Brushcutter

Hi With time running out on my MOT its time to bite the bullet and get a D40 Navara Outlaw. I've got a D22 one and i get 35mpg out of it. I test drove a 07 D40 navara last week. I got 25-26mpg out of it. I wasn't happy it was on General Grabber AT2s but they shouldn't have a massive effect. So internet seraches say that the newer Navara aren't as good as old ones. 18-25mpg to my mind just isn't affordable at best part of 8 quid a gallon that is only going to go up. So i ask you what reg is your navara, tyres on it and your MPG. I've hurd that the 56 plate ones seem to do best. Thanks Andy

Where about in Herts Tony? Be intrested to see you do a reduction.

If you can dig out round it and fell it really low, sort of 8" below the ground low you get some top notch figuring

What old botex do you have?

It's contacts. Its all well and good felling 40 tonnes of thinning out of a woodland but do you know someone with a forwarder to get them out, who will buy these thinnings. I do hardwoods and softwoods working on estates, farms etc. My favourite changes some days i love the softwoods other days (normally when they hang up) i long to do some hardwoods. I've done tonnage, day rate work for wood. Best all round is day rate as you always go home with something which is great when you've bent a guide bar, had the winch to bits and only got two trees over. But as Jonathan says somedays the site the weather and your ability all come together and you get a lot of stuff down and your worse off by the hour. In forestry as a contractor you generally have to buy timber from what ranges from a free to £55 quid standing. You then have to fell process and extract and sell your wood to recoup your outlay and try to make a profit. The FC, local council, landed estates are all places to contact. Its a lot to take in to start with its best to find a company to work with who does woodland/forestry work and learn from them. It is rather scary the self employed way.

As already said their parallel lift is what makes them idea for crane feeding. I can tell you that is a bit of a pain loading with a botex. However a Botex will lift you more than a MOWI, not that is an isuue when chipping.

How big is this Walnut?

I've bounced stuff off but never broken one:thumbup:

Best thing is to get out there and try this stuff on and have a look as it really is personal taste. I use Arbortech chainsaw gloves with little gel AV pads in and they're very comfy and quite warm. Hard wearing i'm yet to tell. The timberland ones i had for 3 week and wrecked. I have Strech Airs extremes, STIHL Hiflexs and some Husky technical chainsaw trousers. My faves are the Strech Airs but they are the most expensive. In the summer i wear the Husky ones. I have a Husky balance and a Pedlz vertex vent. Which i wear depends on my mood and which ear defender i want. I do a little bit of climbing hence the vertex. So if you'd like to do a climbing course a pedzel helmet for you. Boots I use Haix on about my 5th pair of protector pros. get a year to 18 months from them. Had Treemee ones before that. Perfer the Haix might try some Arbortech ones next. PPE is all down to personal taste and what you think serves you best. If you want to feel super safe Husky do some class 2 chainsaw trousers that are cut resistant with 24m/s chain speed.

I have a 346 and have 13,15 and 18" bars for it. 99% of the time the 13 is on it. The other 1% is the 15 never use the 18" any more. It's worth having the 15" as you can go streight through stuff doing small felling rather than having to sweep around with a 13. Get both i think my 15" guide bar was 20 quid and 15 quid for the chain from clarks.

Oregpm 21BPX is what i use on all my .325 saw fantastic stuff. I use 73LP on the bigger saws as i can't find the DP one. Any news on skip chain comming to the UK?

Sounds fantastic. Is there a cost? Its a way away but seem like its worht a trip.

£5 to fell a tree and not even have to sned and crosscut. I must offer my services.

Can't find it.

I don't have a camera to hand. They just have more kevlar stuff down the front. Bar the zips going they've lasted very well. 2 years on the forest floor.

Super thanks. Are there new versions of these comming out as they've lasted So well. Bar the 5 new zips.

Whats the difference between them and the Type C strech airs exterems that i have? Thanks Andy

1.35 for petrol 1.40 for diesel. Need to cut down on the commuiting.

If these are anywhere near as good as the 576 then they will be fantastic. I want an xpg version. Not in production yet acording to my dealer when i tried to get a 576xpg.

Someone once did that on the one of the roads through the estate in the 90s. Two massive Beeches were cut streight form the back they barber chaired up and blocked the road. Caused a big stir with the police as it associated with hiests and assasinations. The esates not far away form where the great train robbery took place.

Tapered hinges are old skool. They have their place in the tool bag but 99% of the time i'd use a parallel hinge. Norway is a nice to fell as it hinges really well.

Depends on how much side lean and how big the tree is. Split levels work well if its but useless on bigger than 15". I always fell low for leverage and as the expression goes if your knuckles aren't grazed you aint low enough. I've been using pre tensioned pull lines for leans the last week. With just a standard felling cut. I quite like the tapered hinge but you've got to be confident with your cuts and your plan to get the best out of. Without seeing the tree its hard to say what i've of done. I'd of gone with a quite wide angle face cut so the hinge holds as possible. The real problem is that it was a Sycamore. Brittle stuff.

Much work over in Beds forestry wise? I don't really know anyone over that way. Saw Luton Hoo was having some thinnings done but i know the guy doing that.

I try to get between 80-100 quid a day depending on what i'm doing. Thought of paying by the stump rather than a day rate? Thought of getting some fresh CS31 cutters? Depends on the finish you want, might not be the best idea if saw logs with nice sqaure ends are required:001_tt2:

Phytophtora ramorum job is it? As Andy says it's worth considering a harvester if you can get one in. Seeing what they can do in a day compared to a gang is an amazing site to watch, if slighly sad from a cutters point of view. As for a gang the rising cost of motoring to get to the job and the cost of kit/fuel is going to be putting the day rate of a cutter up. I used 10 litres of fuel yesterday at 1.35. So thats £13.50 plus another £15 quid or so for the trip to and from site. Taking into acount insurances for trucks and pl. tax and machinery costs it cost a lot so tradinoal loggers idea of £200 quid a day isn't far off.