MattyF

160k to get put on mains ... one alcoholic fuc wit engineer that can not even program an inverter properly it's a bit frustrating.... no one knows what they are doing up here and charge the earth for it.

On paper or salesmen tell you that ?

We need to upgrade our pv's as they are 20 years old but run a largish turbine and geny to a victron inverter and battery bank , I guess the genny is going off every two days if there is no wind , it can be a week in summer.. I'm not overly happy with our set up as the genny should kick in if the battery gets below 50% but it usually plunges us in to darkness at around 65% , my phone is sporadic in when it wants to connect to victron and gives false readings like yesterday it was saying it was 61% and would not let me connect to the board to turn it on remotely so got in to a panic about getting back and the genny on but when I did it was reading 81% ! Luckily there is some one here all the time so it's if no real concern but I would love to find some one to set it up properly ... and install more PV's as our engineer is useless at best. Bill Peirce on here has a good set up and it didn't cost him the earth , also he can use an electric kettle and dishwasher which is like black magic too me !

I'd try and get a job with them clearing trees even if it's all ground work would be a quick way in ... , they are going to be very busy for a while,will give you hands on experience on what trees fail , where and why they fail and how common it is within certain species .. would give you a good starting block for your career.

That's all that could be said about it in my view..

Check your krabs then check them again when they are in use and that all is functioning , any are liable to fail or stick no matter what make, I've had nearly new DMMs fail on me ... but as for the isc snap locks ....I'd never use a snap lock of any make any way , can't stand the things.

2000 isn't a bad device, better than a porter wrap maybe not far off a fixed ratchet strapped bollard in terms of keeping slack out of big lumps... 16mm line would handle most trees with it.

Was still cutting them in 2011 🤷🏼 timber merchant sharks !

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/profile/100010353068445/?ref=permalink&tab=listings Looks the business , cheap for what it is too.

There are so many factors and other vectors involved,!no tree , location or weather will be the same and that sharing years of experience couldn't be summed up in a few paragraphs , spending and having some one share experiences hands on would be far better... or by learning from your own errors as long as your not putting your self in danger it's not rocket science but experience will give you the knowledge to know when and how to use cuts best for the situation.

Not only do you increase the risk of leaving tears and damaging the collar if you cut close in a big heavy branch will also damage buttress roots and trunk if it hits them. Different woods and cuts will al have different out comes the larger the timber to a degree the less predicable it can be.

Isn't it then napalm ?

Spanish Rioja or argy Malbec with a rare cooked steak for me... other wise I'm on any lager or IPA to quench a thirst.

I was chatting to a harvester driver today who had been called to clear wind blow on the forest roads and he recons the estimate was less .but that could be just for the west of the forest where we are.. I did have the FC ringing up on Sunday for hand cutters to get the roads opened around spayed Adam as they recon it's been flattened but again I've not seen it first hand.. it's bad though , village up the road still has no power or water. It's going to deflate the market for sure !

What ever the winch is rated to but I doubt it would be suitable for any thing over 3 tonne if that! , it's the gearing on the winch not the tractor that makes the pull ... I think [emoji38] I've used 4 tonne winches on 40hp tractors and your more likely to flip the tractor than stall the winch. But you do need the HP when you start going up in tonnes from memory.

Does any one know where I can get a block that drops the cable when the winches log comes in to contact with it ? I've seen them being used on the forum before I think it was slack my girdles post??

Probably more likely to become unstable if you leave them in.

Steve thanks, that means a lot but I probably deserve any hate for the last few posts on this thread , and I'll be honest I'm not that bothered what folk think of me and never really have been , but have had a few life changing experiences over the last 5 months and some of them made extremely unpleasant by anti hunt mob towards my partner .. my anger should be directed at them who I know well and not some one who disagrees and sniggers at my not so eloquently and probably incoherent messages on an Internet forum when I'm trying to portray any valid reason on why I think trail hunting is not bad , I'm probably best off putting energy in to other things that are far more pressing at this time.. I am genuinely sorry if I have caused folk upset including particularly Kevin, so I'll stay off for a while and shut up on the matter.

I never really was a 261 fan , had a couple but I'd take the 550 over it all day, but I'm happy with the 400, good all round saw in hard and soft wood and I'd happily take on and fell any tree that I could double guide bar and letter box cut with it.

It's been banned since 2004.. now I don't know really about the rest of the country but I know my local hunt has no terriers , they are nearly all working class hill farmers who meet up because they have been great horsemen for generations and it's a good day out for them to meet up with friends , no toff vile sadistic killers there just some of the nicest genuine people I have come across.. the only people who object are folk like my partners ex boss whos mental ness I could write a book about..Now I can appreciate there is some ville utter bell ends involved in the sport , the hunts master local to me when I lived down south knocked me for 1k on the first job I did self employed and didn't pay up until my local pub said they would not serve him until he did ....he then took me for a ride in his plane and then started on how people like me should be working for £100 a day.. some thing about the bloke was just not wired right despite being a brain surgeon too. I'm not sure how such a bell end ended up in charge though, Shame as I think it was handed to him by my land lord at the time who had been an admiral who was a great guy who did a lot to make sure young people got houses in an area that was getting unaffordable due to London incomers and helped me a lot in my business too.

Ms 400 is my go to saw on a 16" bar ,light yet powerful enough for most trees.

Some from the last few days , willows where easily dealt with bagging an old 16mm lowering rope high up and pulling out with the chipper winch... made a change from cutting every things into little bits... Gutted though to see this on a site my father and me cleaned out all the windblow 7 years ago ... now it's just flat.

Aye it was mental on Friday night, got a call from a mate who had gone to pick his kids up and now was surrounded by fallen trees, went to start the tractor and I'd left the controls for the crane on last weekend milling so the battery was flat... by the time I had got close to him after clearing god knows how many it was 1am , I was tripping Sitka off the road back in too the stump holes and trying to pull the tops back off the road with redirects with the 4x4... at this point more Sitka where falling behind me and in front as I was cutting ,then my head torch ran out so had to pull the truck closer in the path of more falling trees, he had sent me a message saying they where out of the way of falling trees but the mobile networks where down so could not contact him to check all was good , way to dangerous to go on foot , I think the wind speed would of been 100mph plus on top of the moor... had to turn back and try and find another route , all blocked with more Sitka and huge ancient sycamore and ash... had to return home to the rage of everyone who was annoyed id left in the first place and feeling totally dejected I'd left a man behind with his kids in the car... Tractor started first thing after a battery charge and out we went , I recon there was 1k plus Sitka down on the drive alone ,cut the neighbours out of there farm ... then spent the rest of the day checking sites , still a load more to check today but it's absolute devastation , I've yet to see a spruce plantation that's not been hammered and loads of beautiful ancient trees that have seen a fair few storms shattered in bits. God knows what's gonna happen on Monday when folk return to work on all the sites we survey and the damage there..

[emoji38][emoji106] You would proper smash me hey Kev especially being the superior being and big man. But that would be fun wouldn't it .. bit of bloke on bloke action then we could hit the all male Bodmin brothel if your not to tired after or do you only go at people over social media as your internet history for bullying women and having to resign from positions would dictate??