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Very nice. Do you find it pinches and throws stuff back at you, especially when doing soft woods.

Nice. Sell the big lump off to timber. Looks like Ceader? Nice tiny gob cut.

Pigs will sort it out nicely. They'll turn over the woodland floor nicely too. Even better once you've put the piggies through the wood you can eat them.

It is a bit silly i can pull the timber trailer behind a 7 tonne tractor on the road with no real training. I can't however tow a trailer behind the landy without taking a test. Quite a hard test at that. As for the pole saw i've never known anyone with the ticket. Its one they brought in a little while ago. If you can use a saw and prune a tree then i'd say give it a miss.

The ticket that will serve you best will be B+E on your driving licence as very few people comming out of college will have it. If you can afford to do C as well all the better. Worth having chipper and stump grinder as sooner or later these will become compulsary. CS 40+41 pruning and dismantling if you want to do aerial stuff. CS 32+34 medium/large trees and windblown if your more of a forester

Some on there from xmas eve. People should be grateful they got something. /humbug.

The FC does many grants under the WGS (woodland grant scheme) Woodland planning grant WPG Woodland assessment grant WAG Woodland improvement grant WIG Woodland management grant WMG Woodland creation grant WCG Woodland regeneration grant WRG. All offer various amount of money for different things. Obviously the more wood you own the bigger the amount of money you get. Also depenant on the area you live in depends on any extra funding you can get. I live in a deer population target area so i can claim extra money for deer management under WIG. Think its around £6-8 ha now. The woodland i wanted to by was about 35 acres but someone with more money got it. I could have claimed under WIG WAG WMG and WRG. But it would have worked out at a few hundred quid a year. Is it worth it? If your doing it then you can get some money back for what your doing and since its in a grant scheme the felling licences come all sorted out for you.

You'll have great fun with that. I had the D50 my friend the D60 and they were fantastic cameras. I got a 50mm f1.8 lens. Lots of pictures now with shallow depth of field with blury goodness.

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Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too.

Sent a few emails to a few ads on there.

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Hi I'm looking to do harvester and forwarder training. I have tractor base unit and bunk,cab and other forwarder. I'd like to do a proper forwarder and harvester. Does anybody know where i can get the training? Also is anybody else interested in getting the training so we could make up numbers for a course. Regards Andy

Ours is doing that too. If its not starting try using a hair dryer in the air intake. It works really well had to do that with an old transit van a few time.

I've not really delt in selling Cherry but i'd say around £60/m3 would be around the money. Cherry sometimes has green staining in which presents as almost little balls. It makes it totally worthless.

I have a 7 tooth with a 20" bar. Fantastic logging saw.

Cool. I'll be up to watch. It was quite red on the way into work this morning/

What about a big shredder or something that would let you chip the root ball too. Pull them all out with a 360 and feed them whole into the chipper? The job anywhere near hertfordshire at all?

Hi Just a heads up for anybody looking for training. Just done my CS34/35 there with a few other Arbtalk members. Was fantastic top notch facilities and the trainers/assessors are all really good too. Obviously its a long way from me but they were able to get me a good deal on some fantastic accommerdation. Will be using them again. Andy.

As would i and a few day release arb students with their own saws to clean out the stems.

It will be ok. If the wood is frozen it will be a bit more brittle so step cuts and felling cuts may snap before you may expect them too.

Think they're around 350kg. Big tractors are nice as they are roomy and have lots of horse power. The valtra in my pic is great for nipping in and out of the woods and is only 85hp. 4wd makes it a great little loader tractor with the valtra loader it will lift 1.9 tonnes. Well it will do more than that but thats exceading swl and removing 2 or sometime 3 wheels from the ground.

Poplar does burn nicely when dry. I've always been told it has a massive calorific value, which is why it makes good biomass chip. Mix it in with other thinning would be very easy to shift in mixed hardwood parcels. Poplar still has a bit of a stigma about it as a good firewood so a 100tonne parcle roadside would be a pita to shift. But any seasoned wood will burn.

Great Video. Out of interest why do you make your felling cuts so high? I can see the point for comming up a bit to avoid any funny butress fibers or rot holes low down. But surely upto waist hight would be ok rather than struggling at near sholder high? But some ace felling none the less.

Firewood would be my first thought but i'd imagin even with the demand for cord wood at this time of year people would be put off by 100tonne of poplar. Even if they did just mix it in with the rest. I'd be inclined to either sell it as pulp or chip the lot for biomass. Less money but eaiser work and a guarnteed market. Although at 4'dbh they'd need some chipper and firewood processer.