. Thats when I discovered all 3 skylining contractors had screwed up badly on the extraction price. We had the cutting time bang on, the chipping right, the tonnage accurate to within 1%. Just underestimated quite how hard it is. We could have chucked the towel in on the Job, but we learnt huge amounts, and it is looking like the client wants to give us a lot more work, as we did such a good job on this one.
  16. Mr Ed
    Correct! please pass GO, and collect £200...
  17. Mr Ed
    Yuk. Dog todger followed by chest hair:blink:
  18. Mr Ed
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOF0xVnSaKI]YouTube - Self Propelled Brush Bandit Chipper[/ame]
  19. Mr Ed
    £1.50 a bag trade round here, the only way to do it efficiently is to use Fuelwoods 'SPLITTA' machine.
  20. Mr Ed
    I would never run a purpose built. Excavator based machine is always the best.
  21. Mr Ed
    You can fit caravan mover motors on any light chipper.
  22. Mr Ed
    Was he getting that for just the harvesting, or had he bought the timber too? I know of guys that were working for £4.90 / tonne roadside:ohmy:
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  24. Mr Ed
    Haha, found some more - LAST pics - honest... If skylining, do not put foot on slack pulling stump to tie shoelace, as I will feel a moral obligation to slip the choker off around your ankle, yanking you across the site on your back.. Also, if you insist on trying to walk across the landing, be aware that the trees are stacked 10 ft deep. If you fall in, your work mates will insist on sitting round and laughing at your puny attempts to escape..
  25. Mr Ed
    Yes I'd do it again, but at a better price. I did this job far to cheaply. Rob, we have been told that they used exactly the same process (laying down timber) when they straightened the A590 accross the bog we've been working on, and thats only about 10 years old.

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