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yup, he's on flip flops and Kneeflex chainsaw shorts.... Ideal combination

I've got a Logosol Timberjig and Big Mill system, it all screws to the end of the log and cranks round in 90 degree increments to give dead square timber straight off the saw. We tend to use it to break down big lumps of timber to feed to the Wood-Mizer. The fuel use is scary, and the dust and noise aren't too clever, but it gives good straight timber, and can be used anywhere so I wouldn't be without it. Logosol UK are a good bunch, very helpful. It's quite refreshing as the company encourages you to buy different bits of the system and adapt to your requirements, however quirky they are. EDIT: I run the Big Mill with a Stihl 066, on a 30in bar. Most of the bench style Logosol mills are run on .325 chain on 20 or 24in bars.

...obviously needed the TPO pixies Shame it went Beech does stay solid if given a chance. There are some lovely old hulks around from the '87 storms....

<off topic, relates to Operators Licence Exemptions not Red> http://www.transportoffice.gov.uk/crt/taxiproviders/taxioperatorlicensing/vehiclesoutsideoperatorlicencerequirements.htm What do youlot think of this, especially this paragraph on dual purpose vehicles: "Dual purpose vehicles (eg Land Rovers) & their trailers. Includes Range Rovers, Jeeps, certain Japanese vehicles and those designed to go over rough ground as well as on roads. NOTE: All dual purpose vehicles must not exceed 2040 kg in unladen weight." Note! unladen not gross weight..... and: "*It is also worth knowing that, when towing a trailer behind a vehicle that is around - or slightly below - 3.5 tonnes gross plated weight (e.g Ford Transit/Mercedes Sprinter sized vehicles), if the combined gross plated weights of drawing vehicle and trailer do not exceed 3.5 tonnes or (where there is no gross plated weight) the total unladen weights do not exceed 1,525 kgs, an operators licence will not be required. Please note that any trailer with an unladen weight of less than 1,020 KGs, need not be taken in to account in this calculation." and: " * “A vehicle fitted with a machine, appliance, apparatus or other contrivance which is a permanent or essentially permanent fixture, provided that the only goods carried on the vehicle are: (a) required for use in connection with the machine, appliance, apparatus or contrivance or the running of the vehicle;” (b) to be mixed by the machine, appliance, apparatus or contrivance with other goods not carried on the vehicle on a road in order to thrash, grade, clean or chemically treat grain; © to be mixed by the machine, appliance, apparatus or contrivance with other goods not carried on the vehicle in order to make fodder for animals; or mud or other matter swept up from the surface of a road by the use of the machine, appliance, apparatus or other contrivance”. PLEASE NOTE: The “fixed equipment” exemption relates to vehicles that have equipment that is a permanent or essentially permanent fixture (e.g. a winch or generator) where any other goods carried must be strictly for use in connection with that fixed equipment (e.g. essential tools or equipment, without which that fixture would be unable to function). IMPORTANT: Under current legislation mobile exhibition vehicles, catering vehicles, vehicles with an auger fitted for laying telegraph poles (where the poles are carried on the vehicle), mobile shops and mobile medical screening vehicles are NOT exempt from operator licensing (if they are over 3.5 tonnes gross plated weight), nor are vehicles that do have fixed equipment - but carry goods or burden that is not strictly for use in connection with that equipment, or tow a trailer that is carrying goods or burden. Examples of types of vehicles that may be exempt under the above are *gully sucking vehicles, vehicles with water jetting / shot blasting equipment, cherry pickers (these may also be classed as “tower wagons” (see below)) and road sweepers." This last one is interesting, I talked to an old boy about Matadors, Unipowers etc (old timber 'tractors'/ winch trucks) and he reckoned that any load HAD to be carried on the trailer, putting anything other than the winch cables, chains, c hooks etc on the back of the Matador would have got you nicked. I have actually heard someone say the same about Mogs- as a tractor they shouldn't carry load, only ballast or essential working equipment. I think the reason that many of the machines mentioned above are allowed to run red diesel (as well as O licence exemption) is that technically they should be physically unable to carry or draw goods for haulage and hire/reward.

(You're not our local Mr Mason then??? ) Sorry fella, thought I recognised your old and new Mogs, Mr M uses Alex Price as well (who I would highly recommend too) and runs front mounted chippers and long tubes into trailers as well........

If you've forgotten your bottle opener :D

Pull him out of the pub, get him to bed early, give him a good breakfast. Don't squash him with a tree Should last a bit longer......

Sorry mate Flickr is a photo archive website, where you can store and manage your photos for free. Youtube does the same for videos. Keeping this information away from your company website keeps your site smaller- therefore much easier and cheaper to set up and look after. Updating the information on these other sites is nice and quick and efficient, and also means that people may find your services through those sites. The other thing to think about is using an eBay account. If you want to sell logs, chip, sawn timber, sculpture, furniture or equipment it is going to reach LOADS more people on eBay, and the financial and security side is ready set up if you want payment over the 'net. There's no point re-inventing the wheel and trying to sort out credit card or other payment systems for a small website.

That fence alongside looks very new, judging by the state of the posts and gravel boards. Maybe the fencing lads have upset it?? reaction to alkaline conditions from the concrete? Bit unlikely, Lime's are so tough usually.

I seem to remember that Walnut has a chemical in it called juglone that kills off or supresses other plant life. Does anyone know if it's throughout the tree or just the leaves? I chipped some up yesterday into householder's mulch pile, and only thought about it later...

I've never seen Oyster on Oak before, and that colour isn't familiar. Perhaps it isn't P ostreatus but another member of the genus, or perhaps the tannins etc have caused a colour change in the flesh. I'd be pretty certain it's a Pleurotus though....

I wonder if it's easier to have a link to a Flickr account or some vids on Youtube. I know it's not as slick as embedding them, but then again we're not advertising our skills as website developers, just tree folk. Also, I think there's nothing worse than finding a "Page under construction" If someone has bothered to put that up, they could have thrown a description, photo or two and contact details together in about 15mins more.

There was a very tasty Land Rover Discovery ute in one of the mags this year. Big towing capacity and a pleasant cab to be in, pretty good setup IMO. He'd stretched the chassis out from 100in to 120in and put on a 'trayback'/ low drop side. If anyone is after a fairly cheap 130 to convert, they seem to come out throughWitham's MOD sales fairly regularly, vehicles at around £5k, although you'd need to get a body sorted. I can't see the point of throwing well over £20k at a vehicle that you're going to adapt and go to work in (ie try to bend), but maybe I'm just too tight in that department. Let the MOD take the depreciation. Nene Overland and Keith Gott do them as well.

Toyota bought up Daihatsu, apparently Daihatsu can't make anything that competes with the mother company....... Hence the Terios, Cuore, Move and other strange small things... I agree about the Navara and L200- I assume that the gross weights has stayed the same since they were simple work trucks. All the extra bloat and bling stuffed onboard eats into the load capacity. Shame really. Just for fun I played the weights game with VW Touareg specs. Considering the kerb weight and gross weight, the actual payload of some models was around 450kg Although you can tow 3500kg, you must be able to get more weight inside a Golf. Strangely the Porsche and Audi versions are a fair bit lighter. Wonder if I can get a Botex bolted on the roof??

There was a collection of second hand Kubotas for sale in Truck and Plant Trader mag (in the back 10% of pages). v1505 rings a bell....

I recognised that old Mog rig! How's the new Binderberger doing Your yard is fairly high on Stealth technology it has to be said.... Will

I pay £240 a day as long as they bring their own bog roll

Digga, if your chestnut's over 8" diameter these guys would be interested. Currently paying around £40-£50 per tonne. There's a spec of what they want on the materials page. It's a bit specialised, but a good return if you cut for it. As for the cordwood, you should hope for a bit closer to £20. W

Awesome fun with an 18" bar

I've got a Paramo smock. If I lost it/ burnt it/ chopped it tomorrow I would get another straight off. Its got dirty, oily and a few holes in, but the construction's great and I can't see it leaking. The shape's great, good to climb in, not too flappy or tight, with really good vent zips in the front. It's kept the wet out on some horrible cold, pissy days. The paramo shirts are the business too. They pump water away from your bod, so if you get wet, after about 5 minutes the inside is dry and warmand the outside wet and cold. They're the only thing I've worn that washes clean time after time without grubby tree and machine stains Top stuff....

I know a chap (Alan Waters/ Wildwood Coppice) who has one of the high speed crane and trailer units. He tows it behind a Landy with a Ferrari bendy tractor loaded on the trailer. He can run to sites, clear up coppice and big cordwood with the tractor which is cheaper to run, tougher and more agile than the Landy. In the evenings if he's not happy with security ion site he can run the rig home and lock it up. It's great I wouldn't want to crunch around woodland brash and stumps with my road vehicle if I could help it.....

http://www.woodweb.com Good for (USA) forestry, moving, milling, drying, building and joinery. http://www.woodnet.org.uk/woodlots/ http://www.woodnet.org.uk/woodlots/Useful%20Info/info36.htm Promoting local timber and wood products grown sustainably in South East England http://www.ecolots.co.uk/index.php Eco-Lots is a free service designed to help the rural economy by assisting with the environmentally sensitive and sustainable management of land, trees and wildlife in the UK http://www.click-forestry.co.uk/ The Click-Forestry-Directory, the complete directory of forestry products and services throughout the UK They're usually pretty useful