Brushcutter
-
Posts
3,315 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Brushcutter
-
Some of the FC site here are looking for big money for the timber. £15 standing isn't too bad what sort of dbh was all of that. I have no idea what Beech sawlogs go for but it must be a lot to warrent £55 a tonne standing. -
Nice bit of coppice there. You could use the dead wood and lop and top to fence the stools you've cut to protect them from deer. That larger diameter stuff would make good charcoal that you could do in an old oil drum. Be a good thing to sell a the car boot. Good guide how to do that in the BTCV woodlands book.
-
Its a very very good camera. Just wait till you put a lense on that for 1500 quid
-
Effectivly a harvester head on a bed that sits on the 3pl of a tractor. You either winch or grapple feed trees in and proudct comes out.
-
Get a bed processor insted.
-
When i first saw this i thought £3 a cube. You'd probally win it at that. £6-8 quid you be picking up some rather nice standing hardwoods for that.
-
Being in Cornwall is it a load of windblow SOD Larch?
-
Will you be using the wood for firewood or selling it to a mill. Did a triple chestnut windblow the other day which took the best part of 3 hours to get it ready on the winch dug out dressed and ready for the mill. They were some 80cm dbh but thats still slow going.
-
I'd of thought 28" would have been the biggest you could put on that saw. For best cutting results i'd say 20-24"
-
Fletchers are nolonger a supplyer for kwikchip parts. At least they thats what they said 3 months ago when i rang them for parts for the profi431. Apparently they've been taken over by a french company. Fletchers gave me the number of the guys who deal with it now but i could never get hold of them. I needed feed roller bearings but i got them from my agri dealer in the end as patent parts.
-
I'd be looking to pay less than standing as there is much more work and cost involved in doing it. If access for a forwarder is a pain that puts up the cost of getting it out. Is it windblown softwood? Not all trees will need a a winch attached but if you have to do it with a turfor its a long slow process. Also the ones on the deck will more than likely need digging out to get a saw in all takes time. Even with an axe to remove some of the crappy bark you'll likely hit some crap and dull the chain. If you get the site its worth considering getting someone in to do CS34/35 certs if you and your lads don't have them. As site to do them are hard to come by and the FC are keen for you have them to work on their sites.
-
cool. The felling of the spar made an impressive thud.
-
I hate replacing pipe i once managed to hook all four pipes to the rotor round a bolster and rip them all off. Took all day to get that fixed. Managed to get a windblow across the traielr on monday (bloody close) which took off the oil filter which has taken all week to fix. Parts arived yesterday but they were wrong as i have the only non standard mish mash boxter trailer ever.
-
Video not working:(
-
Roof mounts without an opperator could be a disaster make sure who ever is using it has FMO. Or you could find you tractor on its side or the crane sheared off the roof. I've hurd forwarding rates being as low a £5a m3 closer to a tenner would be safer. I priced up a new Valtra N111 Forestry cab, guarded and with a roof mount Botex 570TL with 11 tonne trailer. That was about 67K. At 7 quid a cube thats 9571 to pay for its self. let alone your time
-
Most winches are 3pl mouted. With the exception of a few double drum winches. I have a 6.5t double drum and for what i do i wouldn't want to go any smaller. Forestry conversions are expensive as there is a lot of steel involved. That has a belly plate, front guard, brush bars, and the cage round the cab. Side windows are guarded too. Should really do the back window to be proper guarded up. The belly plate is the most expensive bit as its 3mm steel all under the thing. With holes in where filters and bits of gubbins you need to get to are. These have plates bolted over them.
-
Lot of bad fuel going around at the moment. My dad got a load of fuel from BP in Biggleswade which caused something to go wrong with the sensor in the cat. Ment the car went wrong. Apparently this has been happening a lot with Saabs at the moment. As for compsensation for Sainsburys. One of my dads staff got some bad fuel from tesco and got a huge repair bill. They wrote to them and got a standard letter back saying not our fault. Later they got a letter saying they will pay for repairs, the tank of fuel and got some vouchers too because over 200 people had the same problem.
-
It's worth getting a tracker and using stuff that shows up under UV to mark it somewhere out of site. I had a big bit of RSJ that padlocked onto the floor and on that was wealded a ball hitch which the chipper was locked onto. Also had some heavy guage lifting chain (that was very difficult to cut with a angle grinder) chaining it to the walls of a shipping container.
-
You'll have picked up bad habits maybe not upto date on H&S stuff. I did a refresher, well added a new unit and they picked up on a few in training. Best to ring a agri/countryside college and see what they can do for you. You could just do all the short courses at great expense or read all the assessment shedules and book an assessor for the day.
-
Where abouts are you? I don't have one but i know a man who does. Does it have to be roof mount or would a trailer do? Don't know your forwarding experence so a few kit tips: If its big timber/heavy timber roof mounts either struggle to pick it up or fall over. If your doing it your self and aren't use to a roof mount its fine as long as 2 wheels are on the ground. Some older roof mounts have the tank/pump on the 3pl so your can't crane feed a chipper or have a winch on to high lead with..
-
Yep me too. Would want to cut a palm tree and destroy my saw.
-
Thats the first time its ever been abused like that. I hate the dam thing and wish i'd got a 395. Its been a Friday afternoon saw since i got it. Always use to spit the spark plug out when milling. Hopefully its little adventure will teach it a lesson about being naughty.
-
Yea its fine. Never had that happen before. Its quite an old guide bar on its second nose.
