MattyF
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My sister told me her gas and electric bill is around £500 a month, nearly the same as their mortgage! Our only heating cost is the genny going off an hour or two a day to charge the electric that the water pumps are using in the wood boiler.. usually free during the summer thanks to solar but it’s amazing how useless solar is during the winter !
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It's poll time 😊 This week it's about your age when you started in Arb 🌳
MattyF replied to KateH's topic in Picture Forum
16 when is started .. coming up to 45 now. -
I blame skateboarding and tree work for being an arthritic cripple at 45! Even using a basic hammer or paintbrush flairs up issues in my wrists … gone are the days where I would of thought nothing of splitting 50 tonne of rings a year for firewood thinking logs splitters are for pussies.
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Seriously I would forget about any axe use if you have pain in your wrists or elbows .. it will just speed up any problems , get any power assisted log splitter ..tractor pto being the best or even a cheap electric one.
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GreenMech Evo205DT (fixed base tracked) and Tri Axle Stolen.
MattyF replied to PeteB's topic in Stolen Equipment
I would love to see the actual figures of how many chippers get stolen … out of 7 I’ve owned four have been stolen .. I would estimate it at around 50% of machines will get stolen maybe 90% or more depending on area. it’s a bloody big problem any way. -
Christmas tree millionaires
MattyF replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
You would be a millionaire mate 😆 -
Christmas tree millionaires
MattyF replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
They don’t , I did one local 14ft display tree first thing , a take up and down job then 6 at £30.. some of those had come from Whitley bay and Gateshead … they just wanted to take there kids in to countryside walk through 30acres of trees and choose one.. kids love it. I don’t really take it seriously to be honest and would happily let them all grow on and be harvested later. -
Christmas tree millionaires
MattyF replied to Ty Korrigan's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I took £450 today selling 7 trees .. I probably could of made 1k plus if I’d gone and done tree work for the same hours but then I could of not sorted out my house log shed whilst waiting for 7 people all day…if any one wants to buy a few thousand lodgepole or norways let me know at any time 😆 £6 each and you can sell them for £30 + = 30k -
Good stuff.
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How Much Wood do you Burn in a Week of cold Weather?
MattyF replied to Billhook's topic in Firewood forum
Maybe a cube a week on this for two houses water and heating. about one tub a day on the esse for cooking. and maybe two barrows a day for the other three fires if they are lit… to be honest that’s rare and only on holidays in winter if there’s people in the house.
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How can I make my 201tc more powerful (without porting it)
MattyF replied to Maxd's topic in General chat
Aye but they are ported too so you get the benefit.. my feeling was when they started getting cracks in the exhaust they lost a lot of torque, sounded and picked up great though… if you liked hearing damage. -
How can I make my 201tc more powerful (without porting it)
MattyF replied to Maxd's topic in General chat
Thing is on the ms200 holes in the exhaust made them loose power , I think a 2 stroke needs a bit of back pressure for optimum power, the 2511 has a cat so is restricted and I guess the ms150 was for emission related reasons. -
How can I make my 201tc more powerful (without porting it)
MattyF replied to Maxd's topic in General chat
Take a 9mm drill bit and drill anywhere sensible that won’t melt the plastic… I’ve done it on 150’s they are noticeably restricted but they are also plastic crappy clamshell engines , 2511’s it makes them noticeably better but I’ve not done the 201 … but I can’t see why it would not give a slight increase, literally takes 30 seconds and transforms any saw that feels restricted. To be honest the only 201 I have is an old model with the upgrade flywheel on and I hated the saw so much even after I did the mod I still can’t bring myself to use it… I could try it and report 😆 -
Haha bloody awful mate and I think the sips where not much better , I did actually once put a saw in the back of my leg in the middle of summer raising and thinning an Avenue of street limes , descending my rope had a whole pile of lime epi and hung up crap on it and was caught up in more epi, so I’m trying to thrash away with the saw under me to get down and to the next tree and it runs up the back of my leg! To be fair I would have never of done that with type a’s on.. mind you I can still surprise myself still , managed to skip a saw off a boot on a dismantle last week… not something I’ve done for years but I guess it’s why we wear this stuff no matter how experienced and good we think we are.
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Mind you they were probably absolute shite back then and more capable of giving you heat stroke after 10 minutes in July.
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I stopped wearing them about 18 years ago after getting kidney stones and I’m sure that was from getting constantly dehydrated in summer, I’ve honestly never felt the need to go back to them.
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How long you been wearing type c’s for ? If over ten years have you ever had kidney stones? I will religiously wear saw trousers on site but I would never wear type cs and I would never cut under or at the back of my legs either.
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Aye why not , if you have the time im up for a laugh… In situations like that I find it difficult to remain calm .. all character building I guess.
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Really because they stopped me from working on a willow over a school playground and class room that had split in half and was hung up over a class room …. Absolute waste of my time for 4 hours listening to some twat read me my rights for disturbing a supposed bats nest in the tree, how fi king dare they over ride the parking of there cars over Childrens safety , any way there was more chance of them using my arse crack as roost than this particular tree, still made me lower out every bit so they could inspect for bats though.. again a compromised tree with no rigging or climbing anchor points.. waste of space and opinion.
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Ohh I’ve got a good one , same ecologists who have stoped me working on three different sites now , costing time and money so they can claim there fee with ridiculous statements about the trees containing bats had a large ash tree split and hang up over there staff car park, when I pointed out that it had about 20 bat boxes in and there was no way I was touching it. I was told it was fine as they were registered handlers, absolutely amazing I said because you have cost me 3 days works with the wages of 9 people , it was not fine then was it. some of the most retarded ideas I’ve seen on wet land sites for development and forestry … how the hell any of them got a degree is beyond me.
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Deserves post of the week that John.
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Would be too small , you would have to weld quite a bit on to fit the John Deere forks.
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There’s a kelfri dealer in bishop Auckland mate, I would just be wary it’s Chinese steel , but it’s possibly also because I cut it down to fit the avant it’s exerted stress where it should not have.. it’s not serious and still works fine and to be honest the avant steel seems to bend as much 😆
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I got a cheap Kelfri one I cut down for the avant and it’s good but metals a bit bendy 👍 … I can’t justify buying a normal timber grab as you can probably carry/ drag brush piles 5 times the size on open sites we are mostly on as you have seen mate. Would keep large logs steady but not a necessity mate if your gonna put it on the 2650.
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Did you ever try the woodland trust for hedge laying ? They where desperate for them around Gateshead a few years back on projects
