Brushcutter

It's the A92 and they're fantastic little tractors. The key word there is little. The cab is very small inside which isn't really an issue unless like me you spend a lot of time in there. Once you have the fire extingusher in there and a small first aid kit and some lunch there is no room. Thats not too much of a problem if your just going forward. If you use it for forwarding then its a night mare. Trying to turn the seat around is an involved procidure that normally results in some gear box grinding as you hit the shuttle (which is on the right rather than the left like the N series) oh and the knocking of the linkage to constant pumping oh and the ocasional knocking of the spool value controler. So yes its a good tractor good 4wd and diff lock. Nice range of gears the crawler box is good. Pulls well will do 40kph but only in 4wd my only quibble with it is that the cab size makes it really uncomfortable to forward with. I'm 5'11 and my legs go to sleep as there is so little space with the seat turned round. Good on fuel. Its not bad the N series is better if you don't have any 1000pto speed machines get it with 540/540e gearbox and it will use even less. Also have the A92 HItech which basically has air con and a button clutch on each gear stick. This one i can't decided wether its heavier on fuel or its just used more for but for little bits thus using more fuel.

Did you consider one of those overly expensive fiberglass backs that totally enclose the bed? Keeps the kit dry and most importatnly safe but does lack the throw and go ability of a pick up bed.

I'd love to have a go. 1 on 1 sound fantastic too. How much would you be looking at a day?

Know anyone with a mill? Get someone to mill some 8x2 in Douglas fir and just bind the tapered end up with some metal. Larch would work too.

If i had been drinking tea it would no be all over the lap top.

Me too but i don't drink. I do however drive many hundreds of miles a week.

I need a few new saws. They may have to wait till this comes along. I hope they do it with auto tune.

What are the missing number. For example 36 & 37. I seem to remember 37 doing with breaking up big crowns.

Hi How much is a skidding arch for a dobbin? Is there some courses that anybody runs to get into horse logging? Or is it a matter of have some horse skills and some forestry skills and you have dobbin loggin' My girl friends pony is looking like it would love to skid some timber out of some small woods.

The 372 is a great saw. with a 15inch bar it flys through the wood. ITs a little slow with a 24" on but its great to have the option of having it. It's not as manurverable or as user friendly as a 357. I'm yet to try the 576 but that might be worth a look.

I can only think its a crane on a trailer like the one in my picture.

Pictures! That be a nice crane on a nice big tractor. 8m reach is a lot of reach bet thats tippy out at full strech. Thought of putting a head on the end of it yet. I've been on the phone to Wilsons every other day since last week trying to fix my trailer after a windblow tree took out the filter. They don't have any 8100-8200 in for what i'm willing to pay at the moment. I'm after the 570TL as you pay a lot extra for the extra meter of reach and add the complexity of a double extending boom.

There's been a few 4wd 80s Case trators on the bay. If you wantto do woodland work or drag a timber trailer then 4wd is a must.

Yep you'll need a licence form the FC. See their website and leaflet getting permission/

I use to do 2.4 so about 8' but i found that it went walkies at that length. At 3m it tends to stay. I've never seen a mini forwarder in action but the blurb does look good. I've always used Botex cranes & trailers. I'd love a go in a proper forwarder.

What you cutting? I tend to cut 4.1m saw logs although thats just a size for the estates sawmill. Other jobs its been 3.75m for the sawmill down to 8" down to 6" tops of the 2.5m fencing down to 3" tops on the chipwood and again that either 2.5 or 3. Firewood is all 3m

whats the operation for HAVS? I know carpel they cut the nerve. Also what is compartment syndrome and triggering

I too am trying to get into smaller plantations. Done a fair amount of work last winter in farm woodlands. They've gone into HLS and get money to do woodland management. As for hand cut timber maybe i'm being pesmistic but i still can see a price rise. One of the members on here as a Keto harvester head on a 8tonne mini digger which would be the perfect size for getting into for what would normally be hand cut parcels.

I think it will be a while before we se a fall. Infact i think there will be a rise yet. Any hardwood that's processor size will cost a fortune.

I've seen ring barking mentioned in a couple of books i have on fruit tree pruning. I did a fruit tree pruning course a few years back and they mentioned it too. The only experence i have of it was working in a community garden where each year the people strimming always gave the base of the trees a fair bit of damage. The trees very in very good shape considering and never needed much pruning and always produced a good crop.

£18-20 quid here.

Humm a 4x4 thats good on insurance, reliable and not going to cost a fortune to run. Oh and good for a 22 year old to drive. Thats a long list of asks you'll have to comprimise on one of thoes. A classic landy series 2 or something would be on a classic insurance policy and wold be tax exempt i think. Down side it will drink a lot of petrol. When i got my D22 Navara at 23 it was 1200 quid to insure!

I was wondering wether you had a harvester in for a job at £15 standing. Cope well on the hardwoods? Much of a market for 5' dbh hardwoods?

Nice. How much is that going for.