Quickthorn
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David, from your posts, I'm guessing that you either work on or own an estate. Either way, are you a member of the Royal Forestry Society? It might be worth your while. You'll probably find that your local group hold some very informative outings to local estates and private woodlands.
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I've heard a few stories about people who have bought from dealers, only to have them stolen within the month. One near me bought from a certain dealer. That went about a few weeks later, then several others went the following week. They suspect that some dealers have moles working within, who tip people off when and where a sale is made, or that the dealers themselves are crooks.
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Sounds familiar. I've seen some potentially great hazel ruined because the gamekeeper has cut so many tracks and rides that almost every stool is on the edge of a block. Nothing will grow straight.
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Let them have their council work. What they gain on the contract will be lost in the constant screwing around that seems to be associated with local authority work.
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A lot of smaller woodlands suffer from lack of maintenance; also, shooting brings in a lot more £££ than any crop would for many woodland owners, so gamekeepers rather than foresters or coppicers tend to dictate what happens.
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Rain and gales now. It's starting to look like last year.
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He's talking about the Lisbon Treaty. The Irish have voted no to it, we in Britain haven't been invited to express our opinions.
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Took me a while to work out why yours didn't work.. it's .htm at the end, not .html ! -
The link doesn't seem to work.. try this
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I wouldn't be so sure of that. I think it would depend on what performance target they need to hit when they pull you, plus the personality of the officers involved.
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not sure, but i think they'd run on oak chips of a size that would smoulder rather than burn.
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Dean, it is a 130 isn't it? What's the gross?
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Big thorn can be a nightmare job, but you get some great firewood out of it.
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I'll have a go... It will depend on how far the rope deflects once the load is on, but if the rope deflects an angle A to the horizontal under the weight of the load L, the tension in the rope will be L / (2 x sinA)
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Mini Forward Trailers
Quickthorn replied to renewablejohn's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
If I was confident I had the work for it, I'd be going for the Riko setup, with the fast tow trailer. If you didn't have onboard hydraulics on the towing vehicle, you can get the trailer with a donkey engine to work the crane, so it could be used on the road without the tractor. The alternative is the alstor, which is very nimble, and has very low impact on the ground. With 8 wheels driven, it would perform better than a tractor pulling a trailer. It's disadvantages are that it's a dedicated forwarder, and therefore less flexible, whereas you could set the riko onto any other task you have an implement for. Plus, the alstor only comes with a petrol engine, so no rebated fuel use. There was also the pedestrian operated iron horse from Jonsered. I don't know if they do them any more, but they were horrendously expensive when I asked. This sort of smaller kit seems to be extremely dear for its size. -
Perhaps I'm just tight, but it seems a lot just to weigh a vehicle, which would probably take 5-10 minutes.
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Seeing as though I had a bit of time plus a typical load of logs on the truck, I thought I'd check how close I would be to my gross weight, as well as how the axles were loaded. They wanted £10 to weigh me at the local public weighbridge Does that seem just a little bit excessive?
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It'll start with fresh fuel. Maybe a squirt of wd40 over the ignition parts if you think it's got damp in storage. If you do struggle, try dripping a little fuel directly into the carburettor, just to get it to fire. Shouldn't need it if the saw is only 12 months old
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Lee, do you know who the supplier is for that trailer in the pic you posted? That's the sort of thing I'm thinking of.
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I've seen a lot of transit sized trucks knocking around "collecting" scrap. They're getting good prices at the moment. I took some fencing wire down to a local scrapyard, and they were paying £160/tonne for that sort of steel. The place was frantic with punters bringing stuff in. One bloke had a trailer full of lead sheet, all folded up, so i'd imagine some vicar some where is going to get wet next time it rains on a Sunday. Watching the scrapyards would be how to catch them.
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Holly is quite hard, and it's good for things like wedges, small handles, etc. It doesn't often come in such large sections, though.
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This is true, especially the Landrover bit. I've heard of a few cases where people have bought from a dealer, only to have it nicked within the month. In one case, it looks like they came back a week later to take a couple of others in the area, and it's normally pretty quiet there. They suspect a mole at the dealers - or possibly in the last case the dealers are crooks - who is tipping off someone when they've made a sale.
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That's a good idea, charlie, and I've already got one, a 200Gb external hard drive by freecom. I back the important stuff up onto that.
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I've thought of building my own, but it seems all the parts add up to more than a whole system would cost. Does this sound like value for money? Dell Optiplex GX280 - Tower/Desktop Pentium 4 2.8GHz 1024MB DDR2 RAM 40GB SATA Hard Disk (Add £20 for 80GB) Floppy Disk Drive DVD Rom (Add £20 for 16x DVDRW) 10/100 Wired LAN (Add £15 for WIFI Card) Soundcard/Speakers Keyboard/Mouse 8 x USB 2.0 ports (2 front and 6 rear) Windows XP Pro £195 There's a second hand flat screen monitor option for an extra £40, too. From what I've seen, if I bought all those components, it would come to more than £195 By the way, If you divide all those numbers by 4, that's roughly what I've got at the moment..the processor runs at about 750 MHz, there's 256 Mb RAM, and the hard disc is 6Gb
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It is worth looking round, especially for electricals. It's hard to find bits to repair them sometimes, because a lot of dealers simply tell you they're non serviceable, and you need a new one. that happened to the starter motor on my landrover. All the local parts places wanted £100+ for a new one, but a friend told me of a backyard auto electrician, who repaired it for £30.
