John Shutler

everything i bring back to the yard has value. odd length logs, stump cuts and chogs goes for arb waste timber which we are paid for by the artic load. All softwood 2.5m in length and up to 1.2m diameter goes for chip by the artic load. Hardwood cord upto 400mm diameter goes to a couple of firewood dealers, they either buy it by the artic load or i sell smaller loads delivered with tractor and trailer. Oversize hardwoods go to a couple of guys who firewood it for their own use, again sold and delivered by the tractor and trailer. Chip goes out by the artic load. il even mix stump grindings in with older chip to make a nice mulch for people who want it for flower beds which i sell by truck or tractor and trailer loads upto 35 cubic metres. the only thing that doesn’t have value to me is hedge clippings or rake up

😭 a man on the internet was mean to me

less of the fat remarks please eggs i swam 2.5k this morning

it’s to easy 🤣 i imagine it’s a bit like carp fishing, chuck a bait out and wait for a bite

maybe eggs reputation precedes him

@Johnsond I think you should take a bit of time away from arbtalk.

bare ended. Even when i used to splice a lot i could never be bothered to splice my own rigging lines

i bought a pipe swager and pipe and common fittings a couple of years back now, great investment and such a time saver. plus the cost of pipes (obviously excluding the setup costs) is phenomenally cheap, for example a 1m hose with a fitting on each end costs me about £7

nice touch that. im not big into the timber and chip sales but i reckon that i probably make 20k a year out of timber and chip out of my yard which covers my yard rent then gives me a bit of walking around money from time to time

amazing what you can hide with a couple of passes with the mulcher

Nothing of much interest over the last couple of weeks, i’ve been doing lots of development site surveys and the guys have been working on a couple of tree safety contracts for local councils. I cut an access through a hedge with ecologist supervision then made some log/habitat stacks on another development site down in dorset to satisfy an ecology condition. took a couple of knackered beech out with the roto on another site as well. i suppose variety is the spice of life IMG_2165.MOV

fair enough. Ive got an idea of what id charge and reckon I could fell it for the same sort of money as it would cost to prune it

he made a nice job on that hedge mick. any ideas what sort of money he had on it? I've turned up to price a few jobs like that and ended up convincing them to fell instead

remarkable field maple from a development site survey today IMG_2257.MOV

I had a a cone splitter on my 7 tonne machine and it was hopeless, sold it and bought a westtech cracker instead. Woodcracker L | WESTTECH .:. Woodcracker WWW.WESTTECH.AT you could run it off a spool on your tractor and feed it with the crane on the trailer all from the comfort of the cab. mines actually now bolted to the side of my heizohack