MattyF

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Tree stuff in America has what you need , the only problem is you have to pay import duty, but it was the only place I could find an auger big enough for a monster splitting beech we rod braced back together.

Jas p Wilson’s ? On another note I do have a spare rear window tray for a trailer crane valve block that fits a 6400 and n series dunno if it’s any good for yours…..

Simon, can you sharpen schliesing whisper cut blades ? Is there any plans to supply them in the future , thanks.

Hope you heal quick eggs … ffs though the CR500 is the death machine of legends .. my mates dad bump started his when we were teenagers and the thing straight out flipped and broke his nose on the handle bar.. us on our 125’s and kx80’s thought the was legend so hope you had some younguns watching.

I always fancied a LWB tipper conversion myself. After using a one penny for a wiper fuse and the loom melting on the swb I owned I resided that Gwagon ownership would probably not happen again for me though.

Another thing is maybe recruitment firms are part of the problem.. I can remember being constantly contacted by a guy, from possibly arb jobs I think it was who wanted to give me full time or part time jobs …he also wanted say 20% of my wage for getting me work😆 I really honestly thought how does this happen until I met folk who had gone down this route with him and where not happy at all for various reasons … he spent some time trying to convince me I needed to do this with the argument that going self employed takes years to build a customer base up, I wasn’t looking back after 6 months after politely refusing .

Very nice diflock !

We got a few thousand robinia stakes for planting a few years back and the forestry commission made us replace them with soft wood stakes as per spec, which was easy enough straight off our mill … I have no idea why they did get funny about using them but it always puzzled me how robinia got in to the mill for stakes in the first place.

I’ve got a shed full of timber I’ve kept from over the last 15 years that I probs should of sold but I’ve convinced myself to save for my build that’s finally getting there , might be a bit much for some folk if you don’t like live edge ! the rest of what I’ve planned won’t be live edge though but I’m no carpenter .. will put picks up hopefully soon when it’s all finished. so far used is beech , maple and oak.

Most folk don’t have a spare £20 let alone 20k.

None of those things where mentioned or stated , no location , no real user name and again in my opinion if the forestry commission had recommended the removal of 300+ year old coppice and ancient pollards they need prosecuting… as you have stated the horse as already bolted and I seriously doubt that was the case any way and no where had the OP stated it , something just does not add up… if a contractor can’t fell a tree in the pic to near ground level they need sacking.. also his quip on that’s not what he requested an answer too didn’t help with any hostility from my view…. I’m not a mind reader and if you want to go destroying any ancient trees for good a bit of back ground would be nice.

It was used for brashing down in the back of vans and trailers before I owned a chipper when I first went self employed …. I’m not saying I deliberately tried to kill it but holding on to the revs flat out and smashing it repeatedly through brash for 5-10 minutes at a time is a good way to kill a saw.. not something I wanted to do with my new 357 and aging 024 .. wasn’t a bad little felling saw either , I sold it on after a couple of years, the chain brake band had burnt out with some one using it as above for brashing down but it was still mechanical fine engine wise.

I got given one once , tried to kill thing but it would not die !

Yeah they are taking the absolute piss, they are either sitting in the truck sucking each other off or slagging you off for getting pricked and looking for another job on there phones or they have done another 5 cash jobs at the neighbours. can you ask the customer what they are doing ? Shit jobs like that from my experience need to be led from the front and pace and example set … in fact all jobs really as employing people seems a f..,,ing waste of time.

I had the same yesterday and had to cancel the felling job booked in for the afternoon, I thought I would have finished 60ft of blackthorn and hawthorn mixed and 20ft of gappy beach done in a morning.. hedge was wider than it was tall, the terrain was a nightmare for setting up steps and the material just a little too big for hedge cutters so needed a chain saw for most of it, I also took it back on there side two feet past previous and bevelled the top to let more light in to thicken it, finished around 5 yesterday , I’m pretty sure if I’d left it to a couple of the guys who work for us to do the cutting it would of been two days.. I begged the customer to next time take full advantage of the estates flail next time it does the outsiders chuck him a drink to do as much as they can reach in the top.

So your posting on a public arb forum … I’ll emphasise that again Arboricultural forum, the care and management of trees… and don’t like the opinions of the other users probs best t fuck off then… how you have got away with destroying trees like that in the woodland under those conditions considering what was said on squardeys post pointing out there historic value sums up every thing wrong with the forestry commission and land owners in general. I would be checking out a CAT D9 owners forum and UK explosive experts forums instead.

If some are 6ft high I would leave as coppice / pollard .

Oak , lime , beech, elm … hornbeam … could be anything

Thought this was supposed to be a thread about the Ukrain conflict not the ramblings of folks views on religion….So with Sweden and Finland now wanting to join NATO which is something not even the Cold War achieved I wonder how there general population feel on russia and if there is any resistance to joining nato.

That is a nice size trailer spud… would be a better bet than mine which Is a riko but forget the model number .. perhaps 370?? It is only 1.5 tonne , yours looks like 3t ? And has the benefit of the extending boom which makes a huge difference when loading thinnings that are not stacked roadside.

I think it will surprise you on what it will handle , I have had 4/5 of them now but the one I got from where Gand works seems have been the best one , I dunno if they fettled with the carb or something before it went out… one I got from the arb show last year seems to have the makings of another temperamental pile of shit though, I need to have a play with the carb as the low jet seems high.. would still take it over a 150 though.

Mint little saw for the same reasons as above, put a 1/4 pitch chain and stihl bar on and it’s a belter. Miles better than any of the competitors it has in the same class.

I once did something similar to a ground guy , well he was also an experienced climber…. Asked him three times to put another wrap on and he insisted he knew what he was doing , dragged him across the garden and under the stem I had just rigged off , personally I think he was to blame as he was more experienced but just didn’t like been told what to do… he also chucked one of the rings from said piece over a 6ft fence and on to another groundies head around 10 minutes later, also shat himself from a hang over that morning on the way too work too, can’t remember many days at work 20 years ago but this one sticks in my head 😆

If you did want to find work for such a rig I would recommend asking around land agents, most of that sort of work is done with grants and they are making the applications for land owners. The woodland trust have a lot of woodland thats young or needs low impact stuff in .. there is a lot of folk also buying small parcels of woodland these days that want thinning and softwoods removed and don’t want great big machines in. I think you would be wasting your time with farmers though as they won’t do anything unless they have a grant for it so unless you know them personally and you have a deal I would not rely on it to keep you in work. Also worth looking in too if your serious about low scale low impact stuff is looking at a purpose built forwarder.. although the one on my alpine is ok for bank work it would probably be a disaster unless completely dry which it never is when you need it. /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png Farming Equipment and Technology Fund: Round 1 manual - Annex 3 – Eligible Items – specification and grant amount - Guidance - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK This annex details the required Specification and Grant amount of eligible items. worth looking at as there’s a £2500 grant for small scale trailer like what you want and a 24k one for purpose built small forwarder.