Brushcutter
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That about a 6 tonne trailer with about a tonne lift on the crane?
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I'd be intrested to see the results. Are your readings for vibration taken 'live' as in when the saws cutting wood over the day? In my experence of HAV monitoring when i had a bit of an experiment using a 357xpg 2006 vintage. New bar a chain cutting gave the 8 hour plus a day safe reading. Well sharpened gave the same reading but not quite as vibe free. A chain with the edge knocked off gave some 6 hours and a bit blunter still gave 2 hours. Oh and a very blunt chain gave about 30 mins!
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Is this why my crane leaks like the oil is free?
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Team leader, Climbers, Machinery Drivers Required
Brushcutter replied to David Riding's topic in Employment
Hi What is a NG BESC qualification? Regards Andy -
Two rings is a must for Hi-Lifts been doing it for years. Makes them last a lot longer. Another trick with the hilifts is not to use a very heavy hammer or the wood just tends to snap. I hear they use to come with two but now you must buy the extra one:sneaky2: I guess i must be lucky as i've never had any problems with my Husky holders. The STIHL ones do look a little better though. Whats the extra hook on its own for Andy? An Axe?
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Too many down The Old Bridge?
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Have you tried Plant oil? Plantoil - Home Page Use it in the Forwarding trailers tank.
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What sort of vehicle is it going on. The MOWI cranes look very nice saw them at APF and a local contractor and the guy who assessed me for FMO 3 swares by them.
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Get it stacked up and see if you have enough to make it worth getting a tractor in. Does the estate have one or a timber trailer.
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One of the benifits of restoring lapsed coppice is that you get quite a lot of tonnage comming off in the first year. With firewood prices the way they are you can make a fair bit.
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Wow thats some big Hazel. Good for firewood and charcoal. Thats going to be a hard job. If the stools look like they may well fail soon try laying down some thin stems to keep the genetic stock of the stool going. Whats the deer pressure like? I've worked on one site where each stool hand to be fenced the pressure was so high. The woods i did last week compartment one of the wood showed no pressure but numbers 12 and 10 had a fair amount.
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Do you not have all the lectures put up on the internet these days on your colleges equivelent of studynet? Anyway in at attempt to procrastinate from my own work i've had a look at the BTCV tree planting and aftercare book. Not totally useful but has some stuff on planting survival rates and different methods of container growth. Also some stuff on cuttings. Its no longer avaiable free from BTCV so you'll either have to go to the libary or buy a copy. To be honest the woodlands and tree planting books are well worth having in any tree persons libary.
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Dovre 250 i think it is. 5 or 6 kw keeps the room warm nice little stove. Used about 1.5m3 of poorly seasoned chestnut.
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Is this for the RFS certificate by any chance. I got my answers from my notes on that. Cell grown seedlings is another one that has just sprung to mind.
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Seedlings Transplants Whips Maidens Feathered Maidens Any help?
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When does your Forestry Journal get delivered?
Brushcutter replied to mattplace's topic in General chat
I got the Jan issue a week or so ago. -
What your getting at there is called coppice select. Or at least a modified version of it. I use for rejuviatiung old stools. Depends of the stool singling ie removing to one good old stem might be the best management method but it may respond well to a selective removal of old material year on year. I ran a course on coppicing last weekend. Had some good feed back. If your into coppicing then "The Silverculture & Management of Coppice Woodlands" by the Forestry Commission is a very good book. £12 wouldn't be without my copy BTCV woodlands is worht a read too.
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How to get into the forestry industry?
Brushcutter replied to Stu's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Broadleaves will be slower as there is more to cut and stack and the limbs quite often have to be measured out too. 3-4 isn't a bad amount to do a day on a training course. Think all those years ago thats what i did you will get better very quickly if you do a lot of felling. -
More than likely. The tiny difference in weight between the 346 and the 357 is noticiable in my technique. I think when big saws really come into their own as being safer is when felling hazard trees. I've done some with a 15" and swept around and been ok but i should have use a bar that went all the way across if anything had been really rotten or hollow the smaller bar might of caused tree to fail earlier or more unprediabily due to having not all the wood removed at the same rate.
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Did some coppice last weekend. The hazel was fine but the Ash and Sycamore were starting to come into bud. Cut low to the ground and don't cut into old wood on the stool.
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igland 55 5.5tons winch single drum for sale
Brushcutter replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Not seen Jons Igland but yea most of them fit on the 3pl. At a guess 5.5 tonne pull winch should be just under a tonne and have stepped cat 2/3 pins. Well the Fransguard does anyway. How many sliders you got on the cable Jon? 4 or 5 or more you got a chain hook on the end or another attachment? Come with any skidding chains? -
How to get into the forestry industry?
Brushcutter replied to Stu's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Well done! How many trees were you doing a day on your 31 training and what sort of size on average. From doing 31 to the jump into the real world is quite scary. No leaving trees because they're hard or your not quite sure. No jumping to the next rack because its easier than the one your in. 31 teaches you to fell but not really any forestry techniques. If you can get the chance spend a day or so just watching as you will learn masses. Bucklebury Estate might be worth contacting they have some woodland so maybe a chance to fell there? -
I have the D22 fear. That is i've gone past 80k and i need my navara but can't afford to replace it. Its still a fantastic truck and its been truely fantastic up to this point. Its due a service soon but there is an little more engine noise than normal. All adds to the fear.
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I'm burning Sweet Chestnut at the moment. The dry stuff burns like a dream but the slightly wet stuff is just naff. Think it takesa lot of drying mine was in 5' lengths for about 6 months then 3 months cut and split in the wood shed. Still quite wet so might take a fair bit of seasoning. For 35 quid delivered i don't think you can go too far wrong. Thats going to be 20 quid roadside which is quite cheap for firewood. If there are anygood bits in there you could make gates and the such.
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I got one for free from the local agri college that was selling the land off. 20m long double span tunnels so about 12m wide. Got the lot on i think 3 big landy trailers. Got some suitable sized metal pipe that i concred in the ground and stuck the frame on that and bolted it together. Not bad for 2 days work. Always worth phoning places like that see if they want shot of thing like that. I was so efficent at taking it down the college thought we were some kind of demolition contractors.
