MattyF

There is a lot of work and they are difficult to sell, we have about 25 acres of Norway , lodgepole with a smaller amounts of Fraser and blue spruce ....sold about 250 this year , main buyers held off due to covid so missed 1k plus trees going out , some never came at all but if your selling to the public and are near some where accessible you could make money as you miss out the middle men but certainly not a fortune and to be honest it’s a bit taxing after working all week to spend the weekend tending people’s needs with trees coming up to Christmas! I don’t think we have even broke even if I take my time in too consideration with the evenings and weekends Mowing with the billy goat down the lines , then there is trimming them , Nordman seem what folk want as well really but our ground won’t grow them and to be honest sticking loads of fertilisers and hormone treatment on them is not really my thing as the run off would go in to sssi and speaking to the folk who want to pick and choose they are happy knowing they are getting some thing a bit more environmentally friendly.

Was a strange saw being less powerful but the same weight chassis as the 660 but 84cc .. if you have use for it why not.

Think it was winter 2009 -10 that did them in as it was brutal in this location from people who knew the trees before they lost most of the blocs... 2013 spring didn’t help I imagine!

Almost with out a doubt.

Went out for a walk in a FC eucalyptus test plantations in keilder forest this afternoon , interesting lines of eucalyptus all named and numbered but mostly just the rotting trunks of semi mature trees present, they looked like they achieved about 30ft then died in most of the blocks but visibly out of a lot I’m guessing only 3 types survived , unfortunately the tags for these survivors have long rotted away so would be hard to ID , I guess E gunnii does not do to well as those lines where all dead ! To be honest it looks like eucalyptus plantations would be a waste of time in the north. I’m sure there are more but the Sitka is that fast growing I can’t find the last test plots I discovered 4-5 years back ! It also made me think walking back through that aspen, alder and birch are not far off the growth rate of Sitka in some patches and these are what I would choose over eucalyptus , they are far more fitting with our environment and climate.

Not really if it saves you half a day moving timber... Arb timber arisings are fine if they are for your own use and you have the time and patience to process ,dry store and deliver .. if your in the serious market of doing firewood you want stuff that is easy to stack on the log deck and get in a processor and won’t have the seasoning time of oak...that is the last thing you want in your log heaps! Easy day for a team of three if it’s all left there and only the chips are removed.

I would not want to be any where else now ! Less tourists though, it’s wildness is its beauty ,we don’t need Northumberland’s national parks becoming the next Lake District and disturbing its recovering and rare wildlife and it’s getting more that way every year thanks to tv coverage form the likes of country file, I have met some interesting character’s on there travels in the forest though! Worked in a small wood down in this valley on the eastern edge of keilder last week and was the first job in a long while I have enjoyed despite being rained on all day. Beats working in Gateshead!

It does not all go to eggar though Khriss, Cramlington takes a lot for biomass and there are plenty of other biomass company’s taking wood out of keilder , we have them on the drive extracting brash for chipping at the moment. saw mills take a lot of wood out and thinnings go for fencing out of keilder , I do believe it’s one of the only profitable forests of the fc in England. My father has helped mill and build structures from Douglas and larch from the forest so they do utilise it for local projects if asked , the cabins and imported wood chip at leaplish are a joke though! I think they manage the border Myers and burns and rivers in it well for conservation unlike other large organisations who I won’t name who I’ve seen first hand don’t care about run off in to water courses and plant right in to them with Sitka and other softwoods.

I found mine jammed up you could not actually move it and was unusable... and that was with near new rope... it was one of the go fund me ones so maybe they have changed them a bit since.

found the akimbo great until conifer sap got in it.

If you go milling with a 90cc saw you will wear out the clutch pretty quick no matter how sharp it is and well it cuts ... 880 or 120cc saw is far better.

Pallet forks On a avant.

Second hand with low hours with these new restricted engines .... would be my choice any way.

If you can buy a machine now I would instead of hiring , you will get paid but it can be a wait

Took me 3 months, mostly because they decided to investigate as they didn’t believe that some one had gone through all that security... can’t fecking win [emoji35]

Thanks mate, will be my Christmas present holiday read for myself.

Amazon do the series

Started watching generation kill last night , some classic non pc one liners in it!

Lovely that mate.

Camo on sites where trees are being dropped or bombed ? Sips , pfanner , cut and climb all make decent gear for tree cutting..

Was it the petrol 165 version? I did watch a video of the forst st6 petrol today and it sounded under gunned with the no stress constantly engaging

I’ve looked at the gyro a good while back when looking for a new bridge swivel and liked the concept , your other post on a thread made me look at it again but it just goes back to my original thoughts when I see one , even more so in the flesh .. it looks too flimsy and the thought of trusting my life on one does not appeal to me... now I’m sure that’s not the case but how I felt about it... for that I’m kind of stuck on the dmm axis or minis as maybe they falsely give the perception of being stronger or looking stronger but even the dmm nexus I would have difficulty trusting.. just something about metal hardware even more so after the events that followed the zig zags but maybe that’s just me.

Good saw performance wise and can live with it being thirsty and the air filter needs cleaning very regularly.

I had a 335 when they first came out and I think we will all agree it was possibly one of the worse saws made ... but to be fair the final run of 338’s with the bigger cylinders where a workable saw I found. Rubber mounts like on the 200 wear a lot quicker, maybe why used saws feel shocking in comparison to a spring mounted one ? Either way I would not go back.

Steve the carbs where shite at the time ... you would be lucky to get one to last a year by which point I had enough of them after owning 20 or more of them. Switched to the last of the 338’s which had more ccs and seemed a better saw , I seem to remember reg Coates having the same thoughts and feelings at the time and I would trust his opinion. It seems the saws have a big following and I’m guessing that is people who barely use them or have used them heavily , maybe they just cut a few branches off grannies oak tree now and then and sit back and admire how mint the saw is ......if you have 3 groundies and a hungry chipper to feed all day you want a saw that won’t be unreliable or wreck your joints so for me a 540xp which has plenty of power and on spring mounts would be my go to and a 2511 for pruning although the echoes anti vibes are not great .. I don’t think battery saws are just quite there yet,I do fancy the husky as I own the stihl thing and that is to be honest just painful to use in any type of production scenario.