MattyF

As mick says …. There is and always has been a lot of dogs out there , unless you where spending 40k and not from Vos I would not even consider one… if anything goes wrong like brakes it will be a 1 k minimum repair bill. we had few 900’s and a 1000 over the years and for the best part they sat in the yard as no one wanted to drive a slow ,left hand drive monstrosity to site… the fact you don’t want to use a chipper on one would remove about the only plus point they do have as being able to use a large chipper off road has its benefits although they are no where near as good as a standard tractor in off road ability… I’ve seen them stuck on ploughed Feilds… that’s just my two pence worth… personally I would go the land rover or 4x4 pick up route

They should have them Mike , they replaced mine within the time line of this thread

Still on hitch based , I’ve tried most mechanicals going and they where just not for me … I did change recently to an apex wrench though which I really liked to start off with as it tended so well but found more recently it binds the hitch up solid so I guess I still need to add some friction and have a play but I just don’t get the time like I used to to fine tune things.

Like I said I’ve not looked past x static last 5 years Joe , it’s good to have some new recommendations though so thanks, I miss that about the forum !

I have never looked passed xstatic the last few years going through 3 of them , before that I liked the non ce cougar blue but was a bit heavy and briefly I think sterling scion which felt like cheese wire.. yeah x static seems to offer what I want out of a rope for srs with minimum stretch whilst still feeling good in hand whilst probably not the lightest I’m not a fan of ultra thin ropes and it’s cheap.

That was its original bar from one of the first 500i , it’s had two nose sprockets on ..one a few weeks before 3 t of ash pinched and rolled on it popping the saw apart anyway.. I know years back I had 200ts which had the spark plugs helicoiled back in … they never lasted though , I’d just buy a new head or saw.

I never found the spark plug on this one… would not like to guess where it went 🫣

I’m guessing stoat mate

Still a lot of work and money goes in to get 10 birds a gun. im no expert Alex but most I ever picked up was chatting to keepers in the pub afterwards, one of them ray was an absolute legend , quiet composed man who had been a marine In the Korean War then came to the estate I lived on at the time, he had personally planted and looked over the woods since then .. taught me more than any book Ive picked up since.

They where supposed to come back on the market when I spoke to arbortec over a year ago , I really liked them as a boot but the only saw boot now remotely similar are the pfanner juchten or Tyrol and I’d still prefer the fellhunters… why anyone can’t make a decent upland walking chainsaw boot considering the terrain of woodland and felling sites and all they seem to do is churn out multi coloured clown shoes is beyond me.

Reducing for the sake of reducing because they feel pruning will help the tree with out a valid reason then yes … I’m quite convince we have saved many trees from total collapse when reducing for the right reasons though… some times I think it can accelerate decline if done badly .. basically by folk who can’t be bothered to put the effort in and cut everything out to make it an easy climb or won’t go further for what ever reason.

There is that but it’s probably the tastiest bird you will eat... I might take a couple but I’ll only do it if I see 30+ flying over me in half hour. Beating on a shoot in Durham and they must of shot 50/50 with the pheasants be never seen as many and the guns didn’t even get a shot off at the majority, again when I beated down in Cambridgeshire you might of seen one in the entire day despite the woods being like swamps ! I’ll walk up there most nights just to watch them… snipe is something I rarely see now , I used to be able to see 3-4 in an evening on a 30 acre stand now I might see one a year.

Petition: Do not merge section 1 & 2 regulations on firearms licenses PETITION.PARLIAMENT.UK Keep section 1 firearm & section 2 shotgun licensing separate. I think this would help to protect law-abiding owners, the shooting industry, & rural communities... Only around 60k signatures so far …with 800k gun owners it’s a bit disappointing … so if you haven’t already !

I did see the other day that more Nigerian Christian’s have been murdered in Nigeria than the total of Hamas supporters in Palestine … but no I genuinely don’t think they need a taste of there own medicine, the Jewish state and its people have fought for there survival, I do feel obviously for the Palestinians who have had land taken off them but in the far bigger picture it’s insignificant to what is happening all over the world.

I’ve not met many Arabs or Muslims who have not wanted to wipe Israel off the face of the earth , Has Israel launched any nukes ? Do you not think that maybe Iran would have had a pop by now like all of its neighbours …Them having nukes probably deterred Egypt , Jordon’s and Syria trying to invade again.