Brushcutter
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It's so good. Think it was 650+vat flog the 372 on Ebay and get the 576 you won't regret it.
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Bargin at 99p.
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I know the feeling. I've borrowed a 576xp from a friend with a 24" bar on for the last few days. It's amazing better than the 372 which it replaced and that alone is a big claim to fame. Despite being heavy its so well balanced it's not noiced. Been having some big Chestnuts over with it in the last few days. Worth considering it if you desperatly need a new saw.
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Standing prices are going up and up. Some stuff here is upwards of £15 a tonne standing. Means roadside prices are just going to go up and up.
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Looks awesome. I want one and a 562xp.
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It's normally based on turnover so its hard to say. From a few hundred to lots and lots.
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Things like septic tanks and underground services are expensive to hit. I know of a few guys who have cracked tanks felling trees on estates.
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There is no legal requirement to have PL (Public Liability) insurance. However if you damage someone or even worse something then your in deep doo doo without it. IF you employ someone it's a legal requirment to have employers liability. For you situation 1&3 you'd need PL. Things like fences you might just repair your self but if you ruin a surfaced footpath the council will want to claim on your PL. You'll need a set of signs and probally look outs if felling across the path. Make sure you have some sort of contact method if cutting on your own. Lone working maybe frouned on by your insurance.
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You can get a little Impact bar from Husky. Its telescopic too has a little holster too its in the 2011 catalog fairly expensive though.
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Looks dangerous. If you saw goes blunt take it to the saw doctor. Don't try to sharpen and set yourself because it will end up with missing fingers or worse. -
Nice. Nothing beats being able to winch in and then stack.
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I shall check on my Fransgard tomorrow and see what way it goes. I have a feeling it goes anti clockwise but that might be why it eats cables.
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Thanks guys. Went in through the oil filler. Ooo thats a tricky opperation by with my 7/32 file and a 3/16 file with a bent end i was able to get it in the hole. Quick tapon the end and its good to go.
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I know a guy who climbs on some 3 strand! with a three knot system. God only knows how old that rope is. He said one day i'll by a fancy rope like yours. That fancy rope is Yale XTC Spearmint.
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About 4-6" high and 2-4" across.
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I may be in my head but aren't Turkish Pine needles slightly fatter and longer than their Maritime friend? I too took the four cone thing to place it. Cones don't look big enough to be a Monterey Pine.
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Felling License query
Brushcutter replied to Chris Sheppard's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I was taught that if your felling a tree giving an underbark measurment then its volume is taken to the hight of the first significant branch. But if its going for firewood then you have to measure to a hight of 75mm which is the standard timber hight. -
Turkish Pine (Pinus brutia)? A shot of the needles would be help, but that would make it too easy.
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Is that a Danish cut or a variation of? I've used the cut you've described and it works very well.
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They do don't they. Picking up brash will have thoses off in no time.
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It always does. I picked the rear wheels of a A series Valtra about a foot off the ground that was a seat clentching experence. Next time i did was a bit more confident and got to the point where nose diving was a posibility at that time it was time to put the log down and saw a bit off the end before putting it on the sawmill ramp.
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I do 3' Beech we felled yesterday. Had a nasty case of Kretch. Yea it's used on sloping ground or anytime you need the hinge to hold for a long time. Commonly used down slope as the bottom cut which would normally be flat is made at the angle of the ground.
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How far off the ground? Thats from another roof mount thread on here. They can get quite far over. I've done worse with the front end loader but never a crane. Wheel weights are good but they're probally only a few hundred kg on each wheel. With a tonne on the grab at 5m thats a lot of moment. Water balast is a must makes a big difference. Even beter is a bit of belly balast.
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That broken Larch looks like one in Sallow Copse at Ashridge. Its just down the block of woodland which fronts onto the B4506.
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Seen a few bats. Seen the Noctules and Dorbentons that Tony saw in the Cancerous Ash. Nice shots of that Tony. Seen a lot of Long Ear bats in some bat boxes as part of monitoring. Seen lots of bats flying around from the Ivy that covers my parents house and lots down by the Kings Weir on the River Lee. Those Other picture in Sallow Copse Tony just of Duncobe Terrace?
