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so if i swapped straight to bio in a morning with new filters, and drop it out again in the evening after a days work with new filters and then keep checking it i should be ok, rather than bother flushing it

machine going onto SSSI, wetlands etc so it would be really beneficial due to the nature of the work. I have been assured it can swap to bio, its just going to be flushing the system thorougly enough

its a CS 270wes the little 27cc with easy start on it, its cheap and seems decent enough, its not going to win any awards but its been cutting up logs ok and for cross cutting softwoods today its been fine. I bought it mainly for small scrub work and cutting rhodies but i find im using it a fair bit as its 2kg lighter than my 346xp

nothing really exciting have just been out in the woods trying to get a bit quicker on the new works machine, practise makes perfect. I've also been putting some more tanks of fuel through the little echo, it gets better with every tank full of fuel through it

I'm looking at swapping the hydraulic oil in one of our machines to bio oil, and was just wondering if anyone else had done this, I'm thinking of swapping all the filters and putting a flushing oil through for 10hrs, then swapping the filters again when I put the bio in. has anyone else done this as i really don't want to end up with oil emulsifying in the system, any tips to prevent this?

Been out on the geese several times, first day on the pheasants and partridges is the 29th. Might go out after geese on the stubbles again tonight, got 3 on wednesday evening

We had a slight frost here this morning, on top of cars etc didnt touch the grass though.

bit of light pruning from the comfort of a seat the two you know of for sale then, what spec are they? I am interested in the one that weights in at a mighty 180kg I will give Riko a ring in the morning then to ask, cheers I thought i had seen something similar on the their stand at LAMMA in the spring but there is nothing on their website about it

are they really really really tiny?

Can someone tell me who the UK importers for these is? probably being thick but google isnt helping me. unless there isnt an importer Cheers

Cheers Guys Its nice to be able to be in a position to specify stuff like this in management plans, and I think for the most part the land owners accept that its beneficial to the woodland ecosystem so are keen to implement it where its practical, luckly the site i want to do most on has no public access and has had an ecological survey done and it well be re-surveyed in about 5years to monitor the effect of the work its just a balancing act between, birds, beetles, fungi, ground flora, shrub layer species and trees. Some of the halo thinning of bigger trees i may do by ring barking the competing trees, although I ultimatly dont want to have a negative impact on the remaining timber stock, anyone have any specific thoughts on this?

Right so Im doing lots of management plans for ancient semi natural woodlands at the moment, with a heavy slant to getting many back into management, along with gaining maximium biodiversity gains. Im using the principles of creating a good mixture of habitats, including un-thinned non intervention areas, heavily thinned areas etc etc. This got me thinking whilst im advising on the creation and retention of standing dead wood, (creation by ring barking most commonly, as i think chemical options may be detrimental), this is often in the thinned areas, thus probably lowering humidy increasing light and probably decreasing the suitability for a large number of the fungi we are trying to increase the habitat for. A small number of timber stacks will also be left in the woods per hectare for inverts and fungi. I will admit my knowledge of woodland fungi is very poor and something i need to work more on. So if anyone has any thoughts on this I would really appreciate them, feel free to bounce ideas around nothing is to crazy. One of the sites im dealing with is nearly all 30yr old birch regen and trying to speed up some veteranising of these trees is going to be difficult, Im specifying a lot of dead wood standing on this site, as well as halo thinning some of the bigger trees, I was also wondering about winching some limbs off to create bit of decay (nothing like speeding the process up a bit), so any crazy ideas appreciated

can you even get a 48" bar for a 660?

is that a new fence panel appeared in the after pictures?????

not just because its moulting if its been free range, one of my bantys looks similar to that at the moment, and the garden look like they have been plucked out there!

i keep thinking about getting a granfors, but im worried it wont be as good as my fiskars axes I have, Mine are about 5years old and done a lot of work splitting trailer loads and my smaller one gets used a lot in the woods and on scrub clearance work

Does anyone know of training providers in the midlands doing FMOC training and/or assesment? got a few numbers, an organisation in N Wales, Barony College (who will come to our site, apparently) but just wondered if there was anyone local? There is 4people wanting to do the Forwarding and Skidding FMOC tickets, any help would be appreciated Cheers

Interestingly mine don't, but then again I have 'e' marked tyres rated for road use

Its because for the last 50years we as a country have been obsessed with conifer plantations, at the neglect of our hardwoods and native woodlands, I am currently working on getting over 450acres of Ancient woodland back into favourable management primarily for woodfuel. There is a shift away from conifer plantations to native woodland habtiats again. So whilst softwoods are being removed from sites as "non-native" trees with subsidies driving this towards native woodland reversion across a lot of the country there will be more softwood at cheap prices, and as Andy mentioned this can be done mechanically I can see a point in about 50years time where the balance will start evening up again, maybe, prehaps or maybe im just nuts

Was it a forestry spec tractor, as the grants are supposed to specifically exclude payments for manchinery such as tractors, unless they are forestry specific machines?

sea freight isnt considered in UK CO2 emmision calculations so essentially if it comes in by sea there isnt an associated CO2 ammount with it, hence being able to bring timber into Drax etc and keeping CO2 figures low for UK power generation

no thats cool, i figured there would be a good reason, i was just playing devils advocate into getting it clarified

There are still some regional grants Im 99% sure there are still grants in West Mids with a woodfuel bias, also there are other grants that may help such as business diversification, but these are all getting harder to gain and much heavier subscribed, FC have some woodfuel supply chain funding, but i dont think this will help with the purchase of processing machinery.

out of interest, and having done this in woods before, why did you cut the back tree first then essentially put yourself into the danger area on the 2nd tree? as for that to work the 1st tree you back cut had to have been leaning into the 2nd one, surely that was an un-nessicary risk to be taking. It may just be that the camera angles make it look more iffy than it was in reality.

I had the clutch done in my 300tdi 18months ago, cost me about £450 went in at 10am had it back 4pm the next day.