John Shutler

taking out a row of conifers at a hotel the last couple of days, and some random other pictures from jobs over the last month or so. my old valmet 8050 setup i had 4 tractors ago, was a bloody good old thing.

my brace of valtra n174 and a t234

Property and how to be a better buisnessman, self help stuff seems to a a trend with tree surgeons from Southampton, I’m always slightly dubious of self appointed experts whatever the trade or buisnness. Good of luck with it

no need with the kamado, you just fill the basket up and light the middle of it, you can control the temp really easily with the vents and that keeps a steady burn. ive had 10hrs burning with this method and still had charcoal left at the end. the pork jowl had already been cold smoked so i didn’t bother putting anything else in with it

4hrs in the kamado gear is pretty good, i couldn’t justify a big one but the little one does fine for what i need IMG_6611.MOV

just the small one, joe junior?

1kg pork jowl about to spend a few hours in the kamado

mid/north dorset probably or north west scotland

that’s exactly the reason i did it, the frame never moves or flexes when you put a log on it, my mate had a norwood and it was awful to level up and then it’d still move when you put a log on it

my woodland mills sawmill is mounted onto a 5m long RSJ frame, i can pick it up and move it around on my low loader behind my valtra then use the roofmount to load logs if i need

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i think one of the main questions is whats beneath it? that will affect the level of faffing about required to get it on the deck

what exactly is the issue with having a replacement tree with a TPO on? The other route is you plant a replacement tree, unfortunately it "dies" within 3 years so you duly plant another to replace it, which "dies" within 3 years so you replace it again etc etc etc.

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well i’ve found it a pretty welcoming place for the last 15 years or so, maybe it’s not for you? as bob dylan said “Half of the people can be part right all of the time Some of the people can be all right part of the time But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time I think Abraham Lincoln said that “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours” I said that”

well if you don’t like it your welcome to “disappear” yourself?

disappear? arbtalk isn’t run by the KGB

THe firs time time I replaced the bearings on my old Timberwolf 150 they lasted about 50 hours,I hadn’t balanced the fly wheel correctly. The second time I did it I had more of an idea what I was doing (thanks to dean) and it’s probably still going well now

if its anything like the stump grinder I had on my boxer skid steer it'll be fairly dire

you’ll need to demonstrate that in installing the dropped kerb there will be no damage to tree roots. solutions like cell web or similar that kevin suggested are all well and good but there is often an issue with build height (as it is a no dig solution) and how the new surfacing will interface with the existing road

yes i can sort that out for you when do you need them? you can come and collect from my yard later in the week

what sort of size steve? im near sway

What would you do to enjoy your Saturday?

in your opinion, and once again your basing all your comments on your own dislike for things, the same runs true in your comments about devon, housing and the uk in general i’d challenge you to find a tidier shoot than ours, we have 4 pens that are all maintained to a high standard, ive been on commercial shoot shoots that release 10-20x the amount we do and the pens are a state. the ground our shoot is on has little to no forestry value, infact the money the estate collects each year for our rent is it’s only potential income. we manage the squirrel population and there is certainly not an abundance on the site, certainly no more than you’d expect on a holding of that size. i think you’d find it hard to call our little shoot destructive if you actually understood the ins and outs of it

so your better informed to comment on subjects that you know very little about il let you know about game shooting for the common man. Ours is a working syndicate so 10 guns all pay the same amount of money (£1400 a year for 10 shoot days plus one tenants day) we rent a few hundred acres from a larger estate comprising of several thousand acres for about 3k a year. the greater majority of that land is mixed woodland surrounded by arable land with a small barn in the middle that is the base for the shoot. we have 4 release pens that we built and maintain annually that eventually feed 8 drives. we release 1600 poults into the 4 pens around july time then try to keep them alive till when mid october when we start shooting ( pheasants are like sheep in the sense that all they want to do is die) we buy growers pellets for the birds then as time goes on corn from the adjacent farm. we all share the workload so i’m usually up there a couple of times a week as a minimum all year round. non of us are gentry, infact ones a teacher, another a welder, i’m a tree contractor and my mates a butcher. one of the guys does admin type work and another is a boat day skipper. gardener, retired cnc machine operator, building site manager and school caretaker make up the rest. we all chip in for the food on a shoot day and my mate who’s the butcher and runs a small farm shop provides the grub. it’s a stand one/beat one type affair so there’s two teams of 5 and on each drive 5 are shooting and 5 are beating. we also have about 20 people who turn up to beat. no ones paid anything but all the additional beaters are fed and take a brace of birds at the end of the day. the beaters are mostly fiends and family who come for the day out and enjoy the day and the exercise plus they enjoy working their dogs if they have one. most of the beaters have been going for as long as i can remember. one of the guns of one of the 5 man teams couldn’t make it today so two of the beaters got to shot two drives each for the day, it’s pretty relaxed. we have a beaters day mid season. the shoots been going about 30 years and generally we will shoot around 40-60 birds on a shoot day. any birds that are left at the end of the day go to my mates shop. the shoot doesn’t usually have much money left at the end of the season, it just about covers all the costs. myself and another guy usually shoot 30 foxes a year off the ground, most of those are town foxes that come across looking for an easy feed. we also manage the deer on this section of the estate. its a lot of work and no ones there for anything apart from the enjoyment of it, guns and beaters alike