MattyF
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Fun in the wires today
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If you had tickets that would cost thousands to get you would be worth £120+ a day .. but you don’t and can’t be used as such , will have to be supervised and if you follow the advice of doing one as soon as you have your tickets are a liability to the employer you have any way... personally I would of stuck labouring on a building site and got a trade there.
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There is a vast difference in a set that has been sharpened in a chemical bath and balanced than a set that’s been slung on a bench grinder jig... I know what I’d rather have in my machine and a decent sharpener is going to set you back 3k. Tinny wolf gets what it’s given but I have three sets for the schliesing as you have to adjust the clearance for the anvil so it’s easier to buy 3 sets and reset every 3 sharpens.
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My dad always said the customer has no idea of quality tree work , which in the case of these was shocking , but will no the difference to a clean site [emoji38]. Like riches they needed doing @ around 80ft+ and shedding whole limbs they are not worth the risk in keeping as a tree to admire , found so many surprises in rot at the base of stems it was amazing they hadn’t dropped more..., fell , top / pollard and keep Ona cycle is the only option for over mature willows I recon.
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Time of year will play a big part in it too, I find felling ash now it’s at its worse.
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Aye it was mate had been waiting since October to get on that Feild as it’s usually soaked so was glad to get this one out the way.. timber not stacked high so kids don’t get an avalanche on them!
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Same as rich but 4 days on 4 trees ... although they where monsters ..... totally ruined these though and would of rather would of rather felled them to be honest... bloody things barbers chairing , splitting and tearing off huge strips , a horrible , volatile timber! And a mains drain under them on the Feild side but used tyres on the front stems to flop them after rigging out the backs.
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Thinning by hand and small scale winching
MattyF replied to Nathan Pearson's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I recon £45 a tonne minimum ... I would of brought all of that for £32 a tonne! I was offered £60 a tonne recently for beech. ive just been offered £40 a tonne for shite willow biomass , Some one was paying £90 a tonne standing for Sitka in keilder recently! -
Thinning by hand and small scale winching
MattyF replied to Nathan Pearson's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sounds far too cheap .. good efforts though. -
Cheapest place to get Distel Geckos and what spikes?
MattyF replied to Paddy1000111's topic in Climbers talk
Also I’d go leather.. -
Cheapest place to get Distel Geckos and what spikes?
MattyF replied to Paddy1000111's topic in Climbers talk
If you find the regular gaffs to long you won’t like the euro gaffs... the new carbons look pretty good though. -
I haven’t used a silky since they started making decent light weight saws...
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What do you recon to the multi one John after running avants ? .. obviously yours is a bigger machine than the 420 but are they any better in our Northumbrian terrain and climate ?
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I have a cheap kelfri one cut down on the pallet forks, steel is of dubious quality but it’s a handy tool, will secure big bundles of brash and logs a lot better than a short grab but adds some weight.. I originally got it because I could not make my mind up what would be better ..the avant conventional timber grab or beak but it’s worked so well I’ve decided neither and stuck with this ! You can drive down the side of a dressed out tree and pick up all the brash in one or two passes by crushing it with the beak... that’s 3 times the size of the avant one! Keep meaning to get more pics but the kind of jobs it’s used on are usually the kind where no photos get time !
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This would be the sensible route to take instead of this ridiculous alternative.. our fuel emissions on the scheme of what third world countries , the air industry and fishing by scouring the sea bed and releasing locked up carbon off it is probably virtually 0 in comparison.
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Actually I’ll re fraze that as it’s what a lot of folk do if they are doing clearance for development and construction.... I guess they will be running white ?
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It’s not going ....not for forestry or agriculture any way..... that is what the bulk of us do on this forum not construction.
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I think what we have to worry about is if the construction industry has been stopped from using it is where we stand... I can argue we do forestry and have some cattle so our 4 tractors will be having red in them but are we are exempt from putting 20 litres a day in chippers and skidsteers ???
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It’s not going though is it from agriculture! It will still. exempt from the duty....
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I think the important question is can we run it in our chippers, skid steer sect....
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Any way red diesel won’t be going from farms any time soon so it’s a bit of a pointless thread....
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Really don’t agree ! How are you supposed to maintain a sensible price for food production or forestry paying full duty on fuel ... We power our electricity on red when there is no wind or sun and quite frankly would be fecked without it along with most of my neighbours who are miles from any electricity connections pylons etc...
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I will get round to it [emoji38]
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my current one. One I retired after 5 years. I did have one slightly tear but it was one of the first ones and I’m not sure if I brought the metal hook I had through the webbing on that one, but haven’t bothered on the last two and there is no damage.
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I’ve hung 880’s and 3120’s with 4ft bars lots of work most weeks with 395’s and 500is and not had an issue
